Monthly Report for January 2011

 

Our eleventh full month since we moved from Blogger was much better than last month. Although not back to the heady days leading up to the elections, we’re improving in all statistical categories.

Here are our basic stats:

Here is our most recent Clustrmap, last updated on December 25.

Our durations were well up from 247 seconds last month:

Number of visits: 25278 – Average: 196 s	Number of visits	Percent
0s-30s	21211	83.9 %
30s-2mn	920	3.6 %
2mn-5mn	732	2.8 %
5mn-15mn	832	3.2 %
15mn-30mn	529	2 %
30mn-1h	636	2.5 %
1h+	418	1.6 %

That’s expected, because we had more visitors.

Search engine referrals rose.

18 different referring search engines	Pages	Percent	Hits	Percent
Google	2541	66.7 %	3908	63.2 %
Stumbleupon (Social Bookmark)	890	23.3 %	1744	28.2 %
Microsoft MSN Search	188	4.9 %	217	3.5 %
Yahoo!	50	1.3 %	75	1.2 %
Microsoft Bing	43	1.1 %	71	1.1 %
Google (Images)	35	0.9 %	56	0.9 %
AOL	20	0.5 %	23	0.3 %
Unknown search engines	14	0.3 %	14	0.2 %
Ask	8	0.2 %	8	0.1 %
Microsoft Windows Live	5	0.1 %	44	0.7 %
Earth Link	3	0 %	3	0 %
Scroogle	3	0 %	3	0 %
Dogpile	2	0 %	2	0 %
MyWebSearch	2	0 %	6	0 %
WebCrawler	1	0 %	1	0 %
Search.com	1	0 %	1	0 %
Icerocket (Blog)	1	0 %	1	0 %
Yandex			2	0 %

Our top three non-blog referrers are:

http://www.reddit.com/       5,700+

http://www.buzzflash.net/   2,000+

http://www.jabberwonk.com/  500+

Our top 15 referrer blogs are:

http://america-weeps.blogspot.com/

http://thebeekeepersapprentice.com/

http://themanwhowalksalonewalksfaster.blogspot.com/

http://www.jackjodell.blogspot.com/

http://annette-justmylittlepieceoftheworld.blogspot.com/

http://parsleyspics.blogspot.com/

http://republic-of-gilead.blogspot.com/

http://whohijackedourcountry.blogspot.com/

http://theleftinme.blogspot.com/

http://infidel753.blogspot.com/

http://kcecelia.blogspot.com/

http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/

http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/

http://buckdogpolitics.blogspot.com/

http://www.timsscaredstiff.com/

There’s some linkey-love in return  The best ways you can publicize Politics Plus is to use the share button at the bottom of each post to list our articles on the the sites where you belong, and to quote PP articles on your own blogs.  The operative commandment here is “thou shalt steal.”  We’re on the same side here, so I won’t mind.  Even if you want to repost a whole article, that’s OK.  Just link back, please.

Technorati was strange again last month.  Our global authority and rank is lower than last month, but we increased in authority and rank in all three topical areas.  How can that be?  I still have absolutely no idea.

• Global 520 (rank 2,839)
• US politics 597 (rank 166)
• Politics 550 (rank 280)
• World 466 (rank 278)

We have 169,169 links on other websites, down from 278,133 last month.

We have 1,903 posts and 14,396 comments, as of midnight 2/1.

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Now we’re in a slower political time, because the next major election is almost two years away, so I don’t expect us to put up the same numbers we did last year.  Nevertheless, I think we have an important role to play fin ding and sharing the facts that are too honest for the mainstream media to touch and evaluating events from a left wing perspective, but with honesty and integrity.  Welcome aboard.  Without your participation, this would just be an average blog.