Chris Bowers reports that the ten most trafficked political blogs logged 28,000,000 unique visits during the 31 days previous to Sept. 8.
"FoxNews.com had 5.7 million unique users in May, compared with 22.3 million for CNN.com and 21.1 million for MSNBC.com," writes the Atlanta Journal Constitution's Caroline Wilbert.
Bowers comments: "Particularly amazing is that Dailykos, with around 7 million unique visits over the past 31 days, now has a higher monthly website traffic than Fox News."
Posted by jules_siegel at September 22, 2004 09:18 AM | TrackBackThe Bushwacker's keep linking the ill-advised war in Iraq with 9/11, by saying we haven't had an attack since we invaded. No one in the media seems to point out that 1. It was 8 years from the first attack on the World Trade Center until 9/11, and 2. It was the Bush Whitehouse including do nothing Dr. Rice who ignored specific warning 2 months before the 9/11 attack. I don't understand why the Kerry campaign doesn't go after this, but more improtantly the mainstream media never mentions these points. Keep in mind all you security Mom's and Dad's,9/11 happened on George (I'm not responsible for anything) Bush's watch. The occupation of Iraq has created even more enemies for the U.S., and each time we attack another insurgent stronghold we give more not less resolve to the jihadists.
Posted by: richard van wagner at September 27, 2004 11:08 AMHow interesting, considering that dailykos doesn't publish "Unique visitor" numbers.
They use Site Meter, which shows "visitors" and "page views", not UNIQUE visitors like everyone else does.
Now, kos told us that Site Meter broke because it couldn't handle the increased traffic, so he took it off his home page.
But - oops - he forgot to remove the link to it on the advertising page, so you can still see it there and - oops - looks like it's still running.
So what does it tell us?
Average Visits Per Day 457,343
Average Visit Length 0:03 seconds
Just in case you had any doubt that "Visits" were not "unique" visits.
Oh, and I've been looking at the numbers for several weeks now, in case you think they have changed for the worse. They haven't.
I'm a loooong time dailykos member, and I love that site. I just think we do ourselves no service by lying and deception, and in particular that site does not follow basic disclosure practices nor have any code of standards when it comes to actually sharing information with the people (you know, the thing we all kinda preach?)
Let's tell the truth, for better or worse, and let's build authentic grass-roots activism, not phony ego-driven hype.
We are the ones that believe in democracy, telling truth to power and trusting the people.
Or do we?
Posted by: no way at October 8, 2004 10:41 PM