6 of 10 top political websites are progressive, one neutral, only three right wing SCREENSHOT:

[yurbud]

While Freerepublic is at the top, they don't have much theo-corporate, back to the Middle Ages company.

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http://www.hitwise.com/political-data-center/website-rankings.php

[supernova]

1. Why is FR on top

if their membership is way smaller than ours?

I would think something like HuffPo would be better trafficked than FR? :shrug:

[Matariki]

19. because way more then half the hits are folks from DU going there to laugh...

[RevolutionStartsNow]

2. Clearly FR is cheating...

:)

Either that or there are a lot of nutjobs clicking on that site, because anytime I've been there it's been pretty pathetic.

But look at HuffPost, isn't that great?

And as much as I'd like DU to have bigger market share, it sure feels big enough to me.

[yurbud]

5. FR probably gets a lot of lurkers who can barely type the address...

asking them to compose a semi-coherent screed about bashing gays, killing A-rabs, and cutting taxes is more than they can handle.

"Hey, Rufus, yu ever wonder where all them words come from on freerepublic? you think god puts em there or does Rush jes think em and they appear, like my fleas?"

[babylonsister]

3. We are number 9!! Not in my book, but that's not bad. nt

[Skip Intro]

4. I checked alexa the other day and daily kos was way up over fr -

gotta check that again...

[Skip Intro]

10. What am I missing here - dailykos.com way up according to alexa (DU passes fr at times)

:shrug:

[yurbud]

17. Alexa is useful, but I still can't figure out how they figure reach and rank.

[Alexander]

6. I see. Free Republic must be catching all the knuckledraggers...

While liberal and left-leaning Internet users are split between all the good liberal and left-leaning sites out there.

If you add up all the left-of-center market share, it adds up to 17.79% - nothing to sneeze at.

[yurbud]

8. I think our bench is deeper too--we have more sites and they aint astroturf homogenous like right

[KittyWampus]

9. but how can ANYONE read FR. I went once and found it unnavigable.

[yurbud]

11. It makes craigslist look over-designed. Maybe their one guy that knows code got grounded from the

computer in 1997.

[yurbud]

7. ranking of candidate websites raises some questions on both sides of the aisle:

For the Democrats, why is Hillary considered the inevitable nominee when Obama looks twice as popular?

(I know the depressing answer, so it's mostly a rhetorical question)




For the GOP, how the fuck did Romney win that straw poll when Ron Paul gets three times the hits?

Why is Rudy considered a major contender when his appeal looks like it's comparable to Biden on the Democrats side (and Biden doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell).

Like the Hillary question, I know the answer to the Rudy one--people with money like him. But it is surprising to see that all the pro-Rudy propaganda hasn't helped him much. Maybe he needs to find one of his kids that LIKES him and have them post on facebook.

[Middle finga]

18. That's funny, I thought Daily Kos was the leader of political blogs

could it be he's loosing people because of his controversial rules and guidelines over there. I left from over there when they started ridiculing people for even mentioning 9/11, and when Kos made demeaning remarks against protesters. What's up with Malkin I thought she was one of the knuckdragger's favorite

[yurbud]

21. there seems to be a lot of policing of 9/11. in some places, it's just relegated to the backwaters

Dems are worried that if the 9/11 narrative changes, they won't be able to take over as the new stewards of the War on Terror. The public won't play along if they figure out that the same gang that charges them for protection threw the brick through their window to make them want protection.

[Wiley50]

12. I stay Logged into DU for days at a time, only signing off to re-boot the puter every few days.

I wonder if that makes a difference?

I'm not generating "clicks" onto DU all the time
I'm just always here.

[yurbud]

15. me too. I've never touched a puter with a boot though--did your girlfriend ask for that?

[yurbud]

13. on Alexa, Kos and the Huffers beat the Freepers SCREENSHOT

[marmar]

14. How can that butt-ugly, hard-to-follow website be No. 1?

I call mierda del toro.

[yurbud]

16. "cuz mama bookmarked it for me before she went to heaven and lef me her social security checks an'..

she told me if I eber lookt another website like with girls on it, I would go to hell like my dad. He's dead too, but they stopt sending his chex."

[lpbk2713]

20. The site that cannot be mentioned ....

wasn't mentioned. :rofl: :rofl:


It's awfully hard to generate traffic when there are only twelve members. :rofl: :rofl:

[yurbud]

22. what's the site that cannot be mentioned?

[onethatcares]

23. bought by experian?

this hitwise place seems to be able to "anonamously monitor millions of web users". Where the hell did they get that right?