Comments on: WEBLOG TRAFFIC RANKINGS

By: Kevin Drum

Kevin Drum — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

It's probably even more concentrated than your stats show. After all, 5 of the top 10 blogs don't use Sitemeter. Add those in and it would look even worse.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

It just is not fair. The top 5 percent of the sites keep getting all the hits and the lower sites keep getting none. Glenn has more hits then he could ever use. He should give some of those hits to sites that need it more. The average bloggers spends hours working on a site trying to make ends meet and fat cats like Glenn and all his greedy friends get all the hits. The big sites get bigger and the smaller sites get smaller. We have teachers with sites all across America that don't get that many hits on their web sites. That is just not right. Teachers are the most noble of all creatures except maybe the dolphin. The teachers should be getting as many hits as the popular bloggers. AND where does Glenn get all those hits from???? The little guys! All those small bloggers out there toiling away and then people follow links to Glenn and his pals. It just is not right! From now on the blogosphere should institute the Little Ignorant Blogger Equality, Reparation and Leveling Plan. (AKA the LIBERAL Plan) Under the LIBERAL plan, larger bloggers would have to redirect 70% of their hits to smaller blogs until every blog in the blogosphere got the same amount of hits. This would be called fairness. Any of the larger bloggers who refuse to do this should have their blogs taken away. And I deserve to get some of those hits. I don't have a blog so therefore I don't get any hits at all. How fair is that? Glenn gets thousands of hits a month and I get none for my blog that does not exist. Glenn should mail me 400 hits for each of my dependent children even though I don't have a blog. I was counting on those hits and in an evil trick, the bigger bloggers took them away. Evil Bastards! So my blogger friends, support the LIBERAL Plan. Only under the LIBERAL plan can we have a fair and equal blogosphere. Say NO to the evil bloggers with their link hoarding and hitmongering. The blogosphere would be a better place for everyone if only we had such a plan! Paul

By: Ursula

Ursula — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

I'm not really surprised by the results. Plus, isn't this how it is in real life? The rich get richer, and the poor well, they manage to eak out a living.

By: Kevin Drum

Kevin Drum — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

For what it's worth, based on come comments here and there, my guess is:

Sullivan: 80K
Den Beste: 15K
Lileks: 30K
LGF: 20K
Marshall: 20K

By: StarBanker

StarBanker — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

I think the disparities between rankings of Sitemeter and TLB shows that there is a serious problem somewhere. My website has a counter that is based at the host that simply records how many times it was accessed. That counter includes my own accessing. I have WebStats also, that depends on having the viewer's browser accepting cookies, that shows a wide disparity of hits. I exclude the entire Cableone domain from WebStats because I don't want to know how many times I visit my homepage. Since I have a dynamic address that changes on a regular basis I have to exclude a range of possible addresses that I may have. Therefore I exclude many local people that need a reason for living. One thing that WebStats does do, is let me know how many times Nigerians visit the page to get my e-mail address to send important information on my investments, primarily trying to get money from the ex-Finance Minister out of the country. When I collect I will drop a bundle in every bloggers PayPal account.
The StarBanker of the "Intergalactic Capitalist"

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

In my sleep deprived stupor last night I recall saying something similar, but who knows... Thank goodness for the non sleep deprived, who can write clearly. :-)

By: The World Around You

The World Around You — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

The Power of Glenn
James discusses the magnitude of Glenn's influence over the rest of the blogosphere, based on sitemeter stats....

By: Oscar Jr. Was Here

Oscar Jr. Was Here — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Blogosphere Traffic Concentration
On Outside the Beltway, James Joyner has a look at N.Z. Bear's weblog traffic statistics and comments on the amount of traffic concentrated on the top blogs. (Clay Shirky wrote here on traffic concentration.) Here's what the data looked like...

By: PoliBlog

PoliBlog — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Blogospheric Analysis
James of OTB has some interesting analysis of blog traffic on his site....

By: Inoperable Terran

Inoperable Terran — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

The power of blending
James does an interesting rundown of blog traffic numbers. The upshot: Frank is doomed. Run for your lives, or at least your Ka-bar!...

By: The Accidental Jedi

The Accidental Jedi — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Sunday blogging I tend to collect links as I'm wandering around the 'sphere, some with the idea of writing posts on later, and some with the idea of throwing them into a roundup, so they won't be missed. For some reason, Sundays...

By: OUTSIDE THE BELTWAY

OUTSIDE THE BELTWAY — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

WEBLOG TRAFFIC RANKINGS II
Bear has provided the actual Excel file with the information to follow up on yesterday's post. Based on the current scan, here's the info: 985*...

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