Look at this - near the top on Huff Post!

[Pirate Smile]

This is on the main page:

"Ratings For Political Blogs...

Progressive:
Daily Kos: 3,836,836
Democratic Underground: 1,563,608
Raw Story: 1, 053,974

Conservative:
Instapundit: 916,976
Little Green Footballs: 744,717
Michelle Malkin: 633,187"

When you click on the link, you get this info:

"Ratings For Political Blogs...

Progressive:
Daily Kos: 3,836,836
Democratic Underground: 1,563,608
Raw Story: 1, 053,974

Conservative:
Instapundit: 916,976
Little Green Footballs: 744,717
Michelle Malkin: 633,187
The Huffington Post | permalink

According to a new study by the political think tank the New Politics Institute, progressive blogs have grown at a higher rate than conservative blogs over the last two years.

"In less than two years, the progressive blogoshpere had grown from less than as big as the conservative blogosphere, to nearly double its size," the study reported.

The study, "Emergence of the Progressive Blogosphere: A New Force in American Politics," was released August 10.

Progressive:

1. Daily Kos: 3,836,836
2. Democratic Underground: 1,563,608
3. Raw Story: 1, 053,974
4. Talking Points Memo: 1,003,788

Conservative:
1.Instapundit: 916,976
2. Little Green Footballs: 744,717
3. Michelle Malkin: 633,187
4. Powerline: 624,331

Traffic is measured in weekly visits.

Posted August 16, 2005 11:15 AM "

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thenewswire/archive/2005/08/ratings-for-political-blo_5726.html

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Cool!

[blm]

2. Yet, CNN gives most airtime to Little Green Footballs and Powerline.

CorporateNewsNetwork ethics.

[SoCalDem]

5. one day they reported on "skippy the bush kangaroo"

He does link to us, and is on our side, but with the cutesy name, they report on him/her? in a condescending way..THEIR side has INSTApundit..FREEREPUBLIC..and then there's the silly left with skippy.. It's all in the inferrence..


skippy the bush kangaroo
http://www.xnerg.blogspot.com/
a droll look at life in la, show biz, politics and stuff.
www.xnerg.blogspot.com/ - 134k - Cached - Similar pages

[burythehatchet]

18. but they have cool british accents

[Dora]

3. And the best part of this....

Freeper trolls do nothing except INCREASE our membership and post counts!!!!


Bring it ON!

[lildreamer316]

4. Ha.

ha ha ha ha.
(slapping myself for the momentary moral superiority thought)

[yellerpup]

6. Wow!

When my friend first turned me on to DU,he pointed me to the Top Ten Conservative Idiots column there were 1,268 members. This is so absolutely impressive that DU has grown up so big and beautiful.

[Dhalgren]

7. And Freerepublic wasn't even in the list...

[sepia_steel]

8. bwahahaha

voice of america, indeed

suck it, idiots.

[ultraist]

15. LOL! The Freepers are INSIGNIFICANT. n/t

[Skinner]

16. To be honest, Free Republic would be at the top of the list.

But since they do not use Blogads, their page views were not counted.

See EarlG's post below. for more info: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4366183&mesg_id=4366514

[KoKo]

19. Has anyone tracked Free Republic compared to DU as Discussion Boards?

Is there any way to do that. I can't believe FR would have more traffic than DU. :shrug:

[Skinner]

20. FR has a higher ranking than DU at alexa.com

It's no surprise, really. They existed for about four or five years before DU did.

[Pirate Smile]

11. I don't think there is any site - Corp media, blog or otherwise which

has breaking news up as quickly.

[EarlG]

9. Unfortunately we're being shortchanged on that rating

They're measuring blogads page views (each site's number represents one week's worth of page views). Kos has blogads on all his pages, but we only carry them on the homepage, the articles, and the Latest and Greatest pages.

DU actually gets around one million page views per day. Therefore if we put blogads on all our pages, like the other sites, those stats would look more like this:

1. Democratic Underground: 7,000,000
2. Daily Kos: 3,836,836
3. Raw Story: 1, 053,974
4. Talking Points Memo: 1,003,788

But it's very nice of them to mention us anyway :)

[Pirate Smile]

12. Good to know, EarlG. Someone should go mention that stat in

the Comments on Huffington Post.

[EarlG]

17. Well, it's kinda complicated

The study says "traffic is measured in weekly visits" - but it's not, it's measured in page views. That's a different measure. Because DU is a discussion forum, it generates a ton of page views. When it comes to unique visistors, Kos probably does get more than us. But that's a very difficult stat to measure, especially when all the blogs use Sitemeter, which is a completely unreliable counter - it counts page views as visits and can't handle large traffic websites like DU or Kos (it caps out at a certain number of page views per hour).

But that's all by-the-by... the fact that we're on the list is definitely cool.

[lala_rawraw]

26. yep, same here

[ultraist]

14. Wow! That is fantastic.

Maybe you should allow more blogads. ;) One one the front page of the main areas: General Discussion, General Discussion Politics, the Lounge, LBN, etc

[KoKo]

21. Do they count traffic as number of hits on the ads? As in cookie counts?

Is it a data miner kind of thing? What if one doesn't click on the ads, would one be still considered in the "pager per view" count just because you viewed DU's front page, even though you didn't hit on the ad? :shrug:

[katinmn]

23. Cool! Thanks for setting the record straight

:)

[LSK]

24. you should put blogads on the GD forums

They are quite popular and would probably balloon DUs #s greatly.

[wli]

10. over 4 times the neocon bunk

Maybe we're a stronger majority than we suspect.

[Horse with no Name]

13. You would think that MSM would look at that and change their programming

ASAP. There ARE alot more of us than there are them--we just don't get the coverage. Too bad one of the network/cable news channels isn't smart enough to see that.
WHY does MSNBC think that Olbermann has the highest ratings?
WHY is a show on Comedy Central one of the highest rated (under O'Lielly)
WHY do they suppose Air America is doubling and tripling ratings of the failing stations they took over in every market they go into?

I'll tell you why. IF they gave us a mainstream voice (as in a channel dedicated to the progressive cause), people WOULD wake up. Why do they think O'Lielly's ratings are dropping?
People are tired of the RW talking points.

[City Lights]

25. You'd think.

I've been telling them that there are millions of people unsatisfied with the current choices in cable television. I've been telling them they need more liberal shows. I've been telling them that the American people are bypassing them in favor of the Internet(s). And they just keep ignoring me. And MSNBC just keeps adding recycled pukes to their lineup.

Ignore us at your own peril, corporate whores. :evilgrin:

[never_get_over_it]

22. Understandable

"In less than two years, the progressive blogoshpere had grown from less than as big as the conservative blogosphere, to nearly double its size," the study reported.

Since "they" have the MSM more of us are looking for alternatives

[Reciprocity]

27. Congratulations DU. n/t