The summer is generally a down time for internet traffic,
but it has been much worse for conservatives sites (emphasis mine):
Alexa.com, which tracks Web traffic, shows a sharp decline to BillOReilly.com since March, when it had more than 100,000 visits for every 1 million Internet surfers. The decline has been steady and gradual, with visits dropping below 50,000 in August, according to a graph. Another summary pegs the traffic drop over the past three months at 30 percent. Other conservative sites are losing audience this campaign season, too. Even the recent controversy over Ann Coulter's remarks about Sept. 11 victims did not boost traffic to her site. Ratings there have decreased 16 percent over the last three months. Ditto for Rush Limbaugh, who is down 14 percent, and even the revered conservative site The Drudge Report has fallen 10 percent. (...)
RedState traffic is down 28 percent but page views are up 12 percent over the past three months. RedState underwent a redesign and management overhaul this summer. Right Wing News dropped 20 percent over the same time, Blogs for Bush was down 13 percent, and Townhall, which also was recently redesigned after an acquisition, dropped 14 percent.
By contrast to the big drops for RedState and Right Wing News, readership at the liberal Huffington Post is down 14 percent, and the drop is 12 percent at Daily Kos, the most trafficked blog. Some liberal bloggers even saw gains. Traffic at MyDD is up 9 percent, as is Alternet, and traffic to Virginia's Raising Kaine grew 119 percent over the past three months.
As for the Republican National Committee versus the Democratic National Committee, both saw traffic declines. The DNC was down 24 percent, and the RNC dropped twice as much at 48 percent. Traffic at the Democratic online donation site ActBlue rose 24 percent. The new competitor Rightroots does not have traffic data yet.(...)
Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., had a 10 percent increase in Web traffic over three months, compared with Ned Lamont, who won the Democratic primary and had a 539 percent jump. Visits to the site of Sen. George Allen, R-Va., are down 74 percent, and Web traffic for challenger James Webb is up 165 percent. Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont., showed a 300 percent increase in Web traffic, while challenger Jon Tester had a 420 percent increase.
Go MyDD--way to buck the trend!
Our traffic has indeed been fantastic of late. The information on the official websites is also particularly interesting. Democrats just seem to be doing better. Apart from knowning that the progressive netroots are larger and more advanced than the conservative netroots, which we already knew, I do not know if this forecasts anything. If nothing else, it is nice to se people turning away from conservative media. The more that happens the better off this country will be.
