This week's source material:
Those who run watchdog news websites are scratching their heads and trying to make sense of the latest data released by a California company that measures website traffic.
According to data for July through September, almost every major website – from WND to the Drudge Report and Breitbart – saw its rankings drop on Alexa.com while pro-government sites mostly went up.
1) No one gives a shit about Alexa. Seriously, no one. Well, except these guys apparently.
2) Alexa is in California? Mystery solved! It's a commie plot.
Familiar names in alternative media like the Drudge Report, Breitbart, Infowars, the Blaze, Newsmax, WND, FoxNews.com, and the Daily Caller all saw their rankings plummet while sites such as NPR.org, the Daily Kos, Democracy Now!, Media Matters and ThinkProgress all rose in the rankings.
The only explanation is communism.
Alexa purports to measure the traffic of thousands of websites around the world and then assigns a ranking to each site. The lower the number the higher the ranking of the website.
The data can be important because it is used, along with that collected by a handful of similar companies like Comscore, Quantcast and Google Analytics, to determine placement of advertisements that websites rely on to pay the bills and keep running.
1) No one gives a shit about Alexa. Didn't I already mention this? No advertiser gives a shit about Alexa, no Google network ad gives a shit about Alexa. You know who gives a shit about Alexa? No one, that's who. Oh, except these jokers.
2) Still no one gives a shit about Alexa.
Tucker Carlson, founder of Washington, D.C.-based the Daily Caller, said the data being put out by Alexa doesn’t square with that being reported by his own analytics.
“We had 13,557,850 unique visitors in September,” Carlson told WND. “By comparison, we had 12,784,656 uniques in August, so Alexa would be wrong if they’re reading the data correctly.”
That would all be well and good if Alexa measured unique visitors. It doesn't. It's a relative ranking. Daily Caller could see increased traffic, yet drop in Alexa ratings if, say, Daily Kos sees an even bigger increase in traffic. That's why no one gives a shit about Alexa. No one gives a shit about your relative rating. They care about how many eyeballs you reach and the demographics of those people. I'd actually forgotten Alexa existed, and hadn't visited in probably 4-5 years, and guess what? I still haven't gone back and visited, because smart people don't give a shit about Alexa.
But hey, when there are ebola-infected commies under your bed, you've got to strike hard against the enemy when they attempt to damage your self-esteem by showing you the reality that liberal sites are growing relative to the rest of the web, and conservative sites -- like their movement -- are stagnating. It's hard to keep those irrelevant Alexa ratings up when your base is dying off by the month. So don't worry conservative sites with falling Alexa ratings! No one gives a shit about your Alexa ratings! The fact that you've only won more votes in one of the last five presidential elections? Now that's something we can heartily point to and laugh.
But how hurt is their self-esteem? Head below the fold and find out.
Not that email is anything like websites, but since late July Yahoo! made a change that has been sending more of my conservative email newsletters to my SPAM folder than formerly happened. Of course Yahoo denies this - or rather they ignore my claim and just tell me to reset my email filter preferences. Which I did, but there has been no improvement. I have to check my SPAM folder daily now.
Actually, Yahoo is nailing that one.
There is a lot of reason traffic would fluctuate. Mainly, after I read the post I don't need to see it for the next few weeks. I visit many sights a day and find that I get tired of the same old format, the same take, the same enphasis on all the news stories. After awhile, I need a new take on the subjects. A new approach to a problem, thus, a new source of argument.
"I only read the same post once every 3-4 weeks" is probably not a compelling explanation, but thanks for sharing!
Yet more skewed numbers from the Left. I am no math wizard but I am positive that there has to be an algorithm to calculate out the true number and cancel the Libbytard equation.
T= L/42 with T being the Truth, L being the Libbytard number and 42 being the summation of the constant for the meaning of life; 6 x 7.
Remember when the election results were skewed in 2012? Damn those skewing liberals with their skewed reality!
Alexa's ranking is determined by users who have the Alexa Toolbar installed. These are "usually" marketers or tech-savvy users who install it for a purpose. Therefor, their rankings are generally skewed. This is why their old "trending now" links always tend to be product launches from marketing gurus. In other words, left-leaning marketers likely outnumber right-leaning marketers who have the toolbar installed. Quantcast may be a better ranking site than Alexa.
Huh? Communist marketers?
ALEXA = liar and disinformation, supported by leftist grasping at straws because now the truth about them is coming to the surface and they have been found out.
I'm guessing that they think they are going to lose the Senate and obama will be tried , convicted and deported to an ebola invested country and harry and nancy will be...well you know what treason means!
And then the rest will fall......like the jacka$$ from the CDC about to be tossed under the bus.
Democrats are going to lose the Senate, so in a final last-gasp bid for power, they hurt conservative fee-fees by lowering their Alexa ratings. Dastardly!
The pen is mightier than the sword
We know these ratings are bogus.NPR for instance has the same number of listeners every year no more no less.Their audience consists mostly of the nations Public school teachers and tree huggers.
Just as the Democratic party and MSNBC lie about the statistical data so apparently does Alexa. But dont think you can go and try to investigate their data mining.
If you do that you will create the Mother of ALL Hard drive failures at Alexa.
Conservative investigations cause hard drives to fail? Who knew?
There is nothing "mysterious" about this at all!
The company who does these ratings is based in Klownifornika which is known as a hotbed of ultra left wing liberalism. The right wing conservative sites are falling in their ratings while the left wing liberal sites are rising. (NPR?! Oh please!!!)
Ergo the rating company is lying through it's teeth!
Like I said, the communists! You should only use technology from good freedom-loving states. Like Alabama. I think that means you're stuck using an abacus.
Truth and liberal ideology are mutually exclusive. They do not co-exist anywhere in the universe........ never have, never will. FACT.
I sure am displeased with the administration of President Romney.
Amazon in the tank for the libs. So what's new? Lying about the numbers to direct more money to the left. Dead people voting, NSA sicced on the right. Nothing to see here, America, except the implementation of socialism. Move along......
You forgot the IRS. Don't let good conspiracy theories go to waste!
Alexa is as about predictable as Frieden from the Centers For Disease Continuation giving accurate information about Ebola and Enterovirus D68 that are paralyzing and killing Americans.
All ONE of them!
Could care less. I read Alexa's so called bottom dwellers everyday. Drudge, Brietbart, Infowars, the Blaze, Foxnews, WND, the Daily Caller, Michael Savage, are everyday reads. Where else do you expect to get truthful journalism ?
For starters, not WND, Fox News, the Blaze, Infowars, Breitbart, Michael Savage, or the Daily Caller. You know, the bottom dwellers.
Just another game to give the disinfo sites more legitimacy in the eyes
of their readers. Meaning that those sites being picked on are telling
the truth because they are being picked on by the delites reporting agencies
Darn it, the communist plot to damage conservative self-esteem has been discovered, comrades!
I also have noticed that some sites are hard to post on and it seems like there are bugs that frustrate your attempts such as slow typing input, or resistance to load and many other nuisances. I have thought for awhile that it was * commies in the background. I know on WND there are some "Moderators", who will set a post aside pending approval and once you get one of them they will fight every post you attempt. So are the mentally ill socialists and communists fully engaged in these attempts to thwart our freedom of speech? Yes, no doubt about it.
The communists are behind the shitty technology behind conservative sites!
Communism 101: Control the Dialog, Communism 101: Disarm the people, Communism 101: Be in control of counting the votes, Communism 101:... The answer is in there somewhere.
Somewhere in that general vicinity, over there, by all those "Communisms" and "101s".
When I try to visit conservative sites my computer either grinds away like dial-up or I get the message Internet Explorer in not responding. I rarely have these things occur when I am visiting non-political/conservative sites. Just coincidence? I think not.
Alright, which of you liberal communists has made Drudge Report stay so ugly?
real news traffic going down???
libcom propaganda going up????
Behold the power of crony corporatism, courtesy of
google, microsoft, NSA and every fricken schmucktard who voted for zerO!
Damn right! Also, demographics. Sucks when your core supporters are dying off by the thousands.
blocking content and slowing down your ability to load and read,, I have noticed and complained of this for months..Some one is also using spyware and viruses to hit you also..be careful of the media and hard paper electronic sites also..locally the denver post always gives me trouble..i don't go there much now because of this.
The Denver Post is more communist than California. It was like "California is Communist in name only, a CINO!" It was an ugly pie fight.
Lies, lies, and more lies. I just pray that the advertisers see through this and continue to advertise on these great and informative websites.
Advertisers that want to sell gold and survival kits to rubes will thankfully still be around.
I have never visited NPR.org, the Daily Kos, Democracy Now!, Media Matters and ThinkProgress.
However, I will remain loyal to media like the Drudge Report, Breitbart, Infowars, the Blaze, Newsmax, WND, FoxNews.com.
I prefer to read the news, not propaganda.
There's no shame in being the fringe minority.
The Dem's are really Worried.....
LOL LOL LOL I wonder if the Manchurian Candidate will declare Marshall law......!!!!!
Who is Marshall, and why should we implement his law?
Don't believe it. These libs are so scared that they are pulling every trick in the book to discourage conservatives to vote.
Conservatives were going to vote, but before heading out to the polls decided to check on the Alexa ratings of their favorite sites and BAM! They stayed home. Mission accomplished Communist Comrades in California!
Google is ran by liberals. Their results are suspect.
They are in California, so OBVIOUSLY! Use that search engine run out of Alabama. It's called the local Yellow Pages.
Fudging numbers isn't new. What is scary though is the low-information people who believe everything they may hear or believe only what they want to believe- have drank the lenonaid. Combine that with ALL the PROPOGANDA that is out there and we are in big time trouble. Who is Goebbels now? Mohammad?
Liberals believe the PROPAGANDA because they go to Alexa and see that liberal sites are up, and conservative sites are down, and then DECIDE TO VOTE!
Often people who devise and run polls tend to be not only biased but also quite inept. It's too bad that they also have to resort to lying.....I call it what it is.....to give the perception of a site being unpopular when in actual fact it's probably far more popular than other sites.
Some people cannot bear to lose.
Oh those pollsters got their comeuppance in 2012, when they claimed Obama was going to win, and then he did!
Recently, it has been impossible to access the conservative opinion web sites of which I am a member. I count upon these sites to balance the local news and newspapers. What is going-on ?
Most likely, your stupidity. Second most likely culprit, the stupidity of people running conservative opinion sites.
This is not hard to figure out people. The boy king has issued marching orders that every effort will be made to convince the gullible that the people are on his side and abandoning the truth in droves.
OPERATION SKEW ALEXA is like the third most important liberal psy ops EVER!
It's communist and socialist propaganda at work again, to destroy the MOST POPULAR conservative sights. Don't let it get y'all down. You will still be able to find right-wing advertisers happy to support the TRUTH.
Buy lots of gold and MREs, so conservative sites can keep telling you THE TRUTH!