Posted on 09/08/2020 8:17:15 AM PDT by Red Badger
Not even massive street riots, hordes of lawless vagrants burning cities throughout the United States and a dead-heat presidential election could help Matt Drudge’s spiraling news site in August.
The fall has been dramatic and historic, but also one predicted in mid 2019 by Thomas Paine.
Web numbers for the country’s biggest Joe Biden cheerleader just got worse for Matt Drudge’s spiraling news site in June.
Drudge’s monthly traffic in August was 63 million readers, according to similarweb.com analytics, down from 66 million in May. The spiral continues. In September 2019 Drudge was pulling close to 95 million readers and well over 100 million in August 2019, one year ago.
That’s roughly a 40 percent decline in clicks/traffic in a year, marking Drudge’s lowest volume of web visitors literally in decades.
A recap on Drudge’s slide that I wrote in December:
November brought an additional loss of almost 12 percent in web visitors to the embattled news site.
The loss of readers for Drudge since Septemeber is staggering. Drudge’s overall web traffic was down nearly 18 percent in September and October, according to the tracking metrics on Similar Web. That massive and accelrated slide went from approximately 93 million visits to 77 million.
News consumers here have clearly spoken and Drudge appears to be in serious trouble with these numbers. He is bleeding former loyalists and often, regaining them is an elusive and expensive task.
Obviously. Drudge — if he is even still running the site himself at this point — remains uninterested in slowing th bleeding. And the site isn’t just bleeding out, it is hemmoraging.
Drudge’s lost traffic, added up since August, is tetering on 30 percent. In Nov. 2019, I wrote about the signifigance of that number. Here is a recap:
I have used the Enron model — specifically the schematics of its plummeting stock index — as a barometer for pinpointing problematic corporate warning signs, trap doors, and wayward executives and it rarely fails.
That type of rapid slide, even though it is web traffic compared to stock price, is beginning to parallel Enron’s stock model.
The point of no return for Enron was between January and March 2001 — a mere 90-day span — when the stock price spiraled 33 percent from approximately $80 per share to $53.
Drudge’s web numbers are on a parallel trajectory. In July, Drudge was pulling almost 100 million web views (95 million). Now he’s at 68 million. In fact, he’s now witnessing a historic collapse that eclipses the Enron model.
If Drudge thought he was going to gain new readers by pivoting to the Left while dissing Conservatives he got what he wanted — except his loyal readers are the ones who left. In droves. And the exile isn’t over. — Thomas Paine
Who?
The Drudgery Port.
exactly. Dan Bongino or the new Right Reads for me
Trump curse.
I have not visited Drudge for at least two years. Even his being in the news has not caused me to try to go there. I don’t need it.
FU News should be paying attention instead of protecting Biden.
They are going to be “Meygan’ed” as soon as the DNC is done with them.
Note to Drudge.
For left wing garbage, folks already have the NYT, LAT, WP, CBS, CNN, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, etc.
What is this “Drudge Report” that you speak of?
He is tanking for the same reason Air America went bankrupt.
Over supply
I used to check DrudgeReport many times each day. It’s been a long time. I don’t think I’ve seen the page since sometime this past March when it was full of over the top covid horror stories.
Drudge can just speed up the auto refresh interval to make up for lost hits.
I haven’t looked at it in years. I do fondly remember coming here to his radio show thread long ago. Fun times.
I wonder what they/deep state/swamp have on him? Most likely Pedophilia or kiddie porn down loads!
The types of media that appeal to conservatives do not appeal to liberals. Drudge chose...poorly.
Net worth is reported to be somewhere around $150 million. Even if it is off by a factor of ten, Matt’s doing fine.
I have not clicked on Drudge in over a year. I used to check his site multiple times daily.
It is purely anti-Trump and there are lots of alternatives. He pushed the Russiagate conspiracy as enthusiastically as the NYT or MSDNC.
Let the market decide.
I used to go there often, back in the day.
He even had a link to FR for quite some time.
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