[Tribune7]

The charts are based on percent as per daily reach. This means the more websites that come about, the more the percent will drop -- unless of course the increase in visitors is higher than the increase in traffic to new websites, and that I think is very unlikely considering the advent of blogs (a fairly recent development) and web video sites such as YouTube.

[Bob J]

I thought they were based on hits per 1 million in the population?

[Bob J]

I think youare right. When you "alexa" and indidual website it looks like numbers per 1 million potential reach. When you compare websites it mvoes to %.

[maica]

The charts are based on percent as per daily reach.


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I agree with you - and it took 139 posts before this was mentioned.
FR does not have the immediacy that it used to have as a source for each day's main news, but it also has to compete with an ever-increasing number of websites competing for hits.

I also think that some of the most readable posters of the past may have now initiated their own blogsites, and so are not sharing as much of their excellent commentary on FR as they once did.

Thirdly, we all must be feeling some depression at the current situation of politics in America.

I personally do not want to read or hear the words Rudy Mitt Hillary Newt or Obama for another year.