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Freerepublic.com is Gaining on Their Competition.
Alexa ^ | January 27, 2003 | High Wheeler

Posted on 01/27/2003 7:15:23 PM PST by HighWheeler

Freerepublic.com is Gaining

An analysis was conducted January 27, 2003, of the relative rankings of some of the larger political sites on the World Wide Web of the Internet.

Alexa services was used to obtain the relative rankings of some of the larger political sites.

Review these graphs taken January 27, 2003 from the Alexa services site. The graphs show the relative rankings of freerepublic.com against salon.com, democraticunderground.com, and bartcop.com, and finally versus rushlimbaugh.com.

Freerepublic.com is a conservative website that boasts over 90,000 registered users, and is funded solely by donations from the users and "lurkers" to the website.

Salon.com is a publicly held company that was once listed on the NASDAQ, but has since been de-listed to the OTC pink sheet. Salon is funded by subscriptions to its website, but a brief view of their historical stock price shows it was almost $15 per share in 1999, but has since steadily dropped, and is now trading at just $.05 a share today. Salon.com is also bleeding money profusely, and as the graph below shows it is also losing its ranking on the Internet.

Freerepublic’s ranking January 27, 2003 was 1251, meaning that only 1250 sites on the entire Internet had more hits than freerepublic.com today. However, Freerepublic’s ranking has grown by 363 in a very short time, in only the last 3 months. Salon.com, however, has dropped ranking during the same period, and today their ranking stands at 1619 with a 3 month average ranking of 751. Freerepublic.com has a 3 month average ranking of 1803.

The decline of Salon.com is very evident here, but it only tells part of the story. Salon.com is bleeding cash at a high rate, and Salon is suffering declining revenue.

Freerepublic.com vs. Democratunderground.com - a democrat centered, user supported site that also allows their users to post in a forum type format. A review of DU shows a very open forum, allowing (and perhaps encouraging) incredibly vulgar language. The users of Freerepublic.com are held to strict limits on vulgar language, and freerepublic’s posters generally have a sharp sense of humor and fun.

Freerepublic.com vs. Bartcop.com. Bartcop is another forum type site, that allows a high level of vulgar language and rather coarse discussions. The sharpness, clarity, logic, and humor at freerepublic.com really becomes evident when compared to bartcop or DU.

Freerepublic is not only gaining fast on their competition, they have soared lately compared to Rushlimaugh.com. Rush Limbaugh changed format in December to a mostly subscription site, and the number have hits to that site has dropped.

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Long held assumptions about political Internet sites seem to bolster the recent November, 2002 Republican victories in the House and Senate, and the popularity and high approval ratings of President Bush. It seems that those victories, and the Internet rankings, are showing that there seems to be a definite American shift to the right on the political spectrum. All these liberal interactive and subscription sites have been losing ranking, and losing at a definitive rate. But the simultaneous growth of freerepublic shows that it's not that political websites are losing ranking, but it's definitely the left leaning political sites that are suffering the heaviest losses of interest among web surfers. Perhaps the future may show a shift back to the left, but for now the conservatives are enjoying a powerful resurgence, and it looks to be getting stronger by the day. George Bush looks like he may be enjoying a long, strong ride for the next two years as long as this trend continues.


TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Extended News; Free Republic; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bogusalexisrant; conservativesite; demsarelosingfast; freepalexatoolbar; freerepublic; frkickinbutt; keeponclickin; nonprofit; nonsensical; salondotbomb; salonhas3months; whatcompetition
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To: HighWheeler
Interesting stuff. Thanks for posting it. The Limbaugh graph is particularly notable. He gets a tremendous number of hits while he's on the radio (the "Dittocam" and all that), hence the regular spikes during the work week, but his hits plummit each weekend. And note the lack of the usual weekday spike in late December when he was on vacation and reruns and/or guest hosts were on the air.

Free Republic also seems to do better on weekdays than on weekends (though of course the trend isn't nearly as extreme as Rush's), which surprises me a little. Are we FReeping on company time at work? :-) Or is it just that weeknights have more news to react to than weekends?

21 posted on 01/27/2003 7:32:27 PM PST by southernnorthcarolina (optional tag line, printed after my name)
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To: HighWheeler
Awesome banner :-) Blows my mind when I hear people talking about the mainstream media being biased in favor of CONSERVATIVES.... could you imagine how wonderful the US would be if that were true??
22 posted on 01/27/2003 7:33:21 PM PST by Tamzee
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To: Victoria Delsoul
FR is throwing off them velcro straps!
23 posted on 01/27/2003 7:33:45 PM PST by habs4ever
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To: HighWheeler
Proud to provide a few hundred hits a day and $50.00 / quarter to FR, the "stickiest" site on the web (to use the vernacular of the dot com bubble days.)

The only conclusion to be drawn from the stats on FreeRepublic's growth is that there are alot of SUV-driving, gun-owning, tax-paying, law-abiding, right-wing crazies out there in internet land.

Happy to be among FRiends.
24 posted on 01/27/2003 7:34:03 PM PST by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: habs4ever; SamAdams76
Hey Sam, habs has a question that needs your expertise...
25 posted on 01/27/2003 7:34:20 PM PST by HighWheeler
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To: HighWheeler
All four: check!! :~)
26 posted on 01/27/2003 7:34:29 PM PST by reformedliberal
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To: HighWheeler
The sharpness, clarity, logic, and humor at freerepublic.com really becomes evident when compared to bartcop or DU.

Ha ha ha. Yeah!

Notice how the peaks at Rushlimbaugh.com track with those at Freerepublic? It looks like a solar cycle plotted against warming/cooling trends.
27 posted on 01/27/2003 7:35:12 PM PST by aruanan
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To: clintonh8r
Bartcop is a steaming turd...

Now, now, you don't want to 'mess up' our polite language here, do you?? LOL.

29 posted on 01/27/2003 7:36:24 PM PST by potlatch (The Clinton Legacy; SEX BETWEEN THE BUSHES)
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To: RoseofTexas
There are some bumperstickers - HERE
30 posted on 01/27/2003 7:36:42 PM PST by American Preservative
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To: HighWheeler
Sometimes I FReep so much I think those are MY numbers!
31 posted on 01/27/2003 7:36:54 PM PST by PatrioticAmerican (Let's all pay our fair share...make the poor pay taxes! They pay nothing!)
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To: habs4ever
LOL!!!!!!!!!!
32 posted on 01/27/2003 7:37:05 PM PST by Victoria Delsoul
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To: HighWheeler
Wish we had a left wing "Daddy Whorebucks" like Salon has who'd will drop $200K at a pot to keep Joe Conason out of the steam baths.

Ever notice Joe Conson only writes for outlets that take "personal ads"?

33 posted on 01/27/2003 7:37:09 PM PST by Doctor Raoul (DEFUND NPR - Make Liberal Talk Radio Pay For Itself)
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To: aruanan
Notice how the peaks at Rushlimbaugh.com track with those at Freerepublic? It looks like a solar cycle plotted against warming/cooling trends.

But these both are tracking against weekdays/weekends.
34 posted on 01/27/2003 7:37:16 PM PST by aruanan
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To: Jim Robinson
FYI! Great news.
35 posted on 01/27/2003 7:38:09 PM PST by Victoria Delsoul
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To: bvw; Tauzero; robnoel; kezekiel; ChadGore; Harley - Mississippi; Dukie; Matchett-PI; Moonman62; ...
ping
36 posted on 01/27/2003 7:38:52 PM PST by HighWheeler
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To: HighWheeler
bump
37 posted on 01/27/2003 7:40:32 PM PST by Temple Owl
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To: HighWheeler
Just posting a response can get FR a few more hits.

Cool!

38 posted on 01/27/2003 7:40:32 PM PST by eddie willers ("Could you turn those engines down....I've got a bad headache.")
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To: HighWheeler
LONG LIVE THE ROBINSONS AND FR. YEA TEAM!
39 posted on 01/27/2003 7:40:55 PM PST by Quix (21st FREEPCARD FINISHED)
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To: HighWheeler
Resistance is futile.


40 posted on 01/27/2003 7:40:57 PM PST by socal_parrot (Sounds Sweedish.)
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