Posted on 11/13/2017 6:36:28 AM PST by Celerity
“By December, Drudge had fallen to third, the position it had held for most of 2016. That month, though, the number of page views had climbed to 1.83 billion. That’s as though 58 people loaded Drudge Report every second that month. “
Actually, they didn’t load Drudge. Drudge loads itself. Every twenty seconds. If you try to just spend 10 minutes on the site, you’ll log 30 refresh views, even if no new story is posted in that time. So if you read say 5 stories, instead of logging 5 views, you log 35 views.
And people who leave Drudge open on a browser on their desktop log over 4,000 views a day, or 1.5 million views a year. If just 1,000 people in the whole world do that, it would account for half of Drudge traffic in a year.
Why they compare Drudge numbers to normal traffic on other news aggregators or websites is beyond me.
Correction. I forgot to multiply by 12.
If just 12,000 people in the whole world do that, it would account for half of Drudge traffic in a year.
Why is the WaPo allowed to interfere in U.S. elections?
you are exactly right. Do you all know that on the lower right of his site, you can send links to stories? I have sent several. What I have found is he only accepts and uses things that fit his narrative. when the Moore stuff came out, that’s all he had on his site. Soon after, there were stories out about how one was a dem operative, one’s story didn’t wash, etc. I sent all those to him...by the end of the day not ONE story counter to the allegations were posted, only the stories accusing Moore were kept up.
I’m done with Drudge...he is yet another MSM operative.
So they're saying Drudge Report provided links to the Wash Post and RT and Sputnik and InfoWars. And Pravda too. And many other news agencies. This is supposed to pass for "news" with the WP? Anyone who regularly uses Drudge for it's links to sources of news around the world, already knows this. This is not some new, profound revelation.
The WP writes stories about Russia in their paper. Does than make them in cahoots with the Russians? May be, since that is what they seem to be implying with the Drudge Report links.
The Russian thing ran out of steam a while back. Let's get on to something more current and important. Like trying to smear a senatorial candidate in Alabama with unproven lies.
Matt Drudge used to date Ann Coulter.
Drudge’s best aspect is including links from all sorts of sources, and often posted stories next to each other for ironic impact. Who knew that Russia Times or Sputnik News might have connections to Russia? I was completely taken in...
Jealous much, WaPo?
Washington ComPost Composting bull again.
Does WaPo think that people wouldn’t be able to see what’s on RT or infowars without going through Drudge?
The counters don’t count page refreshes, unless it’s stated to do so.
Those Drudge hits are unique hits. If a refresh came from the same IP Address it’s a duplicate and not counted. I mean, you COULD make it count, but then the numbers would be way, way off.
I wonder how many page views Drudge would log if he didn’t use that dishonest auto-refresh feature to boost his ad revenue?
So many Drudge articles link to WaPo or NYTimes that I stopped looking at it. You can’t tell the source until you click the link.
He should of kept dancing with the ones who brought him.
I quit going to Drudge late last year because every time I tried, a pop up thing would overtake my device. A few months later, I tried again, and the same thing happened. That has only ever happened on questionable websites. I can get headlines elsewhere, so I don’t go to Drudge anymore.
I assumed at the time that Drudge had been hacked.
“There’s a Russian in my soup!”
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As with every Democrat smear, you can be certain the hypocrite Dems are doing exactly what they accuse others of doing.
Like I said, I can smell the foul reek of desperation emanating off the Washington CommunistPost.
Methinks they doth protest too much.
So next because Free Republic had “direct links to RT, FR will be an agent of the Russian government?
“....linking directly to individual stories at Infowars, as well as RT and Sputnik News, both content-sharing arms of the Russian government....”
The dinosaur media doesn’t like it when they can’t control the news, and who sees the news.
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