“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.
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 hate their refresh rate. One of the reasons I don’t go there. I could only read 1/2 the links and boom. Back to the top.
I also hate the sites with pop-ups that can’t be blocked. Anyway. Drudge is too drama queen for me.