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The 50 Most Popular Conservative Websites (Alexa.com says Free Republic at #7 beats MOST top names)
Right Wing News ^ | March 16, 2009 | John Hawkins

Posted on 07/12/2012 5:05:00 AM PDT by xzins

I thought it might be interesting to see which right-of-center websites actually receive the most traffic. So, I went to Alexa.com and ranked the 50 sites on the right. Do keep in mind that…

1) Alexa doesn’t distinguish between top level domains and their sub-directories. So, for example, a blog on Townhall and Townhall itself would have the same rating. Additionally, websites hosted at places like Blogspot, which list each blog on a sub-directory, can’t be measured. My guess is that it only knocked 2-4 websites max off the list including Ace of Spades HQ, Gateway Pundit, & Big Hollywood.

2) Although I have found Alexa to be generally accurate, it does occasionally make mistakes and certainly isn’t as on target as a statistics tracker.

3) I didn’t deliberately leave any right-of-center websites off the list, including the Libertarian websites. So, if you are supposed to be on list and weren’t included, feel free to send me an email.

All 50 websites are listed with their Alexa rank following their link. So for example, a “1″ would mean the page was the most popular website on the net. A “100,000″ would mean the 100,000th most popular page on the net. With that being said, let’s go ahead and take a look at the rankings.

1) Fox News: 260
2) Wall Street Journal: 383
3) The Drudge Report: 748
4) New York Post: 888
5) WorldNetDaily: 2,692
6) Newsmax: 3,264
7) Free Republic: 3,988
8) The Washington Times: 4,717
9) TownHall: 5,986
10) The Rush Limbaugh Show: 7,624

11) Real Clear Politics: 7,957
12) National Review: 10,346
13) Hot Air: 11,517
14) Michelle Malkin: 12,871
15) Glenn Beck: 13,153
16) Human Events Online: 17,538
17) The Heritage Foundation: 20,746
18) Newsbusters: 21,452
19) Lew Rockwell: 24,677
20) The Weekly Standard: 25,565

21) News With Views: 27,352
22) Sean Hannity: 28,086
23) Pajamas Media 28,969
24) The Ludwig von Mises Institute: 29,116
25) Atlas Shrugs: 29,548
26) The American Thinker: 29,980
27) Cybercast News Service: 32,348
28) Neal Boortz: 32,857
29) Reason: 33,254
30) Lucianne: 34,135

31) Ann Coulter 36,864
32) The Cato Journal: 39,187
33) Daily Paul: 41,465
34) The Volokh Conspiracy: 42,021
35) Bill O’Reilly: 42,533
36) Redstate: 42,655
37) Conservapedia: 43,866
38) Power Line: 44,542
39) Jewish World Review: 44,765
40) Front Page Magazine: 48,645

41) Daniel Pipes: 49,692
42) Little Green Footballs: 49,844
43) Campaign for Liberty: 50,638
44) The American Spectator: 52,377
45) Commentary: 55,447
46) GOPUSA: 58,771
47) James Lileks’: 60,536
48) Right Wing News: 63,097
49) Wizbang: 63,427
50) Day by Day: 63,455

10 bonus websites for you

51) Moonbattery: 67,850
52) Life News: 69,493
53) Vdare: 70,866
54) Debbie Schlussel: 73,543
55) Republican National Committee: 73,599
56) Lifesitenews: 73,823
57) Dick Morris: 77,187
58) Blackfive: 83,031
59) Outside the Beltway: 83,455
60) American Conservative: 90,579

Update #1: Jihad Watch emailed to note that they’re at 29,887. That would put them at #26. Sorry, I missed you, guys!

Update #2: Canada Free Press is at 73,555 which would put them at #55 on the original list.

Update #3: The great thing I have found about doing these lists is that if you miss a site, by the end of the day, someone will be sure to let you know about it =D Here a handful of other websites that were missed.

The Ron Paul Forums is at 29,341, which means they would have come in at #25 on the original list.

Onenewsnow ranks at 9,388, which would have put it at #12.

PS: I’ve had a couple people suggest that Infowars should be on the list, but I consider that to be a loony, anti-authority conspiracy site more than a conservative website. Others may disagree.

Update #4: The Business & Media Institutecomes in at 79,500, which would have put it at #58.


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KEYWORDS: conservativewebsites; elections; freeper; freerepublic
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To: xzins

Wonder where the DUmmies are on the list of most Marxist websites. Can’t be very high, because every time I peek in, they’re lucky if a post breaks 1 digit in number of replies.


41 posted on 07/12/2012 7:42:16 AM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: P-Marlowe; xzins; OneVike
Excellent insights, dear brothers in Christ!

Buuuump for more New Monthly Donors!

42 posted on 07/12/2012 8:04:38 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Jess Kitting; Jim Robinson
Also, Drudgereport is much higher. It comes in at 434.

I wonder why they left TheBlaze off the list. It would come in at 4.5 (Alexa ranking 1,332)

Since when is Drudge a "conservative web site".....and from what I've seen of TheBlaze, it's a shopping site...covered up with ads and a huge pop-up trolling for members to get past. Thank God for FR with no advertisements.

43 posted on 07/12/2012 8:05:25 AM PDT by greyfoxx39 (Until the 52K LDS missionaries claiming Christian faith is bogus quit, I will post LDS truth.)
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7) Free Republic: 3,988

55) Republican National Committee: 73,599

HA! Take that eGOP!

My tagline has been the same since the tagline feature was added.


44 posted on 07/12/2012 8:23:58 AM PDT by Henchster (Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
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To: greyfoxx39
LOL:
...from what I've seen of TheBlaze, it's a shopping site.
Always has one of those ads you have to close covering 1/2 the top of the page.

Then when that one is gone, up comes a pop up.

That is when I close the window and don't read their tripe.

I'm surprised the FreeperBeaters who post over and over again on blogs (hijacking) just because they hate them don't complain about sites like the Blaze.

Oh, that's right they aren't blogs, so ads are ok.

45 posted on 07/12/2012 8:26:40 AM PDT by Syncro (Sarah Palin, the unofficial Tea Party candidate for president--Virtual Jerusalem)
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To: greyfoxx39; Jim Robinson; xzins
Since when is Drudge a "conservative web site"..... Thank God for FR with no advertisements.

After this current primary season, that point cannot be emphasized strong enough.

As far as I'm concerned Drudge can take his site, his gal pal, Coulter, and his in-the-beltway establishment lefty buddies and shove them all ........ ........ ........ ......... ......... .......... ...... well I'll let ya-all figure out where he can shove them.....
46 posted on 07/12/2012 8:29:43 AM PDT by OneVike (I'm just a Christian waiting to go home)
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To: greyfoxx39

Since when is RealClearPolitics a conservative site? They offset every conservative article with a liberal article. They are about as nonpartisan as it gets and all my PoliSci profs referenced them. They sure as hell wouldnt be telling their students to get info from some conservative webpage.


47 posted on 07/12/2012 8:29:43 AM PDT by StevieRay20
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To: Syncro

Check into your browser settings. I don’t get any ads and there are ad-ons for your browser so you can skip most ads.


48 posted on 07/12/2012 8:40:05 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: xzins



You missed Weasel Zippers.

You can't get more conservative than Weasel Zippers and comments.

Good Hunting... from Varmint Al

49 posted on 07/12/2012 8:43:00 AM PDT by Varmint Al
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To: xzins

I could draw up such a list and put FreeRepublic at the top, or bottom, of it. Just depends on how many RINO sites I stuffed in ahead of FR. It’s all about manipulating the data. A lot of sites on this list don’t belong on it. By almost any objective measure, FR is number one.


50 posted on 07/12/2012 8:52:11 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: xzins

Wow X, I would have thought (according to TBL) that FR would be like 1000 and they would be 1.
Thanks very interesting.


51 posted on 07/12/2012 8:56:35 AM PDT by svcw (If one living cell on another planet is life, why isn't it life in the womb?)
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To: Jess Kitting

my first thought too

The Blaze has regular gossipy links too for those who are celeb addicted

i’m assuming they considered it a sub site to Glenn Beck

not sure if it is?


52 posted on 07/12/2012 9:02:49 AM PDT by wardaddy (John Roberts collection of Sally Quinn's panties just got a hefty contribution this week..)
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To: xzins; Jim Robinson; All

Rush 10th ..
Beck 15th ..
Hannity 22nd ..
O-Really 35th ..

Oh My!!

Just imagine what FR could do on a spiffy server farm..

Some folks don’t see the value of a buck, but fortunately many still here do.

FR is a survivor.

To those who care about this nation’s direction, morally, economically, and politically trend-wise.. cough it up .. before Obama gets it.

GiDDyUP!


53 posted on 07/12/2012 9:06:27 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: NormsRevenge

good point


54 posted on 07/12/2012 9:16:41 AM PDT by KC Burke (Plain Conservative opinions and common sense correction for thirteen years.)
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To: xzins

Please claim the political DEAD CENTER for CONSERVATISM! That is my only real disagreement with Barry Goldwater who staked out the right in his book, Conscience of a Conservative, which I’ve had a copy of since 1963. If conservatism stands for the long-term stability and security of the Union then it MUST claim the center. The Right has always been “status quo” and the left has always been upside down revolutionary. Conservatism, as practiced by me anyway, stands for preservation of the Union with overwhelming strength and stability.


55 posted on 07/12/2012 10:23:19 AM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: LibLieSlayer

Some think conservative means GOP and not challenging the status quo. In this vein, others think conservativism is ‘beating’ the Marxists by turning over federal money and unconstitutionl powers to global corporations, police and the military ‘to keep us safe’ with a ‘strong economy.’

Free Republic rejects the false choice of ‘conservative’ fascism and ‘liberal’ Marxism. It promotes a third way -American-American constitutional political ideology and it’s social ideals, ethics and culture. It is as radical or extremist to today’s GOP and DNC control freak Globalists, as were the founders and their constitutional Republic of the United States to globe trotting King George.

America is exceptional among Nations for as long as America is independent, free and good. Free Republic aims to remind the modern corrupt, power hungry elitists of American exceptionalism, preserve it and hand it down to future generations of Americans.


56 posted on 07/12/2012 10:23:19 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: xzins

Thank you for this great Index!


57 posted on 07/12/2012 10:43:16 AM PDT by True Republican Patriot (May GOD SAVE OUR AMERICA from ALLAH and his Prophet, HUSSEIN OBAMA!!)
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To: SaraJohnson

Well stated Sara!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LLS


58 posted on 07/12/2012 10:57:57 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Don't Tread On Me)
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To: Democrats hate too much

Yeah, I was surprised that they were absent from the list. I go there often, and they seem to make a lot of news (ACORN and Anthony Wiener).


59 posted on 07/12/2012 12:45:22 PM PDT by RPTMS
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To: xzins
42) Little Green Footballs: 49,844

This has to be a joke, right? Not its ranking but the fact that it's listed as a conservative site.

60 posted on 07/12/2012 6:24:20 PM PDT by Random_User_250
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