Posted on 09/08/2020 8:17:15 AM PDT by Red Badger
Not even massive street riots, hordes of lawless vagrants burning cities throughout the United States and a dead-heat presidential election could help Matt Drudge’s spiraling news site in August.
The fall has been dramatic and historic, but also one predicted in mid 2019 by Thomas Paine.
Web numbers for the country’s biggest Joe Biden cheerleader just got worse for Matt Drudge’s spiraling news site in June.
Drudge’s monthly traffic in August was 63 million readers, according to similarweb.com analytics, down from 66 million in May. The spiral continues. In September 2019 Drudge was pulling close to 95 million readers and well over 100 million in August 2019, one year ago.
That’s roughly a 40 percent decline in clicks/traffic in a year, marking Drudge’s lowest volume of web visitors literally in decades.
A recap on Drudge’s slide that I wrote in December:
November brought an additional loss of almost 12 percent in web visitors to the embattled news site.
The loss of readers for Drudge since Septemeber is staggering. Drudge’s overall web traffic was down nearly 18 percent in September and October, according to the tracking metrics on Similar Web. That massive and accelrated slide went from approximately 93 million visits to 77 million.
News consumers here have clearly spoken and Drudge appears to be in serious trouble with these numbers. He is bleeding former loyalists and often, regaining them is an elusive and expensive task.
Obviously. Drudge — if he is even still running the site himself at this point — remains uninterested in slowing th bleeding. And the site isn’t just bleeding out, it is hemmoraging.
Drudge’s lost traffic, added up since August, is tetering on 30 percent. In Nov. 2019, I wrote about the signifigance of that number. Here is a recap:
I have used the Enron model — specifically the schematics of its plummeting stock index — as a barometer for pinpointing problematic corporate warning signs, trap doors, and wayward executives and it rarely fails.
That type of rapid slide, even though it is web traffic compared to stock price, is beginning to parallel Enron’s stock model.
The point of no return for Enron was between January and March 2001 — a mere 90-day span — when the stock price spiraled 33 percent from approximately $80 per share to $53.
Drudge’s web numbers are on a parallel trajectory. In July, Drudge was pulling almost 100 million web views (95 million). Now he’s at 68 million. In fact, he’s now witnessing a historic collapse that eclipses the Enron model.
If Drudge thought he was going to gain new readers by pivoting to the Left while dissing Conservatives he got what he wanted — except his loyal readers are the ones who left. In droves. And the exile isn’t over. — Thomas Paine
Thanks for causing me to laugh milk out of my nostrils! Drudge Reports was a right leaning aggregate news site. Now it is a left leaning aggregate news site. Left and Right are opposite directions. He has changed what he does. Don't be an idiot; you are now lapping up leftist nonsense.
Hope they paid him enough to make it all worthwhile.
It is a shame that Drudge built a business that was so successful YET walked away not giving a damn what happened to it after the sale GEEZE!! He should have at least cared about what they were doing to his name!!!
Drudge is dead to me. I will not be clicking on his click bait again.
Site is not liberal enough yet, that’s all. Needs to get more woke.
He was likely told: turn left, or you will get no advertising revenue.
Yeah Drudge was taken out by the commie left liberals...when you can’t win buy them and kill them...
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I also think comparing that slide in any way with a corporate slide is wacky. Corporations face a real risk of bankruptcy if sales drop enough. All it means for Drudge is somewhat smaller profits, because the cost of running that site is low.
Site is not liberal enough yet, that’s all. Needs to get more woke.
Lol. I havent clicked on Drudge since the Lewinski Scandal. Eff Drudge or whoever runs it now.
Haven’t looked since 2 years ago.
Matt Sludge is David Brock’s doppelgänger.
Well, the folks who purchased Drudge can add a professional sports section and push moar BLM crap.
Can’t hurt?
He was good on Pro-Life news, science going wrong (e.g. cloning humans, etc.), weird sky/weather phenomenon, interesting celebrity news (e.g. conservatives coming out of the closet), and much more.
It was not just politics.
The problem with some of the supposed conservative "alternatives" is that most of them are just politics and they are echo chambers that really just repeat what we already get on FreeRepublic. Drudge used to have good old fashioned human interest stories.
@TVNewsHQ
President Trump re-tweeted news from the above site.
Could be a good source for quick hits of news
I used to frequent Drudge multiple time a day. To be honest, I’ve forgotten about the site.
Me too.
In the old times, I'd click on Drudge 15-20 times a day and link to the news source directly from his site.
Haven't been there for months and have no intention of going back.
he has it coming, try my site as an alternative.
If the stories are correct, Drudge started out as a dumpster diver. He would scour the dumpsters at the studio he worked at for news that the studios didn't want to get out.
Then after his site got going he was the way for journalists who didn't want to end their careers to get things out to the public.
For a long time he provided a great service.
If your postings just stayed in your use.net group then they were of no use. If Drudge got them out to the public via his website then he provided a service.
Just because Drudge and/or the Drudge Report have gone south doesn't mean that he wasn't a force for good in the past. I believe it was the Drudge Report that got the ball rolling on the Clinton impeachment. That ultimately didn't go anywhere, but the Deep State has been Deep for quite some time.
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