Posted on 10/31/2020 1:57:52 PM PDT by RandFan
The Drudge Report posted a 45 percent decline in web traffic in September as the site alienated its core readers by turning against President Trump ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
The data derived from comScore, which tracks the industry were released in a report by TheRighting, a website that analyzes traffic to right-leaning websites. TheRighting told The Post that the Drudge Report had 1,291,000 unique visitors in September, according to data supplied by comScore, down from 2,340,000 in the same month a year ago.
Septembers eye-popping decline marks the ninth month in a row that the political news aggregation website run by reclusive founder Matt Drudge has seen traffic fall, TheRighting said.
The plunge comes at a time when demand for political news has been soaring on both sides of the aisle leading up to a highly charged presidential election. And experts say its directly tied to the Drudge Reports sudden and unexpected switch earlier this year from a conservative-leaning news outlet to one thats decidedly anti-Trump.
Its catastrophic what has happened to his web traffic, said Matt Lysiak, author of The Drudge Revolution. Hes on a fast track to irrelevance.
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Thanks. I could have sworn he had already sold a stake before, but I guess not. His timing is really bad right now, especially if Trump is re-elected. His website net worth would crater under such a scenario.
Foolish Gay Man.
You reap what you sow....
He’s not on a fast rack to anywhere but the bank. He sold the site. I was an early adopter, been avoiding the site for quite a while.
Haven’t gone to Drudge in many months.
It’s hard to flush a floater when it keeps coming back up.
Havent been there in years. He is a snake. Just like the Shiitehead Charles Johnson of LGF.
Is anyone at Fox News taking notes?
Drudge is really awful. Makes Daily Mail look like a paragon of good journalism.
Never trusted him. I can aggregate my own news.
Two-faced bastar^s!
“Good. He is a treacherous snake.”
Normal people do not want to visit that bad news buffet. I am sick and tired of Drudge’s crap and I used to visit his site several times a day. Not any more.
Used to check out Drudge at least 10 or 20 times a day... Now I go there maybe once a week.
Where Drudge added value, was he would dig up stories that the media wanted to bury. They would write an article but stick it in some inconspicuous place, just so they could say they covered it.
Drudge would take these, and drag them under the spotlight for us all to see.
Hi.
IMHO, Drudge has been compromised, just like CJ Roberts.
Maybe for the same reason, maybe not.
J. Edgar Hoover knows...happy Halloween.
5.56mm
“I relied on Drudge a lot during the 2000 election. Now I try to avoid it at all costs”
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Try to avoid it????
I COMPLETELY left Drudge when his never Trumper side became apparent.
Went from Drudge junkie to cold turkey about 2 yrs ago.
NOT ONE CLICK FROM ME for quite some time!!!!
F DRUDGE!!!!!!!
No Drudge for 7 years here. The Fedora was quite the gimmick though, screwball.
So Dick Tracy-like dickhead.
I gave up on Drudge more than a year ago.
Drudge was my first stop on the Internet every day for 20 years.
Although Drudge was never a Conservative, he kept the Political Left off balance and on the defensive for two decades.
In my opinion, the maniacal Never-Trump and Democratic Party assault on Trump and the GOP could not have survived for four years if Drudge had continued to play at the top of his game.
A tragic loss for Conservatives.
And, a loss with real and severe historical consequences.
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