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The Top 125 Political Websites
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| may 2004
| by John Hawkins
Posted on 05/05/2004 6:35:47 PM PDT by dennisw
The Top 125 Political Websites On The Net Version 3.0
Once again, I've decided it's time to rank the most popular political websites using Alexa.com...
Websites
|
Alexa Ranking |
1) The Drudge Report |
302 |
2) World Net Daily |
975 |
3) Salon |
1,125 |
4) Newsmax |
1,138 |
5) Lew Rockwell |
1,244 |
6) Free Republic |
1,606 |
7) TownHall |
1,709 |
8) Time |
1,805 |
9) National Review |
2,694 |
10) The Economist |
2,801 |
11) Antiwar.com |
3,147 |
12) The Rush Limbaugh Show |
3,240 |
13) John Kerry For President |
3,308 |
14) The Christian Science Monitor |
3,514 |
15) Periodicals of the Ludwig von Mises Institute |
3,625 |
16) IndyMedia |
3,627 |
17) Opinion Journal |
3,677 |
18) Common Dreams |
4,191 |
19) U.S. News & World Report: |
4,533 |
20) Newsfilter |
4,593 |
21) The Democratic Underground |
5,098 |
22) The Village Voice |
5,201 |
23) Bush Cheney '04 |
5,631 |
24) Move On |
5,766 |
25) Lucianne |
5,995 |
26) Front Page Magazine |
6,744 |
27) Howard Dean for America |
7,736 |
28) The Atlantic Online |
7,821 |
29) Daily Kos |
7,823 |
30) Sean Hannity |
8,376 |
31) The Weekly Standard |
8,398 |
32) Counterpunch |
8,875 |
33) The Nation |
9,654 |
34) AlterNet |
9,844 |
35) Reason |
10,374 |
36) Air America Radio |
10,731 |
37) Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish |
10,739 |
38) Instapundit |
10,839 |
39) Buzzflash |
11,301 |
40) Jewish World Review |
11,353 |
41) Neal Boortz |
11,568 |
42) What Really Happened |
11,750 |
43) Talking Points Memo |
11,982 |
44) Michael Moore |
12,760 |
45) The New Republic |
13,000 |
46) The Cato Journal |
14,412 |
47) Vdare |
14,521 |
48) Cybercast News Service |
14,618 |
49) Tech Central Station |
15,013 |
50) New Yorker |
15,550 |
51) The Hill |
15,690 |
52) World Socialist Website |
15,712 |
53) The Heritage Foundation |
15,713 |
54) Real Clear Politics |
15,768 |
55) Bill O'Reilly |
16,038 |
56) Zmag |
16,224 |
57) Poynter Online |
16,307 |
58) Men's News Daily |
16,948 |
59) Arts And Letters Daily |
17,610 |
60) Sobran's |
17,771 |
61) The American Spectator |
18,809 |
62) Ann Coulter |
19,380 |
63) James Lileks: |
20,184 |
64) Mother Jones |
20,222 |
65) Anti-State.com |
20,320 |
66) Tom Paine |
20,679 |
67) Little Green Footballs |
20,725 |
68) Strike The Root |
21,010 |
69) The American Enterprise Institute |
22,208 |
70) Human Events Online |
22,403 |
71) Wonkette |
22,655 |
72) Insight Magazine |
23,319 |
73) American Conservative |
23,421 |
74) The American Prospect |
23,449 |
75) The Smirking Chimp |
23,892 |
76) Etherzone |
23,924 |
77) Free-Market.Net |
30,384 |
78) Political Wire |
32,839 |
79) Politics 1 |
33,001 |
80) National Journal |
33,851 |
81) Washington Monthly |
35,388 |
82) The Drudge Retort |
36,115 |
83) Media Research Center |
37,934 |
84) Whiskey Bar |
38,302 |
85) Bartcop |
39,031 |
86) Informed Comment |
40,350 |
87) The Semi-Daily Journal of Economist Brad DeLong |
41,090 |
88) Right Wing News |
43,562 |
89) Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting |
44,162 |
90) Cursor |
44,887 |
91) The Command Post |
46,938 |
92) Bush Watch |
47,255 |
93) The Volokh Conspiracy |
47,436 |
94) Infoshop -- Your Online Anarchist Community |
49,394 |
95) Scrappleface |
50,771 |
96) Democrats.com |
50,792 |
97) Karen De Coster |
52,450 |
98) Buzz Machine |
52,983 |
99) This Modern World |
53,689 |
100) The Progressive |
55,696 |
101) Don Imus In The Morning |
57,777 |
102) The USS Clueless |
59,496 |
103) NumbersUSA |
60,195 |
104) The Ayn Rand Institute |
60,238 |
105) Hugh Hewitt |
60,438 |
106) Roll Call |
60,591 |
107) Accuracy In Media |
60,634 |
108) Spleenville (Tim Blair, Sine Qua Non, & Twisted Spinster) |
61,141 |
109) Intellectual Conservative |
62,651 |
110) Oliver Willis |
63,381 |
111) Open Democracy |
64,970 |
112) Congressional Quarterly |
65,756 |
113) ChronWatch |
65,903 |
114) Matthew Yglesias |
68,343 |
115) The Daily Howler |
69,159 |
116) Capitol Hill Blue |
71,315 |
117) Laura Ingraham |
71,491 |
118) The Truth Laid Bear |
71,541 |
119) Daniel Drezner |
73,204 |
120) Maxspeak |
74,086 |
121) Power Line |
75,217 |
122) Steyn Online |
75,961 |
123) Allah Is In The House |
79,283 |
124) Dean's World |
79,547 |
125) Talk Left |
81,855 |
TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: 229; politicalwebsites; topten
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To: dennisw
bump
To: dennisw
Alexa ratings are unreliable. They only count users of the Alexa browser plugin. Not a representative sample.
To: foreverfree
bttt
23
posted on
05/05/2004 6:57:23 PM PDT
by
Pikamax
To: dennisw
I understand that FR is very "sticky". Are there any stats on that?
24
posted on
05/05/2004 6:57:26 PM PDT
by
Plutarch
To: Starve The Beast
I think the poster was refering to LibertyPost.org.
25
posted on
05/05/2004 6:57:39 PM PDT
by
WinOne4TheGipper
(DUers are God's warning to the rest of us.)
To: Plutarch
STICKY?
I am stuck here. Is there any money in being a FR addict??
26
posted on
05/05/2004 7:02:14 PM PDT
by
mlmr
(Significant or Trivial)
To: mlmr
Is there any money in being a FR addict??If there is, I should be Bill Gates.
27
posted on
05/05/2004 7:04:23 PM PDT
by
Lawgvr1955
(I am thankful for government waste. Just think if we got all the government we paid for.)
To: jern
I put this up before:
LINK
If you look at the Lew Rockwell homepage you will see that they have an Alexa referral box on it. The Alexa rating system works only for Browsers with the Alexa Toolbar installed. The Alexa spyware collects surfing data on those browsers with the toolbar installed. Currently the Toolbar only works with Microsoft Internet Explorer. Lew Rockwell hypes the Alexa Rating by featuring it on his hompage and often mentioning his ratings as the example you have linked. His users are more likely to use the Tool Bar offered by Alexa if for no other reason than they are aware it exists, which would not be typically true of the other sites he shows in the comparisons he listed.
Alexa ratings my be relevant comparisons for sites that do not make prominant reference to Alexa and thereby Skew the ratings upward. Also, I don't think he is doing his readers any favors by leading them to a toolbar that loads spyware on their computers. 12 posted on 06/01/2003 12:22:20 PM CDT by Anti-Bubba182
To: Lawgvr1955
If there is, I should be Bill Gates.
LOL. Me too.
29
posted on
05/05/2004 7:08:20 PM PDT
by
mlmr
(Significant or Trivial)
To: dennisw
FreeRepublic is #6! DemocraticUnderwear is #21!
30
posted on
05/05/2004 7:13:16 PM PDT
by
4mycountry
("Completely concretely" - - That's "the power of the 'Freeper'.")
To: Anti-Bubba182
What's the website normally used to track Internet hits? I used to see it linked here all the time, showing how FR nlew away DU. That should nip this Lew Rockwell business in the bud. Not to mention 'Salon.' Puh--leeez!
31
posted on
05/05/2004 7:16:15 PM PDT
by
Choose Ye This Day
("He never talked vague, idealistic gas. When He said, 'Be perfect,' He meant it." -- C.S. Lewis)
To: dennisw
BTT for reference.
To: dennisw
More sites than I can read in a week! WOW!
To: Choose Ye This Day
I as far as I have heard, Alexa is it. We used to use Hitbox on FR. On that software, installed at FR, it registered hits on the website and reported them to Hitbox and they kept the statistics. The downside is that it slowed down FR and their comparisons were only valid for sites with that software.
To: dennisw
Interesting... Lots of wacky sites in that list.
35
posted on
05/05/2004 7:45:58 PM PDT
by
Incorrigible
(immanentizing the eschaton)
To: sheltonmac
bump
To: dennisw
Sad to see Capital Hill Blue and Steyn Online ranked so low.
I agree that the lack of Alexa hits drops both sites. Our Alexa ranking is not indicative of our true hits.
Makes me wonder what our true number would be if so many FReepers did not know how to remove Alexa at every opportunity?
37
posted on
05/05/2004 7:53:37 PM PDT
by
texas booster
(Make a resolution to better yourself and your community in '04 - vote Republican!)
To: mlmr
STICKY? I am stuck here. Is there any money in being a FR addict??
Sticky (adj.) When used in terms of a Web site, sticky refers to a sites ability to keep visitors on the site once they have navigated there or encourage the visitor to return frequently (i.e., the visitors stick to the site).
A sites stickiness depends on the content of the site that encourages the visitors to remain there but is not necessarily what the visitors went to the site looking for. For example, in addition to original content that may be the main reason for visits, a site may add a glossary, stock quotes, games, community forums, news feeds and/or chat rooms to make the site more appealing to visitors. Also, sites can add special features to set themselves apart from competitors, such as the ability to communicate with the contents authors, the ability to personalize the site, contests, and numerous hyperlinks to other pages of the site -- all elements that entice a visitor not just to stay on the site but to return frequently.
A Web sites stickiness is important to online advertisers because the longer visitors stay on the site the more exposure those visitors have to potential advertising.
Webopedia
38
posted on
05/05/2004 7:59:00 PM PDT
by
Plutarch
To: dennisw
How is The Drudge Report #1 and #82?
39
posted on
05/05/2004 8:03:07 PM PDT
by
airborne
(lead by example)
To: unix
Don't you guys forget my Web site!
www.osurepublicans.com
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