The Top 125 Political Websites

rightwingnews ^ | may 2004 | by John Hawkins

[dennisw]

The Top 125 Political Websites On The Net Version 3.0

by John Hawkins

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

[foreverfree]

bump

[Snuffington]

Alexa ratings are unreliable. They only count users of the Alexa browser plugin. Not a representative sample.

[Pikamax]

bttt

[Plutarch]

I understand that FR is very "sticky". Are there any stats on that?

[WinOne4TheGipper]

I think the poster was refering to LibertyPost.org.

[mlmr]

STICKY?

I am stuck here. Is there any money in being a FR addict??

[Lawgvr1955]

Is there any money in being a FR addict??

If there is, I should be Bill Gates.

[Anti-Bubba182]

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

[mlmr]

If there is, I should be Bill Gates.

LOL. Me too.

[4mycountry]

FreeRepublic is #6! DemocraticUnderwear is #21!

[Choose Ye This Day]

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!

[lennydetroit]

BTT for reference.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

More sites than I can read in a week! WOW!

[Anti-Bubba182]

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.

[Incorrigible]

Interesting... Lots of wacky sites in that list.

[stainlessbanner]

bump

[texas booster]

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?

[Plutarch]

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 site’s 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 site’s 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 content’s 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 site’s stickiness is important to online advertisers because the longer visitors stay on the site the more exposure those visitors have to potential advertising.

Webopedia

[airborne]

How is The Drudge Report #1 and #82?

[ConservativeMan55]

Don't you guys forget my Web site!

www.osurepublicans.com