[melt]

"Fake, but accurate" numbers on Daily Kos. The site's owner must have been taking courses at the "Dan Ra^ther School of Honesty"...

[digger48]

"NO THIR"

[neodad]

Phony Pajamma Stats

[eyedigress]

They are all full of it. No one I know even knows who these fudge-packers are.

[xcamel]

see here:
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=dailykos.com

[barnicus]

Article sites a flaw in Sitemeter Stats: 101 people consistently revisiting the page in a circuit could inflate the numbers dramatically.

"SiteMeter only accounts for the last 100 visitors individually. On a site like Daily Kos, the 100th most recent visitor could have been 15 seconds ago. If you are the 101st most recent visitor and you click on a new page, you are counted as a new unique visitor in SiteMeter’s all important count. On a normal site, this wouldn’t matter, since it’s highly unlikely you’ll stick around long enough to have 100 others show up after you. On a site with hundreds of thousands of page views a day, it’s extremely likely you will."

[antinomian]

The author is trying to divine the internal logic of a program and I'm very skeptical of his analysis. As a programmer I don't think the sort of mistake in logic he is describing is very likely. It would have to be a nonsensical design decision. It wouldn't be just a bug.

Could it be that the Daily Kos has lots of people who designate it as their homepage so that whenever they open their browser the homepage loads and gets counted? That would explain both the high visitor count and the low average visit durations.

[FormerACLUmember]

I am amazed that Kos has any traffic at all.

Even the slightest hint of independent (or sane) thought is met with instant banning.

[Incorrigible]

Bump

[Fester Chugabrew]

Couple this (and other instances of false bravado) with liberal Democrat shenanigans at the voting booth and you have a tyranny of the minority. The Party of Abortion, Death, Taxation, and Mediocrity rules. Things need to change.

[Tribune7]

Extrapolating from Kos’ page view number, a more accurate “visitor” number for Kos would be in the neighborhood of 283,000. If Kos is a stickier site than MyDD or OpenLeft (a fair assumption), that number is probably lower. That works out to an artificial inflation in the accepted Daily Kos traffic number of about 60%.

That makes a lot more sense to me than 600,000.

[bray]

Its refreshing to know there aren’t as many Kooks as they report. Wonder how their advertisers feel about that??

Pray for W and Our Troops

[Lancey Howard]

Good find.
BUMP!

[Doctor Raoul]

Their stats are faked, but their BS is real...

[RightOnline]

25+ years in the computer business here, and all I can do to rightfully address this is to quote the old saw: “Lies, damned lies......and statistics.”

[redpoll]

You mean that a Lefist lied about something? Say it ain’t so!

[2ndDivisionVet]

I’ve heard it claimed that Markos (”Kos”) is a military veteran. Does anyone know the facts on this?

[ozzymandus]

Phony website, phony soldiers, what do you expect? I wonder if anybody will pick this up.

[puroresu]

I’ve heard that Moulitsas’ score of 83 on an IQ test was inflated 60% as well.