As political season heats up, Politico’s Web traffic cools down

Daily Caller ^ | December 22, 2011 | Josh Peterson

[Fred]

New independent circulation numbers show a sharp decline in readership of Politico and other left-leaning news websites, an ominous trend for the suburban Virginia-based news outlet and its peers as Americans head into an election year.

Recently published and publicly available Web traffic data indicates that “unique visitor” traffic to politico.com in November 2011 was 15 percent lower than in the previous month, and 31 percent lower than in November 2010. The data, from Compete, Inc., also show an overall two-year decline.

Political websites gain and lose readers throughout election cycles, with presidential election years trending higher in unique Web traffic when compared to off-years and midterm elections. Web traffic analysts told The Daily Caller that politico.com’s traffic patterns should be expected to fit that mold: With the Iowa caucuses fast approaching, unique traffic should increase.

But Politico’s traffic losses appear to be part of a year-long trend on the political left. Media Matters

[Winstons Julia]

Mediamatters is dying too... it’s Christmas....I tell you.

[Old Sarge]

Can the Sheep finally be seeing the truth behind The Left?

Naaaaaahh...

[bravo whiskey]

that would be baaaaaaa. couldn’t resist

[Intolerant in NJ]

New independent circulation numbers show a sharp decline in readership of Politico and other left-leaning news websites...why keep reading them - once you've read them once, you've read them for all time - the same thing over and over again - Republicans are racists, tax the rich, share the wealth - like a parrot going through its repetoire......

[jimpick]

I guess reporting a fake story with no witnesses and no real evidence hurts your credibility.

[matthew fuller]

"But Politico’s traffic losses appear to be part of a year-long trend on the political left. Media Matters For America’s website, for instance, lost 56.83 percent of its unique visitors between November 2010 and November 2011. In the same 12-month period, Talking Points Memo lost 41 percent, Wonkette was down by 32 percent, Gawker declined by 31 percent, Salon decreased by 22 percent and progressive blog Daily Kos shed 18 percent of its unique visitors. Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/22/as-political-season-heats-up-politicos-web-traffic-cools-down/#ixzz1hKYvjrkO"

It's a beautiful thing!

[writer33]

I guess reporting a fake story with no witnesses and no real evidence hurts your credibility.

I can see your standards are a tad high. LOL!

[Carthego delenda est]

“Republicans are racists, tax the rich, share the wealth - like a parrot going through its repetoire......”

Damn! And I thought I supported taking Grannie’s Medicare and Social Security away! WAIT! I also thought I could all by myself being a republican end funding to all police and fire departments...

Did I miss any departments?

[Parley Baer]

The good news of the day. Kind warms a persons heart.

[PghBaldy]

Good thread. Thank you. People should go and read the rest of the numbers. Kind of interesting.

[Graewoulf]

” - - - But Politico’s traffic losses appear to be part of a year-long trend on the political left.”

YAWN - - - - . Yawn - - - - - - . yawn - - - - - - - - .

[upchuck]

Interesting. Anyone know how FR has fared?

[Intolerant in NJ]

Damn! And I thought I supported taking Grannie’s Medicare and Social Security away!...right - I missed that slant to the story - and the part where she has to eat dogfood - the parrot will have to learn a few new words......

[Gator113]

Such great news.... and right before Christmas.

[MCH]

Now & again I used to go to both politico & huffpo to play the role of “conservative poster” in an attempt to either rile up and/or refute the ravings of the libtard regulars there. But it got old, and the ratio of whack-job libtard posters to common sense posters seemed to go up & up - so I gave up. I haven’t been to either site in a few months now.

[PGalt]

GRRRRRREAT news! GRRRRRREAT thread! WOOOHOOOO!

DEFUND socialists/DISMANTLE their collectives/DEPOPULATE them from the body politic.

live - free - republic

[skinkinthegrass]

OUCH!...That's gonna leave a HUGH mark!
WaPoop: "the sheeple / the Herd; aren't
braying to our tune lately..."

[AdaGray]

The Politico by-line, just like the by-line of the Washington Post or the NY Times, is like a warning sign. I see it and I stay away.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Couldn’t happen to a scummier, biased site.

Despite our recent set backs, I am convinced John Q. Citizen is sick of Hussein and his cult. This includes the moron media.