Posted on 10/14/2014 6:55:42 AM PDT by upbeat5
Those who run watchdog news websites are scratching their heads and trying to make sense of the latest data released by a California company that measures website traffic.
According to data for July through September, almost every major website – from WND to the Drudge Report and Breitbart – saw its rankings drop on Alexa.com while pro-government sites mostly went up.
Alexa Internet Inc. is a subsidiary of Amazon.
Familiar names in alternative media like the Drudge Report, Breitbart, Infowars, the Blaze, Newsmax, WND, FoxNews.com, and the Daily Caller all saw their rankings plummet while sites such as NPR.org, the Daily Kos, Democracy Now!, Media Matters and ThinkProgress all rose in the rankings.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/your-favorite-news-sites-shafted-by-amazon/#6oeYoU6ylvjfeGhb.99
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
If one desires a certain result he can conduct a poll in a way that will support it. There is nothing new about that!!
Not a problem.
This is a symptom of liberal and progressive panic. They begin hitting the net looking for hope. We have better things to do with our time........................
The y axis appears reversed which would make the trend lines show the opposite of what WND is reporting.
This is October and not April, right?
Drudge’s site has been worthless for years, IMO.
It would appear that no one knows how to read a graph chart. Either that, or someone forgot how to create a graph chart. The data represented on the charts is in direct contradiction to the text of the article.
The numbers on the vertical DECREASE as they go up. That means that an upward graph line indicates a drop in site views, while a downward graph line indicates a RISE in site views. Not only that...but the entire chart is improperly labeled and identified. There is no mention of what the numbers on the right side represent. We are left to ASSUME they represent site traffic.
Pretty sure Breitbart’s infected. It hangs up my Chrome configuration every time I go there.
News feed from MRC advertised an article about Megyn Kelly but when yo clicked on it got something entirely different. All the posts were about how people were going to drop MRC because of their misleading headlines.
Honesty appears to be as dead as common sense.
That, too.
As well as those annoying ads that auto-play videos and sound, prompting a frantic search for the ad, with the webpage hanging up, and then trying stop the add or turining off the computer’s audio.
Really agitating because we have our own Breitbart Texas, which is very helpful. Lots of on-the-ground comments about local races.. TX is a big place to keep up with.
Big Brother vs computer geeks.
Driving add dollars to leftist sites? Stroke of the pen... Kind of cool!
That seem to be the case.
I use FireFox's "private browsing" feature. In a private browsing window or tab, the web page has no access to cookies set outside private browsing. It can set its own cookies during the session, so it thinks that cookies are enabled, but any cookies it sets will go away when you close the tab.
Agree. . .from Flower Mound, TX.
‘Howdy’
I have never been to a federal government site, never will and the only state site I visited was renewing my car tabs. I never have any interest to know or see what’s on the npr site.
So what happened at FR?
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