Posted on 04/08/2015 11:10:58 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Nobody beats Matt Drudge's popular Drudge Report when it comes to driving people to the world's most influential news sites.
A new infographic to promote the Drudge Report to advertisers uses statistics to show that no other website refers more traffic than Drudge to CNN, Fox, Washington Post, New York Times, AP, Politico and even the Daily Mail.
"Drudge has a profound effect on America's premier news outlets: it's the top source for referral traffic to industry powerhouses like Fox News, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press, and Reuters among others. That alone is extraordinary," said the report.
A blog post from Intermarkets about their client, added, "Conclusion: Drudge is a rare, unique premium publisher driving hundreds of millions of external visits each month."
What's more, virtually all of his traffic comes directly to his Drudge Report: his site receives two million unique daily visits and 700 million monthly visits.
Consider: About 87 percent of Drudge's traffic is direct to his site, and not through another website. But just 40 percent of the major media's traffic is direct, meaning the rest is from referral sites like Drudge.
"It is usually the first thing people see in the morning," said an official with Drudge's advertising firm, Intermarkets, which worked with the data company SimilarWeb to develop the infographic below.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Hey Drudge, how about some conservative sites:
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/
http://humanevents.com/
http://www.wnd.com/
https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/
http://spectator.org/
If it’s not seen on the Drudge Report, it’s usually not on my mind.
I don’t know why so many people visit drudge to be honest. The website is messy
Plus FR accomplishes about the same thing as Drudge. FR has been my main news aggregator for a decade and a half now and I always feel ahead of the curve.
FR is my internet news center of choice.
yes and yes
I didn't know that 87 Million miles is "half" the distance from the Earth to the Sun?
These news writers are so intelligent /sarc
I get the feeling the drudge numbers are rigged
Those are some pretty massive numbers.
Drudge used to be my first and last stop, but FR has become my main news source. Drudge now ranks second for me. FR casts a wider net.
Drudge refreshes automatically too quickly. I wonder if that helps increase the stats???
For sure, if it is not here I do not read it.
Right, with FR you get what Drudge is tracking plus more. Of course it could be argued that in some cases Drudge finds it first and then posters here bring it to the rest of our attention. So if you want to he on the absolute bleeding edge, maybe you go to Drudge first.
It does not(boost stats), but agreed. Auto refresh set way way too often.
Ummmmm. I see stuff here often way before it hits drudge. Some of it is even original source material. Drudge does not have the FR army of people’s eyes nor intellect.
True, some of the crowd-sourced stuff scoops Drudge.
Many yrs ago (1998) I, like a lot of long time members here, found FreeRepublic on Drudge by accident before I ever heard of FR or even knew what it was about.
Why does Drudge automatically refresh itself? I find it very irritating.
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