Freerepublic.com's Internet Ranking Surpasses Salon's

Alexa.com ^ | February 3, 2003 | High Wheeler

[HighWheeler]

For the first time ever, the Internet ranking of freerepublic.com has surpassed salon.com's Internet ranking. Their rankings crossed over each other Monday, February 3, 2003, with freerepublic's ranking at an all time high of 803 (meaning that freerepublic.com was the 803rd most popularly ranked website on the Internet on Monday) while salon.com dropped the same day to 1378, a full 575 websites difference between them.

The biggest Alexa monitored surge of freerepublic.com happened in the last 3 weeks, driving the conservative website from a very respectable ranking of just over 2000, all the way up to 803.

The Alexa generated graph below shows salon.com's graph (and this weeks decline) in communist red, and freerepublic.com's dramatic 3 weeks upsurge shown in Patriot Blue. The crossover is shown on the right side of the graph.

Freerepublic.com is, as they state, "an online gathering place for independent, grass-roots conservatism on the web. We're working to roll back decades of governmental largesse, to root out political fraud and corruption, and to champion causes which further conservatism in America. And we always have fun doing it. Hoo-yah!" Members and regular visitors of Freerepublic call themselves "FReepers".

Salon.com is a publicly owned company that at one time in 1999 was on the NASDAQ at almost $15 per share. But since then, the stock and the company has suffered. Salon has been bleeding red in it's editorials and on its balance sheet since the beginning. In a tinge of irony, the stock now trades on what stockbrokers call the pink sheet for 5 cents a share. It appears that the attempt by Salon to merge Capitalism and Communism has not worked.

The sudden spike in popularity of Freerepublic cannot be fully explained, but the talk of ousting Saddam Hussein, the SOTU last week, and the Shuttle accident this weekend drove many people to Freerepublic. Even the Wall Street Journal recently browsed Freerepublic: over the weekend the WSJ mentioned that Freerepublic.com had scooped the Associated Press about the problems with Columbia by 11 minutes. By the way, the Associated Press's website, www.ap.org, was ranked only 1736 today on the Internet by Alexa.

[HighWheeler]

Lookin good!

[bradactor]

It amazes me that salon.com is still in business. Again these liberal websites are drifting down the toilet everyday.

[HighWheeler]

ping

[Commander8]

Of course FR has higher ratings than Salon, at least we don't have to sell dirty pictures to make money.

[martin_fierro]

I can only imagine how DU's traffic fails to compare to ours.

[Larry Lucido]

In a word, FR ROCKS!

[martin_fierro]

[RikaStrom]

I briefly saw the article where FR scooped the AP on the disaster Sat.

It saddens my heart that the issue we scooped them on was the Columbia, but in an odd way it shows that we are truly a connect body of individuals.

[HighWheeler]

ping

[HighWheeler]

You must be talking about the views of clinton like this:

[Redcloak]

It's probably due to thought provoking threads like this one. You can't get this level of intellectual discourse just anywhere!

[Larry Lucido]

at least we don't have to sell dirty pictures to make money

Actually, I'm happy with the amount of "cheesecake" pics that are posted for free on some of the threads here. :-)

[anniegetyourgun]

Yes, but we do have fun, eh?

[4CJ]

Hey, I've got a buck - good for what? A 20 minute phone call, or 20 shares of Saloon? (closed at $0.05 per share today).

[Bogey78O]

FR is almost communistic (not the economic theory) in the sense that every individual acts out of good for the community on a whole. Each little tendril reaches out and stays ever alert and when the siren calls it alerts publicly the event.

Leave it to the Republicans to do that right as well.

[fourdeuce82d]

For those of you didn't take a close look--- that graph is some kind of "log" scale- (non-journalism degree types with a "real" major can jump in any time)

While it may appear that there is not that much difference between DU/Freeperville...

Our rank was 803...DU was...wait for it...10,408.

[VeniVidiVici]

I mean, like, salon.com is ok if you want to learn how to do your nails and different hair styles and stuff, you know?

[billorites]

I think it has to do with the fact that we're more fit, more attractive and have way more sexual energy than those Salon weenies.

[Capitalism2003]

Go Freepers!!! DU 9000+ behind us...HAHAHAHAHA!!!!:) :) :)

[coloradan]

In a parallel universe, third-term president Clinton walks to the Rose Garden in order to address the nation following the tragic loss of the space shuttle Columbia, which was destroyed upon reentry, killing all seven astronauts aboard.