Redstate

I'm sure you are now one of the top conservative blogs.  I don't feel ashamed to say that I probably count for at least half of those hits.  Yeah right.  I love this site though!  Keep up the good work everybody.  I don't know what we would do without you!

I joined here last month, and I have nothing to do but troll the whole Enterweb all night...

Seriously, I'm probably about 10% of that ... :| ... I need a better job...

That I became an editor in July.

I'm just saying. :-)

Correlation does equal causation!  :)

I realize that I just walked out of the first local screening of Serenity (awesome, FWIW) - but I'm fairly sure I haven't travelled a year forward in time.

Last year's election cycle brought some of the most partisan newsmaking I have seen in years. Being outside of the U.S. made it even worse because the Ted Turner filters didn't let both sides of the story through. So, I found redstate.org, relying upon it to bring sanity and another perspective to the rest of the craziness going on at the time. (And that craziness continues even now, so we need this site more than ever.)

Keep it up!

Would be interested in knowing how many hits confirmthem.com has received in comparison.

Congratulations!  If my understanding of blog readership is correct, a number with seven digits is quite an accomplishment.  I'm glad that even though my visitorship and participation has decreased since I moved to Michigan and started school (those dirty 2-2 hippies from Ann Arbor are going down tomorrow!!*), many more have come to discover RedState.

Go Green, Go White!!

This is citizen journalism at its best. People have a voice now that the Founders
never dreamed of. When have ordinary citizens ever had the opportunity to express
their in a forum of thousands including the current political leaders. Do you
think that White House staff read RedState. Although Reagan got a lot done in
his time I sometimes wonder what things would have gotten accomplished if he
had the New Media backing him up.


Congratulations to RedState for its sober,
intelligent, honest voice.

Any stats on which stories are the most popular?  I suspect the SCOTUS threads are generating a lot of traffic, especially given the peaks of the graph.

is part of RedState.  However, even at confirmthem's peak times RedState overshadows it by quite a lot.

Fixed the title.  September 2005, of course.  My mind is still on the '06 elections.

Congrats Red State.  And actually, I'm going to take the credit since I started surfing here in June. patting myself on the back :)

Yes, but does ontogeny recapitulate phylogeny?

Now, for a text-book study of causation, might I note that E Pluribus Unum joined RS in about February.

.... I know it's comparing apples to crab apples (content vs content-free banshee screeching), but what are the comparative numbers on the Kossacks?  Not that it's a 1-on-1 whizzing contest, but since they are the biggest gorilla in the left-wing zoo, I'd be interested.  Are we getting anywhere close?

P.S.   And other than following Leon's link for Addison's farewell, I have NEVER contributed to their numbers.  But I'm probably 10% of our hits.  Actually maybe more than that.  I need a 12 step program.

Now those are the kinds of page views I'm talkin' about! Seriously, kudos to everyone who works their tails off here produce such a topical and eclectic mix of front page stories and informative, focused, well-written diaries.  Let's keep raising the standard and showing people how it's done.  

Also, I want to pay a compliment as well to members of our Loyal Opposition™ who do their level best to refrain from showing their primary process while still keeping us on our toes.  You know who you are, and we recognize it's not easy for you to keep it in check sometimes; most of you are good sports the majority of the time, and that's no faint praise, damn you.  ;)

BTW, I'm wondering if any of the editors have ever contacted any of the spoiled-rotten brats at the Yale Free Press and asked about getting on their blogroll, and working to develop some cross-pollination action with the real members of the Ruling Class.  They're Vast. Right. Winged.  After all, us scions of the oppressor culture should try to stick together.  After all, the opposition has Progressive Truth on its side!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/9/9/22835/18924

Let's hope we get double the traffic by next September...  Would bode well for what looks like a tough election cycle...

We are between 1/20th and 1/30th the size of Dkos depending on the week.  Generally, the 1/30th is a good approximation at any given time.  We have "gained" in percentage terms, but not in absolute numbers.

For another comparison, Instapundit gets a constant 4,000,000 visits and 5,000,000 page views a month.  While our numbers have been failing and then rising, Glenn's have been constant.  So in September, we had 1/4th as many visits and 40% as many page views as Instapundit.  The fact that we are nearing half the size of Instapundit is quite humbling for someone (me) who has been following these numbers from when we were happy to break 3,000 views a day (we now average 30,000+ a day).

There's alot of error built in to the comparisons, (days v weeks v month), but by my math it looks like we draw about 1/20th of what they do.  Well, it's a start I guess.  Used to be 1/100th.

Well, compared to Kos, we're doing really well...considering the fact that we all have real lives and a job.

do you have info on how much of the growth is attributable to confirmthem or any confirmthem #s at all?  Confirmthem is pretty interesting phenomenon since as a single issue site, know its not going to compare w/ redstate being one of the top few conservative blogs in the nation.  Also, where DOES redstate rank with some other top conservative blogs (e.g., powerline, hughhewitt) if anyone knows... I'd argue confirmthem is the most influential (definitely most informative) blog in this period of leaks/reports/influence on understanding conservative reaction to Bush potential nominees

Yes, confirmthem gets spikes during these "gossip periods" and that contributes to RedState's July and September numbers.  Here is the RedState empire numbers by day over the past month.  The past week was a big bump due to speculation on confirmthem and RedState, but the whole month has been over our average in the past (roughly 30,000 visits/day during weekdays is a big jump from the summer).

Other major conservative sites in September:

Instapundit: 4,500,000 visits; 5,300,000 page views.

Michelle Malkin: 2,800,000 visits; 3,600,000 page views

PowerLine: 2,200,000 vists; 2,500,000 page views

RedState: 1,000,000 vists; 2,000,000 page views

Hugh Hewitt: 1,200,000 visits; 1,400,000 page views

I first heard about your site on Rush Limbaugh's radio show.  You run an excellent site, but much of your promotion and growth is due to Rush.

Megadittos!

I have watched the site traffic when Rush mentions us online.  Sometimes there is a bump during that hour, but it is not our biggest jumps.

Our biggest traffic gains are from other sites linking to us.  And when we have information that is not available elsewhere (especially on judicial nominations) we get many links and big spikes in traffic.  For example, our biggest day of traffic ever was the day John Roberts was named to the Supreme Court.  Our second highest was election day.  Our third was the day before Roberts was nominated.

We are very thankful for Rush taking notice of our site and quite happy that he speaks so well of us.  He probably has helped our name recognition more than any other single person, but it doesn't translate into big spikes in traffic.