Top ranked sites on internet for Political content.. (DU is ranked by Alexa at no. 12)

[Bill USA]

Last edited Sat Nov 10, 2012, 06:50 PM - Edit history (4)

DU is no. 12 among political content sites.


http://www.alexa.com/topsites/category/Top/Society/Politics

(edited to put DailyKOS in there which I missed (!?). this changes DU to no. 12. very sorry for error.)....
(note I think these rankings are updated continuously and can change at any time)

site[font color="white"]..................................[/font] rank (U.S.)
NewsMax[font color="white"]................................[/font]244
Slate[font color="white"]......................................[/font]259
Salon.com[font color="white"]...............................[/font]407
Weekly Standard[font color="white"]......................[/font]299
WorldNetDaily[font color="white"]..........................[/font]374
DailyKOS[font color="white"].................................[/font]381
TownHall[font color="white"].................................[/font]454
InfoWars[font color="white"].................................[/font]460
Gallup[font color="white"].....................................[/font]482
NationalReview online[font color="white"]...............[/font]576
Free Republic[font color="white"]...........................[/font]853
Democratic Underground[font color="white"]....[/font]1,020


as you can see Conservative/Paranoia sites are well represented in the list above. But maybe as more people gravitate tothe web we'll see sites frequented by rational people gain in ranking (we can only hope).

[EC]

1. Wow, freepers for political information? n/t

[Bill USA]

2. Note: IF DUers would go to Google and set up their own FREE web-site (no html knowledge required)

and link into DU articles/posts that would increase those posts weighting according to the Google search algorithm and raise those posts in a Google search - links list. This would increase DU's profile and lead to more hits on articles.

.... resulting in DU being more influential.

I think Skinner would be pleased.

[liberalmuse]

3. DU is the Nate Silver of political content sites, IMHO. eom

[Bill USA]

4. interesting you should say that. I was on YouGov.com website just the other day and it said that

people who liked the fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/ website also liked DemocraticUnderground..!!



YouGov Opigram fivethirtyeight.blog

People who like this website describe it as Intelligent, Important, Groundbreaking, Innovative, Interesting and Unpretentious. People who like this website tend to think it's particularly good for The 2012 Election and Elections.

People who like this website also tend to like other websites such as Talking Points Memo, The Raw Story, Electoral-Vote, Democratic Underground, Crooks and Liars, The Huffington Post, Google News, The Maddow Blog, Think Progress and Daily Kos.

Fans of this website are more likely than most to think of themselves as Opinionated.

People who like this website are more likely to identify themselves as a Strong Democrat.
(more)

http://today.yougov.com/opi/browse/277434

[99th_Monkey]

5. InfoWars is #7 ... ?? You've got to be kidding me.

That site is so one-dimensional I can't believe it's even
on the list at all.

I seriously question the accuracy or motives of the source,
as in whoever "ranked" these sites.

[Bill USA]

8. Alexa monitoring of traffic on sites is totally automated. It is basis for advertizing charges by

various sites.

Re InfoWars ranking, I agree, it's depressing. That should shed some light on how 48% of population could vote for Rmoney.

[99th_Monkey]

12. Except that Alex Jones was not supporting Rmoney really

he's just a kind of generic nut-job, who hates the Bilderbergers
and Bohemian Grove crowd as much or more than any sane
Lefty.

He strikes me as a closet Libertarian, or maybe he's out of the
closet for all I know, but damn; it is sad how he can draw more
hits than DU.

Obviously, this automatic monitoring (Alexa) only counts warm
bodies, and doesn't reflect the QUALITY of the people behind the
keyboards, huh?

[Bill USA]

13. warm bodies only.

[Bill USA]

14. I didn't mean there was any direct support, just that the amount of traffic to this site is an

indicator of how much paranoic thinking is going on out there. This would be an indication of how successful Rmoney's (or the entire GOP's) demogoguery would be at whipping up suckers.

[99th_Monkey]

15. Yes. That sounds about Right. ~nt

[Bill USA]

11. Frankly, Alexa categorization of DU seems out of whack. I searched for sites by category:

...."society, politics, chats and forums"... and it didn't even list DU but listed many with far lower ranking!!


http://www.alexa.com/topsites/category;0/Top/Society/Politics/Chats_and_Forums


"Debate Politics" leads the list and it has a ranking of 35673!!!


NOte to Skinner: Alexa says: "Did you know? You can enhance your Site Listing by displaying your Visitors and Pageviews. Find out how!"

this should lead to higher ad rates for DU!

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. I can't see where your list comes from

but it doesn't include DailyKos, which is, according to Alexa, 382 of all sites in the US
http://www.alexa.com/search?q=dailykos.com&r=home_home&p=bigtop

The list at the Alexa page you give goes down to 25, and doesn't include Democratic Underground. But that would seem to be because it hasn't marked DU as 'politics' - it does have an international ranking better than FR (at #11) (though FR beats it in the US, just), and lewrockwell at #12.

[Bill USA]

7. If you use link provided. You will find it. My (big) error was to let DailyKOS miss the list. It is

listed at the link provided. Daily KOS is now in there in its rightful place. No explanation for my error.
I had to search for Democaticunderground.com separately though. It was not included in the list at link provided. (Don't know why)

note these rankings are probably continuously updated as when you checked DailyKOS it was ranked 382. A minute ago when I looked it was 381. The maintenance of these figures in no doubt automated so they are being updated as we speak (or write).

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/dailykos.com

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. Strange - it still doesn't show DU for me

Screen shot:

[Bill USA]

10. I had to search for democraticunderground.com separately (I added this to my previous cmnt after

realizing that I forgot to explain that. Here is link to DU's analysis. (note ranking keeps bouncing from 1012 to 1020 ... continuously updated0


http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/democraticunderground.com