Arianna Bests Drudge

[WileEcoyote]

Arianna Bests Drudge?

by Kara Swisher
Posted on March 21, 2008 at 1:24 AM PT


Could it be a digital indicator that the Blue states are taking back ground from the Red ones–at least in cyberspace? (Answer, YES!)

http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080321/arianna-bests-drudge/


In February, for the first time ever, Arianna Huffington’s liberal political mega-blog and news site, the Huffington Post, has apparently surpassed the longtime mighty blog leader, Matt Drudge of the conservative/populist-leaning Drudge Report, according to recent traffic data reports from both comScore (SCOR) and Nielsen Online. (Both are pictured here.)

According to data from Nielsen Online, for example, the Huffington Post’s traffic–as measured by monthly unique visitors in the U.S., at home and work–has more than tripled since February of 2007, when it had about 1.1 million unique visitors; by February of 2008, unique visitors had risen to 3.7 million.

In that same month, the Drudge Report had 3.4 million (it had 2.75 million in February of 2007).

Data from comScore is different, as measurement data often is, but shows the same trend (see chart below). The Huffington Post jumped from 457,000 unique visitors in the U.S. at all locations, but had risen to 2.3 million in February of 2008.

For Drudge, comScore reported that it had 1.2 million unique visitors in February of 2007 and 1.6 million in February of 2008.

[SpiralHawk]

1. The smell of republicon FAIL in the morning

Braces the soul of all humanity.

After setting up America to FAIL with 8 agaonizing years of lies and radical fiscal green, and then openly advocating for the FAIL of America, the repubbies and their propaganda organs deserve a megadose of FAIL...

[opihimoimoi]

3. Their incompetance duly noted for 8 years was resonsible for

many losses, blood and $$

Conservatism is becoming a bad brand name....sullied by Cheney/Rove, Bush/Bachmann

etc.

Arianna kicks ass

Pubs dying on a vine...

[Wardoc]

2. Have to say, I check both rather frequently. Good to keep tabs. (nt)

[WileEcoyote]

4. I am a Drudge virgin

Never been there. Not even once.

After learning that a Conservative friend went to his site all the time I realized that Drudge Report had nothing to offer me directly.

My friend is still a nice guy. He's just full of shit...

[dave123williams]

9. You can read Drudge, just remember to de-louse.

Dude's an amoral prat. A Berk, if you will.

[UTUSN]

5. K&R big #5 for Ariana, but her consultant/web developer was BREITBART

a.k.a. Orson BEAN's son-in-law, and web partner to Matt PUDGE, running the PUDGE Report for him whenever he was gone to his champaigne brunches, and sponsor of O'KEEFE. It's a muddy spawning pool out there.

[SidDithers]

6. As long as she's giving prominent space to anti-vax nut David Kirby...

I don't give her hits.

But I don't visit Drudge either.

What I need, I can get here.

Sid

[jasmeel]

7. I've stopped going to her site...there were lots of stories that

seemed to attack dems very aggressively. I'd have to go to another news source to get the whole story. It became too annoying. I do think she's better than drudge though.

[dave123williams]

8. Compete.com's got her totally crushing him....

Note how her growth is much more explosive. Drudge has found his audience, saturated it, and it's barely growing.

Epic Fail. Like the philosophy he's a paid whore to promote.



http://siteanalytics.compete.com/huffingtonpost.com+drudgereport.com/

huffingtonpost.com
Blogging>News and Politics Blogs
9,975,388
+17.41%
+114.15%
Top Search Terms (21,513 Terms):

* huffington post,
* huffington,
* tiger woods,
* huffingtonpost.com,
* kalika moquin

Top Referral Sites (13,049 Sites):

* facebook.com,
* google.com,
* yahoo.com,
* digg.com,
* buzzfeed.com

Top Destination Sites (11,224 Sites):

* facebook.com,
* google.com,
* digg.com,
* yahoo.com,
* buzzfeed.com

Top Tags:

* liberal,
* political,
* blogs,
* compete-250,
* left-wing

drudgereport.com
News and Media>News: World
2,834,011
+3.64%
+3.48%
Top Search Terms (4,618 Terms):

* drudge,
* drudge report,
* drudgereport.com,
* drudgereport 2009,
* news

Top Referral Sites (17,852 Sites):

* yahoo.com,
* google.com,
* facebook.com,
* foxnews.com,
* myway.com

Top Destination Sites (13,630 Sites):

* yahoo.com,
* google.com,
* myway.com,
* foxnews.com,
* breitbart.com

Top Tags:

* media,
* news,
* political,
* conservative,
* globa

[tishaLA]

10. two years old

[Gabi Hayes]

11. didn't Tucker Tieboy start some site that was supposed to compete with hers?

what happened to that?

[dave123williams]

12. Mouse over this graph if you want a good laugh.

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/huffingtonpost.com+dailycaller.com/

It's called the 'Daily Caller', and it is an epic fail. Look at it this way:

It's Tucker's site, and if you Google 'Tucker Carlson's Website', it doesn't show up.

SEO Epic Fail. Weak traffic, no traction.

Apparently, it's only Network executives that think that sniveling, suck up fratboy has something to offer to the National discourse.

What a loser.

[tonysam]

13. Drudge isn't a blog; it's a news aggregagtor

n/t