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In between trying to start a war,
Drudge finds time to mislead about his web site's popularity
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Liberation
Wednesday April 4, 2007
Recent visitors of the DrudgeReport.com
will have found huge headlines about the recent conflict between the Brits
an Iranians over blowing the whole subject in order to provocateur a war.
Just today the top of Drudge read in huge red letters "BLAIR: WE'VE 48
HOURS TO SAVE SAILORS" creating the impression something significant will
happen after 48 hours and everyone needs to start panicking. In reality
the
article is a non-story in which Blair just says, "The next 48 hours
will be fairly critical." Gee Whiz, that really merits huge panicky red
letters.
But in between these attempts to manufacture a war, Drudge has found time
to BS about his website traffic to create the impression his website is
becoming more popular.
At the front right of the DrudgeReport.com it reads:
FLASH: DRUDGE REPORT'S TOP MONTH IN ITS 12 YEAR HISTORY: MARCH 2007! MAIN
PAGE LOADED 425,371,511 TIMES... TOPS MARCH 2006'S 287,443,312 ... MANY
THANKS FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT... THE LOVERS AND THE HATERS... AND
THE ONES THAT STILL FIND THE INTERNET TOPS FOR NEWS AND INFORMATION!
To the internet novice, this would seem to be a good thing and a sign
his traffic is increasing. In reality, it is just a ruse to give the impression
his site is becoming more popular. If you read what he says carefully
you will notice he says "main page LOADED 425,371,511 times". This is
misleading because in order to artificially increase his page loads Drudge
uses a reload script which reloads the page every minute or so. Hence,
if someone just left their computer on DrudgeReport.com for an hour that
would equate to 60 page loads.
If you look at his actual traffic graph from the internet's top ranking
website, Alexa.com, you will see his
traffic is actually tanking:
Obviously Drudge still gets a massive amount of traffic, but this is clearly
an attempt to mislead his readers into believing his site (and the propaganda
which goes with it) is becoming more popular, when in reality, like all
the other Neo-Con propaganda organs, Limbaugh, etc., it is losing all
its readership and is falling dramatically in popularity.
Good riddance.
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