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crazytown

(7,277 posts) Thu Feb 14, 2019, 04:08 PM Feb 2019

Alexa, How popular is Democratic Underground?

I know DU / BBSs are Old Skool, but WTF?

EDIT: By way of comparison : Daily Kos

EDIT2: The Nation

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Alexa, How popular is Democratic Underground? (Original Post) crazytown Feb 2019 OP

Alexa, who is skewing your data? Blue Owl Feb 2019 #1

why is the scale inverted? getagrip_already Feb 2019 #2

It's a site ranking crazytown Feb 2019 #4

Why is down more ? nt OhZone Feb 2019 #3

It's a site ranking crazytown Feb 2019 #5

Is it surprising that there's a falloff in the ranking of a political website after a major election Salviati Feb 2019 #6

Gee, what happened there? zipplewrath Feb 2019 #7

Middterms Over crazytown Feb 2019 #8

NSS zipplewrath Feb 2019 #9

Blue Owl

(59,618 posts)

1. Alexa, who is skewing your data?

Reply to crazytown (Original post)

Thu Feb 14, 2019, 04:10 PM

Feb 2019

n/t

getagrip_already

(17,802 posts)

2. why is the scale inverted?

Reply to crazytown (Original post)

Thu Feb 14, 2019, 04:12 PM

Feb 2019

The values at the top are lower than at the bottom. Is a lower number better?

crazytown

(7,277 posts)

4. It's a site ranking

Reply to getagrip_already (Reply #2)

Thu Feb 14, 2019, 04:13 PM

Feb 2019

1 is the top website
26K os the 26,000th most popular website.

OhZone

(3,216 posts)

3. Why is down more ? nt

Reply to crazytown (Original post)

Thu Feb 14, 2019, 04:12 PM

Feb 2019

crazytown

(7,277 posts)

5. It's a site ranking

Reply to OhZone (Reply #3)

Thu Feb 14, 2019, 04:14 PM

Feb 2019

1 is the top website
26K os the 26,000th most popular website.

Salviati

(6,059 posts)

6. Is it surprising that there's a falloff in the ranking of a political website after a major election

Reply to crazytown (Original post)

Thu Feb 14, 2019, 04:16 PM

Feb 2019

A longer timeframe may be more illuminating.

zipplewrath

(16,698 posts)

7. Gee, what happened there?

Reply to crazytown (Original post)

Thu Feb 14, 2019, 04:16 PM

Feb 2019

What happened there about the first of November? Anything political in nature?

crazytown

(7,277 posts)

8. Middterms Over

Reply to zipplewrath (Reply #7)

Thu Feb 14, 2019, 04:19 PM

Feb 2019

Amongst other things, DU is used for organising prior to elections.

zipplewrath

(16,698 posts)

9. NSS

Reply to crazytown (Reply #8)

Thu Feb 14, 2019, 04:23 PM

Feb 2019

Really the whole decline can probably be partially explained by primaries and local elections culminating in the general national election.

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