Alexa, How popular is Democratic Underground?

[crazytown]

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

EDIT: By way of comparison : Daily Kos


EDIT2: The Nation

[Blue Owl]

1. Alexa, who is skewing your data?

n/t

[getagrip_already]

2. why is the scale inverted?

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

[crazytown]

4. It's a site ranking

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

[OhZone]

3. Why is down more ? nt

[crazytown]

5. It's a site ranking

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

[Salviati]

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

A longer timeframe may be more illuminating.

[zipplewrath]

7. Gee, what happened there?

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

[crazytown]

8. Middterms Over

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

[zipplewrath]

9. NSS

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