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bobbyw24
11-01-2010, 12:16 PM
Conservative 100: Most Popular Conservative Websites, October 2010
November 1, 2010
By Mondoreb

Based on 3-month Alexa worldwide traffic rankings

Our monthly list of the 100 most popular conservative websites for October 2010, rated by Alexa 3-month traffic ranks. PLUS: the near-misses.


The CONSERVATIVE 100

The 100 most popular conservative websites on the Internet for October. Originally published at DBKP Report: Conservative 100: Most Popular Conservative Websites, October 2010
CONSERVATIVE 100
Ratings #8, October 31, 2010


DBKP has released its (mostly) monthly ratings of the Most Popular 100 Conservative sites on the web, the Conservative 100. The ratings are based on Alexa traffic rankings 3-month worldwide average. Ratings taken from October 30-31, 2010.

Six new websites are included this month: Daily Paul, Big Peace, GOPUSA, Conservapedia, Ron Paul Forums and James Lileks.

There are a few changes to the Top 10–which is usually fairly static. The Blaze has moved from #27 to #9. Hot Air and Big Hollywood/Breitbart have switched places at #6 and #7.

Others with substantial moves up were Doug Ross@Journal, Dick Morris and Legal Insurrection.

The Conservative 100 list contains sites of interest to conservatives or with a conservative point of view. Several Libertarian sites are also included, such as Reason and Freedom’s Phoenix, but no attempt to list all sites with a strictly Libertarian point of view has been made. In the future, Libertarians will have a separate rating list as more Libertarian sites are discovered.

Two changes are in the works:
1- The database is almost(!) finished and it will be more difficult for sites to “fall through the cracks” as has happened occasionally once a site drops out of the Top 100.
2- Sometime before the end of the year, readers will be able to sign up for email notification when the Conservative 100 is published each month–same for Conservative Blogs 100.

As always, if we missed anyone, drop us a line in the comments with your site URL; we’ll include in the next ratings for November.


DBKP POLITICALLY POPULAR
CONSERVATIVE 100 – #8
October 31, 2010

48 Rank Last SITE NAME Alexa Rank
1 1 Fox News 237
2 2 WSJ Opinion Journal 241
3 3 Drudge Report 426
4 4 NewsMax 2426
5 5 World Net Daily/Michael Savage 2575
6 7 Hot Air 3638
7 6 Big Hollywood/Breitbart 3799
8 8 Free Republic 4019
9 27 The Blaze 4418
10 10 National Review Online 4636
11 9 Washington Times 4867
12 12 Washington Examiner 4766
13 11 Town Hall 5127
14 13 Instapundit/Pajamas Media 5947
15 15 Rush Limbaugh 6317
16 14 Glenn Beck 6575
17 18 Lew Rockwell 6892
18 16 Daily Caller 6918
19 17 NewsBusters 7145
20 20 Michelle Malkin 8612


21 19 Breitbart TV 8728
22 22 American Thinker 9570
23 21 Big Government 9673
24 23 Red State 9930
25 24 Human Events 10421
26 32 Weekly Standard 10434
27 25 Reason 10771
28 26 CNS News 12472
29 – Daily Paul 14039
30 29 *Ace of Spades HQ/My Pet Jawa/CYankee* 14165
31 34 First Things** 15523
32 30 American Spectator 15942
33 33 Lucianne.com 16193
34 35 Jihad Watch 16930
35 31 Right Pundits 19112
36 36 Heritage Foundation 19666
37 38 Canada Free Press 20079
38 39 Big Journalism 22449
39 40 Atlas Shrugs 23281
40 37 PowerLine 23888


41 – Ron Paul Forums 24243
42 41 EarthFrisk 28097

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Brown Sapper
11-01-2010, 12:18 PM
How in the fuck did we get beat by "Jihad Watch"?

dannno
11-01-2010, 12:23 PM
Infowars should be up towards the top there.. just sayin..

trey4sports
11-01-2010, 12:43 PM
Wow, i didn't know Lew had such a following

oyarde
11-01-2010, 01:36 PM
How in the fuck did we get beat by "Jihad Watch"?

I had never even heard of that one . I think I probably am familiar with everything else on the list .

KCIndy
11-01-2010, 01:39 PM
Kinda ironic, isn't it?

Most of the people who post here (myself included) hold views that are not "conservative" at all by today's common definition of the word... And for that matter, so does Dr. Paul! :D

hugolp
11-01-2010, 01:45 PM
Kinda ironic, isn't it?

Most of the people who post here (myself included) hold views that are not "conservative" at all by today's common definition of the word... And for that matter, so does Dr. Paul! :D

They say that they have included libertarian websites. Also that they will include a libertarian only ranking soon as they start collecting data.

Peace&Freedom
11-01-2010, 01:54 PM
Note that Daily Paul is higher ranked than RPF, despite NOT having a graveyard 'Hot Topics' area burying 9-11 truth and other issues of widespread interest to liberty people to an unsearchable wasteland. Discussion of those issues on its main pages don't seem to hurt DP's standing.

georgiaboy
11-01-2010, 02:12 PM
Interesting - they're tracking us.

glad to not see Hannity forums up there.
Also noticed no Mitt Romney forums, Sarah Palin forums, Mike Huckabee forums, etc., or "Daily" versions of same.

What other forums are on the list? I know some of them have forums as a feature, but forums only? Are Hot Air & Town Hall forums?

awake
11-01-2010, 02:24 PM
Interesting - they're tracking us.



In more ways than one...

wormyguy
11-01-2010, 02:34 PM
The American Thinker and reason do quite well too. I'm very surprised that The American Thinker gets more hits than RedState.

Number19
11-01-2010, 05:33 PM
...glad to not see Hannity forums up there...Not surprising - they have incredibly sensitive moderators and an incredably harsh policy of banning.

I was banned, without even a warning, and with only a vague "I was disrespectful to the host" when I don't even know what they were referring to - because I wasn't attacking, flaming or being disrespectful, and it was only my second post to the site.

When I say banned, I mean permanently banned from even visiting the site as "read only".

oyarde
11-01-2010, 05:49 PM
Not surprising - they have incredibly sensitive moderators and an incredably harsh policy of banning.

I was banned, without even a warning, and with only a vague "I was disrespectful to the host" when I don't even know what they were referring to - because I wasn't attacking, flaming or being disrespectful, and it was only my second post to the site.

When I say banned, I mean permanently banned from even visiting the site as "read only".

Why would anyone ban someone from reading ?

Agorism
11-01-2010, 05:59 PM
inforwars and prisonplanet would be super high on there but they censor.

What about jbs

PatriotOne
11-01-2010, 08:54 PM
Infowars should be up towards the top there.. just sayin..

The thought of Infowars being labeled a "conservative" website cracked me up.

Out of curiosity I used google trends to see where Infowars would place and it's right up there with Beck and Limbaugh. If Jones didn't have 2 websites (Prison Planet and Infowars), he'd probably be somewhere in the top 8. Assuming most peeps probably don't check both sites...like myself for instance.

DirtMcGirt
11-01-2010, 09:48 PM
#41 in the rankings but #1 in our hearts...

Stary Hickory
11-01-2010, 09:49 PM
I am more impressed with Lew Rockwell being number 17. That is encouraging seeing as it is anti-war 100%.

Cone0
11-01-2010, 09:56 PM
How is Michelle Malkin Top 20? Who actually reads that garbage?

Anti Federalist
11-01-2010, 10:55 PM
Note that Daily Paul is higher ranked than RPF, despite NOT having a graveyard 'Hot Topics' area burying 9-11 truth and other issues of widespread interest to liberty people to an unsearchable wasteland. Discussion of those issues on its main pages don't seem to hurt DP's standing.

+rep and +1776

Also, based on the Alexa rankings used in that list, Alex Jones' "InfoWars" would be number 6 with an Alexa rating of 2631.

http://www.alexa.com/search?q=infowars.com&r=home_home&p=bigtop

FrankRep
11-01-2010, 10:56 PM
inforwars and prisonplanet would be super high on there but they censor.

What about jbs

The New American (http://www.thenewamerican.com/) should be on that list.

Alexa rating is: 62,393

Agorism
11-01-2010, 11:00 PM
What about Antiwar.com

Justin Raimondo is a libertarian party person and the site leans right as opposed to sites like counterpunch that lean hard left.

Anti Federalist
11-01-2010, 11:06 PM
What about Antiwar.com

Justin Raimondo is a libertarian party person and the site leans right as opposed to sites like counterpunch that lean hard left.

23,667.

Would have been number 40

Vessol
11-01-2010, 11:07 PM
Wow, LewRockwell.com is that high? Pretty awesome.

Promontorium
11-02-2010, 01:23 AM
And still no Wikipedia article.

youngbuck
11-02-2010, 01:58 AM
It's disgusting and saddening that Fox is listed as the number one conservative site. I guess I'm not a conservative after all.

bobbyw24
11-02-2010, 04:33 AM
It's disgusting and saddening that Fox is listed as the number one conservative site. I guess I'm not a conservative after all.

Amen

Cowlesy
11-08-2010, 07:23 AM
Note that Daily Paul is higher ranked than RPF, despite NOT having a graveyard 'Hot Topics' area burying 9-11 truth and other issues of widespread interest to liberty people to an unsearchable wasteland. Discussion of those issues on its main pages don't seem to hurt DP's standing.

It's been my opinion that we actively moderate more than Daily Paul does, meaning that it's a lot tougher to get banned there than here, not to mention controversial topics fly out in the open, for better or for worse, at Daily Paul.

And I think a consequence of that, is marginally lower viewership here. It's simply a cost of how this site is run, but in my view, a cost well worth it.

I really enjoy the DailyPaul, but it's just....'different' than RPFs. I'm glad both sites are out there.

But on the scale of active moderation, if 1 is heavy moderation and 10 is no moderation, I'd say DailyPaul is probably an 8, we're a 6, and HotAir/RedState are about 2.

Jordan
11-08-2010, 07:27 AM
Note that Daily Paul is higher ranked than RPF, despite NOT having a graveyard 'Hot Topics' area burying 9-11 truth and other issues of widespread interest to liberty people to an unsearchable wasteland. Discussion of those issues on its main pages don't seem to hurt DP's standing.

I know I don't go to DP for that reason, and I probably wouldn't come here either due to the types of people those issues like to attract.

Thanks to those controversial issues, DP is becoming a bit lethargic, and drowning in apathy.

silverhandorder
11-08-2010, 08:08 AM
To be honest we need a little focus to succeed. This is what RPF provides. I wouldn't be an RPF member if every day there was back and forth bickering over 9/11 or some other hot topic issue. It is just not interesting to sift through that.

Anti Federalist
11-08-2010, 11:12 AM
It's been my opinion that we actively moderate more than Daily Paul does, meaning that it's a lot tougher to get banned there than here, not to mention controversial topics fly out in the open, for better or for worse, at Daily Paul.

And I think a consequence of that, is marginally lower viewership here. It's simply a cost of how this site is run, but in my view, a cost well worth it.

I really enjoy the DailyPaul, but it's just....'different' than RPFs. I'm glad both sites are out there.

But on the scale of active moderation, if 1 is heavy moderation and 10 is no moderation, I'd say DailyPaul is probably an 8, we're a 6, and HotAir/RedState are about 2.

Interesting observation.

I don't use DP much simply because the message and comment format is so kludgy and klunky to read and use.

Spot on, rating the level of moderation