Thanks to all of you out there on the Internet tubes, Colorado Pols continues to grow faster than Ken Buck can backtrack a policy position.
Last August we reached a milestone by surpassing 1 million monthly page views, and now we’ve reached a new benchmark: 1 million visitors.
In 2010, Colorado Pols counted 1,012,762 unique visitors. That’s right — we had more than a million unique visitors last year alone.
Thank you again to all of you who have made Colorado Pols the most widely read and discussed political website in Colorado. We’re also a great place to advertise, so email us at ads@coloradopols.com today!
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of ardy01 through ardy12763 are largely responsible for this milestone.
You are very welcome, CO Pols.
Good diaries + intelligent commentary and debate + semi-wide topic range
AND
Stupid pissing contests that devolve into name-calling, cursing and threats of violence.
Fair and Balanced.
I view Pols from at least five different computers, plus my phone. Usually I’m auto logged on, but not always. Do I count as five?
But your comments are so insightful that you should be counted 5 times. (I probably count as 5 too)
A unique visitor is just someone who visits the site — it has nothing to do with whether or not they have an account on Pols.
then just what R U counting & boasting about?
We’re not counting anything differently than any other software counts. As Google explains:
“Unique Visitors represents the number of unduplicated (counted only once) visitors to your website over the course of a specified time period. A Unique Visitor is determined using cookies.”
There’s no perfect way to track website users, but Unique Visitors is a common standard. It probably over-counts people who read on different devices, but it also under-counts multiple readers on the same device (like at a library, or a family who uses the same computer at home).
It will be a unique person for each machine. On a given machine, if it has unique logins, it will be a unique person for each login that hits us here.
So if your spouse uses your computer to hit Pols, and does so under your login, then that’s 1 person. But if you log out and they log in under a different username (Windows, Mac, Linux, etc), then it’s a different user.
Definitely a different person for each device. Definitely 1 person across all users on a cell phone, iPad, etc.
And if cookies are wiped, then the next time you hit it that’s a new user.
I would estimate that 90+% of the unique visitors are truly unique. The other 10% are those of us that don’t have a life 🙂
as 5 comments.
What’s your fucking problem?
what part of you did I poke 2 piss U off?
just asking a stats question so NO fucking problem here
Which is significant, bots and all.
That don’t get 1 million unique visitors in a year.
This is one he’ll of an achievement for Pols
so spammers, unwanted bots, malicious IPs, et al should be counted or otherwise I’m diminishing the achievement?
Ralph, no disrespect, but w/ your IT past & especially db admin you know how important it is to weed out irrelevant & gnomish data. So toughski-shitski if I ask questions.
I’d like 2 kno the bounce rate —
I’d like 2 kno pageviews per vists —
yeah, I like analytics so maybe I do have a fucking problem — a fucking problem w/ too many baseless factually-errant statements made by a lot of media sites.
heritx, Nutch, Arale, Arachnid, WebSPHINX, WebLech, Grunk, CAPEK, Metis, Web Harvest, Aperture, LARM … all crawlers hitting some sites 1+ times a day (no way 2 kno how many xist) so whadya do to filter ’em out?
not spamming but I came across CloudFlare for analytics … its worth a look ColPols.
Start your own fucking blog.
Let us know when you get to 1,000,000 unique visitors. You get to decide if you include bots.
Between now and then, STFU.
since you seem to think you own the site
The others are illiterate dirty stiff socks and green trolls.
you been lookin’ under Beejs mattress?
right there alongside his Jan Brewer – Virginia Foxx porn stash
You mean, I better start commenting more or I’ll eventually become an illiterate sock?!
Must my comments be cogent, or does it count if I just throw something out to show I’m paying attention? Or that somebody has pissed me off?
Maybe not illiterate, but definitely dumb.
Unlike most of the other blogs, there is political diversity here. I appreciate that — seriously.