Look who’s talking (about us)
In my general obsession with web stats, there is one chart that I look out for perhaps ahead of all others each queater - and that is the ‘Top 50 Blogs and MSM’ chart in Dave Sifry’s State of the Live Web (previously State of the Blogosphere).
It’s just as important for me that we do well on this as we do in our core site stats. When we talk about being ‘part of the web not just on the web’ - this is about as good an indicator of it as you can find. So, it’s good to see that we’ve bounced back up a few places since October back at number six behind the NYT, CNN, BBC, Yahoo and MSN.
Not sure what’s happened to TimeOnline there or the Telegraph for that matter. But, hey, that’s not my problem.
I know the point here is means to be the performance of some of the blogs on there (although it’s a lot less bloggy than in the early days), but I’m much more parochial than that. The things that always resonate for me are
* How the NYT despite registration, NYT select etc etc still comes right at the top of the table. No-one comes close.
* A clear ‘A-team’ that includes the BBC, but not, tragically us
* The remarkable presence of two UK names in the top 6
* The fact that the BBC might have 30% more inbound links than us, but they have about 1000% more traffic than us…
Jack wrote:
The New York Times does have registration etc.. but when I link to it, I always use an RSS/userland link so it’s not a problem.
It also has great search so you can get, say, the technology headlines for a day in the past week, and select Today/ Past 7 Days / Past 30 Days / Past 90 Days / Past Year / Since 1981 or Custom Date Range 1851-1980. Maybe normal readers don’t use this stuff but people like me do!
Posted on 12-Apr-07 at 3:07 pm | Permalink