Newshog: Drudge Misleads About His Popularity?

Excerpt:

"Know what that graph is? Matt Drudge's actual traffic graph from the internet's top ranking website, Alexa.com. So how come Drudge is crowing about his site traffic increasing? Information Liberation explains:"

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"At the front right of the DrudgeReport.com it reads:

FLASH: DRUDGE REPORT'S TOP MONTH IN ITS 12 YEAR HISTORY: MARCH 2007! MAIN PAGE LOADED 425,371,511 TIMES... TOPS MARCH 2006'S 287,443,312 ... MANY THANKS FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT... THE LOVERS AND THE HATERS... AND THE ONES THAT STILL FIND THE INTERNET TOPS FOR NEWS AND INFORMATION!

To the internet novice, this would seem to be a good thing and a sign his traffic is increasing. In reality, it is just a ruse to give the impression his site is becoming more popular. If you read what he says carefully you will notice he says "main page LOADED 425,371,511 times". This is misleading because in order to artificially increase his page loads Drudge uses a reload script which reloads the page every minute or so. Hence, if someone just left their computer on DrudgeReport.com for an hour that would equate to 60 page loads."

http://cernigsnewshog.blogspot.com/2007/04/drudge-misleads-about-his-popularity.html

Alex

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