Outside the Beltway - SiteMeter Debate: Perspective
Posted by James Joyner at 18:20
Earlier, I stumbled on something that may add a bit of sober perspective to the debate over whether SiteMeter is the best measure of blog traffic. A brand new site that I had never heard of, run by a college undergraduate, is currently #5 on the TTLB's Traffic Rankings, averaging 144,687 unique daily visits for the past week.
Indeed, he's had more traffic so far this month (3,04o,000+) than OTB has had in its nearly two year history (2,397,000+) and 5,010,195 since opening or business last month. Why? He's hosting this collection of tsunami videos,http://jlgolson.blogspot.com/2004/12/tsunami-video.html topped the search engines with it, and has gotten lots of MSM and blogospheric attention--and a Drudge link.
Note's site author Jordan Golson,
outsidethebeltway.com
For all you nerds out there, more than 1 petabyte of videos has been downloaded from this site. That's the equivalent of over 300,000,000 mp3's
Amazing. |
