As always, I want to offer special thanks for Darren Smith, who has continued to help manage the blog and help out folks who encounter posting problems. I also want to thank our editor Kristin Oren, who continues her amazing work proofing posts on a daily basis to remove my embarrassing typos. Finally, I would like to thank our regular readers who alert me to typos or any violations of the civility or copyright policies on the blog.
We have continued to post significantly higher traffic numbers for each month this year. As I mentioned in the end-of-year summary, December was the best month in the history of the blog and we are doubling or tripling the traffic from prior years. January continued that trend with the best performance for that month in our history and an increase of roughly 50 percent over last year. It now stands as the second highest traffic of any month in our history (and almost tied December).
So here is our current profile:
As of this morning, we have 21,050 posts and 1,236,053 comments. We have also continued with the rise of Twitter followers since the Musk takeover. We are currently at roughly 440,000 Twitter followers. We have roughly 7,100 people signed up for alerts by emails.
In the last month, our ten biggest international sources for readers came from:
- United States
2. Canada
3. United Kingdom
4. Australia
5. Mexico
6. Germany
7. “Unknown region”
8. Netherlands
9. France
10. New Zealand
The top five posts in terms of readership in the last month were:
- “We Don’t Do This”: Adam Schiff and the Underbelly of American Censorship
- The Importance of Being Biden: How Hunter Reached a New Low in Seeking to Bar Daughter From Using His Name
- Ninth Circuit Rules that Middle School Teacher’s MAGA Hat was Protected Speech