Daily Visits
Drudge: 7,650,107
Top 100 Blogs combined: 2,259,705
Alexa Ranking
Drudge: 346
Free Republic: 1,811
DailyKos: 4,518
Instapundit: 7,710
Google Pagerank
Drudge: 7
Instapundit: 7
DailyKos: 7
Google Backlinks
Instapundit: 78,200 : (57,400 + 20,800)
DailyKos: 51,330 : (49,000 + 2,330)
Drudge: 48,520 : (41,700 + 6,820)
Technorati Results
Boing Boing: 18,457 links from 11,546 sources
Instapundit: 14,165 links from 9,205 sources
Drudge: 10,749 links from 8,654 sources
Blogshare Value
Instapundit: B$1,751,696.90
Drudge: B$1,417,931.05
DailyKos: B$1,380,228.81
Google Site Pages
FreeRepublic: 2,650,000
DailyKos: 680,000
Instapundit: 83,000
Drudge: 642
Conclusion
Drudge is still the king of traffic but blogs dominate in links and content.
Note: Blog visit totals are calculated on a weekly average using Sitemeter counters. Calculations were done using data from the the top blog tracking site The Truth Laid Bear. I calculated Drudge’s average by averaging his last 31 day visit total (as shown on his website) to a daily number. I don’t know exactly how Drudge calculates his visits. Backlinks were the combined totals of the domain address and the subdomain ‘www’ address for each site. Blogshare values are ‘current valuation’.
Sites listed: (Drudge Report, Instapundit, DailyKos, Boing Boing, Free Republic)
Eric Anderson at 12:57 am
Alot of those links are to Drudge. And should be.
Comment by Anonymous — February 23, 2005 @ 1:04 am