Daily Kos Traffic: Inflated?
Charles Johnson
Thu Oct 4, 2007 at 5:12 pm PDT • Views: 333
Patrick Ruffini is investigating whether Daily Kos really gets the traffic they claim (500,000+ visits per day), and has turned up some pretty compelling evidence that their statistics are greatly inflated by an anomaly in Sitemeter’s traffic counting algorithm: Proof of the Sitemeter Anomaly.
Here’s Patrick’s first post about this: Kos Traffic Numbers Inflated by 60%.
I removed Sitemeter from LGF, by the way, for two reasons: 1) it was negatively affecting our page loading speed, sometimes drastically, and 2) it was allowing a spyware program to “piggyback” on their Javascript code.
Frank says: