Remember what we said about our traffic last week. Forget it. Old news. The details on our new traffic records are inside. It was a blowout.
First a caveat: I am posting these figures only so readers know they are not wasting their time or energy here. We are not boasting; we are humbled and thankful. Our one request would be that a few more of you take a moment to leave a comment on our stories. It can feel like a ghost town in the comments sections sometimes. So if you are a regular reader who never posts, give us a shout out in comments. Otherwise, I'm quitting and letting AB, James, Spidey, Polish, and Sell Short run the site. Now the numbers.
Yah. You guys rock. When your site goes from 3,000 unique readers per day to 39,000 per day (numbers below), it can be a bit overwhelming. We are extremely appreciative but fortunately not speechless. Keep it coming. Keep emailing our stories. Keep telling your friends about us. We are gaining momentum against the banking and political oligarchy. We will continue to spotlight the abuse of power and the public trust as we expose the captured financial corruption of our political leaders. And we will post the details front and center every single day. It's a promise.
Inside we have about 15 of the best Cubs photos I could find (mostly of fans at Wrigley), a couple of clips from Animal House and all the traffic details.
And if you are still searching for the Cubs angle, it's about hope. The Cubs never win a World Series (I have HCV, Human Cubby Virus) yet the fans don't give up and only stop believing occasionally in August when things are dire, and even then they still show up for a good party. Slightly pessimistic but hopeful for tomorrow. That is sorta how I feel. But, damnit, one day we are going to wrestle it back from the corrupt.
Happy Friday.
"Thank you sir, may I have another" from Animal House comes to mind.
Animal House theatrical trailer (2:43). Watch both clips. You'll be glad you did.
Monday's traffic numbers from Google Analytics (June 8).
Tuesday June 9
Wednesday June 10
Thursday June 11 numbers
Totals from Google Analytics for June 1st thru June 11th (yesterday)
Monthly traffic numbers from our Squarespace metric. These numbers are slightly smaller than those from Google Analytics. Not sure why they are different. And these do not include any page views from our now 1500 daily RSS readers as we publish a complete, non-truncated feed.
Lastly for a bit of perspective, I saw Mish's speech the other day about his traffic averaging 1.5 million page views per month, and that those numbers made his site the #1 financial blog on the web (he must not have been including Clusterstock of course which does a substantial compnent of BusinessInsider's total of 7 million page views monthly.) We are on pace to host approximately 1 million page views this month with close to 400,000 pages served in the first 11 days of June. Thanks to everyone for everything you have done to help spread the word. There is so much left to do (getting Ron Paul's HR 1207 out of committee is the next step).
We need your help more than ever. This is your battle. And it sure as hell isn't over.
