Valleywag
Is the Drudge Report shrinking? One blog thinks so, and cites Alexa data — by far the most inaccurate of the website-measurement sites — to prove it. Is Drudge shrinking? No, but it also isn't growing as fast as some other sites, including the 3-year old Huffington Post. HuffPo has certainly grown its readership, recently passing 3 million unique visitors per month. But where it really matters — total visits and daily uniques, the number of people who come back every day — Drudge continues to dominate. All the more impressive, since Drudge maintains a tiny two-person staff, while HuffPo's fills a SoHo office. The sites compared by (more accurate) numbers:
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Alexa? That's awesome! Is the portrait on that guy's About page a daguerrotype by chance?
As the post you link to notes, Drudge has an autorefresh which inflates page views.
And it still is a useful collection of links (an often overlooked reason for the site's popularity along with all the traditional media attention he got early on).
And then there is the traffic he sends to [www.breitbart.com]
Andrew Breitbart worked for Huffington as a researcher, then Drudge, then for the Huffington Post early on, and is working for Drudge again.
@tigerbeat: That's true, but the autorefresh has nothing to do with Daily Uniques. It certainly affects his pageload statistics on his page though.
JimbHo loved to inflate the page views on Bomis.
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