For those who care, here is a comprehensive report for Midknight Review -new and revised.

Pageviews yesterday (Saturday)

1,355

Pageviews last month  (a record high)

42,873

Pageviews all time history

402,084

Don't track your own pageviews9/22/12

Updated for corrections and content.  I was quite sick during the time I wrote the first draft.  Lots of dropped sentences,  poorly constructed syntax,  one grammatical error, and the like.  Sorry for the probs.  Not very professional,  but I AM a retired carpenter and avid biker,  not a "professional."  It is amazing,  to me,  that you can write poorly while thinking accurately.  I have ADHD,  which means my brain goes from one thought to another,  often while I am writing.  As a result,  much of that extra-curricular thought interfaces with what I am actually doing.  Sometimes,  the resulting draft is rather bizarre.  Most of those drafts never see the light of day.  Not complaining or making excuses.  Because of this problem,  I am a much better public speaker than writer.  This blog has been quite a challenge.


Crossed the 400,000 mark
sometime yesterday.  Add to this the
120,000 before I was shut down, in Dec of '09.

We had 2851 hits for last Tuesday.

Wednesday evening from 5 to 6 pm, we
had 200 hits even,  most ever for a single
hour.

My daily count ends and starts at 5 pm pt.

My best overnight,  ever,  1536 hits by
6 am - 13 hours into the counting day. This occurred
on Thursday

Small time? Yes but good for a non-commercial,
original commentary blog.  There are a
number who do better than I,  (comment blogs)
but they sell advertisement.  Hack Wilson does very good
for what he does -  similar type commentary.

Counting my Palin blog and "Charts and Graphs,
I am at 680,541 hits since mid-2008.

My numbers are more based on returning traffic which
means folks are reading M.R. for its original commentary.
My Alexa  "reputation" is only 36.  I believe I have the highest
daily count of any comment blog with that low of a "reputation."
Most blogs have over 100 referring sites (i.e. "reputation)

On a 1900 count day,  1,600 are returning traffic, 300 are
first timers.

This blog appeals to the more conservative crowd.  Super Bowl
Sunday,  a huge NASCAR race or Indy,  opening day for dove (Sept 1),
party time (Friday evenings through Sunday afternoon), all see lower counts
on this blog.  Nearly any article on guns,  complete with a picture or two,
will score hundreds of hits in a matter of hours. One such article has well over 1,000 hits.

Full text copy draws well,  and speech text with M.R. commentary has
great attendance.

Most of my blogging day occurs when I wake up (2 to 4 am) and noonish.
I return to blog around 5pm and blog until 6:30 or 7 pm,  and,  again,  from around 10pm to 12 midnight.  I spend much of this time reading,  and  researching my numbers.  Political blogging is as much about research and confirming "facts." as it is about writing.

Palin articles still get attention,  but not as before.  Almost anything I
write with a major religious tone draws very little readership.

This article, http://jds-midknightreview.blogspot.com/2012/09/college-professor-orders-student-on.html has had 653 hits in three days.  Any article that details the loss of liberties, is a big hit.  The readership is very interested in this sort of thing, along with legitimate polling data,  scheduling info  (convention dates,  debate times, etc),  and reviews of events and speeches,  especially hard hitting commentary.

90% of my information comes from those at the top of my blogroll.  Most commentary is mine.  I am most proud of the fact that I am a part of a conservative citizens media  that far exceeds the Left.  The Left has more blogs,  but they tend to be professional folks and news personalities.  The conservative media includes a grassroots movement of around 30 million folks (tea partiers),  hundreds of citizen bloggers,  and the best,  most listened too radio media in the world  (Limbaugh,  Hannity, the Great On [Mark Levin],  Mike Gallagher, Michael Reagan, Glen Beck, Michael Medved, Hugh Hewitt, Laura Ingraham,  Michelle Malkin,  Tammy Bruce and on and on).

Update:  contrast the contribution of citizen journalism,  the 30 million member tea  party,  and the conservative radio media  Note:  while FoxNews is a true asset put not a part of the conservative media, per se,    it often gets facts wrong [weak on research].  Shep Smith is much more a lib than a studied news caster,  failing to understand the tea party,  critical of Sarah Palin simply because of populace opinion (he has no reasons of his own thinking,  on this matter),  has no concept of socialism and its definitions  -  and is on the air 2 hours during prime-time.  Greta believes there is a moral equivalency between the two major political parties,  and asks some of the most childish,  uninformed question of any news show host in cable  ("Why can't we just present legislation and get things done,"  "why didn't the GOP offer amendments during the 2009 health care debat" as if they did not offer dozens of proposition.  She too,  always seems surprised when someone labels Obama a "socialist."  O'Reilly?  he clearly has no ideological core and makes fun of people who do.  I get nothing from him and have taken to watching Cavuto,  during the same time period on Fox Business.

I actually use Megyn Kelly's show as a source  (not her commentary,  so much,  but the news items that make the news during her hour  -  best show on cable for getting raw information).

Fox Business is great.  They are best with their Left/Right debates concerning economics.  If you do not understand the economic picture,  you really have no clue as to what is happening in and to this country.

For example,  without business news  (Fox Business and CNBC),  you will buy into Obama's blame game as to the cause of the current depression ("its is the fault of the Big Banking") and will miss the fact that the financial crisis was a sub-prime implosion caused by the politics of "Affordable Housing,"  period.