Bloggasm

Liberal blogs saw a 2% decrease in traffic this week compared to last week while conservative blogs saw a slight increase of 4%. The survey of 10 liberal blogs and 10 conservative blogs found that liberal blogs saw a decrease of 177,135 page views this week and conservative blogs experienced an increase of 426,084.

For consistency, only blogs that openly displayed their traffic statistics through Sitemeter were surveyed. The number of page views does not represent the number of unique visitors to a site, but rather the number of times a page was loaded.

Althouse.blogspot.com saw the sharpest increase, with 12%. Sadlyno.com saw the sharpest decrease, with 21%.

Complete traffic stats below:

Liberal Blogs:

http://dailykos.com/

last week: 5,719,847
this week: 5,552,953
Change: A decrease of 166,894, or 3%

http://crooksandliars.com/

last week: 1,157,583
this week: 1,268,953
Change: An increase of 111,370, or 10%

http://firedoglake.com

last week: 614,453
this week 628,761
Change: An increase of 14,308, or 2%

http://www.eschatonblog.com

last week: 501,760
this week: 524,818
Change: An increase of 23,058, or 5%

http://americablog.blogspot.com/

last week: 378,595
this week: 390,950
Change: An increase of 12,355, or 3%

http://washingtonmonthly.com/

last week 332,815
this week: 341,747
Change: An increase of 8,932, or 3%

http://www.mydd.com/

last week: 202,734
this week: 176,932
Change: A decrease of 25,802, or 13%

http://www.talkleft.com/

last week: 192,255
this week: 188,384
Change: A decrease of 3,871, or 2%

http://openleft.com/

last week: 177,058
this week: 158,550
Change: A decrease of 18,508, or 10%

http://www.sadlyno.com/

last week: 132,972
this week: 104,412
Change: A decrease of 28,560, or 21%

Total last week: 9,513,595
Total this week: 9,336,460
Change: A decrease of 177,135, or 2%

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Conservative Blogs:

http://hotair.com/

last week: 3,330,026
this week: 3,567,088
Change: An increase of 237,062, or 7%

http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/

last week: 2,443,462
this week: 2,408,938
Change: A decrease of 34,524, or 1%

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/

last week: 1,387,799
this week: 1,380,442
Change: A decrease of 7,357, or 1%

http://michellemalkin.com/

last week: 1,750,574
this week: 1,937,467
Change: An increase of 186,893, or 11%

http://www.ace.mu.nu/

last week: 556,612
this week: 535,585
Change: A decrease of 21,027, or 4%

http://www.redstate.com/

last week: 408,268
this week: 451,878
Change: An increase of 43,610, or 11%

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/

last week: 266,273
this week: 275,583
Change: An increase of 9,310, or 3%

http://althouse.blogspot.com/

last week: 229,397
this week: 256,984
Change: An increase of 27,587, or 12%

http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/blog

last week: 197,687
this week: 181,104
Change: A decrease of 16,583, or 8%

http://patterico.com/

last week: 83,062
this week: 84,175
Change: An increase of 1,113, or 1%

Total last week: 10,653,160
Total this week: 11,079,244
Change: An increase of 426,084, or 4%