20 Most Popular Political Websites | December 2008
Over the last few years political websites, representing a wide range of ideologies, have been sprouting up all over the internet many times setting off mini-wars between the editors and audiences of the various sites. This left us wondering which of these sites was becoming the most successful; as gauged by overall audience size? To that end, we here at eBizMBA have developed a non-partisan approach to determine the Top 20 Most Popular Political Websites by ranking them by a combination of Inbound Links, Google Page Rank, Alexa Rank, and U.S. traffic data from Compete and Quantcast. For entries where a wide range exists between the two data sets the highest numbers were used for ranking purposes. Although no traffic metrics are completely accurate, we do believe the data below to be useful for gauging relative audience size.
1 | Huffington Post.com
5,811,556 - Inbound Links | 2,777,280 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 7,518,508 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 687 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 7
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2 | DrudgeReport.com
3,615,928 - Inbound Links | 2,187,574 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 1,300,000 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 545 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 7
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3 | salon.com
5,929,601 - Inbound Links | 1,836,898 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 2,600,000 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 1,296 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 7
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4 | NewsMax.com
1,276,950 - Inbound Links | 3,232,551 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 3,700,000 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 2,725 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 6
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5 | Politico.com
1,614,629 - Inbound Links | 1,151,770 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 846,088 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 1,656 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 7
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6 | RealClearPolitics.com
2,663,361 - Inbound Links | 999,641 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 1,600,000 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 2,221 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 7
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7 | FreeRepublic.com
1,251,003 - Inbound Links | 1,031,194 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 943,755 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 4,007 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: NA
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8 | WorldNetDaily.com
1,415,262 - Inbound Links | 814,002 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 947,978 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 3,684 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 7
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9 | DailyKos.com
4,925,788 - Inbound Links | 562,137 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 938,760 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 3,997 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 7
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10 | TownHall.com
4,591,604 - Inbound Links | 552,879 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 1,100,000 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 4,313 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 7
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11 | NationalReview.com
4,300,711 - Inbound Links | 488,835 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 364,717 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 5,109 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 7
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12 | Christian Science Monitor.com
1,687,647 - Inbound Links | 474,009 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 688,173 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 8,431 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 5
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13 | VillageVoice.com
2,055,586 - Inbound Links | 479,323 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 726,415 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 7,907 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 7
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14 | Alternet.org
2,023,481 - Inbound Links | 485,292 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 1,134,724 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 6,260 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 7
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15 | TheHill.com
644,653 - Inbound Links | 415,030 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 497,823 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 13,872 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 7
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16 | wonkette.com
5,816,335 - Inbound Links | 360,812 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 302,069 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 10,812 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 7
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17 | TheNation.com
1,964,591 - Inbound Links | 328,273 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 708,441 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 13,870 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 7
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18 | RawStory.com
2,029,348 - Inbound Links | 297,261 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 191,627 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 6,514 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 4
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19 | CrooksandLiars.com
2,898,797 - Inbound Links | 264,728 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 98,875 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 5,694 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 7
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20 | InfoWars.com
485,640 - Inbound Links | 221,246 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 178,112 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 7,612 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 6
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21 | talkingpointsmemo.com
3,717,228 - Inbound Links | 253,077 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 112,731 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 9,311 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 7
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*22 | littlegreenfootballs.com
3,166,109 - Inbound Links | 86,373 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 51,563 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 19,251 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 5
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*23 | InstaPundit.com
5,199,174 - Inbound Links | 63,356 - Compete Monthly Visitors | 22,677 - Quantcast Monthly Visitors | 30,645 - Alexa Ranking. | Page Rank: 7
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