Below you will find Canada’s Top 25 Political Blogs for February. These are ranked according to a combination of influence and web traffic. You can read the specifics of that here.
NOTE: one thing I noticed while clicking through the blogs was that a lot of bloggers are talking about Free Speech and the Human Rights Tribunals. It seems largely split between left and right - with a few exceptions as always. The issue isn’t necessarily over abolishing the HRCs - though some do argue that - but over eliminating their ability to police speech by modifying or removing subsection 13 (1) of the Canadian Human Rights Act. Personally, I side with those who want to change the Act. To those who don’t think it’s necessary, I would strongly encourage you to read through the judgments of the HRT and the reasoning behind those judgements. You can find some of that reasoning excerpted below:
it is not necessary to prove that the effect of the communication will be that those who hear the messages will direct hatred or contempt against others. Nor is it necessary to show that, in fact, anyone was so victimized.
You can read more here. Enough of that then. Here are the rankings.
If there’s something I left out - please let me know in the comments section below.
Current Rank Site Google Page Rank Alexa Traffic Rank January Rank
- Mark Steyn | Google PR6 | Alexa 183458 | JR 2|
- Matthew Good | Google PR6 | Alexa 189211 | JR 1 |
- Paulitics | Google PR5 | Alexa 190966 | JR — |
- Small Dead Animals | Google PR5 | Alexa 215146 | JR3 |
- Galloping Beaver | Google PR5 | Alexa: 221053 | JR11 |
- Le Blogue du Quebec | Google PR5 | Alexa: 236293 | JR4 |
- Abandoned Stuff | Google PR5 | Alexa: 264311 | JR5 |
- Daimnation | Google PR5 | Alexa: 456907 | JR6 |
- Angry in the Great White North | Google PR5 | Alexa: 494835 | JR9 |
- Five Feet of Fury | Google PR5 | Alexa: 502887 | JR7 |
- Canadian Cynic | Google PR5 | Alexa: 539464 | JR8 |
- Vive le Canada | Google PR5 | Alexa: 599626 | JR12 |
- Gen X at 40 | Google PR5 | Alexa: 646245 | JR13 |
- Stephen Taylor | Google PR5 | Alexa: 727526 | JR14 |
- David Akin’s On the Hill | Google PR5 | Alexa: 738681 | JR15 |
- Le Revue Gauche | Google PR5 | Alexa 765204 | JR10 |
- Calgary Grit | Google PR5 | Alexa: 811277 | JR16 |
- Andrew Coyne | Google PR5 | Alexa: 913223 | JR17 |
- My Blahg | Google PR5 | Alexa: 1168303 | JR18 |
- Big City Lib | Google PR5 | Alexa: 1194585 | JR– |
- Jordon Cooper | Google PR5 | Alexa: 1297272 | JR– |
- Garth Turner Unedited | Google PR4 | Alexa: 514920 | JR19|
- Proud to be Canadian | Google PR4 | Alexa: 567210 | JR20 |
- Warren Kinsella Musings | Google PR4 | Alexa: 579330 | JR23 |
- Dawg’s Blog | Google PR4 | Alexa: 626247 | JR22 |
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GO STEYN!
Must be an error in the numbers, Kinsella’s still on the list.
ricky warman must have voted from more than one ISP, BadNumbers.
I was trying to figure out where all the extra traffic was coming from, but I figured it out from the previous comments :-)
How do you get the Alexa ranks? I can’t find any of them because they are not in the top 100,000 for the last month.
Hello Jason,
I’ve emailed you instructions on how to get the Alexa data. I explain some of the methodology for the list a while back in these posts:
http://rjjago.wordpress.com/2007/10/01/canadas-top-25-blogs/
http://rjjago.wordpress.com/2007/11/04/canadas-top-25-blogs-november/
Your site keeps coming and going from the list - something to do with the quality of in-bound links you’re getting. The PR data measures how many people are talking about your site, and the status of those people. So if 1,000 people on Rabble are talking about your site, that’s worth less than if, say, Mark Steyn is talking about your site. I don’t know how coherent that is, I’m sick as a dog at the moment, so if it’s too opague, please check the posts above, I say it better there.
“Must be an error in the numbers, Kinsella’s still on the list.”
Must be an error in numbers, what will all the retarded rightwingers on the list.
*sigh* Stupid does sell, doesn’t it?
My goodness. Interesting to see how a blog can make it as high as 24 on the list through the sheer force of external mockery.
Since he decided to remove his /stats page from public view (it was proving to be an embarrassing counterpoint to his public claims of having more readers than most large newspapers) one’s had to rely on the traffic he can push through linkage. Even with Steyn graciously pushing rubber-neckers his way, he still can’t drive more than a few hundred on his best day.
I mean, even his new pal Robert “F*ck The Jews” McClelland does better than that.
Say, Kate … isn’t there a thermometer somewhere you should be taking a picture of?
Kate, why so unpleasant all of a sudden?
Small Dead Animals…Come for the junior high school squabble between a peevish and churlish mediocrity and her more interesting/entertaining/sophisticated/less immoral targets and stay for the train wreck in the comments section.
Kate, how terribly precious of you to call someone on their supposed anti-semitism.
I think WK does a little better than a few hundred visits. I do about 500 per day and when he linked me I was boosted easily by ~200-300. Assuming 1 in 5 readers click link outs [generous estimate] he does about 1,000 per day.
Anyway, top blogs don’t mean top quality. You can have 10,000 visits a day, but if they’re slavishly stupid people who think Iraq was a justified war, Vietnam was winnable, and WMD’s are still buried in Iraq, you’re not getting much quality in there. The best writers I can think of in the blogosphere seem to get about 100-200 hits a day. Max. People don’t do intellectuals.
They do raving extremism [Kathy Shaidle] and ranting mockery [Canadian Cynic].
Bring up traffic and it certainly stirs those anonymous lefties up, eh?
“It’s not quantity!!!! It’s quality!!!!”
*cackle*
You’re such a useful tool, Raphael…
And a little history lesson may be in order. For someone who claims not to care about traffic, Mr,Kinsella certainly showed no reluctance in boasting statistics over the radio airwaves that far exceeded… how shall we put it… the truth?
Speaking of traffic … these are the top referrers to this site. What does it tell you?
http://rjjago.googlepages.com/traffic.gif
Raphael: Vietnam wasn’t just winnable, it was WON. And then the democrats found a way to lose it.
I saw this on Kinsella. To paraphrase his post “it’s the motion of the ocean”:
http://warrenkinsella.com/index.php?entry=entry080227-083328
Grok, way to prove my point. And Kate, I wasn’t talking about lefties. There are many Conservative writers with excellent insight who never get hits because they tend not to view Muslims as cockroaches.
A useful tool? Can you get more cryptic?
“….all of a sudden?”
*smokespit!*
you kill me, cräbs!
KEvron
“they tend not to view Muslims as cockroaches”
barnum would be so proud of our kkkate….
KEvron
Raphael,
let me see: the unsophisticated Reagan said in 1982 that Soviet Union can and will be defeated, the brilliant Trudeau in 1985 took his sons to Soviet Union to show them “the future”.
Care to provide any good reason for people to “do” those whom slavishly snobbish individuals call intellectuals?
As for the tool mystery: google “Lenin” and “useful idiots”.
Kate is such white trash.
Agnostic, she didn’t say useful idiot, she wrote useful tool. It’s almost ambiguously a compliment.
Less ambiguous is how she is about her amorous like of child rape redirects and holocaust jokes.
Enjoy!
KEvron: “…you kill me, cräbs!”
Thanks, Kevron. I was hoping that hadn’t gone undetected.
Interesting. Why is Ezra Levant one of your top “referrers” but his blog is not listed. Does it not qualify as a political blog? I, for one, don’t go a day without checking out the latest; the guy is a dynamo of blog action … and I stress the “action”. I would be quite surprised, given his sudden rise to YouTube stardom, if he doesn’t register favourably on Alexa relative to, say, Kinsella.
Ezra’s blog is really new and hasn’t got a Google PR yet. I checked in on it earlier in the week and a couple of the pages are showing up with PR’s. As soon as that happens he would join the list at something like 11th place.
Based on your traffic.gif, my guess was at least half correct. The key to insane levels of traffic (not to mention a higher rate of insanity, period) is to draw a large American studio audience. Some forms of politics seem to do that better than others, let’s just say.