Over Half-a-Million Hits Last Month
Last month saw 529,338 page-loads off 386,417 unique visitors. Despite the competition from more and more Big Media blogs; Adam, Ben, Kevin, Sam, Coffee House and the Three Line Whoops, Guido's readership keeps on growing year-on-year. 40% up on January 2007 (379,964 off 267,123) and more than quadrupling since January 2006 (101,273 off 69,536). Compare that to Kevin Maguire's Daily Mirror, where circulation is down some 25% over the same period. They don't call it the "Dead-Tree-Press" for nothing...Traffic surged as readers sought to follow developments in the Hain saga, and the most popular story summarised Guido's Role in Hain's Demise, in fact 6 out of the 10 top stories were Hain stories. No surprise there.
No other politics website in Britain gets more readers. This is the blog they hate and you love.
34 comments:
Great ratings. How long before you appear on Question Time? Can't be any worse than last night's sad shower of shit.
Guido,
Congratulations, you old rogue, you. I bet Peter Hain is really, really flattered that so many people are interested in him and his thinking tank.
But little does he know that people only come here to read Stanislav, Woman on a Raft and Jerry Hayes.
Jonathan Ross has just introduced his house band "Four Poofs and a Piano" as some men who often end an evening with:
....a mouthful of Gordons....
BLOODY HELL!
'Scuse me for a moment, but when did the subject of Gordo's sexuality break out from scurrilous blogs like this into the mainstream media of the BBC?
Well done and yes your blog is a must read. Dale's used to be but he has done himself so much damage over Conway, that it is no longer worth reading.
Keep it up.
Guido, you have started to fill up the dead tree press as well. Seen in the Press and Journal.
quotes of the day:
' "The Conway family firm will presumably go into liquidation come the next election.'
Political blogger Guido Fawkes, blah, blah, blah.'
el sheet-bag said
But little does he know that people only come here to read Stanislav, Woman on a Raft and Jerry Hayes.
I only come here as Cranmer is too tetchy on swearing and the BBC don't like my perspective...oh and I have no life...like Guido sat moderating in Real Time this evening..haha
hmmm... my attempts to fuck off all the trolls seem to be unsuccessful. oh well, I'm having great fun anyway,
cheers Guido.
ps. come out, come out wherever you are mr.troll, don't be shy, come and get your bashing!
Congrats Guido-I am constantly promoting your site throughout Scotland as much as possible.
As you know, it is virtually a police state up here-We do not have a free press, and the Bean broadcasting Co makes sure that we continue to know bugger all of importance.
Long may you prosper!
I come here for Stanislav - though, I do like you too.
It's all true.
I started reading this via a friend who was also fed up reading utter crap on MSM.
Sick of being force fed absolute lies from not only this bunch of no marks who dare to call themselves a government but worse, the media who are supposed to report the TRUTH, not just the truth according to this current shower.
I never realised before I became interested in politics the sheer incompetence, lying, cheating and utter contempt we are shown by said gobshite ne'erdowells.
I used to read other political forums and was so disillusioned when anytime anything of any consequence came up there would be half a dozen labour trolls on the boards defending their rulers and pelting scorn on anyone who dared question them.
Slowly I am learning more about this bunch of thieves and can honestly say that after chasing some amazing albeit gobsmacking facts the liberties this lot take with us, our money and our freedoms surely contravenes this Human rights law they are supposed to be the champions of.
I know there are some bad apples but the sheer volume of corruption and vileness of this bunch who are screwing up our country (that is all of the UK), I am thoroughly shocked at us, are we blind?
Must be deaf and dumb too.....
Keep up the good work Guido, you are a shining light in the middle of our darkest days.
Has this country gone MAD? The latest MORI poll puts Labour one point ahead.
http://www.ipsos-mori.com/polls/2008/mpm080123.shtml
I just wonder if the poll was conducted from a base of 16-year-old chav mothers on benefits day.
You seem to be Englands only hope to unseat the rocking horse rider the MSM have sold out so its you and Private Eye.
The ravens will be buying maps of sunnier climes soon.
Dont go for walks in the woods Brittania needs a hero.
Well done!
A few comments in response to others' comments.
Guido works best here -- he isn't the right tool for the job of appearing on Question Time or similar. A good General knows which troops etc to deploy in each situation, and Guido works best right where he is.
Iain Dale is still worth following but the single issue of Conway is a blind spot. All else seems fine, so I'd suggest sticking with it over there.
I keep an eye on several political 'blogs, even when there are parts with which I disagree, to avoid becoming what I call "one-dimensional" in outlook, and it seems to work well (especially as I am not really all that much of a political animal anyway). This approach might be helpful to others here -- I hope! I'm no expert...
The latest-reported Ipsos-MORI poll turns out to be several weeks old, so can now be ignored (unless one is compiling a chart of all such polls to follow trends, I suppose).
Beyond all this, I rejoice every time I read (either here or elsewhere) of another eye-opened contributor who has learned something about what is really going on and how much the British public are being conned by the Government and much (most?) of the MSM.
This process of educating the public-at-large will eventually be what will transform political life and practice in this country, but it is slow! Spread the word! Speed up this process, which is what I have been trying to do (with some success) myself.
Now that the name of Guido Fawkes is more widely known, this has become a slightly easier task, from last month.
Let's all go to it: we have until the next General Election to make sure that enough voters no longer vote Labour at that time, and we don't even know when that will be. We have the chance to help make that difference, possibly for the first time ever in this country, and I hope we succeed!
To "Bloody Freaks"
Hear Hear!
To other readers, read on (and comment as well!) and notice how the Internet is allowing "transparency" [added to Spin Doctor Hot Word List recently] and pulling off the cloaks of UK government deceit.
Hell I wouldn't put it past them to try and even ban political blogging. Hey they could try what China does, namely block access to certain web sites.
For anyone wishing to share with us documents that we all have a moral right to see, then check out:
https://secure.wikileaks.org/wiki/Wikileaks
It is a must read. Number #2 after order-order.com
Could you explain that - what is a page load? Why does each visitor have about 1.3 page loads?
bogeyman:
Ludicrous figures there from MORI, but apparently it was, "conducted from 17-23 January 2008 (before Peter Hain's resignation)".
WTF? It takes MORI two weeks to publish the results of their research? If they were getting paid for this, I'd give them the sack with that kind of work ethic...
If you don't continue to have a vague roll in bringing to light these very weak government scandals then the hits will dry up pretty quick.
Well done Guido. You are The Great Illuminator.
Dale is like a guttering candle in comparison.
in fairness to the dead tree press once 10pm comes around , and the presses start rolling thats it for them until another 24hrs ,go down to dog and pheasant get pissed , go home kiss missus , turn up for work at 10am , take in news feeds etc.
guido on the other hand gets "word off da street" its the sleazyist place to tell your stuff.guido seems to be getting better at filtering out the "red herrings" and we all love a good troll slaying dont we.
i dont know whilst he thinks DRUDGE is special , this site definitely is somthing quite different!!.
will it end up like the simpsons with celebrity posters !! ohh yeah i was invited into the studio to post on guido it was so exciting.
i also heard it got close to being pulled by the dark emperor.
whatever it does become, i think it has just busted the corrupt nature of how bad things have got under this goverment.
its a bit like being roughly awoken , you grumble, tell them to piss off and leave you alone , but then you realise they were trying to tell you your bed was on fire!!
Guido is all the news I need. I read the FT, Economist & Guido. Sorts it out from every angle.
i love the blog,
i find the comments section the best around, especially Stanislav who is a God.
stanislave and .45gov to me are the real heros who hit the nail on the head everytime.
the blog itself can be a little too PC, a little too moderated and a little too lightweight - but it has got better and i never miss my daily fix.
long may it continue to improve prosper and expose.
many thanks to Guido, even though you do delete half my posts!
here i believe we are all on the side of truth, logic and democracy.
Liberation will be via the likes of you and the contributors (non-trolls)here. Keep it to the truth although it hurts.
Guido, you need counselling for your low self-esteem.
Wel done Guido, keep up the good work!
Now have you read this excellent piece on Gordon Brown and Boris Johnson by Andrew Gimson:
"...We imagine Mr Brown felt happy his half-hour ordeal (PMQs) was over, and quite pleased with how it had gone. For although David Cameron had been very rude to him, and accused him of being "physically incapable of answering a straight question", the Prime Minister had managed to tough it out.
Yet in that moment when he retreated from Mr Johnson while wearing such a broad grin, some of us found the evasive shamelessness of our Prime Minister crystallised.
Dickensian powers of exaggeration are needed to get to grips with Mr Brown, an obsessive workaholic who will say absolutely anything to show he is always in the right, and Mr Johnson has those powers of magnification.
To treat Mr Brown as if he is amenable to reason, which is the polite fiction maintained by Mr Cameron and also by Nick Clegg for the Liberal Democrats, is a compliment the Prime Minister does not deserve. Mr Johnson's spontaneous indignation somehow helped to expose that fiction, though Mr Brown is doing that himself by insisting on so many implausibilities that he is becoming unbelievable...."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=YFBD0QCJE0APPQFIQMFSFF4AVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2008/01/31/npolice331.xml
Congratulations on the great figures Guido, but I'd be lying if I said that the best piece of news was anything other than the collapse in the Mirror's readership. How long can it continue?
Dear Guido, here is my first comment and thus, ergo, there goes my Guido virginity!
I have often in the last ten years thought of posting criticisms on The Downing Street site but not done so in fear of "a knock on the door".
When registering here my email froze, followed by a complete breakdown of my internet. Two days and scarce, highly taxed dosh later, I was able to recover system. Coincidence? I think not. As someone failed to advise Dr. David Kelly, "be careful out there".
Keep up the good work and laugh at all the trolls. With luck they'll all end up in the rocking horse stables washing nappies!
TROLLS DON'T DO WEEKENDS!
Charles Moore wrote in the Spectator 19 Jan:
...the circulation of the Sun sank below three million in December, its lowest since the early 70s...
Murdoch explained the paper's previous success:
'The Sun rose, he said, because, with post-war recovery, working people wanted more freedom and more fun....the Sun offered them emancipation, while the Mirror offered them a culture of resentment and collectivism'
The problem for Moore is to explain the Sun's slump. He thinks Murdoch was right about the emancipation of the reader, but that it means something different now.
"The popular papers have not really adjusted to the aspirations of the second generation of mass ownership. The majority of people now wrestle with complicated issues of borrowing, pensions, insurance; many own shares. They may well work for foreign employers, or work, for long periods, abroad. Roughly half of he children now being born will go to university. Most people use the internet, and it accustoms them to a world in which choice can be very precise and where they can pursue particular interests in depth. For such people, tabloids may still be amusing, but the do not give them their window on the world, nor do they express their hopes and fears, nor do they give them very useful advice. If you look at the Sun today, it seems, as it never did before, old-fashioned."
...
Moore's analysis seems to fit - the Sun is not expressing the popular sentiment, it is trying to lead, and it feels like it is not a truthful friend. The Mirror is too often dire, the Mail survives by being schizophrenic, but as with the Telegraph, the strain is beginning to show. Sooner or later both are going to jump off the top of a building, claiming to be able to fly. The Times thinks its readers are scum; the Guardian thinks everyone but its readers are scum, which at least has the virtue of being in complete accord with its audience.
Order-Order bucks this trend; if you can produce quality information, make it accessible and present it in such a way that the lawyers can't easily take it down, then you can build an audience.
Anything which annoys certain media lawyers gets my vote. Some are so short-sightedly stupid they would jump first in a suicide pact if the clients paid them enough, hurtling to the ground and yelling 'yeah, but look how much I got paid for this'. It wouldn't matter but they often have the fragile treasure of the truth clutched to their chests as they plummet.
Freedom, fun, emancipation - what too many media lawyers exist to prevent and, increasingly, what MSM editors go along with.
Well done Guido, especially for cheering up Mr Raft on a bad day, when he rang in to yell 'Guido got the orange bastard at last'.
What does MSM mean? Im new to this.
"but I'd be lying if I said that the best piece of news was anything other than the collapse in the Mirror's readership."
Classic case of a paper backing the wrong horse even when it is lame and about to be carted off to the knackers yard.
The Mirror, in its prime, was a good, campaigning newspaper which sometimes got it wrong but at least knew its niche in the market.
Now it's a limp, sad excuse for chip-paper, and I wouldn't wipe my arse with it if I had the squits and the only other alternative was wire wool.
Well done Guido on stuffing the Coffee House what a bunch of wankers so fucking serious Fraser & D'ancona fucking Tory toffs far to worried about being invited round to Dave or Georges for dinner to put the boot in & fucking ugly to boot If I looked like them I keep my picture right off the blog. Then Mad Mel The Nurse Cratchet of the blogosphre, that fat prat Pollard & then Clive Davis who never gets any comments. I have to say I'm only reading you from now this blog knows how to have fun ,slip the knife & is not moderated to fuck. Have a good one & welcome a new convert.
tony blairie.........
Main Stream Media, soon to become GFMSM!
Whose the man with the 'long descriptive heading'? I'm dying to know!
Long Live Pajamahadeen!
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