Freethought Blogs - Revision history

Conservative: /* Web traffic of Freethought Blogs: July 2015 to March 2019 */

2023-01-14T19:23:27Z

Web traffic of Freethought Blogs: July 2015 to March 2019

Conservative: /* Richard Carrier's defamation lawsuit against Freethought Blogs */

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Richard Carrier's defamation lawsuit against Freethought Blogs

Conservative: /* Web traffic of Freethought Blogs: July 2015 to March 2019 */

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Web traffic of Freethought Blogs: July 2015 to March 2019

Conservative: /* Demographics of web visitors to Freethought Blogs. Majority of its website visitors are male. */

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Demographics of web visitors to Freethought Blogs. Majority of its website visitors are male.

Conservative: /* Freethought Blogs and women */

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Freethought Blogs and women

Conservative: /* Freethought Blogs and women */

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Freethought Blogs and women

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Freethought Blogs and women

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2022-12-13T15:45:28Z

Freethought Blogs and women

Conservative: /* Freethought Blogs significant loss of web traffic */

2022-12-13T15:45:15Z

Freethought Blogs significant loss of web traffic

Conservative: /* Freethought Blogs and women */

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 See: [[Richard Carrier's lawsuits|Richard Carrier's defamation lawsuit against Freethought Blogs]]
-=== Web traffic of Freethought Blogs: July 2015 to March 2019 ===
+== Web traffic of Freethought Blogs: July 2015 to March 2019 according to Alexa ==
 [[File:Freethoughtblogs alexa 2016.png|thumbnail|center|400px|Freethought Blogs is a spinoff of ScienceBlogs launched by PZ Myers and [[Ed Brayton]].
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	See: [[Richard Carrier's lawsuits\|Richard Carrier's defamation lawsuit against Freethought Blogs]]		See: [[Richard Carrier's lawsuits\|Richard Carrier's defamation lawsuit against Freethought Blogs]]
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		+	=== Web traffic of Freethought Blogs: July 2015 to March 2019 ===
		+	[[File:Freethoughtblogs alexa 2016.png\|thumbnail\|center\|400px\|Freethought Blogs is a spinoff of ScienceBlogs launched by PZ Myers and [[Ed Brayton]].
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		+	[[Alexa]] is a web traffic tracking company. In 2015 and 2016, Freethought Blogs saw a large decrease in its Alexa ranking.]]
		+	{{Clear}}
		+	[[File:Freethoughtblogs.com Alexa December 2016.png\|400px\|center\|thumbnail\|Freethought Blogs fell sharply in its Alexa ranking for much of the latter part of 2016]].
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		+	[[File:Freethoughtbllogs alexa May 2017.png\|400px\|center\|thumbnail\|In May 2017, according to Alexa, Frrethoughtblogs continued to lose global market share.]]
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		+	[[File:Freethoughtblogs.com alexa 3-12-2019.png\|thumbnail\|center\|400px\|According to Alexa, on March 12, 2019, Freethoughtblogs was the 90,419th most popular website in the world.]]
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	== See also ==		== See also ==

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 On June 23, 2019, Freethought  Blogs was the 90,953th most popular website in the world according to Alexa, but by September 23, 2019 Freethought Blogs was merely the 170,112th most popular website in the world according to Alexa.]]
 == Demographics of web visitors to Freethought Blogs. Majority of its website visitors are male. ==

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 == Demographics of web visitors to Freethought Blogs. Majority of its website visitors are male. ==
-''See also:'' [[Demographics of the web visitors to Freethought Blogs]] and [[Atheism and women]] and [[Atheism and sexism]] and [[Atheist feminism]]
+''See also:'' [[Demographics of the web visitors to Freethought Blogs]] and [[Atheist websites appear to receive significantly less traffic from women]] and  [[Atheism and women]] and [[Atheism and sexism]] and [[Atheist feminism]]
 [[File:Demographics of web visitors to Freethoughtblogs.com according to SimilarWeb.jpg|thumbnail|center|1600px|The website [[Freethought Blogs]] has significantly less women visiting their website than men according to the web traffic tracking company SimilarWeb.com.<ref>[https://www.similarweb.com/website/freethoughtblogs.com/#demographics Freethoughtblogs - SimilarWeb.com: Demographics]</ref>]]

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-== Freethought Blogs and women ==
+== Demographics of web visitors to Freethought Blogs. Majority of its website visitors are male. ==
 ''See also:'' [[Demographics of the web visitors to Freethought Blogs]] and [[Atheism and women]] and [[Atheism and sexism]] and [[Atheist feminism]]
-=== Majority of Freethoughtblogs.com audience is male ===
+[[File:Demographics of web visitors to Freethoughtblogs.com according to SimilarWeb.jpg|thumbnail|center|1600px|The website [[Freethought Blogs]] has significantly less women visiting their website than men according to the web traffic tracking company SimilarWeb.com.<ref>[https://www.similarweb.com/website/freethoughtblogs.com/#demographics Freethoughtblogs - SimilarWeb.com: Demographics]</ref>]]
+{{Clear}}
 == PZ Myers' commentary on the web traffic of AIG's ministry ==

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	Since 2012, the blogging website has been losing a significant amount of web traffic according to [[Quantcast]] which directly measures its web traffic.<ref>[https://www.quantcast.com/freethoughtblogs.com?qcLocale=en_US#/trafficCard Freethoughtblogs - Quantcast]</ref> See also: [[Internet atheism#Internet atheism web traffic levels\|Decline of internet atheism]]		Since 2012, the blogging website has been losing a significant amount of web traffic according to [[Quantcast]] which directly measures its web traffic.<ref>[https://www.quantcast.com/freethoughtblogs.com?qcLocale=en_US#/trafficCard Freethoughtblogs - Quantcast]</ref> See also: [[Internet atheism#Internet atheism web traffic levels\|Decline of internet atheism]]
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		+	== Freethought Blogs significant loss of web traffic ==
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		+	''See also:'' [[Internet atheism]]
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		+	On January 1, 2016, the atheist [[Michael Nugent]] wrote:
		+	{{Cquote\|PZ’s FreeThought Blogs network eventually imploded last year, with Ophelia Benson leaving after being unjustly labelled a transphobe, and founder Ed Brayton leaving citing the health impact of the drama and stress of running the network. It is now losing traffic and revenue. The departing Ed and Ophelia had accounted for a third of the traffic, and PZ now accounted for 90% of the rest. Another FreeThought blogger, Jason Thibeault, predicted some of the network’s bloggers might now have lean months with zero income.<ref>[http://www.michaelnugent.com/2016/01/01/challenges-for-atheists-and-secularists/#more-13132 Five challenges for atheists and secularists in 2016] by Michael Nugent</ref>}}
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		+	=== Freethought Blogs has lost a very large proportion of its monthly Google referral traffic ===
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		+	[[File:Freethoughtblog Google referral traffic has fallen.jpg\|center\|thumbnail\|1200px\|[[Freethought Blogs]] has lost a very large proportion of its monthly Google referral traffic according to the leading web marketing website SEMRush.com. ]]
		+	{{clear}}
		+	==== During the coronavirus pandemic Freethought Blogs lost monthly Google referral traffic visits ====
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		+	''See also:'' [[Internet atheism and the coronavirus pandemic]]
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		+	[[File:Freethoughtblogs.com Google referral traffic SEMRush.com 8-3-2022.jpg\|center\|thumbnail\|1200px\|On August 3, 2022, the leading web marketing website SEMRush reported that in March 2020 Freethought Blogs had 17,428 monthly Google referral traffic visits, but by August 2022 it had 12,499 monthly Google referral visits.
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		+	Google uses over 200 factors to evaluate the quality and the relevance of a website to various topics.]]
		+	{{clear}}
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		+	=== Freethought Blogs - Similarweb.com global ranking ===
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		+	[[File:Freethoughtblogs.com Similarweb.com ranking.png\|thumbnail\|900px\|center\|In May of 2022, Freethought Blogs was the 148,972th most popular website in the world according to the web marketing website SimilarWeb.com.
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		+	In 2011, the [[Atheism\|atheist]] and [[evolution]]ist [[PZ Myers]] said that he had greater blog traffic than the [[Answers in Genesis]] website and that the Answers in Genesis (AIG) website had "pathetic" web traffic.<ref>[http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/03/22/ken-ham-brags-about-his-websit/ Ken Ham brags about his websites]</ref> As of May of 2022, the Answers in Genesis website receives more web traffic than Freethought Blogs according to Similarweb.com.<ref>[https://www.similarweb.com/website/answeringenesis.org/#overview Answersingenes.org - Similarweb.com]</ref> According to Similarweb.com, the Answers in Genesis website is the 56,730th most popular website in the world.<ref>[https://www.similarweb.com/website/answeringenesis.org/#overview Answersingenes.org - Similarweb.com]</ref> ]]
		+	{{Clear}}
		+	=== Web traffic of Freethought Blogs dramatically declines from June 2019 to September 2019 ===
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		+	[[File:Freethoughtblogs.com alexa ranking 9-23-2019.png\|thumbnail\|center\|300px\|The web traffic of Freethought Blogs saw a dramatic decline from June 2019 to September 2019 according to the web traffic tracking company [[Alexa]].
		+	<br />
		+	<br />
		+	On June 23, 2019, Freethought Blogs was the 90,953th most popular website in the world according to Alexa, but by September 23, 2019 Freethought Blogs was merely the 170,112th most popular website in the world according to Alexa.]]
		+
		+	=== Web traffic of Freethought Blogs: July 2015 to March 2019 ===
		+	[[File:Freethoughtblogs alexa 2016.png\|thumbnail\|center\|400px\|Freethought Blogs is a spinoff of ScienceBlogs launched by PZ Myers and [[Ed Brayton]].
		+	<br />
		+	<br />
		+	[[Alexa]] is a web traffic tracking company. In 2015 and 2016, Freethought Blogs saw a large decrease in its Alexa ranking.]]
		+	{{Clear}}
		+	[[File:Freethoughtblogs.com Alexa December 2016.png\|400px\|center\|thumbnail\|Freethought Blogs fell sharply in its Alexa ranking for much of the latter part of 2016]].
		+	{{Clear}}
		+	[[File:Freethoughtbllogs alexa May 2017.png\|400px\|center\|thumbnail\|In May 2017, according to Alexa, Frrethoughtblogs continued to lose global market share.]]
		+	{{Clear}}
		+	[[File:Freethoughtblogs.com alexa 3-12-2019.png\|thumbnail\|center\|400px\|According to Alexa, on March 12, 2019, Freethoughtblogs was the 90,419th most popular website in the world.]]
		+	{{Clear}}

	== Freethought Blogs and women ==		== Freethought Blogs and women ==

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 Despite the pro-[[feminism]] stance of Freethoughblogs it hasn't been able to attract a higher percentage of a female audience. The majority of atheists are men (see: [[Atheism and women]]) ]]
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 == PZ Myers' commentary on the web traffic of AIG's ministry ==

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 ''See also:'' [[Atheism and women]] and [[Atheist feminism]]
-Despite the pro-[[feminism]] stance of Freethoughblogs, according to the web traffic tracking companies [[Alexa]] and [[Quantcast]], the website has had significantly less women visiting the website than men.<ref>When [[Alexa]] and [[Quantcast]] gave publicly available data on the gender of people visiting websites, Freethought Blogs had significantly more men visiting the website according to these two web traffic tracking companies.</ref>
+=== Majority of Freethoughtblogs.com audience is male ===
-The majority of atheists are men (see: [[Atheism and women]]).
+[[File:Freethoughtblog.com demographics Similarweb.com 12-13-2022.jpg|thumbnail|1000px|center|According to the leading web marketing website Similarweb.com, the majority of Freethoughtblogs.com traffic consists of males.
 == Freethought Blogs significant loss of web traffic ==