In a message posted on the site, the Drudge Report says it set a traffic record last month with 425 million home page views, up from 287 million last March. “Many thanks for your continued support… The lovers and the haters… and the ones that still find the internet tops for news and information,” the message reads, likely written by founder Matt Drudge. The Drudge Report launched 12 years ago, produces very little original content which isn’t always accurate, rakes in hundreds of thousands of ad dollars a month (just a $1 average CPM for 425M pageviews is $425,000) and has never undergone a redesign. But it does a great job aggregating interesting stories and keeping them fresh.
Adds anonymous: “His traffic is at the lowest in 5 years, check Alexa. He just keeps upping the auto refresh rate. That’s called ad fraud. He also hotlinks all his images without permission or attribution. That’s called copyright infringement and bandwidth theft.”
Adds Corey: “Let’s not start using Alexa as a legitimate and accurate source, shall we?”
Adds Charles: “It’s a interesting aggretator, but it rarely even has any hard news. It’s degraded into tabloid, entertainment and ‘back-of-the-book’ stories, but that’s about it.”
