I’ve been doing this day after day for the last five years. The Jason version of TBP started in early 2009. It ended in flames in early 2010. The latest version of TBP went live in November 2010. Since that date, there have been 11,000 posts, 187,000 comments and 21,000 people have registered. The increase in visitors over time has been fairly consistent, from 2.6 million in 2011 to 4.6 million in 2012 and probably 5.6 million in 2013. This has happened even though many sites that used to publish my articles have given me the boot. These are sites that have kicked me off over this time frame:
Seeking Alpha
Minyanville
Op-Ed News
Nolan Chart
Lew Rockwell
Financial Sense
My style evidently doesn’t fit into their money making efforts. Despite these snubs, TBP still seems to gain readers. I suppose that is a good thing. More people are getting an alternative perspective to what they are being told by the MSM. Eleven thousand posts of doom sure seems like alot. It’s a wonder I can get up in the morning. I’m just going to keep plugging away and hope enough people listen to make a difference some day.
Thanks for the contributions of all the regular posters and commentors. Your views are being read by about 15,000 people per day, so keep firing away.
| Month | Unique visitors | Number of visits | Pages | Hits | Bandwidth |
| Jan 2011 | 77,908 | 170,341 | 792,220 | 4,982,052 | 36.14 GB |
| Feb 2011 | 68,937 | 158,243 | 743,738 | 4,396,753 | 32.81 GB |
| Mar 2011 | 93,337 | 211,578 | 972,840 | 5,942,279 | 45.01 GB |
| Apr 2011 | 69,318 | 179,942 | 874,435 | 4,680,779 | 36.55 GB |
| May 2011 | 73,188 | 192,532 | 958,954 | 5,077,179 | 40.85 GB |
| Jun 2011 | 95,161 | 224,655 | 979,395 | 5,904,361 | 50.93 GB |
| Jul 2011 | 88,190 | 214,987 | 937,243 | 5,322,611 | 47.48 GB |
| Aug 2011 | 116,681 | 288,636 | 1,342,852 | 7,961,428 | 76.79 GB |
| Sep 2011 | 104,543 | 249,672 | 1,108,364 | 6,000,495 | 57.52 GB |
| Oct 2011 | 113,064 | 258,674 | 1,294,935 | 6,531,900 | 68.34 GB |
| Nov 2011 | 113,441 | 259,769 | 1,305,147 | 6,283,059 | 78.36 GB |
| Dec 2011 | 101,295 | 241,275 | 1,079,141 | 5,092,387 | 57.42 GB |
| Total | 1,115,063 | 2,650,304 | 12,389,264 | 68,175,283 | 628.20 GB |
| Month | Unique visitors | Number of visits | Pages | Hits | Bandwidth |
| Jan 2012 | 142,179 | 317,286 | 1,311,060 | 7,028,446 | 78.51 GB |
| Feb 2012 | 153,245 | 334,217 | 1,433,959 | 7,831,894 | 85.82 GB |
| Mar 2012 | 131,053 | 321,665 | 1,449,151 | 7,078,203 | 74.47 GB |
| Apr 2012 | 191,585 | 407,291 | 1,569,130 | 9,615,613 | 96.33 GB |
| May 2012 | 166,343 | 375,757 | 1,592,056 | 8,628,373 | 72.26 GB |
| Jun 2012 | 140,869 | 337,940 | 1,433,328 | 7,476,452 | 64.88 GB |
| Jul 2012 | 159,493 | 357,898 | 1,402,946 | 8,233,352 | 63.64 GB |
| Aug 2012 | 168,306 | 378,542 | 1,507,243 | 8,562,515 | 67.10 GB |
| Sep 2012 | 184,306 | 397,839 | 1,558,916 | 9,034,917 | 85.62 GB |
| Oct 2012 | 212,845 | 463,414 | 1,823,556 | 10,562,666 | 109.75 GB |
| Nov 2012 | 200,905 | 447,717 | 1,790,968 | 9,577,438 | 120.76 GB |
| Dec 2012 | 193,299 | 443,711 | 1,802,355 | 9,603,573 | 122.07 GB |
| Total | 2,044,428 | 4,583,277 | 18,674,668 | 103,233,442 | 1041.20 GB |
| Month | Unique visitors | Number of visits | Pages | Hits | Bandwidth |
| Jan 2013 | 191,952 | 470,264 | 1,999,422 | 10,033,242 | 194.91 GB |
| Feb 2013 | 180,900 | 431,336 | 1,731,871 | 9,337,683 | 167.76 GB |
| Mar 2013 | 155,510 | 441,063 | 2,059,492 | 9,311,671 | 230.53 GB |
| Apr 2013 | 163,796 | 460,097 | 2,020,689 | 9,087,557 | 212.46 GB |
| May 2013 | 2,188 | 2,688 | 9,656 | 35,772 | 916.33 MB |
| Jun 2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 694,346 | 1,805,448 | 7,821,130 | 37,805,925 | 806.55 GB |
Stucky, izzat u?
Juan – you can stop writing nasty comments about yourself. I am more than happy to take up that job!
I have cleared space on my list and moved you right to the top! You are gonna love it!
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Twinky, Kitten Lord of Pain = Scooby Snacks
I_S
“I have cleared space on my list and moved you right to the top! You are gonna love it! ”
LOL! I’d go get the popcorn but I’m headed for work.
I_S
WTF! I feel privileged to witness this rare moment on TBP where the self-styled monkeys lay down their handfuls of shit and engage in gentle, mutual back-slapping. Such tender scenes are few and far between in this “red in tooth and claw” jungle.
But seriously, this is a great site – insightful, educational, alternative, and immensely entertaining.
Top marks to Admin and to everyone on here who make it such a refreshing site to visit. You should all be proud of it.
SDT
After another trek down the 30 Blocks of Squalor this morning, I needed a good chuckle. These comments have gotten my day off to a good start.
To Anonymous at 3:10 way up in the comments – I agree I do have a very patient, loving, wonderful spouse. I am extremely LUCKY to have her and I would be lost without her. I thank God every day for my awesome wife.
That was not Administrator, but I concur with every word. Or else.
Admin,
Congratulations. Besides being the first thing I read each morning, what I truly appreciate is being able to share much of the content with my two teenage children. I often wonder if Admins boys read his articles or if they consider him their “crazy” old man, holed up in his office, hunched over a smoking keyboard, eyes bugging out at the latest housing report from Lawrence Yun. Keep up the great work, if you are half as good a dad as you are a writer then your family is indeed a blessed bunch.
Thank you,
Bob.
Bostonbob
I don’t ask the boys if they read TBP, but I think they do.
My oldest will get a daily dose of Admin starting next week when he starts a summer internship in the school IT department and gets to spend 2 hours per day in the car with me. He will get to see the 30 Blocks of Squalor with my commentary on a regular basis.
Admin,
My son got that three summers ago, only his internship consisted of breaking off collar ties in basements of the houses we were building. A tremendously shitty job that entails taking a 2lb sledge and beating small metal rods back and forth along a concrete surface until they snap off. This was sandwiched around a 1.5 to 2 hour slog up and down route 128 with his dear old dad. Fortunately we did not leave until 5:30 AM and would get home as early as 6:30 to 7:00 PM. After a few weeks he found a nice inside job as an engineering intern, where he did not have to blow concrete dust out of his nose all day. He still thanks me for the short but enlightening welcome to the wonderful world of construction labor.
Bob.
i truly love this site, since i vent most days i have cut my employee dismissal rate by 50%. (i only dismiss the bottom 15% now) the working stiffs don’t hate me as much as before. i let one employee slide this week after he spilled a his coke on my wingtips (il love it when employees quake in my presence) i only gave him a verbal after he polished them on his luch break.
and iCandy, my wife, actually agreed with me once this year but that was when i suggested i should paint her toe nails grenadine instead of ruby red.
my dog ‘boomer’ still snarls at me because i don’t feed him that often, fend for yourself, i say.
Bostonbob said:
“only his internship consisted of breaking off collar ties in basements of the houses we were building. A tremendously shitty job that entails taking a 2lb sledge and beating small metal rods back and forth along a concrete surface until they snap off.”
Ah yes………the wonderful collar tie. You really appreciate them when you’re pouring the mud but come to hate them once the walls are stripped. How many tens of thousands of those things I must have removed!!? Packing panels in and out of the hole was fun too! After doing all that back breaking work, I could never figure out how all the “guys” could turn around and piss away all, and I do mean all, of their money before Monday? I was smarter than that!
I_S
I never had to pour concrete. I’ve laid a shit ton of bricks (The imperial equivalent to a metric buttload) in my day though.
I always thought concrete work looked like a shitty way to earn a dollar, almost as bad as roofing or trapping.
TPC says:
“I always thought concrete work looked like a shitty way to earn a dollar”
a buttload of dollars, that’s a shit ton of money.
TPC said:
“I always thought concrete work looked like a shitty way to earn a dollar, almost as bad as roofing or trapping.”
LOL! I thought the same thing when I started but quickly learned that their are numerous ways to do the job using your head rather than your back that made it much easier than it looked.
I always used to joke that I just needed one more head injury to be a drywaller, insulator or hot tar roofer.
I_S
Having done each of these jobs at one time or another I personally hated roofing the most. With the exception of the few nice days in the spring and fall it is always either too hot or too cold. Constant back breaking work, always bent over and never ever slip, falling off a roof really, really hurts. After examining an MRI of my back the Dr. commented ” How the hell does someone get 9 herniated discs”. I just laughed. I will say scraping your knuckles breaking off collar ties is something everyone should experience. I keep a tie breaking tool in the back of my truck as a reminder of all of the fun I used to have. My son had to use the hammer because he did not have the arm strength to twist the breaking tool, but he kept at it until he found better work.
Bob.
I used to build viny prefab fences/arbors/pergolas as well.
Freshly cut, that shit had sharp edges and I was too dumb to ever bother wearing gloves. So, I have some knuckles that are crossed and recrossed with thick layers of scars….all from vinyl fence and barb wire lol.