This week the FM website crosses two milestones:
- 500 subscribers on WordPress,
- 2 million visitors since opening on WordPress in November 2007, and
- Post #2000, counting from the first one at Defense and the National Interest in September 2003
Other stats:
- Aprox 3.2 million pageviews (does not count views from Wordpress and RSS subscriptions),
- Over 19 thousand comments.
Let’s use current Technorati Authority scores to compare the FM website with a few of the best geopolitical websites. It measures influence on the Internet (its a crude measure; ratings vary over time; smaller means more influence):
- Small Wars Journal: 461
- Small Wars Journal Blog: 524
- FM website: 541
- John Robb’s Global Guerrillas: 606
Thank you to all those who made this possible, including …
- the authors and guest authors who provide so much of the content;
- the people who allowed us to repost their content, such as Tom Engelhardt and the Marine Corps Gazette;
- websites who repost our content, such as Roubini Global Economics; and
- the people who post comments, interesting and often complex (and esp those who catch typos and errors);
- Gina, who set up the website and maintained it for the few several years; and
- Chet, the Editor, without whose guidance and counsel this would not have been possible.
