Excess of Democracy

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Annual Statement, 2015

Site disclosures

Total operating cost: $192

Total content acquisition costs: $125

Total site visits: 109,782* (+31% over 2014)

Total unique visitors: 92,542 (+29% over 2014)

Total pageviews: 136,362 (+32% over 2014)

Top referrers:
Above the Law (9986)
Pajamas Media (3809)
TaxProf (3587)
Facebook (2709)
Twitter (2615)
Brian Leiter's Law School Reports (2075)
Reddit (1782)
Top-Law-Schools.com (1206)
JD Underground (846)
University of California-Irvine (720)
ABA Journal (701)
The Faculty Lounge (575)
New York Times (426)
Election Law Blog (418)

Most popular content (by pageviews):
Here we go again: February 2015 bar pass rates down over last year (Apr. 10, 2015) (21,645)
July 2015 bar exam results again show decline pass rates almost everywhere: outliers, or a sign of more carnage? (Sept. 11, 2015) (16,248)
Ranking the most liberal and conservative law firms (July 16, 2013) (9084)
The wrong sort of law school applicants, visualized (Apr. 7, 2015) (6698)
Where are they now? Supreme Court clerks, OT2005 (July 31, 2015) (6066)

Most popular search results (when disclosed by search engine; 97% of search results not disclosed by search engine):
excess of democracy (96)
july 2015 bar exam results (32)
conservative law firms (13)
2015 bar passage rates (11)
ncbe (11)
feb 2015 bar pass rates (10)
most conservative law firms (10)

Sponsored content: none

Revenue generated: none

Platform: Squarespace hosted by Peer1 and Equinix

Privacy disclosures

External trackers: one (Google Analytics)

Individuals with internal access to site at any time in 2015: one (Derek Muller)

*Over the course of the year, various spam bots from sites like Semalt, Adfly, Snip.to, and others began visiting the site at a high rate. As they did so, I added them to a referral exclusion list, but their initial visits are not disaggregated from the overall totals. These sites are also excluded from the top referrers list. Additionally, all visits from my own computer are excluded.