T&G stats - Look out below and are our local Bloggerettes catty?

Been exploring the Telegram.com’s stats since the Paywall rode into town last August. So how’s the venerable T&G doing? Not so hot I dare say. Some interesting data from Alexa.com, The Web Information Company:

1) Daily Page views dropped 15% in the last 3 months, from October 2010.

2) Daily Traffic Rank dropped about 12% in the last 3 months. But that’s relative.

Does that mean that the T&G is losing viewers? Yup! By my calculations traffic will reach a horrendous level by January 2012. Look out below...

But don’t take my word for it, see for yourself. Make your own conclusions: Alexa.com

Ever wonder why the Telegram.com has an overall uncivil tone among its commenters? Is anonymity to blame? Are the locals crazier than elsewhere? Or has some mind altering chemical made its way into the drinking water? Actually, it’s none of the above.

The explanation is quite simple in fact. Out of curiosity I perused the audience section. The Telegram's audience - a mirror of our little enclave - as offered up by Alexa.com shows some interesting demographics in play.

According to Alexa, females on Telegram.com are over-represented and the 65+ age group is greatly over-represented. The conclusion? We got a bunch of catty old women haunting the T&G. Is that any surprise?

Can we extrapolate that demographic to cover the Barnard Blogroll coup too? Well, I thought about that - yup!

Last week confirms it. This place has catty bloggerettes.