Ok, now this is just a bit, er, strange:

Top Politics sites in the UK by market share of visits, for the week ending August 28th

And also see this news piece on the report:

UK interest in November’s US presidential election is being registered on the web with John Kerry proving more popular than rival George Bush.

But I'm drawing more traffic than either of them, apparently! Muwhahahahaha!

Now I'll rain on my own parade a bit: part of what might be screwing up this survey's statistics is that a large share of my traffic is actually Ecosystem traffic. I've set up a "blog-only" SiteMeter counter so I can see how my actual writing and blogging is drawing an audience, but the survey above probably isn't subtracting the non-political hits I get for the Ecosystem.

Although on the other hand, now that I think of it, that was my biggest week ever, due to some serious linking by InstaGuy -- and that was real blog traffic, not Ecosystem hits. So the Ecosystem traffic (a steady stream of about 1000-1500 visits a day, generally) added to the blog traffic, but was a much smaller percentage of it than usual (See here). A pretty good week of work, actually, if I do say so myself.

Pretty darned amusing, regardless. And hey, thanks and welcome to all my U.K. readers!

Update: OK, the more I think about this, the less sense it makes. There are clearly plenty of political blogs which receive higher traffic than TTLB. And if nothing else, most of my traffic during the week in question was from Instapundit links --- so one would think that Instapundit would show up in the rankings above TTLB. I suppose that the U.K. demographic could for some reason be skewed in my direction, but that seems a bit far fetched. The simpler answer seems to be that political blogs in general were excluded from the survey, but for some reason, mine was included.

I think I'll drop the folks responsible a line and see what they have to say...

Update Again: Said line has been dropped; we'll see if anybody's answering their email over the weekend. Now here's some further thought: if I'm right above, and I just happen to be the only political blog (for whatever reason) on their list, then that's actually an even more interesting conclusion. Because what it means is, if they fixed the list, and did include all the heavy hitting political blogs, they would be above my ranking of #5. In other words, the corrected list would be completely dominated by weblogs, showing that weblogs are in fact the primary political sites being visited by U.K. Internet users.

Now that's an interesting finding! We'll see if it pans out to be true... or if I really am as cool as the current survey suggests...

Update Some More: Note that regardless of whether other political blogs were omitted, the survey does seem to clearly show that TTLB received more traffic than John Kerry's campaign site, Bush's campaign site, the Tories web site, or Michael Moore's site during the week measured (yes, I find that last particularly satisfying.) So heck, that's kinda neat.