Brian Gongol
Updated ratings will be posted on or about December 2, 2006. Link directly to this list via EconDirectory.com.
If business and economics websites were newspapers, how much traffic would it take to be USA Today? How much would it take, by comparison, to be the Rocky Mountain News? This listing seeks to answer that question based on comparative rankings.
If this is your first time visiting this list, check out the frequently-asked questions (FAQ) page to figure out what this is all about. Also see the annotated directory of all the sites in this part of the Internet universe and the past rankings.
Traffic ratings from November 2, 2006 - pageviews
| Site | Page Views | Pageview Ratio | If it were a newspaper, it would be: |
| Marginal Revolution | 16047 | 1.000 | USA Today (Washington, DC) |
| Gregory Mankiw | 9770 | 0.609 | Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA) |
| Economist's View | 8014 | 0.499 | Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA) |
| Calculated Risk | 7396 | 0.461 | The Washington Post (Washington, DC) |
| Michael Shedlock | 6014 | 0.375 | New York Daily News (New York, NY) |
| QandO | 4880 | 0.304 | Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) |
| Asymmetrical Information | 4770 | 0.297 | Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) |
| Trader Mike | 4616 | 0.288 | Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) |
| Drezner | 3956 | 0.247 | Minneapolis Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) |
| Tax Prof | 3838 | 0.239 | Boston Globe (Boston, MA) |
| Gongol | 3313 | 0.207 | Long Island Newsday (Long Island, NY) |
| Angry Economist | 3127 | 0.195 | Long Island Newsday (Long Island, NY) |
| Willisms | 3002 | 0.187 | San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, CA) |
| Tim Worstall | 2917 | 0.182 | San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, CA) |
| Angry Bear | 2613 | 0.163 | The San Diego Union Tribune (San Diego, CA) |
| Mess that Greenspan Made | 2319 | 0.145 | Orange County Register (Orange County, CA) |
| Chicago Boyz | 2209 | 0.138 | Indianapolis Star (Indianapolis, IN) |
| Jacqueline Passey | 2067 | 0.129 | Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, TX) |
| MaxSpeak | 1816 | 0.113 | Little Rock Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Little Rock, AR) |
| EconBrowser | 1794 | 0.112 | Little Rock Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Little Rock, AR) |
| The Conglomerate | 1670 | 0.104 | St. Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, MN) |
| Environmental Economics (Haab and Whitehead) | 1636 | 0.102 | St. Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, MN) |
| Coyote Blog | 1574 | 0.098 | Des Moines Register (Des Moines, IA) |
| Catallarchy | 1538 | 0.096 | Des Moines Register (Des Moines, IA) |
| Escape from Cubicle Nation | 1511 | 0.094 | Tennessean (Nashville, TN) |
| Macroblog | 1239 | 0.077 | Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA) |
| Truck and Barter | 1149 | 0.072 | Birmingham News (Birmingham, AL) |
| Fat Pitch Financials | 1034 | 0.064 | The Honolulu Advertiser (Honolulu, HI) |
| Fistful of Euros | 1023 | 0.064 | The Honolulu Advertiser (Honolulu, HI) |
| Roth and Co. | 616 | 0.038 | Press-Telegram (Los Angeles, CA) |
| Business of America is Business | 584 | 0.036 | North County Times (Escondido, CA) |
| EclectEcon | 541 | 0.034 | Vindicator (Youngstown, OH) |
| Vox Baby | 532 | 0.033 | Repository (Canton, OH) |
| Billboardom | 512 | 0.032 | Green Bay Press-Gazette (Green Bay, WI) |
| Newmark's Door | 509 | 0.032 | Charleston Gazette/Daily Mail (Charleston, WV) |
| SCSU Scholars | 507 | 0.032 | Charleston Gazette/Daily Mail (Charleston, WV) |
| Capital Speculator | 499 | 0.031 | Asheville Citizen-Times (Asheville, NC) |
| Entrepreneurial Mind | 479 | 0.030 | Argus Leader (Sioux Falls, SD) |
| Triple Pundit | 471 | 0.029 | New Hampshire Sunday News (Manchester, NH) |
| Knowledge Problem | 444 | 0.028 | Quad-City Times (Davenport, IA) |
| EconoPundit | 423 | 0.026 | Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, CA) |
| ArgMax | 413 | 0.026 | Duluth News-Tribune (Duluth, MN) |
| Agoraphilia | 410 | 0.026 | Duluth News-Tribune (Duluth, MN) |
| Venture Chronicles | 410 | 0.026 | Duluth News-Tribune (Duluth, MN) |
| Accidental Verbosity | 380 | 0.024 | Statesman Journal (Salem, OR) |
| Deinonychus Antirrhopus | 328 | 0.020 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Emirates Economist | 321 | 0.020 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Prestopundit | 280 | 0.017 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Window Manager | 262 | 0.016 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Environmental and Urban Economics | 261 | 0.016 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| World Economic Forum Weblog | 211 | 0.013 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Constrained Vision | 201 | 0.013 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Market Power | 201 | 0.013 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Financial Rounds | 186 | 0.012 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Different River | 166 | 0.010 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Economic Dreams, Economic Nightmares | 153 | 0.010 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Ecological Economics | 130 | 0.008 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Carpe Diem | 128 | 0.008 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Egoist | 118 | 0.007 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Ajay Shah | 114 | 0.007 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Adam Smith's Lost Legacy | 105 | 0.007 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| General Glut | 90 | 0.006 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Labor Blog | 89 | 0.006 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Hypothetical Bias | 84 | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Heavy Lifting | 68 | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Alpha Sources | 66 | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Oikos | 65 | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Ashish's Niti | 61 | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Go Figure | 39 | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development | 37 | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| One-Handed Economist | 29 | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Card-Carrying Member | 26 | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| The Lowest Deep | 20 | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| MacroMouse | 5 | 0.000 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Ben Muse | 0 | 0.000 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
Traffic ratings from November 2, 2006 - visits
| Site | Visits | Visit Ratio | If it were a newspaper, it would be: |
| Marginal Revolution | 10135 | 1.000 | USA Today (Washington, DC) |
| Gregory Mankiw | 5582 | 0.551 | Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA) |
| Michael Shedlock | 4980 | 0.491 | Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA) |
| Calculated Risk | 4664 | 0.460 | The Washington Post (Washington, DC) |
| Economist's View | 4280 | 0.422 | The Washington Post (Washington, DC) |
| Asymmetrical Information | 3761 | 0.371 | New York Daily News (New York, NY) |
| Drezner | 3183 | 0.314 | Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) |
| QandO | 2947 | 0.291 | Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) |
| Tax Prof | 2833 | 0.280 | Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) |
| Trader Mike | 2183 | 0.215 | Long Island Newsday (Long Island, NY) |
| Tim Worstall | 2014 | 0.199 | Long Island Newsday (Long Island, NY) |
| Willisms | 1983 | 0.196 | Long Island Newsday (Long Island, NY) |
| Angry Bear | 1887 | 0.186 | San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, CA) |
| Angry Economist | 1766 | 0.174 | The Seattle Times/Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) |
| Gongol | 1655 | 0.163 | The San Diego Union Tribune (San Diego, CA) |
| Chicago Boyz | 1390 | 0.137 | San Antonio Express-News (San Antonio, TX) |
| MaxSpeak | 1308 | 0.129 | Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, TX) |
| EconBrowser | 1205 | 0.119 | Cincinnati Enquirer/Post (Cincinnati, OH) |
| Becker-Posner | 1203 | 0.119 | Cincinnati Enquirer/Post (Cincinnati, OH) |
| Mess that Greenspan Made | 1187 | 0.117 | Cincinnati Enquirer/Post (Cincinnati, OH) |
| The Conglomerate | 1040 | 0.103 | St. Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, MN) |
| Coyote Blog | 1000 | 0.099 | Des Moines Register (Des Moines, IA) |
| Virginia Postrel | 984 | 0.097 | Des Moines Register (Des Moines, IA) |
| Catallarchy | 983 | 0.097 | Des Moines Register (Des Moines, IA) |
| Escape from Cubicle Nation | 952 | 0.094 | Tennessean (Nashville, TN) |
| Jacqueline Passey | 938 | 0.093 | Omaha World-Herald (Omaha, NE) |
| Environmental Economics (Haab and Whitehead) | 901 | 0.089 | Times-Union (Jacksonville, FL) |
| Macroblog | 811 | 0.080 | Asbury Park Press (Neptune, NJ) |
| Fistful of Euros | 778 | 0.077 | Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA) |
| Truck and Barter | 759 | 0.075 | The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, CA) |
| Fat Pitch Financials | 553 | 0.055 | The News Tribune (Tacoma, WA) |
| Roth and Co. | 502 | 0.050 | The Philadelphia Daily News (Philadelphia, PA) |
| Capital Speculator | 460 | 0.045 | Greenville News (Greenville, SC) |
| Business of America is Business | 417 | 0.041 | Florida Today (Melbourne, FL) |
| Entrepreneurial Mind | 399 | 0.039 | El Nuevo Herald (Miami, FL) |
| SCSU Scholars | 388 | 0.038 | Press-Telegram (Los Angeles, CA) |
| Vox Baby | 385 | 0.038 | Press-Telegram (Los Angeles, CA) |
| Knowledge Problem | 350 | 0.035 | State Journal (Lansing, MI) |
| EconoPundit | 349 | 0.034 | Springfield News-Leader (Springfield, MO) |
| EclectEcon | 348 | 0.034 | Springfield News-Leader (Springfield, MO) |
| Sports Economist | 347 | 0.034 | Sunday Record (Middletown, NY) |
| Triple Pundit | 323 | 0.032 | Green Bay Press-Gazette (Green Bay, WI) |
| Billboardom | 321 | 0.032 | Charleston Gazette/Daily Mail (Charleston, WV) |
| Accidental Verbosity | 313 | 0.031 | Asheville Citizen-Times (Asheville, NC) |
| Newmark's Door | 303 | 0.030 | Cedar Rapids Gazette (Cedar Rapids, IA) |
| Agoraphilia | 288 | 0.028 | Post-Tribune (Merrillville, IN) |
| Deinonychus Antirrhopus | 241 | 0.024 | The Forum (Fargo, ND) |
| Venture Chronicles | 241 | 0.024 | The Forum (Fargo, ND) |
| Prestopundit | 224 | 0.022 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Emirates Economist | 216 | 0.021 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| ArgMax | 215 | 0.021 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Environmental and Urban Economics | 201 | 0.020 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Window Manager | 189 | 0.019 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Constrained Vision | 163 | 0.016 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Market Power | 150 | 0.015 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| World Economic Forum Weblog | 149 | 0.015 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Different River | 141 | 0.014 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Financial Rounds | 131 | 0.013 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Economic Dreams, Economic Nightmares | 89 | 0.009 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Egoist | 88 | 0.009 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| General Glut | 83 | 0.008 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Labor Blog | 75 | 0.007 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Ecological Economics | 73 | 0.007 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Ajay Shah | 72 | 0.007 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Adam Smith's Lost Legacy | 70 | 0.007 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Carpe Diem | 63 | 0.006 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Hypothetical Bias | 62 | 0.006 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Heavy Lifting | 60 | 0.006 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Oikos | 50 | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Alpha Sources | 48 | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Ashish's Niti | 45 | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Go Figure | 30 | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development | 24 | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Card-Carrying Member | 19 | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| One-Handed Economist | 18 | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| The Lowest Deep | 16 | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| MacroMouse | 4 | 0.000 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Ben Muse | 0 | 0.000 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
Sites that qualify but don't have public traffic logs
The following sites do not appear to have publicly-available traffic logs and are thus not included in this analysis but are listed in the overall directory -- (corrections are welcomed):