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.
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Traffic ratings from November 22, 2006 - by average daily pageviews
| Site | Page Views | Pageview Ratio | If it were a newspaper, it would be: |
| Big Picture | 23836 | 1.000 | USA Today (Washington, DC) |
| Marginal Revolution | 18810 | 0.789 | New York Times (New York, NY) |
| Gregory Mankiw | 12160 | 0.510 | Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA) |
| Economist's View | 7982 | 0.335 | New York Daily News (New York, NY) |
| Michael Shedlock | 6945 | 0.291 | Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) |
| Calculated Risk | 6307 | 0.265 | Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX) |
| Asymmetrical Information | 5282 | 0.222 | The Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ) |
| QandO | 5187 | 0.218 | Long Island Newsday (Long Island, NY) |
| Trader Mike | 4755 | 0.200 | Long Island Newsday (Long Island, NY) |
| Drezner | 4523 | 0.190 | San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, CA) |
| Gongol | 4190 | 0.176 | The Seattle Times/Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) |
| Tim Worstall | 3304 | 0.139 | Indianapolis Star (Indianapolis, IN) |
| Tax Prof | 3271 | 0.137 | San Antonio Express-News (San Antonio, TX) |
| Angry Economist | 3114 | 0.131 | Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, TX) |
| Carl Futia | 2973 | 0.125 | The Tampa Tribune & Times (Tampa, FL) |
| Willisms | 2817 | 0.118 | Cincinnati Enquirer/Post (Cincinnati, OH) |
| Jacqueline Passey | 2715 | 0.114 | The Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK) |
| Mess that Greenspan Made | 2561 | 0.107 | San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA) |
| Angry Bear | 2559 | 0.107 | San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA) |
| New Economist | 2272 | 0.095 | Des Moines Register (Des Moines, IA) |
| MaxSpeak | 2035 | 0.085 | Raleigh News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) |
| Chicago Boyz | 1911 | 0.080 | Asbury Park Press (Neptune, NJ) |
| Catallarchy | 1907 | 0.080 | Asbury Park Press (Neptune, NJ) |
| Coyote Blog | 1868 | 0.078 | Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA) |
| Environmental Economics (Haab and Whitehead) | 1733 | 0.073 | The Fresno Bee (Fresno, CA) |
| EconBrowser | 1644 | 0.069 | Arizona Daily Star/Tucson Citizen (Tucson, AZ) |
| The Conglomerate | 1540 | 0.065 | The Honolulu Advertiser (Honolulu, HI) |
| Long or Short Capital | 1379 | 0.058 | The Journal News (White Plains, NY) |
| Truck and Barter | 1341 | 0.056 | Lexington Herald-Leader (Lexington, KY) |
| Macroblog | 1146 | 0.048 | Journal Gazette/News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne, IN) |
| Fistful of Euros | 1013 | 0.043 | Maine Sunday Telegram (Portland, ME) |
| Fat Pitch Financials | 990 | 0.042 | East Valley Tribune (Mesa, AZ) |
| Prestopundit | 863 | 0.036 | Ledger (Lakeland, FL) |
| Escape from Cubicle Nation | 789 | 0.033 | Journal Star (Peoria, IL) |
| Indian Economy | 773 | 0.032 | Times-News (Erie, PA) |
| Roth and Co. | 699 | 0.029 | Caller-Times (Corpus Christi, TX) |
| Business of America is Business | 693 | 0.029 | Caller-Times (Corpus Christi, TX) |
| EclectEcon | 636 | 0.027 | Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, CA) |
| Billboardom | 632 | 0.027 | Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, CA) |
| Statistical Modeling | 631 | 0.027 | Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, CA) |
| Andrew Leigh | 630 | 0.026 | Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, CA) |
| Triple Pundit | 619 | 0.026 | Belleville News-Democrat (Belleville, IL) |
| Newmark's Door | 511 | 0.021 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Entrepreneurial Mind | 497 | 0.021 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Capital Speculator | 493 | 0.021 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Knowledge Problem | 479 | 0.020 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| ArgMax | 454 | 0.019 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Alea | 448 | 0.019 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| SCSU Scholars | 419 | 0.018 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Agoraphilia | 411 | 0.017 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Accidental Verbosity | 379 | 0.016 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Vox Baby | 378 | 0.016 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| EconoPundit | 336 | 0.014 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Emirates Economist | 335 | 0.014 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Market Power | 314 | 0.013 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Environmental and Urban Economics | 277 | 0.012 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Deinonychus Antirrhopus | 275 | 0.012 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Window Manager | 258 | 0.011 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Venture Chronicles | 246 | 0.010 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| World Economic Forum Weblog | 207 | 0.009 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Carpe Diem | 203 | 0.009 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Constrained Vision | 193 | 0.008 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Development Bank Research Bulletin | 183 | 0.008 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Ajay Shah | 181 | 0.008 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| General Glut | 172 | 0.007 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Different River | 160 | 0.007 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Cold Spring Shops | 152 | 0.006 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Economic Dreams, Economic Nightmares | 150 | 0.006 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Financial Rounds | 142 | 0.006 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Globalisation and the Environment | 131 | 0.006 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Alpha Sources | 127 | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Ecological Economics | 119 | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Adam Smith's Lost Legacy | 118 | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Egoist | 107 | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Trade Diversion | 103 | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Labor Blog | 102 | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Oikos | 85 | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Urban Economics and More | 83 | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Heavy Lifting | 81 | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Let's Fly Under the Bridge | 81 | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Hypothetical Bias | 75 | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Byrne's Marketview | 72 | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Visualizing Economics | 65 | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development | 62 | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Go Figure | 52 | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Ashish's Niti | 50 | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Businomics | 48 | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Card-Carrying Member | 46 | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Economics, Markets, and Probabilities | 31 | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| The Lowest Deep | 26 | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| One-Handed Economist | 23 | 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 22, 2006 - by average daily visits
| Site | Visits | Visit Ratio | If it were a newspaper, it would be: |
| Big Picture | 16656 | 1.000 | USA Today (Washington, DC) |
| Marginal Revolution | 11767 | 0.707 | New York Times (New York, NY) |
| Gregory Mankiw | 7094 | 0.426 | The Washington Post (Washington, DC) |
| Michael Shedlock | 5580 | 0.335 | New York Daily News (New York, NY) |
| Asymmetrical Information | 4466 | 0.268 | The Detroit News/Free Press (Detroit, MI) |
| Economist's View | 4464 | 0.268 | The Detroit News/Free Press (Detroit, MI) |
| Calculated Risk | 4364 | 0.262 | Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX) |
| Drezner | 3557 | 0.214 | Long Island Newsday (Long Island, NY) |
| QandO | 3352 | 0.201 | Long Island Newsday (Long Island, NY) |
| Trader Mike | 2434 | 0.146 | Kansas City Star (Kansas City, MO) |
| Tax Prof | 2356 | 0.142 | Orange County Register (Orange County, CA) |
| Tim Worstall | 2319 | 0.139 | Indianapolis Star (Indianapolis, IN) |
| Gongol | 1995 | 0.120 | Cincinnati Enquirer/Post (Cincinnati, OH) |
| Willisms | 1882 | 0.113 | Little Rock Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Little Rock, AR) |
| Angry Bear | 1875 | 0.113 | Little Rock Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Little Rock, AR) |
| Angry Economist | 1808 | 0.109 | The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC) |
| New Economist | 1519 | 0.091 | The Boston Herald (Boston, MA) |
| Carl Futia | 1472 | 0.088 | Times-Union (Jacksonville, FL) |
| Coyote Blog | 1359 | 0.082 | The Record (Hackensack, NJ) |
| Jacqueline Passey | 1322 | 0.079 | Asbury Park Press (Neptune, NJ) |
| MaxSpeak | 1283 | 0.077 | Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA) |
| Mess that Greenspan Made | 1233 | 0.074 | The Fresno Bee (Fresno, CA) |
| Becker-Posner | 1208 | 0.073 | The Grand Rapids Press (Grand Rapids, MI) |
| Catallarchy | 1096 | 0.066 | The Honolulu Advertiser (Honolulu, HI) |
| Chicago Boyz | 1089 | 0.065 | The Honolulu Advertiser (Honolulu, HI) |
| EconBrowser | 1087 | 0.065 | The Honolulu Advertiser (Honolulu, HI) |
| The Conglomerate | 1046 | 0.063 | Tribune-Review (Greensburg, PA) |
| Environmental Economics (Haab and Whitehead) | 972 | 0.058 | The Journal News (White Plains, NY) |
| Virginia Postrel | 961 | 0.058 | The Journal News (White Plains, NY) |
| Truck and Barter | 886 | 0.053 | Times Union (Albany, NY) |
| Macroblog | 783 | 0.047 | Mobile Register (Mobile, AL) |
| Fistful of Euros | 761 | 0.046 | Greenville News (Greenville, SC) |
| Long or Short Capital | 612 | 0.037 | The Augusta Chronicle (Augusta, GA) |
| Roth and Co. | 566 | 0.034 | Post (Fairfield, CT) |
| Fat Pitch Financials | 562 | 0.034 | Vindicator (Youngstown, OH) |
| Escape from Cubicle Nation | 525 | 0.032 | Charleston Gazette/Daily Mail (Charleston, WV) |
| Indian Economy | 506 | 0.030 | Advance (Staten Island, NY) |
| Business of America is Business | 484 | 0.029 | Caller-Times (Corpus Christi, TX) |
| Capital Speculator | 450 | 0.027 | Quad-City Times (Davenport, IA) |
| Prestopundit | 440 | 0.026 | Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, CA) |
| Entrepreneurial Mind | 419 | 0.025 | Tallahassee Democrat (Tallahassee, FL) |
| Triple Pundit | 418 | 0.025 | Standard-Examiner (Ogden, UT) |
| Statistical Modeling | 417 | 0.025 | Amarillo Globe-News (Amarillo, TX) |
| EclectEcon | 409 | 0.025 | Sun News (Myrtle Beach, SC) |
| Knowledge Problem | 385 | 0.023 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Billboardom | 378 | 0.023 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Sports Economist | 354 | 0.021 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Andrew Leigh | 342 | 0.021 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| SCSU Scholars | 325 | 0.020 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Newmark's Door | 318 | 0.019 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Vox Baby | 315 | 0.019 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Accidental Verbosity | 299 | 0.018 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Agoraphilia | 283 | 0.017 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| EconoPundit | 270 | 0.016 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Emirates Economist | 229 | 0.014 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Market Power | 228 | 0.014 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| ArgMax | 226 | 0.014 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Deinonychus Antirrhopus | 211 | 0.013 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Environmental and Urban Economics | 211 | 0.013 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Window Manager | 187 | 0.011 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Venture Chronicles | 163 | 0.010 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Alea | 161 | 0.010 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| General Glut | 158 | 0.010 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| World Economic Forum Weblog | 154 | 0.009 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Constrained Vision | 152 | 0.009 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Different River | 129 | 0.008 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Cold Spring Shops | 120 | 0.007 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Ajay Shah | 113 | 0.007 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Carpe Diem | 112 | 0.007 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Development Bank Research Bulletin | 109 | 0.007 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Financial Rounds | 108 | 0.007 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Economic Dreams, Economic Nightmares | 89 | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Adam Smith's Lost Legacy | 88 | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Globalisation and the Environment | 83 | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Labor Blog | 83 | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Ecological Economics | 79 | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Egoist | 79 | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Oikos | 75 | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Trade Diversion | 75 | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Alpha Sources | 74 | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Heavy Lifting | 69 | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Let's Fly Under the Bridge | 66 | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Hypothetical Bias | 54 | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Byrne's Marketview | 45 | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development | 43 | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Go Figure | 39 | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Ashish's Niti | 38 | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Visualizing Economics | 36 | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Businomics | 34 | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Card-Carrying Member | 31 | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Urban Economics and More | 31 | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| The Lowest Deep | 22 | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Economics, Markets, and Probabilities | 16 | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| One-Handed Economist | 14 | 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) |
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):