Brian Gongol
Updated ratings will be posted on or about March 2, 2007. 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 February 1, 2007 - by average daily pageviews
| Site | Page Views | Pageview Ratio | If it were a newspaper, it would be: |
| Big Picture | 22715 | 1.000 | USA Today (Washington, DC) |
| Marginal Revolution | 22466 | 0.989 | The Wall Street Journal (New York, NY) |
| Gregory Mankiw | 10150 | 0.447 | The Washington Post (Washington, DC) |
| Economist's View | 8249 | 0.363 | New York Daily News (New York, NY) |
| Calculated Risk | 7642 | 0.336 | New York Daily News (New York, NY) |
| European Tribune | 7537 | 0.332 | New York Daily News (New York, NY) |
| Michael Shedlock | 7518 | 0.331 | New York Daily News (New York, NY) |
| Vancouver Housing | 6757 | 0.298 | Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) |
| Trader Mike | 5902 | 0.260 | Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX) |
| Gongol | 4451 | 0.196 | Long Island Newsday (Long Island, NY) |
| QandO | 4293 | 0.189 | San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, CA) |
| Asymmetrical Information | 3847 | 0.169 | St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO) |
| Drezner | 3769 | 0.166 | The San Diego Union Tribune (San Diego, CA) |
| Tax Prof | 3492 | 0.154 | Portland Oregonian (Portland, OR) |
| Angry Economist | 3360 | 0.148 | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA) |
| Tim Worstall | 3243 | 0.143 | Orange County Register (Orange County, CA) |
| Winter Watch | 3168 | 0.140 | The Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, OH) |
| Mess that Greenspan Made | 3159 | 0.139 | Indianapolis Star (Indianapolis, IN) |
| Willisms | 3016 | 0.133 | The Sacramento Bee (Sacramento, CA) |
| Angry Bear | 3006 | 0.132 | The Sacramento Bee (Sacramento, CA) |
| Carl Futia | 2934 | 0.129 | Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, TX) |
| Chicago Boyz | 2912 | 0.128 | Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, TX) |
| Coyote Blog | 2883 | 0.127 | The Tampa Tribune & Times (Tampa, FL) |
| World Economic Forum Weblog | 2603 | 0.115 | The Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK) |
| Overcoming Bias | 2052 | 0.090 | The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA) |
| MaxSpeak | 1952 | 0.086 | Memphis Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) |
| Half Sigma | 1838 | 0.081 | Asbury Park Press (Neptune, NJ) |
| Long or Short Capital | 1761 | 0.078 | Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA) |
| Environmental Economics (Haab and Whitehead) | 1697 | 0.075 | The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, CA) |
| New Economist | 1663 | 0.073 | The Fresno Bee (Fresno, CA) |
| EconBrowser | 1640 | 0.072 | Birmingham News (Birmingham, AL) |
| Catallarchy | 1579 | 0.070 | Arizona Daily Star/Tucson Citizen (Tucson, AZ) |
| Escape from Cubicle Nation | 1400 | 0.062 | Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) |
| The Conglomerate | 1268 | 0.056 | Lexington Herald-Leader (Lexington, KY) |
| Indian Economy | 1261 | 0.056 | The State (Columbia, SC) |
| Truck and Barter | 1148 | 0.051 | Republican (Springfield, MA) |
| Jacqueline Passey | 1099 | 0.048 | Journal Gazette/News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne, IN) |
| Fat Pitch Financials | 1093 | 0.048 | Journal Gazette/News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne, IN) |
| Agoraphilia | 1067 | 0.047 | Mobile Register (Mobile, AL) |
| Fistful of Euros | 1034 | 0.046 | Greenville News (Greenville, SC) |
| Roth and Co. | 1016 | 0.045 | Daily Press (Newport News, VA) |
| Macroblog | 941 | 0.041 | East Valley Tribune (Mesa, AZ) |
| Window Manager | 881 | 0.039 | Times Free Press (Chattanooga, TN) |
| Billboardom | 772 | 0.034 | Post (Fairfield, CT) |
| EclectEcon | 701 | 0.031 | Asheville Citizen-Times (Asheville, NC) |
| Statistical Modeling | 665 | 0.029 | Caller-Times (Corpus Christi, TX) |
| Triple Pundit | 561 | 0.025 | Ann Arbor News (Ann Arbor, MI) |
| Newmark's Door | 522 | 0.023 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Andrew Leigh | 500 | 0.022 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Business of America is Business | 486 | 0.021 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Entrepreneurial Mind | 469 | 0.021 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Knowledge Problem | 467 | 0.021 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Capital Spectator | 393 | 0.017 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| SCSU Scholars | 388 | 0.017 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Vox Baby | 358 | 0.016 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Environmental and Urban Economics | 351 | 0.016 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| ArgMax | 346 | 0.015 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Carpe Diem | 337 | 0.015 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Emirates Economist | 330 | 0.015 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Core Economics | 321 | 0.014 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Market Power | 238 | 0.011 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Deinonychus Antirrhopus | 235 | 0.010 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Accidental Verbosity | 220 | 0.010 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Global Economy Matters | 216 | 0.010 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Prestopundit | 211 | 0.009 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Ajay Shah | 210 | 0.009 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Financial Rounds | 191 | 0.008 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Development Bank Research Bulletin | 184 | 0.008 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| EconoPundit | 171 | 0.008 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Economic Dreams, Economic Nightmares | 161 | 0.007 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Constrained Vision | 149 | 0.007 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Alea | 144 | 0.006 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Let's Fly Under the Bridge | 127 | 0.006 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Adam Smith's Lost Legacy | 126 | 0.006 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Globalisation and the Environment | 126 | 0.006 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Cold Spring Shops | 112 | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Ecological Economics | 112 | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| General Glut | 106 | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Labor Blog | 106 | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Alpha Sources | 104 | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Different River | 103 | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Egoist | 89 | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Trade Diversion | 77 | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Heavy Lifting | 76 | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Sybil's Star | 68 | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development | 65 | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Hypothetical Bias | 65 | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Ashish's Niti | 59 | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Oikos | 55 | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Businomics | 51 | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Italian Economy Watch | 50 | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Visualizing Economics | 47 | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Urban Economics and More | 32 | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| One-Handed Economist | 27 | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| James D. Miller | 26 | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Economics, Markets, and Probabilities | 25 | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Card-Carrying Member | 23 | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Research Design and Statistics | 14 | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Go Figure | 13 | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Byrne's Marketview | 9 | 0.000 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| MacroMouse | 7 | 0.000 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Ben Muse | 0 | 0.000 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| The Lowest Deep | 0 | 0.000 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
Traffic ratings from February 1, 2007 - by average daily visits
| Site | Visits | Visit Ratio | If it were a newspaper, it would be: |
| Big Picture | 15987 | 1.000 | USA Today (Washington, DC) |
| Marginal Revolution | 14143 | 0.885 | The Wall Street Journal (New York, NY) |
| Gregory Mankiw | 6359 | 0.398 | The Washington Post (Washington, DC) |
| Michael Shedlock | 5898 | 0.369 | New York Daily News (New York, NY) |
| Calculated Risk | 5183 | 0.324 | New York Daily News (New York, NY) |
| Economist's View | 4760 | 0.298 | Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) |
| Asymmetrical Information | 3286 | 0.206 | Long Island Newsday (Long Island, NY) |
| Drezner | 3208 | 0.201 | Long Island Newsday (Long Island, NY) |
| Vancouver Housing | 3147 | 0.197 | Long Island Newsday (Long Island, NY) |
| Trader Mike | 2813 | 0.176 | The Seattle Times/Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) |
| QandO | 2677 | 0.167 | St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO) |
| Tax Prof | 2563 | 0.160 | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI) |
| Tim Worstall | 2300 | 0.144 | Orange County Register (Orange County, CA) |
| Gongol | 2137 | 0.134 | The Sacramento Bee (Sacramento, CA) |
| Angry Bear | 2094 | 0.131 | The Sacramento Bee (Sacramento, CA) |
| Coyote Blog | 1937 | 0.121 | Cincinnati Enquirer/Post (Cincinnati, OH) |
| Chicago Boyz | 1922 | 0.120 | Cincinnati Enquirer/Post (Cincinnati, OH) |
| Willisms | 1899 | 0.119 | Cincinnati Enquirer/Post (Cincinnati, OH) |
| Angry Economist | 1865 | 0.117 | Cincinnati Enquirer/Post (Cincinnati, OH) |
| Carl Futia | 1731 | 0.108 | The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY) |
| European Tribune | 1610 | 0.101 | St. Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, MN) |
| Winter Watch | 1589 | 0.099 | Des Moines Register (Des Moines, IA) |
| Mess that Greenspan Made | 1481 | 0.093 | Omaha World-Herald (Omaha, NE) |
| World Economic Forum Weblog | 1380 | 0.086 | Memphis Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) |
| MaxSpeak | 1257 | 0.079 | Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA) |
| Becker-Posner | 1229 | 0.077 | Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA) |
| EconBrowser | 1104 | 0.069 | Arizona Daily Star/Tucson Citizen (Tucson, AZ) |
| New Economist | 1090 | 0.068 | Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, OH) |
| Escape from Cubicle Nation | 945 | 0.059 | Albuquerque Journal/Tribune (Albuquerque, NM) |
| Overcoming Bias | 934 | 0.058 | The Journal News (White Plains, NY) |
| Environmental Economics (Haab and Whitehead) | 932 | 0.058 | The Journal News (White Plains, NY) |
| Virginia Postrel | 890 | 0.056 | The State (Columbia, SC) |
| Catallarchy | 887 | 0.056 | The State (Columbia, SC) |
| Half Sigma | 872 | 0.055 | The News Tribune (Tacoma, WA) |
| The Conglomerate | 851 | 0.053 | Times Union (Albany, NY) |
| Roth and Co. | 844 | 0.053 | La Opinion (Los Angeles, CA) |
| Long or Short Capital | 833 | 0.052 | La Opinion (Los Angeles, CA) |
| Agoraphilia | 821 | 0.051 | La Opinion (Los Angeles, CA) |
| Indian Economy | 811 | 0.051 | Republican (Springfield, MA) |
| Fistful of Euros | 748 | 0.047 | Mobile Register (Mobile, AL) |
| Truck and Barter | 709 | 0.044 | Daily Press (Newport News, VA) |
| Macroblog | 642 | 0.040 | Journal (Flint, MI) |
| Window Manager | 633 | 0.040 | El Nuevo Herald (Miami, FL) |
| Fat Pitch Financials | 604 | 0.038 | South Bend Tribune (South Bend, IN) |
| Billboardom | 471 | 0.030 | New Hampshire Sunday News (Manchester, NH) |
| Jacqueline Passey | 460 | 0.029 | San Bernardino Sun (San Bernardino, CA) |
| EclectEcon | 436 | 0.027 | Quad-City Times (Davenport, IA) |
| Statistical Modeling | 427 | 0.027 | Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, CA) |
| Triple Pundit | 408 | 0.026 | Duluth News-Tribune (Duluth, MN) |
| Entrepreneurial Mind | 394 | 0.025 | Sun News (Myrtle Beach, SC) |
| Sports Economist | 374 | 0.023 | Desert Sun (Palm Springs, CA) |
| Capital Spectator | 365 | 0.023 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Business of America is Business | 353 | 0.022 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Knowledge Problem | 348 | 0.022 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Newmark's Door | 313 | 0.020 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Andrew Leigh | 295 | 0.019 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| SCSU Scholars | 289 | 0.018 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Vox Baby | 287 | 0.018 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Environmental and Urban Economics | 262 | 0.016 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Emirates Economist | 219 | 0.014 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Carpe Diem | 190 | 0.012 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Core Economics | 190 | 0.012 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| ArgMax | 182 | 0.011 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Market Power | 179 | 0.011 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Accidental Verbosity | 177 | 0.011 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Deinonychus Antirrhopus | 164 | 0.010 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| EconoPundit | 137 | 0.009 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Global Economy Matters | 137 | 0.009 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Prestopundit | 134 | 0.008 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Ajay Shah | 128 | 0.008 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Constrained Vision | 125 | 0.008 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Financial Rounds | 125 | 0.008 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Development Bank Research Bulletin | 107 | 0.007 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Adam Smith's Lost Legacy | 98 | 0.006 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| General Glut | 98 | 0.006 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Economic Dreams, Economic Nightmares | 92 | 0.006 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Let's Fly Under the Bridge | 89 | 0.006 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Cold Spring Shops | 86 | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Different River | 86 | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Labor Blog | 86 | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Globalisation and the Environment | 78 | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Ecological Economics | 68 | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Egoist | 67 | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Alpha Sources | 65 | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Alea | 64 | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Heavy Lifting | 60 | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Trade Diversion | 57 | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Sybil's Star | 53 | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Oikos | 50 | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Hypothetical Bias | 48 | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Ashish's Niti | 43 | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Italian Economy Watch | 37 | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Businomics | 33 | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development | 31 | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Visualizing Economics | 28 | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Urban Economics and More | 23 | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| James D. Miller | 18 | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Card-Carrying Member | 17 | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Economics, Markets, and Probabilities | 17 | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| One-Handed Economist | 15 | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Go Figure | 8 | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Research Design and Statistics | 8 | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Byrne's Marketview | 6 | 0.000 | (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) |
| The Lowest Deep | 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):