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Brian Gongol

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The data here are generally from April 1 to April 30, 2011, as collected on May 15, 2011

Traffic ratings from May 15, 2011 - by average daily pageviews

Rank	Site	Page Views	Change	Pageview Ratio	...making this the ___ of business/econ websites:
1	Calculated Risk	62814		100.00%	USA Today
2	Big Picture	59917		95.39%	Wall Street Journal
3	Michael Shedlock	47924		76.30%	New York Times
4	Naked Capitalism	43149		68.69%	New York Times
5	Marginal Revolution	34961		55.66%	New York Times
6	Economist's View	16327		25.99%	Chicago Tribune
7	Gregory Mankiw	14854		23.65%	Chicago Tribune
8	Gonzalo Lira	13760		21.91%	Houston Chronicle
9	VoxEU	12318		19.61%	Houston Chronicle
10	Tax Prof	8923		14.21%	Boston Globe
11	Triple Pundit	8723		13.89%	Newark Star-Ledger
12	Gongol	8718		13.88%	Newark Star-Ledger
13	Carpe Diem	7073		11.26%	Sacramento Bee
14	Tim Worstall	6014		9.57%	Baltimore Sun
15	QandO	5352		8.52%	Columbus Dispatch
16	Baseline Scenario	5277		8.40%	Tampa Tribune
17	Visualizing Economics	4816		7.67%	New Orleans Times-Picayune
18	Half Sigma	4485		7.14%	Richmond Times-Dispatch
19	Overcoming Bias	4383		6.98%	Raleigh News & Observer
20	Angry Economist	3777		6.01%	Des Moines Register
21	Carl Futia	3567		5.68%	Los Angeles Daily News
22	Angry Bear	3553		5.66%	Los Angeles Daily News
23	Coyote Blog	3328		5.30%	Salt Lake City Tribune
24	Financial Armageddon	2902		4.62%	Albuquerque Journal
25	Ekonomi Turk (Turkish)	2867		4.56%	Albuquerque Journal
26	Economic Edge	2252		3.59%	Washington Times
27	EconBrowser	2201		3.50%	Worcester Telegram & Gazette
28	Economic Populist	2069		3.29%	Greenville News
29	Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance	1976		3.15%	Santa Rosa Press Democrat
30	John Lott	1870		2.98%	Chattanooga Times Free Press
31	Atanu Dey	1759		2.80%	Los Angeles County Breeze
32	Random Roger's Big Picture	1638		2.61%	Merrillville Post-Tribune
33	Environmental Economics (Haab and Whitehead)	1561		2.49%	Cedar Rapids Gazette
34	Calafia Beach Pundit	1499		2.39%	Rockford Register Star
35	Wages of Wins	1434		2.28%	Christian Science Monitor
36	Trader's Narrative	1400		2.23%	Green Bay Press-Gazette
37	The Conglomerate	1387		2.21%	Waterbury Republican-American
38	Fistful of Euros	1219		1.94%	Sioux Falls Argus Leader
39	Political Calculations	1180		1.88%	Beaumont Enterprise
40	Bonddad Blog	1115		1.78%	Muskegon Chronicle
41	Roth and Co.	1112		1.77%	Muskegon Chronicle
42	Willisms	1102		1.75%	Montgomery Advertiser
43	Fat Pitch Financials	970		1.54%	Waco Tribune-Herald
44	Antitrust and Competition Policy	967		1.54%	Waco Tribune-Herald
45	Economic Perspectives from Kansas City	919		1.46%	Victoria Advocate
46	Art Diamond	859		1.37%	La Crosse Tribune
47	Taking Hayek Seriously	848		1.35%	Great Falls Tribune
48	Newmark's Door	816		1.30%	Muncie Star/Press
49	Entrepreneurial Mind	794		1.26%	Racine Journal Times
50	Market Solution (Serbian)	770		1.23%	Racine Journal Times
51	Dash of Insight	667		1.06%	Fort Wayne News-Sentinel
52	Tintero Economico Diario (Spanish)	498		0.79%	Attleboro Sun Chronicle
53	Distributed Republic	487		0.78%	Attleboro Sun Chronicle
54	Economicrot	486		0.77%	Attleboro Sun Chronicle
55	New Economist	480		0.76%	Attleboro Sun Chronicle
56	Economista Serial Cronico	459		0.73%	Fort Dodge Messenger
57	True Economics	432		0.69%	Orangeburg Times and Democrat
58	Econospeak	430		0.68%	Orangeburg Times and Democrat
59	Financial Rounds	424		0.68%	Orangeburg Times and Democrat
60	Aguanomics	397		0.63%	Chillicothe Gazette
61	Ajay Shah	385		0.61%	Chillicothe Gazette
62	Paper Economy	365		0.58%	Chillicothe Gazette
63	Billboardom	349		0.56%	Chillicothe Gazette
64	EclectEcon	342		0.54%	Chillicothe Gazette
65	Mess that Greenspan Made	336		0.53%	Marietta Times
66	Market Urbanism	333		0.53%	Marietta Times
67	Environmental and Urban Economics	322		0.51%	Marietta Times
68	Economics Junkie	322		0.51%	Marietta Times
69	Long or Short Capital	321		0.51%	Marietta Times
70	Illusion of Prosperity	319		0.51%	Marietta Times
71	Justin Wehr	312		0.50%	Marietta Times
72	Economic Disconnect	291		0.46%	Marietta Times
73	Market Power	262		0.42%	Gettysburg Times
74	Accrued Interest	259		0.41%	Gettysburg Times
75	N. Emrah Aydinonat	253		0.40%	Gettysburg Times
76	IPE at UNC	253		0.40%	Gettysburg Times
77	Emirates Economist	249		0.40%	Gettysburg Times
78	Oregon Economics	243		0.39%	Lake City Reporter
79	Knowing and Making	242		0.39%	Lake City Reporter
80	Global Economy Matters	241		0.38%	Lake City Reporter
81	Adam Smith's Lost Legacy	236		0.38%	Lake City Reporter
82	When Giants Fall	234		0.37%	Emporia Gazette
83	Blogo Existo (Portuguese)	222		0.35%	Emporia Gazette
84	The Visible Hand in Economics	216		0.34%	Emporia Gazette
85	Supply and Demand (In That Order)	213		0.34%	Emporia Gazette
86	Trade and Me (Spanish)	194		0.31%	Emporia Gazette
87	Egoist	191		0.30%	Emporia Gazette
88	Globalisation and the Environment	185		0.29%	Emporia Gazette
89	Businomics	179		0.28%	Chippewa Falls Herald
90	Truck and Barter	178		0.28%	Chippewa Falls Herald
91	Mad Money Machine	158		0.25%	Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum
92	Bayesian Heresy	156		0.25%	Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum
93	Cold Spring Shops	142		0.23%	Hudson Register-Star
94	Alpha Sources	142		0.23%	Hudson Register-Star
95	VoluntaryXchange	136		0.22%	Port Clinton News Herald
96	Buyer Behaviour	119		0.19%	Baraboo News Republic
97	Capital Spectator	116		0.18%	Orange Leader
98	Asymmetrical Information	105		0.17%	Barstow Desert Dispatch
99	MV=PQ	103		0.16%	Oklahoma City Journal Record
100	Management R&D	91		0.14%	Webster City Freeman-Journal
101	Italian Economy Watch	84		0.13%	Webster City Freeman-Journal
102	Trade Diversion	82		0.13%	Webster City Freeman-Journal
103	Moonballs from Planet Earth	71		0.11%	Medina Journal-Register
104	Business of America is Business	66		0.11%	Medina Journal-Register
105	Blue Matter	63		0.10%	Jefferson City News Tribune
106	John Barrdear	63		0.10%	Jefferson City News Tribune
107	Heavy Lifting	57		0.09%	Jefferson City News Tribune
108	Labour and Capital	56		0.09%	Jefferson City News Tribune
109	Common Tragedies	49		0.08%	Jefferson City News Tribune
110	Development Bank Research Bulletin	49		0.08%	Jefferson City News Tribune
111	Ecological Economics	44		0.07%	Jefferson City News Tribune
112	Economic Dreams, Economic Nightmares	42		0.07%	Jefferson City News Tribune
113	Sybil's Star	41		0.07%	Jefferson City News Tribune
114	Beyond Economics	38		0.06%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
115	L'Estable	36		0.06%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
116	Blog of Diminishing Returns	35		0.06%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
117	Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development	32		0.05%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
118	EconWeekly	30		0.05%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
119	Vox Baby	29		0.05%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
120	Good News Economist	28		0.04%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
121	Window Manager	26		0.04%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
122	Oikos	25		0.04%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
123	Deflationite	23		0.04%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
124	SCSU Scholars	23		0.04%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
125	Anecdotal Economics	21		0.03%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
126	Futronomics	16		0.03%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
127	Three Chemists and a Bean-Counter	14		0.02%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
128	Age of Abundance	13		0.02%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
129	Labor Blog	12		0.02%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
130	Libertarianism from A to Z	10		0.02%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
131	Latin America and Brazil	10		0.02%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
132	Accidental Verbosity	9		0.01%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
133	Willem Buiter	6		0.01%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
134	Liberal Capitalist Party	6		0.01%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
135	European Tribune	4		0.01%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
136	Urban Economics and More	3		0.00%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
137	General Glut	3		0.00%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
138	MacroMouse	3		0.00%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
139	Escape from Cubicle Nation	2		0.00%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
140	Carnival of the Capitalists	1		0.00%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
141	Environmental Valuation and Cost-Benefit News	1		0.00%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
142	Card-Carrying Member	1		0.00%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
143	Trader Mike	1		0.00%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
144	Market Ticker	1		0.00%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
145	Hypothetical Bias	1		0.00%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers

Traffic ratings from May 15, 2011 - by average daily visits

Rank	Site	Visits	Change	Visit Ratio	...making this the ___ of business/econ websites:
1	Big Picture	48072		100.00%	USA Today
2	Calculated Risk	38588		80.27%	New York Times
3	Michael Shedlock	37560		78.13%	New York Times
4	Naked Capitalism	25434		52.91%	New York Times
5	Marginal Revolution	25017		52.04%	New York Times
6	Gregory Mankiw	10808		22.48%	Houston Chronicle
7	Economist's View	10348		21.53%	Houston Chronicle
8	Gonzalo Lira	7167		14.91%	San Francisco Chronicle
9	VoxEU	7090		14.75%	Boston Globe
10	Tax Prof	6689		13.91%	Newark Star-Ledger
11	Triple Pundit	6236		12.97%	Portland Oregonian
12	Carpe Diem	5316		11.06%	Sacramento Bee
13	Tim Worstall	4453		9.26%	Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
14	QandO	4192		8.72%	Seattle Times
15	Baseline Scenario	3984		8.29%	Tampa Tribune
16	Half Sigma	3018		6.28%	Rochester Democrat & Chronicle
17	Carl Futia	2931		6.10%	Fresno Bee
18	Overcoming Bias	2785		5.79%	Providence Journal
19	Visualizing Economics	2692		5.60%	Jacksonville Times-Union
20	Financial Armageddon	2420		5.03%	Toledo Blade
21	Gongol	2350		4.89%	Knoxville News Sentinel
22	Angry Bear	2330		4.85%	Akron Beacon Journal
23	Coyote Blog	2262		4.71%	Syracuse Post-Standard
24	EconBrowser	1652		3.44%	Long Beach Press-Telegram
25	Ekonomi Turk (Turkish)	1642		3.42%	Long Beach Press-Telegram
26	Economic Edge	1435		2.99%	Fort Myers News-Press
27	Economic Populist	1420		2.95%	Portland Press Herald
28	Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance	1292		2.69%	Ogden Standard-Examiner
29	John Lott	1289		2.68%	Ogden Standard-Examiner
30	The Conglomerate	1119		2.33%	Trenton Times
31	Calafia Beach Pundit	1107		2.30%	Bucks County Courier Times
32	Angry Economist	1064		2.21%	Waterbury Republican-American
33	Wages of Wins	1056		2.20%	Fargo Forum
34	Environmental Economics (Haab and Whitehead)	1039		2.16%	Wilkes-Barre Times-Shamrock
35	Random Roger's Big Picture	1027		2.14%	Appleton Post Crescent
36	Fistful of Euros	881		1.83%	Biloxi-Gulfport Sun Herald
37	Bonddad Blog	878		1.83%	Biloxi-Gulfport Sun Herald
38	Political Calculations	843		1.75%	Montgomery Advertiser
39	Becker-Posner	836		1.74%	Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier
40	Willisms	771		1.60%	Waco Tribune-Herald
41	Atanu Dey	770		1.60%	Waco Tribune-Herald
42	Fat Pitch Financials	759		1.58%	Waco Tribune-Herald
43	Roth and Co.	716		1.49%	Tyler Morning Telegraph
44	Entrepreneurial Mind	668		1.39%	La Crosse Tribune
45	Trader's Narrative	666		1.39%	La Crosse Tribune
46	Economic Perspectives from Kansas City	633		1.32%	Great Falls Tribune
47	Art Diamond	633		1.32%	Great Falls Tribune
48	Antitrust and Competition Policy	597		1.24%	Racine Journal Times
49	Taking Hayek Seriously	534		1.11%	Fort Collins Coloradoan
50	Dash of Insight	523		1.09%	Eau Claire Leader-Telegram
51	Newmark's Door	520		1.08%	Eau Claire Leader-Telegram
52	Market Solution (Serbian)	473		0.98%	Bowling Green Daily News
53	Sports Economist	397		0.83%	Burlington Hawk Eye
54	Economicrot	367		0.76%	Attleboro Sun Chronicle
55	Distributed Republic	366		0.76%	Attleboro Sun Chronicle
56	Virginia Postrel	359		0.75%	Fort Dodge Messenger
57	New Economist	346		0.72%	Fort Dodge Messenger
58	Tintero Economico Diario (Spanish)	335		0.70%	Fort Dodge Messenger
59	True Economics	332		0.69%	Orangeburg Times and Democrat
60	Econospeak	325		0.68%	Orangeburg Times and Democrat
61	Economista Serial Cronico	321		0.67%	Orangeburg Times and Democrat
62	Financial Rounds	307		0.64%	Chillicothe Gazette
63	Paper Economy	272		0.57%	Chillicothe Gazette
64	Ajay Shah	258		0.54%	Chillicothe Gazette
65	Aguanomics	257		0.53%	Marietta Times
66	Environmental and Urban Economics	247		0.51%	Marietta Times
67	EclectEcon	240		0.50%	Marietta Times
68	Mess that Greenspan Made	232		0.48%	Marietta Times
69	Illusion of Prosperity	229		0.48%	Marietta Times
70	Accrued Interest	229		0.48%	Marietta Times
71	Billboardom	208		0.43%	Gettysburg Times
72	Justin Wehr	207		0.43%	Gettysburg Times
73	Market Urbanism	206		0.43%	Gettysburg Times
74	Economic Disconnect	206		0.43%	Gettysburg Times
75	Economics Junkie	205		0.43%	Gettysburg Times
76	Knowing and Making	205		0.43%	Gettysburg Times
77	Emirates Economist	196		0.41%	Gettysburg Times
78	Long or Short Capital	187		0.39%	Lake City Reporter
79	Oregon Economics	184		0.38%	Lake City Reporter
80	Market Power	181		0.38%	Lake City Reporter
81	When Giants Fall	180		0.37%	Emporia Gazette
82	IPE at UNC	177		0.37%	Emporia Gazette
83	Blogo Existo (Portuguese)	177		0.37%	Emporia Gazette
84	Global Economy Matters	176		0.37%	Emporia Gazette
85	The Visible Hand in Economics	175		0.36%	Emporia Gazette
86	N. Emrah Aydinonat	168		0.35%	Emporia Gazette
87	Adam Smith's Lost Legacy	168		0.35%	Emporia Gazette
88	Supply and Demand (In That Order)	155		0.32%	Emporia Gazette
89	Egoist	151		0.31%	Emporia Gazette
90	Trade and Me (Spanish)	147		0.31%	Emporia Gazette
91	Globalisation and the Environment	143		0.30%	Emporia Gazette
92	Businomics	127		0.26%	Tulare Advance-Register
93	Bayesian Heresy	112		0.23%	Hudson Register-Star
94	Truck and Barter	108		0.22%	Port Clinton News Herald
95	VoluntaryXchange	108		0.22%	Port Clinton News Herald
96	Sustainability in Hawaii	107		0.22%	Port Clinton News Herald
97	Cold Spring Shops	99		0.21%	Port Clinton News Herald
98	Capital Spectator	98		0.20%	Port Clinton News Herald
99	Mad Money Machine	95		0.20%	Port Clinton News Herald
100	Alpha Sources	93		0.19%	Baraboo News Republic
101	Buyer Behaviour	93		0.19%	Baraboo News Republic
102	Asymmetrical Information	81		0.17%	Barstow Desert Dispatch
103	MV=PQ	63		0.13%	Webster City Freeman-Journal
104	Management R&D	62		0.13%	Webster City Freeman-Journal
105	Trade Diversion	60		0.12%	Webster City Freeman-Journal
106	Italian Economy Watch	59		0.12%	Webster City Freeman-Journal
107	Blue Matter	53		0.11%	Medina Journal-Register
108	Moonballs from Planet Earth	51		0.11%	Medina Journal-Register
109	Heavy Lifting	48		0.10%	Jefferson City News Tribune
110	John Barrdear	47		0.10%	Jefferson City News Tribune
111	Common Tragedies	43		0.09%	Jefferson City News Tribune
112	Labour and Capital	40		0.08%	Jefferson City News Tribune
113	Development Bank Research Bulletin	39		0.08%	Jefferson City News Tribune
114	Undergraduate Economist	35		0.07%	Jefferson City News Tribune
115	Ecological Economics	34		0.07%	Jefferson City News Tribune
116	Sybil's Star	32		0.07%	Jefferson City News Tribune
117	L'Estable	30		0.06%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
118	Economic Dreams, Economic Nightmares	29		0.06%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
119	Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development	27		0.06%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
120	Blog of Diminishing Returns	25		0.05%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
121	Business of America is Business	24		0.05%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
122	EconWeekly	24		0.05%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
123	Window Manager	24		0.05%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
124	Beyond Economics	21		0.04%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
125	Vox Baby	20		0.04%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
126	Oikos	20		0.04%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
127	Deflationite	20		0.04%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
128	Good News Economist	19		0.04%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
129	Anecdotal Economics	16		0.03%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
130	SCSU Scholars	14		0.03%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
131	Futronomics	13		0.03%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
132	Latin America and Brazil	10		0.02%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
133	Labor Blog	9		0.02%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
134	Libertarianism from A to Z	8		0.02%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
135	Accidental Verbosity	8		0.02%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
136	Three Chemists and a Bean-Counter	7		0.01%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
137	Age of Abundance	7		0.01%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
138	Willem Buiter	4		0.01%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
139	Liberal Capitalist Party	4		0.01%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
140	European Tribune	4		0.01%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
141	Urban Economics and More	3		0.01%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
142	General Glut	2		0.00%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
143	MacroMouse	2		0.00%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
144	Escape from Cubicle Nation	2		0.00%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
145	Carnival of the Capitalists	1		0.00%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
146	Environmental Valuation and Cost-Benefit News	1		0.00%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
147	Card-Carrying Member	1		0.00%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
148	Trader Mike	1		0.00%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
149	Market Ticker	1		0.00%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
150	Hypothetical Bias	1		0.00%	below threshold for top 750 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):