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Brian Gongol

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The data here are generally from January 1 to January 31, 2012, as collected on February 15, 2012

Traffic ratings from February 15, 2012 - by average daily pageviews

Rank	Site	Page Views	Change	Pageview Ratio	...making this the ___ of business/econ websites:
1	Big Picture	65453		100.00%	USA Today
2	Naked Capitalism	65100		99.46%	Wall Street Journal
3	Michael Shedlock	59061		90.23%	Wall Street Journal
4	Marginal Revolution	44852		68.53%	New York Times
5	Economist's View	26511		40.50%	Los Angeles Times
6	VoxEU	18038		27.56%	New York Post
7	Gregory Mankiw	15035		22.97%	Chicago Tribune
8	Triple Pundit	11879		18.15%	Long Island Newsday
9	Carpe Diem	11210		17.13%	Long Island Newsday
10	Tax Prof	9096		13.90%	Newark Star-Ledger
11	Gongol	6099		9.32%	Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
12	Baseline Scenario	5927		9.06%	San Antonio Express-News
13	Half Sigma	5819		8.89%	Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
14	Gonzalo Lira	4457		6.81%	Austin American-Statesman
15	Economic Perspectives from Kansas City	4329		6.61%	Austin American-Statesman
16	Overcoming Bias	4324		6.61%	Austin American-Statesman
17	Angry Bear	4238		6.47%	Memphis Commercial Appeal
18	Coyote Blog	4132		6.31%	Rochester Democrat & Chronicle
19	Tim Worstall	3409		5.21%	Seattle Post-Intelligencer
20	Stephen Bainbridge	3384		5.17%	Seattle Post-Intelligencer
21	Financial Armageddon	3369		5.15%	Seattle Post-Intelligencer
22	Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance	3003		4.59%	Albuquerque Journal
23	Visualizing Economics	2708		4.14%	Tucson Daily Star
24	QandO	2694		4.12%	Tucson Daily Star
25	Carl Futia	2441		3.73%	Sarasota Herald-Tribune
26	Angry Economist	2270		3.47%	Worcester Telegram & Gazette
27	Calafia Beach Pundit	2148		3.28%	Greenville News
28	Ekonomi Turk (Turkish)	2140		3.27%	Modesto Bee
29	Political Calculations	1938		2.96%	Portland Press Herald
30	Bonddad Blog	1919		2.93%	Portland Press Herald
31	EconBrowser	1903		2.91%	Portland Press Herald
32	Economic Populist	1833		2.80%	Los Angeles County Breeze
33	Economic Edge	1457		2.23%	Green Bay Press-Gazette
34	Roth and Co.	1393		2.13%	Springfield State Journal-Register
35	Environmental Economics (Haab and Whitehead)	1381		2.11%	Cape Cod Times
36	John Lott	1292		1.97%	Ann Arbor News
37	Random Roger's Big Picture	1249		1.91%	North Andover Eagle-Tribune
38	The Conglomerate	1232		1.88%	Beaumont Enterprise
39	Dash of Insight	1066		1.63%	Charlotte County Sun
40	Atanu Dey	1047		1.60%	Waco Tribune-Herald
41	True Economics	989		1.51%	Tyler Morning Telegraph
42	Fat Pitch Financials	928		1.42%	Victoria Advocate
43	Antitrust and Competition Policy	898		1.37%	La Crosse Tribune
44	Newmark's Door	872		1.33%	Great Falls Tribune
45	Tintero Economico Diario (Spanish)	805		1.23%	Racine Journal Times
46	Art Diamond	792		1.21%	Chico Enterprise-Record
47	Economic Disconnect	749		1.14%	Fort Collins Coloradoan
48	Econospeak	741		1.13%	Fort Collins Coloradoan
49	Trader's Narrative	723		1.10%	Fort Collins Coloradoan
50	Ajay Shah	704		1.08%	Eau Claire Leader-Telegram
51	Aguanomics	688		1.05%	Fort Wayne News-Sentinel
52	Willisms	648		0.99%	Fort Wayne News-Sentinel
53	Market Solution (Serbian)	599		0.92%	Bowling Green Daily News
54	Taking Hayek Seriously	554		0.85%	Burlington Hawk Eye
55	Economics Junkie	502		0.77%	Attleboro Sun Chronicle
56	Distributed Republic	472		0.72%	Fort Dodge Messenger
57	Adam Smith's Lost Legacy	405		0.62%	Chillicothe Gazette
58	New Economist	372		0.57%	Chillicothe Gazette
59	EclectEcon	360		0.55%	Chillicothe Gazette
60	Entrepreneurial Mind	337		0.51%	Marietta Times
61	Justin Wehr	318		0.49%	Marietta Times
62	Environmental and Urban Economics	315		0.48%	Marietta Times
63	Mess that Greenspan Made	309		0.47%	Marietta Times
64	Paper Economy	284		0.43%	Gettysburg Times
65	Economista Serial Cronico	275		0.42%	Gettysburg Times
66	Billboardom	253		0.39%	Lake City Reporter
67	Illusion of Prosperity	252		0.39%	Lake City Reporter
68	Long or Short Capital	252		0.39%	Lake City Reporter
69	Accrued Interest	248		0.38%	Lake City Reporter
70	Egoist	243		0.37%	Emporia Gazette
71	Financial Rounds	233		0.36%	Emporia Gazette
72	Bayesian Heresy	231		0.35%	Emporia Gazette
73	Market Power	230		0.35%	Emporia Gazette
74	Blogo Existo (Portuguese)	225		0.34%	Emporia Gazette
75	Businomics	219		0.33%	Emporia Gazette
76	Oregon Economics	214		0.33%	Emporia Gazette
77	N. Emrah Aydinonat	206		0.31%	Emporia Gazette
78	Market Urbanism	200		0.31%	Emporia Gazette
79	Mad Money Machine	195		0.30%	Emporia Gazette
80	Supply and Demand (In That Order)	192		0.29%	Emporia Gazette
81	Cold Spring Shops	174		0.27%	Tulare Advance-Register
82	VoluntaryXchange	159		0.24%	Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum
83	Buyer Behaviour	149		0.23%	Hudson Register-Star
84	Globalisation and the Environment	144		0.22%	Port Clinton News Herald
85	Global Economy Matters	143		0.22%	Port Clinton News Herald
86	Truck and Barter	143		0.22%	Port Clinton News Herald
87	Capital Spectator	137		0.21%	Port Clinton News Herald
88	Management R&D	137		0.21%	Port Clinton News Herald
89	Trade and Me (Spanish)	133		0.20%	Port Clinton News Herald
90	Knowing and Making	122		0.19%	Baraboo News Republic
91	Emirates Economist	113		0.17%	Barstow Desert Dispatch
92	Moonballs from Planet Earth	110		0.17%	Barstow Desert Dispatch
93	Asymmetrical Information	108		0.17%	Barstow Desert Dispatch
94	IPE at UNC	103		0.16%	Oklahoma City Journal Record
95	Economicrot	100		0.15%	Dedham Daily News Transcript
96	Italian Economy Watch	100		0.15%	Dedham Daily News Transcript
97	MV=PQ	90		0.14%	Webster City Freeman-Journal
98	When Giants Fall	83		0.13%	Webster City Freeman-Journal
99	Blue Matter	77		0.12%	Webster City Freeman-Journal
100	The Visible Hand in Economics	71		0.11%	Medina Journal-Register
101	Alpha Sources	71		0.11%	Medina Journal-Register
102	Business of America is Business	71		0.11%	Medina Journal-Register
103	Common Tragedies	66		0.10%	Jefferson City News Tribune
104	Heavy Lifting	64		0.10%	Jefferson City News Tribune
105	Labour and Capital	61		0.09%	Jefferson City News Tribune
106	EconWeekly	53		0.08%	Jefferson City News Tribune
107	Trade Diversion	46		0.07%	Jefferson City News Tribune
108	John Barrdear	45		0.07%	Jefferson City News Tribune
109	Sybil's Star	43		0.07%	Jefferson City News Tribune
110	Blog of Diminishing Returns	42		0.06%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
111	Economic Dreams, Economic Nightmares	36		0.06%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
112	Deflationite	36		0.06%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
113	Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development	35		0.05%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
114	Development Bank Research Bulletin	34		0.05%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
115	Beyond Economics	34		0.05%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
116	L'Estable	32		0.05%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
117	Ecological Economics	32		0.05%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
118	Accidental Verbosity	25		0.04%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
119	Vox Baby	22		0.03%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
120	Labor Blog	21		0.03%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
121	Age of Abundance	20		0.03%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
122	Good News Economist	18		0.03%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
123	Oikos	18		0.03%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
124	Libertarianism from A to Z	16		0.02%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
125	Urban Economics and More	15		0.02%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
126	Fistful of Euros	14		0.02%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
127	Three Chemists and a Bean-Counter	13		0.02%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
128	Latin America and Brazil	12		0.02%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
129	Futronomics	8		0.01%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
130	MacroMouse	8		0.01%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
131	Willem Buiter	7		0.01%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
132	Escape from Cubicle Nation	5		0.01%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
133	SCSU Scholars	5		0.01%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
134	European Tribune	4		0.01%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
135	Window Manager	3		0.00%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
136	General Glut	3		0.00%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
137	Liberal Capitalist Party	2		0.00%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
138	Carnival of the Capitalists	2		0.00%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
139	Card-Carrying Member	2		0.00%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
140	Market Ticker	1		0.00%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers

Traffic ratings from February 15, 2012 - by average daily visits

Rank	Site	Visits	Change	Visit Ratio	...making this the ___ of business/econ websites:
1	Big Picture	54071		100.00%	USA Today
2	Michael Shedlock	44594		82.47%	New York Times
3	Naked Capitalism	41565		76.87%	New York Times
4	Marginal Revolution	32544		60.19%	New York Times
5	Economist's View	17057		31.55%	New York Daily News
6	VoxEU	11080		20.49%	Houston Chronicle
7	Gregory Mankiw	10414		19.26%	Long Island Newsday
8	Triple Pundit	8068		14.92%	San Francisco Chronicle
9	Carpe Diem	7969		14.74%	Boston Globe
10	Tax Prof	6791		12.56%	Portland Oregonian
11	Baseline Scenario	4499		8.32%	Tampa Tribune
12	Half Sigma	3621		6.70%	Austin American-Statesman
13	Overcoming Bias	2887		5.34%	Salt Lake City Tribune
14	Gongol	2855		5.28%	Salt Lake City Tribune
15	Financial Armageddon	2848		5.27%	Salt Lake City Tribune
16	Stephen Bainbridge	2828		5.23%	Seattle Post-Intelligencer
17	Angry Bear	2614		4.83%	Tulsa World
18	Coyote Blog	2525		4.67%	Tacoma News Tribune
19	Economic Perspectives from Kansas City	2485		4.60%	Albuquerque Journal
20	Gonzalo Lira	2420		4.48%	Albuquerque Journal
21	Tim Worstall	1957		3.62%	Washington Times
22	Carl Futia	1955		3.62%	Washington Times
23	Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance	1847		3.42%	Long Beach Press-Telegram
24	QandO	1723		3.19%	Flint Journal
25	Calafia Beach Pundit	1660		3.07%	New Haven Register
26	Ekonomi Turk (Turkish)	1524		2.82%	Evansville Courier & Press
27	Visualizing Economics	1479		2.74%	Canton Repository
28	Economic Populist	1404		2.60%	Merrillville Post-Tribune
29	EconBrowser	1389		2.57%	Fayetteville Observer
30	Bonddad Blog	1363		2.52%	Cedar Rapids Gazette
31	Political Calculations	1312		2.43%	Stockton Record
32	John Lott	979		1.81%	Palm Springs Desert Sun
33	Environmental Economics (Haab and Whitehead)	905		1.67%	Fort Smith Southwest Times Record
34	Roth and Co.	893		1.65%	Saginaw News
35	Angry Economist	866		1.60%	Waco Tribune-Herald
36	Economic Edge	848		1.57%	Waco Tribune-Herald
37	True Economics	813		1.50%	Tyler Morning Telegraph
38	Becker-Posner	801		1.48%	Tyler Morning Telegraph
39	Dash of Insight	780		1.44%	Victoria Advocate
40	The Conglomerate	757		1.40%	La Crosse Tribune
41	Fat Pitch Financials	752		1.39%	La Crosse Tribune
42	Random Roger's Big Picture	728		1.35%	Great Falls Tribune
43	Atanu Dey	563		1.04%	Fort Wayne News-Sentinel
44	Newmark's Door	543		1.00%	Fort Wayne News-Sentinel
45	Econospeak	543		1.00%	Fort Wayne News-Sentinel
46	Antitrust and Competition Policy	539		1.00%	Fort Wayne News-Sentinel
47	Art Diamond	526		0.97%	Bowling Green Daily News
48	Economic Disconnect	513		0.95%	Bowling Green Daily News
49	Tintero Economico Diario (Spanish)	507		0.94%	Bowling Green Daily News
50	Trader's Narrative	473		0.87%	Burlington Hawk Eye
51	Ajay Shah	448		0.83%	Burlington Hawk Eye
52	Willisms	422		0.78%	Attleboro Sun Chronicle
53	Aguanomics	420		0.78%	Attleboro Sun Chronicle
54	Market Solution (Serbian)	396		0.73%	Fort Dodge Messenger
55	Economics Junkie	372		0.69%	Orangeburg Times and Democrat
56	Sports Economist	361		0.67%	Orangeburg Times and Democrat
57	Distributed Republic	341		0.63%	Chillicothe Gazette
58	Virginia Postrel	318		0.59%	Chillicothe Gazette
59	Taking Hayek Seriously	307		0.57%	Chillicothe Gazette
60	Adam Smith's Lost Legacy	305		0.56%	Chillicothe Gazette
61	Entrepreneurial Mind	279		0.52%	Marietta Times
62	New Economist	277		0.51%	Marietta Times
63	EclectEcon	260		0.48%	Marietta Times
64	Environmental and Urban Economics	221		0.41%	Gettysburg Times
65	Accrued Interest	219		0.41%	Gettysburg Times
66	Mess that Greenspan Made	209		0.39%	Lake City Reporter
67	Justin Wehr	208		0.38%	Lake City Reporter
68	Economista Serial Cronico	208		0.38%	Lake City Reporter
69	Paper Economy	191		0.35%	Emporia Gazette
70	Financial Rounds	191		0.35%	Emporia Gazette
71	Illusion of Prosperity	181		0.33%	Emporia Gazette
72	Egoist	181		0.33%	Emporia Gazette
73	Market Power	176		0.33%	Emporia Gazette
74	Businomics	159		0.29%	Emporia Gazette
75	Oregon Economics	156		0.29%	Emporia Gazette
76	Blogo Existo (Portuguese)	149		0.28%	Chippewa Falls Herald
77	Supply and Demand (In That Order)	149		0.28%	Chippewa Falls Herald
78	Billboardom	144		0.27%	Tulare Advance-Register
79	Market Urbanism	138		0.26%	Tulare Advance-Register
80	Bayesian Heresy	136		0.25%	Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum
81	Long or Short Capital	133		0.25%	Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum
82	VoluntaryXchange	128		0.24%	Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum
83	Capital Spectator	120		0.22%	Port Clinton News Herald
84	Mad Money Machine	114		0.21%	Port Clinton News Herald
85	Sustainability in Hawaii	108		0.20%	Port Clinton News Herald
86	Globalisation and the Environment	107		0.20%	Port Clinton News Herald
87	N. Emrah Aydinonat	102		0.19%	Baraboo News Republic
88	Cold Spring Shops	99		0.18%	Orange Leader
89	Buyer Behaviour	99		0.18%	Orange Leader
90	Global Economy Matters	98		0.18%	Orange Leader
91	Truck and Barter	87		0.16%	Oklahoma City Journal Record
92	Emirates Economist	86		0.16%	Oklahoma City Journal Record
93	Trade and Me (Spanish)	85		0.16%	Oklahoma City Journal Record
94	Italian Economy Watch	83		0.15%	Dedham Daily News Transcript
95	Economicrot	82		0.15%	Dedham Daily News Transcript
96	Management R&D	79		0.15%	Dedham Daily News Transcript
97	Moonballs from Planet Earth	72		0.13%	Webster City Freeman-Journal
98	Asymmetrical Information	72		0.13%	Webster City Freeman-Journal
99	Knowing and Making	67		0.12%	Webster City Freeman-Journal
100	IPE at UNC	65		0.12%	Webster City Freeman-Journal
101	The Visible Hand in Economics	63		0.12%	Webster City Freeman-Journal
102	MV=PQ	56		0.10%	Jefferson City News Tribune
103	Blue Matter	56		0.10%	Jefferson City News Tribune
104	When Giants Fall	55		0.10%	Jefferson City News Tribune
105	Heavy Lifting	50		0.09%	Jefferson City News Tribune
106	Undergraduate Economist	50		0.09%	Jefferson City News Tribune
107	Common Tragedies	49		0.09%	Jefferson City News Tribune
108	Alpha Sources	48		0.09%	Jefferson City News Tribune
109	EconWeekly	40		0.07%	Jefferson City News Tribune
110	Sybil's Star	37		0.07%	Jefferson City News Tribune
111	Labour and Capital	36		0.07%	Jefferson City News Tribune
112	John Barrdear	36		0.07%	Jefferson City News Tribune
113	Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development	31		0.06%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
114	Business of America is Business	30		0.06%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
115	Trade Diversion	30		0.06%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
116	Blog of Diminishing Returns	30		0.06%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
117	Deflationite	28		0.05%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
118	Development Bank Research Bulletin	26		0.05%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
119	L'Estable	26		0.05%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
120	Economic Dreams, Economic Nightmares	25		0.05%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
121	Ecological Economics	25		0.05%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
122	Beyond Economics	21		0.04%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
123	Accidental Verbosity	19		0.04%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
124	Labor Blog	18		0.03%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
125	Vox Baby	15		0.03%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
126	Oikos	15		0.03%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
127	Good News Economist	14		0.03%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
128	Age of Abundance	13		0.02%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
129	Libertarianism from A to Z	13		0.02%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
130	Urban Economics and More	13		0.02%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
131	Fistful of Euros	12		0.02%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
132	Latin America and Brazil	8		0.01%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
133	Three Chemists and a Bean-Counter	7		0.01%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
134	Futronomics	7		0.01%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
135	Willem Buiter	5		0.01%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
136	Escape from Cubicle Nation	4		0.01%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
137	European Tribune	4		0.01%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
138	SCSU Scholars	3		0.01%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
139	Window Manager	3		0.01%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
140	General Glut	3		0.01%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
141	Carnival of the Capitalists	2		0.00%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
142	Card-Carrying Member	2		0.00%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
143	MacroMouse	1		0.00%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
144	Liberal Capitalist Party	1		0.00%	below threshold for top 750 newspapers
145	Market Ticker	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):