Traffic Rankings for Business and Economics Websites
Brian Gongol
Next update: On or about June 2, 2008. Most recent ratings at EconDirectory.com.
The data here are generally from April 1 through April 30, 2008, as collected on May 4, 2008
Traffic ratings from May 4, 2008 - by average daily pageviews
| Rank | Site | Page Views | Change | Pageview Ratio | If it were a newspaper, it would be: |
| 1 | Calculated Risk | 49252 |  | 100.00% | USA Today (Washington, DC) |
| 2 | Big Picture | 48694 |  | 98.87% | The Wall Street Journal (New York, NY) |
| 3 | Michael Shedlock | 30462 | | 61.85% | Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA) |
| 4 | Marginal Revolution | 25998 |  | 52.79% | Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA) |
| 5 | Economist's View | 13425 | | 27.26% | The Detroit News/Free Press (Detroit, MI) |
| 6 | Gregory Mankiw | 12561 | | 25.50% | Minneapolis Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) |
| 7 | European Tribune | 7980 | | 16.20% | The San Diego Union Tribune (San Diego, CA) |
| 8 | Tax Prof | 7286 |  | 14.79% | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA) |
| 9 | Naked Capitalism | 6318 | | 12.83% | Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, TX) |
| 10 | Coyote Blog | 5758 | | 11.69% | Cincinnati Enquirer/Post (Cincinnati, OH) |
| 11 | Overcoming Bias | 5605 | | 11.38% | The Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK) |
| 12 | QandO | 5214 | | 10.59% | San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA) |
| 13 | VoxEU | 5025 | | 10.20% | St. Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, MN) |
| 14 | Gongol | 4795 | | 9.74% | Des Moines Register (Des Moines, IA) |
| 15 | Stephen Bainbridge | 4398 | | 8.93% | The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA) |
| 16 | Trader Mike | 4373 | | 8.88% | Times-Union (Jacksonville, FL) |
| 17 | Tim Worstall | 3782 |  | 7.68% | Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA) |
| 18 | Angry Economist | 3594 | | 7.30% | The Fresno Bee (Fresno, CA) |
| 19 | Angry Bear | 3592 | | 7.29% | The Fresno Bee (Fresno, CA) |
| 20 | Winter Watch | 3450 | | 7.00% | Arizona Daily Star/Tucson Citizen (Tucson, AZ) |
| 21 | Carpe Diem | 3340 | | 6.78% | Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, OH) |
| 22 | Half Sigma | 3291 | | 6.68% | Dayton Daily News (Dayton, OH) |
| 23 | Mess that Greenspan Made | 3096 | | 6.29% | Tribune-Review (Greensburg, PA) |
| 24 | Financial Armageddon | 3073 | | 6.24% | Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) |
| 25 | Drezner | 2945 | | 5.98% | Allentown Morning Call (Allentown, PA) |
| 26 | Willisms | 2759 | | 5.60% | Lexington Herald-Leader (Lexington, KY) |
| 27 | Chicago Boyz | 2651 | | 5.38% | Wilmington News Journal (Wilmington, DE) |
| 28 | EconBrowser | 2551 | | 5.18% | La Opinion (Los Angeles, CA) |
| 29 | Triple Pundit | 2510 | | 5.10% | La Opinion (Los Angeles, CA) |
| 30 | Long or Short Capital | 2454 | | 4.98% | Republican (Springfield, MA) |
| 31 | Wages of Wins | 2172 | | 4.41% | Post and Courier (Charleston, SC) |
| 32 | Environmental Economics (Haab and Whitehead) | 2131 | | 4.33% | Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA) |
| 33 | Truck and Barter | 1956 | | 3.97% | Ventura County Star (Ventura, CA) |
| 34 | John Lott | 1950 | | 3.96% | El Nuevo Herald (Miami, FL) |
| 35 | Bonddad Blog | 1909 | | 3.88% | Times Free Press (Chattanooga, TN) |
| 36 | Random Roger's Big Picture | 1871 | | 3.80% | Press-Telegram (Los Angeles, CA) |
| 37 | Newmark's Door | 1723 | | 3.50% | Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, CA) |
| 38 | The Conglomerate | 1679 | | 3.41% | Post (Fairfield, CT) |
| 39 | New Economist | 1604 | | 3.26% | Times-News (Erie, PA) |
| 40 | Accrued Interest | 1425 | | 2.89% | San Bernardino Sun (San Bernardino, CA) |
| 41 | Carl Futia | 1422 | | 2.89% | San Bernardino Sun (San Bernardino, CA) |
| 42 | Indian Economy | 1380 | | 2.80% | Gazette (Kalamazoo, MI) |
| 43 | Visualizing Economics | 1372 | | 2.79% | Quad-City Times (Davenport, IA) |
| 44 | Atanu Dey | 1326 | | 2.69% | Quad-City Times (Davenport, IA) |
| 45 | Political Calculations | 1180 | | 2.40% | Christian Science Monitor (Boston, MA) |
| 46 | Alea | 1137 | | 2.31% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 47 | Fat Pitch Financials | 1117 | | 2.27% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 48 | Billboardom | 1114 | | 2.26% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 49 | Escape from Cubicle Nation | 1090 | | 2.21% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 50 | Ekonomi Turk (Turkish) | 924 | | 1.88% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 51 | Fistful of Euros | 894 | | 1.82% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 52 | Roth and Co. | 886 | | 1.80% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 53 | Andrew Leigh | 864 | | 1.75% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 54 | Economicrot | 657 | | 1.33% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 55 | Emirates Economist | 575 | | 1.17% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 56 | Truth on the Market | 567 | | 1.15% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 57 | Chris Blattman | 562 | | 1.14% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 58 | Macroblog | 554 | | 1.12% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 59 | Entrepreneurial Mind | 551 | | 1.12% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 60 | EclectEcon | 549 | | 1.11% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 61 | Art Diamond | 536 | | 1.09% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 62 | Core Economics | 526 | | 1.07% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 63 | Blogo Existo (Portuguese) | 496 | | 1.01% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 64 | Econospeak | 480 | | 0.97% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 65 | Market Power | 480 | | 0.97% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 66 | Environmental and Urban Economics | 479 | | 0.97% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 67 | Ajay Shah | 470 | | 0.95% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 68 | SCSU Scholars | 464 | | 0.94% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 69 | Adam Smith's Lost Legacy | 440 | | 0.89% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 70 | Antitrust and Competition Policy | 406 | | 0.82% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 71 | Asymmetrical Information | 403 | | 0.82% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 72 | Economista Serial Cronico | 393 | | 0.80% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 73 | Global Economy Matters | 382 | | 0.78% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 74 | Bayesian Heresy | 379 | | 0.77% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 75 | Market Solution (Serbian) | 373 | | 0.76% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 76 | Capital Spectator | 319 | | 0.65% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 77 | Financial Rounds | 298 | | 0.61% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 78 | VoluntaryXchange | 265 | | 0.54% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 79 | Common Tragedies | 259 | | 0.53% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 80 | Globalisation and the Environment | 249 | | 0.51% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 81 | Window Manager | 248 | | 0.50% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 82 | ArgMax | 221 | | 0.45% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 83 | Cold Spring Shops | 218 | | 0.44% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 84 | Businomics | 214 | | 0.43% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 85 | N. Emrah Aydinonat | 207 | | 0.42% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 86 | Italian Economy Watch | 201 | | 0.41% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 87 | Economic Dreams, Economic Nightmares | 201 | | 0.41% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 88 | Business of America is Business | 200 | | 0.41% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 89 | Vox Baby | 194 | | 0.39% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 90 | EconoPundit | 191 | | 0.39% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 91 | Development Bank Research Bulletin | 190 | | 0.39% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 92 | Inflation in the USA | 168 | | 0.34% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 93 | Alpha Sources | 153 | | 0.31% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 94 | Trade Diversion | 146 | | 0.30% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 95 | World Economic Forum Weblog | 145 | | 0.29% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 96 | Management R&D | 142 | | 0.29% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 97 | Buyer Behaviour | 137 | | 0.28% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 98 | EconWeekly | 133 | | 0.27% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 99 | Deinonychus Antirrhopus | 131 | | 0.27% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 100 | Ecological Economics | 127 | | 0.26% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 101 | Street Light | 124 | | 0.25% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 102 | Constrained Vision | 112 | | 0.23% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 103 | Oikos | 102 | | 0.21% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 104 | Economic Investigations | 100 | | 0.20% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 105 | Let's Fly Under the Bridge | 98 | | 0.20% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 106 | Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development | 91 | | 0.18% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 107 | Eli Dourado | 84 | | 0.17% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 108 | Labour and Capital | 75 | | 0.15% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 109 | L'Estable | 74 | | 0.15% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 110 | Sybil's Star | 69 | | 0.14% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 111 | General Glut | 68 | | 0.14% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 112 | Heavy Lifting | 68 | | 0.14% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 113 | Accidental Verbosity | 62 | | 0.13% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 114 | Ivan Kitov | 58 | | 0.12% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 115 | Real Economic Growth in the USA | 58 | | 0.12% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 116 | Labor Blog | 54 | | 0.11% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 117 | Age of Abundance | 53 | | 0.11% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 118 | Egoist | 53 | | 0.11% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 119 | Willem Buiter | 52 | | 0.11% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 120 | Trade and Me (Spanish) | 50 | | 0.10% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 121 | Hypothetical Bias | 40 | | 0.08% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 122 | Ashish's Niti | 35 | | 0.07% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 123 | Different River | 32 | | 0.06% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 124 | Marek Hlavac | 18 | | 0.04% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 125 | Liberal Capitalist Party | 17 | | 0.03% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 126 | Notes for Monetary Enthusiasts | 16 | | 0.03% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 127 | Research Design and Statistics | 13 | | 0.03% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 128 | Carnival of the Capitalists | 13 | | 0.03% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 129 | IPE at UNC | 12 | | 0.02% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 130 | Card-Carrying Member | 11 | | 0.02% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 131 | Awkward Utopia | 10 | | 0.02% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 132 | Moonballs from Planet Earth | 10 | | 0.02% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 133 | One-Handed Economist | 10 | | 0.02% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 134 | Jacqueline Passey | 9 | | 0.02% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 135 | The Lowest Deep | 8 | | 0.02% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 136 | MacroMouse | 7 | | 0.01% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 137 | De Gustibus | 6 | | 0.01% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 138 | Urban Economics and More | 5 | | 0.01% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 139 | Economics, Markets, and Probabilities | 3 | | 0.01% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 140 | Knowledge Problem | 1 | | 0.00% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 141 | Catallarchy | 1 | | 0.00% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 142 | Agoraphilia | 0 | | 0.00% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 143 | Go Figure | 0 | | 0.00% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 144 | Vancouver Housing | 0 | | 0.00% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 145 | Statistical Modeling | 0 | | 0.00% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 146 | Ben Muse | 0 | | 0.00% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
Traffic ratings from May 4, 2008 - by average daily visits
| Rank | Site | Visits | Change | Visit Ratio | If it were a newspaper, it would be: |
| 1 | Calculated Risk | 40075 | | 100.00% | USA Today (Washington, DC) |
| 2 | Big Picture | 38911 | | 97.10% | The Wall Street Journal (New York, NY) |
| 3 | Michael Shedlock | 24918 | | 62.18% | Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA) |
| 4 | Marginal Revolution | 18584 | | 46.37% | The Washington Post (Washington, DC) |
| 5 | Economist's View | 8963 | | 22.37% | Atlanta Journal Constitution (Atlanta, GA) |
| 6 | Gregory Mankiw | 8379 | | 20.91% | Long Island Newsday (Long Island, NY) |
| 7 | Tax Prof | 4955 | | 12.36% | The Tampa Tribune & Times (Tampa, FL) |
| 8 | Naked Capitalism | 3997 | | 9.97% | St. Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, MN) |
| 9 | QandO | 3446 | | 8.60% | Memphis Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) |
| 10 | Coyote Blog | 3269 | | 8.16% | The Record (Hackensack, NJ) |
| 11 | Stephen Bainbridge | 2843 | | 7.09% | Arizona Daily Star/Tucson Citizen (Tucson, AZ) |
| 12 | Overcoming Bias | 2659 | | 6.64% | The Blade (Toledo, OH) |
| 13 | Trader Mike | 2613 | | 6.52% | The Honolulu Advertiser (Honolulu, HI) |
| 14 | Angry Bear | 2559 | | 6.39% | The Honolulu Advertiser (Honolulu, HI) |
| 15 | Tim Worstall | 2465 | | 6.15% | Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) |
| 16 | Financial Armageddon | 2436 | | 6.08% | Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) |
| 17 | Gongol | 2429 | | 6.06% | Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) |
| 18 | VoxEU | 2400 | | 5.99% | The Salt Lake Tribune/Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT) |
| 19 | Drezner | 2367 | | 5.91% | Albuquerque Journal/Tribune (Albuquerque, NM) |
| 20 | Carpe Diem | 2289 | | 5.71% | The Journal News (White Plains, NY) |
| 21 | Mess that Greenspan Made | 2240 | | 5.59% | Lexington Herald-Leader (Lexington, KY) |
| 22 | European Tribune | 2030 | | 5.07% | Republican (Springfield, MA) |
| 23 | Triple Pundit | 1891 | | 4.72% | Mobile Register (Mobile, AL) |
| 24 | Winter Watch | 1862 | | 4.65% | Mobile Register (Mobile, AL) |
| 25 | Willisms | 1848 | | 4.61% | Greenville News (Greenville, SC) |
| 26 | Angry Economist | 1799 | | 4.49% | Daily Press (Newport News, VA) |
| 27 | EconBrowser | 1799 | | 4.49% | Daily Press (Newport News, VA) |
| 28 | Half Sigma | 1782 | | 4.45% | Daily Press (Newport News, VA) |
| 29 | Chicago Boyz | 1488 | | 3.71% | The Augusta Chronicle (Augusta, GA) |
| 30 | Bonddad Blog | 1462 | | 3.65% | The Augusta Chronicle (Augusta, GA) |
| 31 | Wages of Wins | 1402 | | 3.50% | Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, CA) |
| 32 | Long or Short Capital | 1344 | | 3.35% | Reading Eagle (Reading, PA) |
| 33 | Environmental Economics (Haab and Whitehead) | 1274 | | 3.18% | Green Bay Press-Gazette (Green Bay, WI) |
| 34 | Truck and Barter | 1260 | | 3.14% | Naples Daily News (Naples, FL) |
| 35 | Random Roger's Big Picture | 1205 | | 3.01% | The Daily Oakland Press (Pontiac, MI) |
| 36 | Accrued Interest | 1204 | | 3.00% | Cedar Rapids Gazette (Cedar Rapids, IA) |
| 37 | Becker-Posner | 1188 | | 2.96% | Bakersfield Californian (Bakersfield, CA) |
| 38 | New Economist | 1177 | | 2.94% | New Hampshire Sunday News (Manchester, NH) |
| 39 | John Lott | 1169 | | 2.92% | Caller-Times (Corpus Christi, TX) |
| 40 | The Conglomerate | 1168 | | 2.91% | Caller-Times (Corpus Christi, TX) |
| 41 | Carl Futia | 1002 | | 2.50% | Amarillo Globe-News (Amarillo, TX) |
| 42 | Newmark's Door | 978 | | 2.44% | Racing Form (New York, NY) |
| 43 | Indian Economy | 927 | | 2.31% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 44 | Visualizing Economics | 804 | | 2.01% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 45 | Atanu Dey | 782 | | 1.95% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 46 | Fat Pitch Financials | 749 | | 1.87% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 47 | Political Calculations | 743 | | 1.85% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 48 | Escape from Cubicle Nation | 724 | | 1.81% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 49 | Alea | 650 | | 1.62% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 50 | Billboardom | 639 | | 1.59% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 51 | Ekonomi Turk (Turkish) | 637 | | 1.59% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 52 | Roth and Co. | 616 | | 1.54% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 53 | Fistful of Euros | 589 | | 1.47% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 54 | Andrew Leigh | 562 | | 1.40% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 55 | Virginia Postrel | 539 | | 1.34% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 56 | Economicrot | 490 | | 1.22% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 57 | Entrepreneurial Mind | 479 | | 1.20% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 58 | Sports Economist | 424 | | 1.06% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 59 | EclectEcon | 410 | | 1.02% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 60 | Environmental and Urban Economics | 403 | | 1.01% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 61 | Emirates Economist | 400 | | 1.00% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 62 | Macroblog | 390 | | 0.97% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 63 | SCSU Scholars | 387 | | 0.97% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 64 | Econospeak | 365 | | 0.91% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 65 | Chris Blattman | 362 | | 0.90% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 66 | Asymmetrical Information | 354 | | 0.88% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 67 | Blogo Existo (Portuguese) | 349 | | 0.87% | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |