Traffic Rankings for Major Business and Economics Websites
Brian Gongol


Using and expanding upon the large (though not comprehensive) list of business and economics weblogs generated by Craig Newmark in July 2005, here is an approximation of their daily traffic, ranked first by page views and next by daily visits.

As an analytical aid, the ratio of each site's page views or visits to that of the top-rated site is also given. This is then used to illustrate a relative level of influence compared to that of the top 200 daily newspapers in the US. Thus, if a site gets 50% of the daily page views of the top website, it has a ratio of 0.500. By comparison, USA Today (the most-read newspaper) claims a maximum daily circulation of 2,528,437; the New York Times claims 1,683,855, giving it a ratio of approximately 0.666. No one would suggest that the New York Times is merely two-thirds as influential as USA Today. Thus, a site getting just half the traffic of the top-rated site in the category may still be very influential in its own right; the newspaper rankings are intended solely to illustrate that fact.

These rankings are based solely upon the websites' publicly-available traffic logs; sites without those logs clearly available for public viewing are not included in these rankings.
Next update: On or about June 3, 2013. The most recent ratings are always found at EconDirectory.com.

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Site Page Views Pageview Ratio Equivalent Newspaper by Pageviews
Marginal Revolution 14370 1.000 USA Today (Washington, DC )
QandO 7005 0.487 Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA )
Bainbridge 5898 0.410 The Washington Post (Washington, DC )
Gregory Mankiw 5502 0.383 The Washington Post (Washington, DC )
Trader Mike 5126 0.357 New York Daily News (New York, NY )
Economist's View 4935 0.343 New York Daily News (New York, NY )
Drezner 4763 0.331 New York Daily News (New York, NY )
Gongol 3537 0.246 Minneapolis Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN )
Angry Bear 2560 0.178 The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH )
Tim Worstall 2396 0.167 St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO )
Catallarchy 2156 0.150 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA )
Willisms 1846 0.128 Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, TX )
Chicago Boyz 1766 0.123 The Tampa Tribune & Times (Tampa, FL )
EconBrowser 1547 0.108 The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC )
Jacqueline Passey 1265 0.088 Times-Union (Jacksonville, FL )
Truck and Barter 964 0.067 Dayton Daily News (Dayton, OH )
Coyote Blog 933 0.065 The Honolulu Advertiser (Honolulu, HI )
Agoraphilia 929 0.065 The Honolulu Advertiser (Honolulu, HI )
SCSU Scholars 752 0.052 La Opinion (Los Angeles, CA )
EconoPundit 598 0.042 Maine Sunday Telegram (Portland, ME )
Newmark's Door 514 0.036 North County Times (Escondido, CA )
Accidental Verbosity 506 0.035 Courier & Press (Evansville, IN )
Knowledge Problem 492 0.034 Springfield News-Leader (Springfield, MO )
ArgMax 443 0.031 Charleston Gazette/Daily Mail (Charleston, WV )
Entrepreneurial Mind 433 0.030 Advance (Staten Island, NY )
Roth and Co. 413 0.029 New Hampshire Sunday News (Manchester, NH )
Triple Pundit 379 0.026 Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, CA )
Venture Chronicles 356 0.025 Duluth News-Tribune (Duluth, MN )
EclectEcon 300 0.021 (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
Business of America is Business 289 0.020 (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
Prestopundit 267 0.019 (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
Vox Baby 262 0.018 (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
Market Power 255 0.018 (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
Emirates Economist 228 0.016 (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
Constrained Vision 218 0.015 (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
Window Manager 201 0.014 (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
Financial Rounds 121 0.008 (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
Deinonychus Antirrhopus 107 0.007 (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
General Glut 107 0.007 (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
Egoist 101 0.007 (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
Byrne's Marketview 79 0.005 (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
Let's Fly Under the Bridge 73 0.005 (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
Heavy Lifting 71 0.005 (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
Environmental Economics 51 0.004 (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)


Site Visits Visit Ratio Equivalent Newspaper by Visits
Marginal Revolution 8307 1.000 USA Today (Washington, DC )
QandO 4821 0.580 Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA )
Drezner 3803 0.458 The Washington Post (Washington, DC )
Bainbridge 3217 0.387 The Washington Post (Washington, DC )
Gregory Mankiw 2968 0.357 New York Daily News (New York, NY )
Economist's View 2665 0.321 New York Daily News (New York, NY )
Trader Mike 2475 0.298 Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA )
Angry Bear 1893 0.228 Atlanta Journal Constitution (Atlanta, GA )
Tim Worstall 1634 0.197 Long Island Newsday (Long Island, NY )
Gongol 1419 0.171 St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO )
Willisms 1230 0.148 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA )
Catallarchy 1187 0.143 Orange County Register (Orange County, CA )
Becker-Posner 1185 0.143 Orange County Register (Orange County, CA )
Virginia Postrel 1097 0.132 The Sacramento Bee (Sacramento, CA )
EconBrowser 1071 0.129 Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, TX )
Chicago Boyz 983 0.118 Cincinnati Enquirer/Post (Cincinnati, OH )
Jacqueline Passey 643 0.077 Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA )
Coyote Blog 640 0.077 Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA )
Truck and Barter 609 0.073 The Fresno Bee (Fresno, CA )
Agoraphilia 574 0.069 Arizona Daily Star/Tucson Citizen (Tucson, AZ )
SCSU Scholars 537 0.065 The Honolulu Advertiser (Honolulu, HI )
EconoPundit 473 0.057 The Journal News (White Plains, NY )
Accidental Verbosity 371 0.045 Greenville News (Greenville, SC )
Entrepreneurial Mind 370 0.045 Greenville News (Greenville, SC )
Knowledge Problem 358 0.043 Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA )
Roth and Co. 342 0.041 East Valley Tribune (Mesa, AZ )
Sports Economist 305 0.037 Journal (Winston-Salem, NC )
Newmark's Door 303 0.036 North County Times (Escondido, CA )
Triple Pundit 253 0.030 Advance (Staten Island, NY )
ArgMax 220 0.026 Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, CA )
Vox Baby 209 0.025 Duluth News-Tribune (Duluth, MN )
EclectEcon 206 0.025 Duluth News-Tribune (Duluth, MN )
Venture Chronicles 203 0.024 Racing Form (New York, NY )
Business of America is Business 201 0.024 Racing Form (New York, NY )
Prestopundit 198 0.024 Racing Form (New York, NY )
Market Power 180 0.022 (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
Constrained Vision 174 0.021 (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
Emirates Economist 159 0.019 (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
Window Manager 151 0.018 (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
General Glut 97 0.012 (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
Financial Rounds 85 0.010 (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
Deinonychus Antirrhopus 82 0.010 (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
Egoist 79 0.010 (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
Heavy Lifting 63 0.008 (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
Byrne's Marketview 56 0.007 (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
Let's Fly Under the Bridge 55 0.007 (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
Environmental Economics 30 0.004 (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)


Sites not included in these rankings
The following sites do not appear to have publicly-available traffic logs and are thus not included in this analysis (corrections are welcomed):

Adam Smith Institute
Angry Economist
Asymmetrical Information
AtlanticBlog
Becker-Posner
Ben Muse
Big Picture
Brad DeLong
Brad Setser
Business Evolutionist
Business Opportunities
BusinessPundit
Café Hayek
Chocolate and Gold Coins
Club for Growth
Cold Spring Shops
Core Economics
Crooked Timber
Division of Labour
EconLog
Economic Principals
Economics and
Everyday Economics
Fat Pitch Financials
Financial Methods
Freakonomics
Idea Shop
Innovation Online
Johan Norberg
Liberal Order
Mahalanobis
Mises Economics Blog
New Economist
Nouriel Roubini
One-Handed Economist
Part-Time Pundit
PC4Media
Peter Gordon
Philippe Legrain
Phosita
Political Calculations
Rob Sama
Slacker Manager
Small Business Trends
Social Twister
Sports Economist
Stumbling and Mumbling
Virginia Postrel
VoluntaryXchange
William J. Polley