Brian Gongol
Updated ratings will be posted on or about February 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.
If this is your first time visiting this list, check out the frequently-asked questions (FAQ) page to figure out what this is all about. Also see the annotated directory of all the sites in this part of the Internet universe and the past rankings.
Traffic ratings from January 2, 2007 - by average daily pageviews
| Site | Page Views | Pageview Ratio | If it were a newspaper, it would be: |
| Big Picture | 19498 | 1.000 | USA Today (Washington, DC) |
| Marginal Revolution | 11856 | 0.608 | Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA) |
| Gregory Mankiw | 6881 | 0.353 | New York Daily News (New York, NY) |
| Tim Worstall | 6398 | 0.328 | New York Daily News (New York, NY) |
| Calculated Risk | 6120 | 0.314 | Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) |
| Michael Shedlock | 6055 | 0.311 | Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) |
| Economist's View | 5661 | 0.290 | Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) |
| Trader Mike | 4531 | 0.232 | Atlanta Journal Constitution (Atlanta, GA) |
| Tax Prof | 4171 | 0.214 | Long Island Newsday (Long Island, NY) |
| Gongol | 4107 | 0.211 | Long Island Newsday (Long Island, NY) |
| QandO | 3762 | 0.193 | San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, CA) |
| Willisms | 3505 | 0.180 | San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, CA) |
| Drezner | 3481 | 0.179 | The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH) |
| Vancouver Housing | 3449 | 0.177 | The Seattle Times/Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) |
| Angry Economist | 3257 | 0.167 | The San Diego Union Tribune (San Diego, CA) |
| Asymmetrical Information | 2897 | 0.149 | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA) |
| Carl Futia | 2395 | 0.123 | The Tampa Tribune & Times (Tampa, FL) |
| Angry Bear | 2240 | 0.115 | The Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK) |
| Winter Watch | 1877 | 0.096 | Des Moines Register (Des Moines, IA) |
| Half Sigma | 1795 | 0.092 | Omaha World-Herald (Omaha, NE) |
| Jacqueline Passey | 1693 | 0.087 | Las Vegas Review-Journal (Las Vegas, NV) |
| Overcoming Bias | 1502 | 0.077 | Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA) |
| Chicago Boyz | 1483 | 0.076 | Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA) |
| MaxSpeak | 1398 | 0.072 | Birmingham News (Birmingham, AL) |
| Indian Economy | 1301 | 0.067 | Dayton Daily News (Dayton, OH) |
| Catallarchy | 1154 | 0.059 | Albuquerque Journal/Tribune (Albuquerque, NM) |
| Coyote Blog | 1150 | 0.059 | Wisconsin State Journal/Capital Times (Madison, WI) |
| EconBrowser | 1128 | 0.058 | The Journal News (White Plains, NY) |
| New Economist | 1117 | 0.057 | The Journal News (White Plains, NY) |
| Long or Short Capital | 1091 | 0.056 | Lexington Herald-Leader (Lexington, KY) |
| Mess that Greenspan Made | 1087 | 0.056 | The State (Columbia, SC) |
| Truck and Barter | 1029 | 0.053 | La Opinion (Los Angeles, CA) |
| Fat Pitch Financials | 951 | 0.049 | The Philadelphia Daily News (Philadelphia, PA) |
| EclectEcon | 897 | 0.046 | Greenville News (Greenville, SC) |
| The Conglomerate | 860 | 0.044 | Post and Courier (Charleston, SC) |
| Macroblog | 732 | 0.038 | Journal (Winston-Salem, NC) |
| Billboardom | 716 | 0.037 | The Augusta Chronicle (Augusta, GA) |
| Environmental Economics (Haab and Whitehead) | 682 | 0.035 | Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, CA) |
| Roth and Co. | 625 | 0.032 | Times-News (Erie, PA) |
| Escape from Cubicle Nation | 596 | 0.031 | Asheville Citizen-Times (Asheville, NC) |
| Fistful of Euros | 538 | 0.028 | Quad-City Times (Davenport, IA) |
| Andrew Leigh | 501 | 0.026 | Duluth News-Tribune (Duluth, MN) |
| Triple Pundit | 442 | 0.023 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Statistical Modeling | 413 | 0.021 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Newmark's Door | 409 | 0.021 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Entrepreneurial Mind | 333 | 0.017 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| SCSU Scholars | 314 | 0.016 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Knowledge Problem | 302 | 0.016 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Accidental Verbosity | 301 | 0.015 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Agoraphilia | 263 | 0.014 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Business of America is Business | 262 | 0.013 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Capital Spectator | 246 | 0.013 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Alea | 230 | 0.012 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Emirates Economist | 201 | 0.010 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| ArgMax | 192 | 0.010 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| EconoPundit | 184 | 0.009 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Vox Baby | 177 | 0.009 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Window Manager | 171 | 0.009 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Carpe Diem | 169 | 0.009 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Market Power | 169 | 0.009 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Core Economics | 160 | 0.008 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Ajay Shah | 157 | 0.008 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Environmental and Urban Economics | 154 | 0.008 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| World Economic Forum Weblog | 128 | 0.007 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Economic Dreams, Economic Nightmares | 126 | 0.007 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| General Glut | 119 | 0.006 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Prestopundit | 119 | 0.006 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Constrained Vision | 115 | 0.006 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Financial Rounds | 101 | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Cold Spring Shops | 92 | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Adam Smith's Lost Legacy | 91 | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Research Design and Statistics | 90 | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Development Bank Research Bulletin | 83 | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Egoist | 83 | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Sybil's Star | 82 | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Deinonychus Antirrhopus | 75 | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Different River | 74 | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Visualizing Economics | 69 | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Alpha Sources | 66 | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Let's Fly Under the Bridge | 58 | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Heavy Lifting | 54 | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development | 52 | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Oikos | 52 | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Globalisation and the Environment | 49 | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Ashish's Niti | 48 | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Ecological Economics | 46 | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Trade Diversion | 44 | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Urban Economics and More | 38 | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Labor Blog | 36 | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Businomics | 31 | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| One-Handed Economist | 25 | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Hypothetical Bias | 24 | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Card-Carrying Member | 16 | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Economics, Markets, and Probabilities | 14 | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Go Figure | 14 | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| The Lowest Deep | 10 | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| MacroMouse | 9 | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Byrne's Marketview | 8 | 0.000 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
Traffic ratings from January 2, 2007 - by average daily visits
| Site | Visits | Visit Ratio | If it were a newspaper, it would be: |
| Big Picture | 12764 | 1.000 | USA Today (Washington, DC) |
| Marginal Revolution | 7596 | 0.595 | Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA) |
| Michael Shedlock | 4901 | 0.384 | The Washington Post (Washington, DC) |
| Tim Worstall | 4661 | 0.365 | New York Daily News (New York, NY) |
| Gregory Mankiw | 4220 | 0.331 | New York Daily News (New York, NY) |
| Calculated Risk | 3680 | 0.288 | Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) |
| Tax Prof | 3286 | 0.257 | Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX) |
| Economist's View | 2836 | 0.222 | Atlanta Journal Constitution (Atlanta, GA) |
| Drezner | 2769 | 0.217 | Long Island Newsday (Long Island, NY) |
| Asymmetrical Information | 2468 | 0.193 | Long Island Newsday (Long Island, NY) |
| QandO | 2309 | 0.181 | San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, CA) |
| Willisms | 2307 | 0.181 | San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, CA) |
| Gongol | 2009 | 0.157 | The Miami Herald (Miami, FL) |
| Trader Mike | 1960 | 0.154 | Portland Oregonian (Portland, OR) |
| Angry Economist | 1902 | 0.149 | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA) |
| Angry Bear | 1542 | 0.121 | Cincinnati Enquirer/Post (Cincinnati, OH) |
| Vancouver Housing | 1316 | 0.103 | St. Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, MN) |
| Carl Futia | 1232 | 0.097 | Des Moines Register (Des Moines, IA) |
| Becker-Posner | 1226 | 0.096 | Des Moines Register (Des Moines, IA) |
| Winter Watch | 945 | 0.074 | The Fresno Bee (Fresno, CA) |
| MaxSpeak | 935 | 0.073 | The Fresno Bee (Fresno, CA) |
| Virginia Postrel | 919 | 0.072 | Birmingham News (Birmingham, AL) |
| Chicago Boyz | 878 | 0.069 | Arizona Daily Star/Tucson Citizen (Tucson, AZ) |
| Half Sigma | 875 | 0.069 | Arizona Daily Star/Tucson Citizen (Tucson, AZ) |
| Indian Economy | 804 | 0.063 | Tribune-Review (Greensburg, PA) |
| EconBrowser | 780 | 0.061 | Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) |
| Jacqueline Passey | 763 | 0.060 | Allentown Morning Call (Allentown, PA) |
| Coyote Blog | 735 | 0.058 | The Journal News (White Plains, NY) |
| New Economist | 723 | 0.057 | Lexington Herald-Leader (Lexington, KY) |
| EclectEcon | 672 | 0.053 | La Opinion (Los Angeles, CA) |
| Catallarchy | 658 | 0.052 | La Opinion (Los Angeles, CA) |
| Mess that Greenspan Made | 616 | 0.048 | Journal Gazette/News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne, IN) |
| Truck and Barter | 615 | 0.048 | Journal Gazette/News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne, IN) |
| Overcoming Bias | 543 | 0.043 | Maine Sunday Telegram (Portland, ME) |
| Fat Pitch Financials | 537 | 0.042 | The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS) |
| The Conglomerate | 527 | 0.041 | Florida Today (Melbourne, FL) |
| Macroblog | 489 | 0.038 | Press-Telegram (Los Angeles, CA) |
| Roth and Co. | 479 | 0.038 | Journal (Winston-Salem, NC) |
| Long or Short Capital | 473 | 0.037 | The Augusta Chronicle (Augusta, GA) |
| Environmental Economics (Haab and Whitehead) | 452 | 0.035 | Courier & Press (Evansville, IN) |
| Billboardom | 386 | 0.030 | Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) |
| Fistful of Euros | 381 | 0.030 | Argus Leader (Sioux Falls, SD) |
| Escape from Cubicle Nation | 370 | 0.029 | Caller-Times (Corpus Christi, TX) |
| Sports Economist | 364 | 0.029 | Shreveport Times (Shreveport, LA) |
| Andrew Leigh | 298 | 0.023 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Triple Pundit | 268 | 0.021 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| SCSU Scholars | 254 | 0.020 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Statistical Modeling | 250 | 0.020 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Entrepreneurial Mind | 247 | 0.019 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Capital Spectator | 235 | 0.018 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Newmark's Door | 232 | 0.018 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Knowledge Problem | 230 | 0.018 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Business of America is Business | 195 | 0.015 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Accidental Verbosity | 182 | 0.014 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Agoraphilia | 174 | 0.014 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Vox Baby | 152 | 0.012 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| EconoPundit | 150 | 0.012 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Emirates Economist | 147 | 0.012 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Market Power | 125 | 0.010 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Window Manager | 123 | 0.010 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Environmental and Urban Economics | 106 | 0.008 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| General Glut | 106 | 0.008 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| ArgMax | 98 | 0.008 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Prestopundit | 97 | 0.008 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Carpe Diem | 96 | 0.008 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Constrained Vision | 93 | 0.007 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Ajay Shah | 91 | 0.007 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Core Economics | 88 | 0.007 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| World Economic Forum Weblog | 88 | 0.007 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Alea | 80 | 0.006 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Financial Rounds | 74 | 0.006 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Cold Spring Shops | 73 | 0.006 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Egoist | 62 | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Different River | 61 | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Economic Dreams, Economic Nightmares | 61 | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Sybil's Star | 61 | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Adam Smith's Lost Legacy | 60 | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Deinonychus Antirrhopus | 57 | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Development Bank Research Bulletin | 52 | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Let's Fly Under the Bridge | 49 | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development | 48 | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Oikos | 48 | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Heavy Lifting | 47 | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Alpha Sources | 38 | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Visualizing Economics | 37 | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Ashish's Niti | 35 | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Globalisation and the Environment | 32 | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Trade Diversion | 32 | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Ecological Economics | 30 | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Labor Blog | 30 | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Urban Economics and More | 30 | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Businomics | 21 | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Hypothetical Bias | 21 | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| One-Handed Economist | 16 | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Economics, Markets, and Probabilities | 13 | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Go Figure | 11 | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Card-Carrying Member | 10 | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| The Lowest Deep | 8 | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| MacroMouse | 7 | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Research Design and Statistics | 7 | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Byrne's Marketview | 6 | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| Ben Muse | 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):