Brian Gongol
Next update: On or about June 3, 2013. The most recent ratings are always found at EconDirectory.com.
Traffic ratings from July 2, 2007 - by average daily pageviews
| Rank | Site | Page Views | Change from last month | Pageview Ratio | If it were a newspaper, it would be: |
| 1 | Big Picture | 30928 |  | 1.000 | USA Today (Washington, DC) |
| 2 | Calculated Risk | 17403 |  | 0.563 | Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA) |
| 3 | Marginal Revolution | 16478 |  | 0.533 | Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA) |
| 4 | Gregory Mankiw | 9235 | | 0.299 | Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) |
| 5 | European Tribune | 8350 |  | 0.270 | The Detroit News/Free Press (Detroit, MI) |
| 6 | Tax Prof | 6853 | | 0.222 | The Arizona Republic (Phoenix, AZ) |
| 7 | Economist's View | 6657 | | 0.215 | Long Island Newsday (Long Island, NY) |
| 8 | Tim Worstall | 6207 | | 0.201 | Long Island Newsday (Long Island, NY) |
| 9 | Michael Shedlock | 6047 | | 0.196 | Long Island Newsday (Long Island, NY) |
| 10 | Asymmetrical Information | 5168 | | 0.167 | St. Petersburg Times (St. Petersburg, FL) |
| 11 | Gongol | 5066 | | 0.164 | The San Diego Union Tribune (San Diego, CA) |
| 12 | Trader Mike | 4911 | | 0.159 | The Miami Herald (Miami, FL) |
| 13 | QandO | 4879 | | 0.158 | The Miami Herald (Miami, FL) |
| 14 | Willisms | 4044 | | 0.131 | Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, TX) |
| 15 | Drezner | 3908 | | 0.126 | The Tampa Tribune & Times (Tampa, FL) |
| 16 | Angry Bear | 3633 | | 0.118 | Cincinnati Enquirer/Post (Cincinnati, OH) |
| 17 | Angry Economist | 3490 | | 0.113 | Little Rock Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Little Rock, AR) |
| 18 | Winter Watch | 3389 | | 0.110 | Little Rock Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Little Rock, AR) |
| 19 | Carl Futia | 2481 | | 0.080 | Asbury Park Press (Neptune, NJ) |
| 20 | Overcoming Bias | 2014 | | 0.065 | The Honolulu Advertiser (Honolulu, HI) |
| 21 | Statistical Modeling | 1881 | | 0.061 | Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) |
| 22 | Half Sigma | 1746 |  | 0.057 | Lexington Herald-Leader (Lexington, KY) |
| 23 | Billboardom | 1729 | | 0.056 | Lexington Herald-Leader (Lexington, KY) |
| 24 | Mess that Greenspan Made | 1698 | | 0.055 | Herald-Tribune (Sarasota, FL) |
| 25 | New Economist | 1592 | | 0.052 | La Opinion (Los Angeles, CA) |
| 26 | Indian Economy | 1554 | | 0.050 | Republican (Springfield, MA) |
| 27 | Coyote Blog | 1547 | | 0.050 | Republican (Springfield, MA) |
| 28 | EconBrowser | 1484 | | 0.048 | Journal Gazette/News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne, IN) |
| 29 | MaxSpeak | 1479 | | 0.048 | Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA) |
| 30 | Long or Short Capital | 1400 | | 0.045 | Greenville News (Greenville, SC) |
| 31 | Environmental Economics (Haab and Whitehead) | 1290 | | 0.042 | The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS) |
| 32 | Financial Armageddon | 1263 | | 0.041 | Florida Today (Melbourne, FL) |
| 33 | Wages of Wins | 1250 | | 0.040 | Journal (Flint, MI) |
| 34 | Chicago Boyz | 1240 | | 0.040 | Journal (Flint, MI) |
| 35 | Escape from Cubicle Nation | 1176 | | 0.038 | Press-Telegram (Los Angeles, CA) |
| 36 | The Conglomerate | 1160 | | 0.038 | Journal (Winston-Salem, NC) |
| 37 | Fat Pitch Financials | 1105 | | 0.036 | New Haven Register (New Haven, CT) |
| 38 | Truck and Barter | 1087 | | 0.035 | Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, CA) |
| 39 | Atanu Dey | 1084 | | 0.035 | Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, CA) |
| 40 | Macroblog | 1002 | | 0.032 | Times-News (Erie, PA) |
| 41 | Fistful of Euros | 961 | | 0.031 | Asheville Citizen-Times (Asheville, NC) |
| 42 | Jacqueline Passey | 719 | | 0.023 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 43 | Andrew Leigh | 610 | | 0.020 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 44 | Catallarchy | 589 | | 0.019 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 45 | Triple Pundit | 573 | | 0.019 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 46 | Business of America is Business | 532 | | 0.017 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 47 | Carpe Diem | 528 | | 0.017 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 48 | EclectEcon | 518 | | 0.017 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 49 | Window Manager | 499 | | 0.016 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 50 | Entrepreneurial Mind | 481 | | 0.016 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 51 | Accidental Verbosity | 479 | | 0.016 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 52 | Newmark's Door | 445 | | 0.014 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 53 | SCSU Scholars | 442 | | 0.014 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 54 | Agoraphilia | 404 | | 0.013 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 55 | Knowledge Problem | 401 | | 0.013 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 56 | Ajay Shah | 371 | | 0.012 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 57 | Capital Spectator | 368 | | 0.012 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 58 | Roth and Co. | 357 | | 0.012 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 59 | Core Economics | 320 | | 0.010 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 60 | Environmental and Urban Economics | 263 | | 0.009 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 61 | Market Power | 243 | | 0.008 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 62 | EconoPundit | 235 | | 0.008 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 63 | Emirates Economist | 225 | | 0.007 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 64 | Cold Spring Shops | 223 | | 0.007 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 65 | ArgMax | 215 | | 0.007 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 66 | Prestopundit | 202 | | 0.007 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 67 | Vox Baby | 195 | | 0.006 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 68 | Visualizing Economics | 189 | | 0.006 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 69 | Financial Rounds | 180 | | 0.006 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 70 | Adam Smith's Lost Legacy | 164 | | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 71 | Economic Dreams, Economic Nightmares | 162 | | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 72 | Age of Abundance | 160 | | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 73 | Deinonychus Antirrhopus | 137 | | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 74 | Economic Investigations | 135 | | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 75 | World Economic Forum Weblog | 126 | | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 76 | Development Bank Research Bulletin | 125 | | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 77 | Let's Fly Under the Bridge | 122 | | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 78 | Global Economy Matters | 120 | | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 79 | Egoist | 116 | | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 80 | Alpha Sources | 109 | | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 81 | Ecological Economics | 105 | | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 82 | Bayesian Heresy | 102 | | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 83 | Constrained Vision | 92 | | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 84 | Globalisation and the Environment | 79 | | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 85 | Businomics | 78 | | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 86 | Different River | 78 | | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 87 | General Glut | 75 | | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 88 | Trade Diversion | 73 | | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 89 | Labor Blog | 67 | | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 90 | Oikos | 57 | | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 91 | Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development | 55 | | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 92 | Heavy Lifting | 55 | | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 93 | Italian Economy Watch | 54 | | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 94 | Carnival of the Capitalists | 43 | | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 95 | Sybil's Star | 37 | | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 96 | Liberal Capitalist Party | 36 | | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 97 | Ashish's Niti | 34 | | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 98 | Corneconomics | 20 | | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 99 | Research Design and Statistics | 13 | | 0.000 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 100 | One-Handed Economist | 12 | | 0.000 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 101 | MacroMouse | 11 | | 0.000 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 102 | Byrne's Marketview | 8 | | 0.000 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 103 | Card-Carrying Member | 8 | | 0.000 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 104 | Urban Economics and More | 7 | | 0.000 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 105 | Economics, Markets, and Probabilities | 6 | | 0.000 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 106 | De Gustibus | 5 | | 0.000 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 107 | Notes for Monetary Enthusiasts | 2 | | 0.000 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 108 | Ben Muse | 0 | | 0.000 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 109 | Go Figure | 0 | | 0.000 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 110 | Hypothetical Bias | 0 | | 0.000 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 111 | James D. Miller | 0 | | 0.000 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 112 | The Lowest Deep | 0 | | 0.000 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 113 | Trade and Me (Spanish) | 0 | | 0.000 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 114 | Vancouver Housing | 0 | | 0.000 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
Traffic ratings from July 2, 2007 - by average daily visits
| Rank | Site | Visits | Change from last month | Visit Ratio | If it were a newspaper, it would be: |
| 1 | Big Picture | 23017 | | 1.000 | USA Today (Washington, DC) |
| 2 | Calculated Risk | 12291 | | 0.534 | Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA) |
| 3 | Marginal Revolution | 10118 | | 0.440 | The Washington Post (Washington, DC) |
| 4 | Tax Prof | 5997 | | 0.261 | Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX) |
| 5 | Gregory Mankiw | 5819 | | 0.253 | Minneapolis Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) |
| 6 | Tim Worstall | 4840 | | 0.210 | Long Island Newsday (Long Island, NY) |
| 7 | Michael Shedlock | 4789 | | 0.208 | Long Island Newsday (Long Island, NY) |
| 8 | Asymmetrical Information | 3928 | | 0.171 | St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO) |
| 9 | Economist's View | 3889 | | 0.169 | St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO) |
| 10 | Drezner | 3150 | | 0.137 | San Antonio Express-News (San Antonio, TX) |
| 11 | QandO | 2919 | | 0.127 | The Tampa Tribune & Times (Tampa, FL) |
| 12 | Willisms | 2750 | | 0.120 | Cincinnati Enquirer/Post (Cincinnati, OH) |
| 13 | Gongol | 2677 | | 0.116 | Cincinnati Enquirer/Post (Cincinnati, OH) |
| 14 | Trader Mike | 2508 | | 0.109 | The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, NC) |
| 15 | Angry Bear | 2472 | | 0.107 | San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA) |
| 16 | Angry Economist | 2003 | | 0.087 | Democrat & Chronicle (Rochester, NY) |
| 17 | European Tribune | 1920 | | 0.083 | Investor's Business Daily (Los Angeles, CA) |
| 18 | Winter Watch | 1716 | | 0.075 | Los Angeles Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) |
| 19 | Carl Futia | 1624 | | 0.071 | Arizona Daily Star/Tucson Citizen (Tucson, AZ) |
| 20 | Becker-Posner | 1208 | | 0.053 | La Opinion (Los Angeles, CA) |
| 21 | Coyote Blog | 1049 | | 0.046 | Greenville News (Greenville, SC) |
| 22 | EconBrowser | 1048 | | 0.046 | Greenville News (Greenville, SC) |
| 23 | Half Sigma | 1048 | | 0.046 | Greenville News (Greenville, SC) |
| 24 | New Economist | 1020 | | 0.044 | Daily Press (Newport News, VA) |
| 25 | Overcoming Bias | 1001 | | 0.044 | Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA) |
| 26 | Financial Armageddon | 997 | | 0.043 | Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA) |
| 27 | Indian Economy | 958 | | 0.042 | East Valley Tribune (Mesa, AZ) |
| 28 | MaxSpeak | 958 | | 0.042 | East Valley Tribune (Mesa, AZ) |
| 29 | Statistical Modeling | 936 | | 0.041 | Florida Today (Melbourne, FL) |
| 30 | Billboardom | 919 | | 0.040 | Ventura County Star (Ventura, CA) |
| 31 | Mess that Greenspan Made | 840 | | 0.037 | The Augusta Chronicle (Augusta, GA) |
| 32 | Virginia Postrel | 812 | | 0.035 | Courier & Press (Evansville, IN) |
| 33 | Escape from Cubicle Nation | 810 | | 0.035 | Courier & Press (Evansville, IN) |
| 34 | Long or Short Capital | 764 | | 0.033 | Repository (Canton, OH) |
| 35 | Environmental Economics (Haab and Whitehead) | 747 | | 0.033 | Times-News (Erie, PA) |
| 36 | The Conglomerate | 740 | | 0.032 | Times-News (Erie, PA) |
| 37 | Macroblog | 739 | | 0.032 | Times-News (Erie, PA) |
| 38 | Wages of Wins | 735 | | 0.032 | Green Bay Press-Gazette (Green Bay, WI) |
| 39 | Chicago Boyz | 719 | | 0.031 | Asheville Citizen-Times (Asheville, NC) |
| 40 | Truck and Barter | 651 | | 0.028 | Post-Tribune (Merrillville, IN) |
| 41 | Fat Pitch Financials | 634 | | 0.028 | Quad-City Times (Davenport, IA) |
| 42 | Fistful of Euros | 620 | | 0.027 | Quad-City Times (Davenport, IA) |
| 43 | Atanu Dey | 616 | | 0.027 | Trenton Times (Trenton, NJ) |
| 44 | Catallarchy | 459 | | 0.020 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 45 | Jacqueline Passey | 437 | | 0.019 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 46 | Entrepreneurial Mind | 403 | | 0.018 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 47 | Sports Economist | 403 | | 0.018 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 48 | Triple Pundit | 386 | | 0.017 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 49 | Window Manager | 385 | | 0.017 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 50 | Andrew Leigh | 375 | | 0.016 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 51 | Business of America is Business | 370 | | 0.016 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 52 | EclectEcon | 357 | | 0.016 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 53 | Accidental Verbosity | 349 | | 0.015 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 54 | Capital Spectator | 346 | | 0.015 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 55 | SCSU Scholars | 320 | | 0.014 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 56 | Knowledge Problem | 307 | | 0.013 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 57 | Roth and Co. | 305 | | 0.013 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 58 | Carpe Diem | 297 | | 0.013 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 59 | Newmark's Door | 279 | | 0.012 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 60 | Agoraphilia | 271 | | 0.012 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 61 | Ajay Shah | 212 | | 0.009 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 62 | Environmental and Urban Economics | 210 | | 0.009 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 63 | EconoPundit | 186 | | 0.008 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 64 | Market Power | 182 | | 0.008 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 65 | Core Economics | 178 | | 0.008 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 66 | Cold Spring Shops | 168 | | 0.007 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 67 | Vox Baby | 166 | | 0.007 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 68 | Emirates Economist | 165 | | 0.007 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 69 | Prestopundit | 136 | | 0.006 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 70 | Visualizing Economics | 116 | | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 71 | ArgMax | 115 | | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 72 | Financial Rounds | 113 | | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 73 | Adam Smith's Lost Legacy | 112 | | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 74 | Undergraduate Economist | 110 | | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 75 | Economic Dreams, Economic Nightmares | 103 | | 0.005 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 76 | Egoist | 94 | | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 77 | Let's Fly Under the Bridge | 91 | | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 78 | World Economic Forum Weblog | 91 | | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 79 | Economic Investigations | 86 | | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 80 | Deinonychus Antirrhopus | 83 | | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 81 | Global Economy Matters | 83 | | 0.004 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 82 | Development Bank Research Bulletin | 78 | | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 83 | Constrained Vision | 77 | | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 84 | Age of Abundance | 74 | | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 85 | Alpha Sources | 74 | | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 86 | Bayesian Heresy | 70 | | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 87 | General Glut | 69 | | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 88 | Ecological Economics | 63 | | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 89 | Different River | 62 | | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 90 | Globalisation and the Environment | 57 | | 0.003 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 91 | Businomics | 52 | | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 92 | Labor Blog | 52 | | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 93 | Trade Diversion | 52 | | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 94 | Oikos | 50 | | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 95 | Heavy Lifting | 49 | | 0.002 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 96 | Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development | 33 | | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 97 | Italian Economy Watch | 31 | | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 98 | Sybil's Star | 31 | | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 99 | Ashish's Niti | 27 | | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 100 | Carnival of the Capitalists | 27 | | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 101 | Corneconomics | 15 | | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 102 | Liberal Capitalist Party | 11 | | 0.001 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 103 | MacroMouse | 9 | | 0.000 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 104 | Byrne's Marketview | 6 | | 0.000 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 105 | Economics, Markets, and Probabilities | 6 | | 0.000 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 106 | One-Handed Economist | 6 | | 0.000 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 107 | Research Design and Statistics | 6 | | 0.000 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 108 | Card-Carrying Member | 5 | | 0.000 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 109 | Urban Economics and More | 5 | | 0.000 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 110 | De Gustibus | 4 | | 0.000 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 111 | Notes for Monetary Enthusiasts | 2 | | 0.000 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 112 | Ben Muse | 0 | | 0.000 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 113 | Go Figure | 0 | | 0.000 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 114 | Hypothetical Bias | 0 | | 0.000 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 115 | James D. Miller | 0 | | 0.000 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 116 | The Lowest Deep | 0 | | 0.000 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 117 | Trade and Me (Spanish) | 0 | | 0.000 | (below threshold for top 200 newspapers) |
| 118 | Vancouver Housing | 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):