The EconDirectory:
Traffic Rankings for Business and Economics Websites
Brian Gongol

Next update: On or about September 2, 2008. The most recent ratings are always found at EconDirectory.com.

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The data here are generally from May 1 through May 31, 2008, as collected on June 2, 2008

Traffic ratings from June 2, 2008 - by average daily pageviews

Rank Site Page Views Change Pageview Ratio If it were a newspaper, it would be:
1 Big Picture 49858 Increase 100.00% USA Today (Washington, DC)
2 Calculated Risk 46895 Decrease 94.06% The Wall Street Journal (New York, NY)
3 Michael Shedlock 27065 Decrease 54.28% Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA)
4 Marginal Revolution 23391 Decrease 46.92% The Washington Post (Washington, DC)
5 Naked Capitalism 13182 Large increase 26.44% Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
6 Gregory Mankiw 11870 Decrease 23.81% The Newark Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ)
7 Economist's View 9537 Large decrease 19.13% San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, CA)
8 Overcoming Bias 8952 Large increase 17.95% San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, CA)
9 European Tribune 7721 Decrease 15.49% The Miami Herald (Miami, FL)
10 Tax Prof 5958 Decrease 11.95% Cincinnati Enquirer/Post (Cincinnati, OH)
11 Gongol 5828 Large increase 11.69% Cincinnati Enquirer/Post (Cincinnati, OH)
12 Triple Pundit 5009 Large increase 10.05% St. Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, MN)
13 Coyote Blog 4945 Decrease 9.92% Des Moines Register (Des Moines, IA)
14 QandO 4633 Decrease 9.29% Omaha World-Herald (Omaha, NE)
15 Trader Mike 4541 Increase 9.11% The Boston Herald (Boston, MA)
16 Angry Economist 4329 Large increase 8.68% Las Vegas Review-Journal (Las Vegas, NV)
17 VoxEU 4048 Decrease 8.12% Asbury Park Press (Neptune, NJ)
18 Carpe Diem 3526 Increase 7.07% Arizona Daily Star/Tucson Citizen (Tucson, AZ)
19 Angry Bear 3436 Decrease 6.89% Arizona Daily Star/Tucson Citizen (Tucson, AZ)
20 Stephen Bainbridge 3357 Large decrease 6.73% Dayton Daily News (Dayton, OH)
21 Half Sigma 3286 No change 6.59% The Honolulu Advertiser (Honolulu, HI)
22 Drezner 3205 Increase 6.43% The Honolulu Advertiser (Honolulu, HI)
23 Winter Watch 3089 Decrease 6.20% Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
24 Wages of Wins 3032 Large increase 6.08% Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
25 Financial Armageddon 2936 Decrease 5.89% Wisconsin State Journal/Capital Times (Madison, WI)
26 Mess that Greenspan Made 2664 Decrease 5.34% Wilmington News Journal (Wilmington, DE)
27 EconBrowser 2585 Increase 5.18% La Opinion (Los Angeles, CA)
28 John Lott 2350 Large increase 4.71% Mobile Register (Mobile, AL)
29 Willisms 2304 Decrease 4.62% Greenville News (Greenville, SC)
30 Tim Worstall 2109 Large decrease 4.23% Maine Sunday Telegram (Portland, ME)
31 Chicago Boyz 2105 Large decrease 4.22% Maine Sunday Telegram (Portland, ME)
32 Long or Short Capital 1963 Large decrease 3.94% El Nuevo Herald (Miami, FL)
33 Truck and Barter 1929 Decrease 3.87% Times Free Press (Chattanooga, TN)
34 Environmental Economics (Haab and Whitehead) 1806 Decrease 3.62% Ledger (Lakeland, FL)
35 Random Roger's Big Picture 1586 Decrease 3.18% Green Bay Press-Gazette (Green Bay, WI)
36 Bonddad Blog 1497 Large decrease 3.00% Cedar Rapids Gazette (Cedar Rapids, IA)
37 Indian Economy 1460 Increase 2.93% Caller-Times (Corpus Christi, TX)
38 Atanu Dey 1446 Increase 2.90% Caller-Times (Corpus Christi, TX)
39 Visualizing Economics 1363 No change 2.73% Quad-City Times (Davenport, IA)
40 Carl Futia 1295 Decrease 2.60% Belleville News-Democrat (Belleville, IL)
41 The Conglomerate 1252 Large decrease 2.51% Standard-Examiner (Ogden, UT)
42 Accrued Interest 1219 Decrease 2.44% Racing Form (New York, NY)
43 New Economist 1196 Large decrease 2.40% Christian Science Monitor (Boston, MA)
44 Escape from Cubicle Nation 1125 Increase 2.26% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
45 Fat Pitch Financials 1104 Decrease 2.21% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
46 Newmark's Door 984 Large decrease 1.97% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
47 Political Calculations 941 No change 1.89% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
48 Ekonomi Turk (Turkish) 905 Decrease 1.82% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
49 Alea 843 Large decrease 1.69% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
50 Fistful of Euros 803 Decrease 1.61% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
51 Billboardom 784 Large decrease 1.57% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
52 Andrew Leigh 680 Large decrease 1.36% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
53 Chris Blattman 667 Increase 1.34% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
54 Entrepreneurial Mind 638 Increase 1.28% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
55 Core Economics 617 Increase 1.24% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
56 Roth and Co. 591 Large decrease 1.19% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
57 Economicrot 590 Decrease 1.18% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
58 Ajay Shah 555 Increase 1.11% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
59 Blogo Existo (Portuguese) 551 Increase 1.11% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
60 Market Solution (Serbian) 534 Large increase 1.07% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
61 Bayesian Heresy 520 Large increase 1.04% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
62 SCSU Scholars 508 Increase 1.02% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
63 Econospeak 496 Increase 0.99% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
64 Emirates Economist 474 Decrease 0.95% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
65 EclectEcon 455 Decrease 0.91% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
66 Environmental and Urban Economics 434 Decrease 0.87% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
67 Macroblog 399 Large decrease 0.80% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
68 Market Power 357 Large decrease 0.72% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
69 Asymmetrical Information 357 Decrease 0.72% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
70 Adam Smith's Lost Legacy 353 Decrease 0.71% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
71 Antitrust and Competition Policy 353 Decrease 0.71% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
72 Financial Rounds 317 Increase 0.64% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
73 Economista Serial Cronico 308 Large decrease 0.62% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
74 Capital Spectator 276 Decrease 0.55% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
75 Art Diamond 272 Large decrease 0.55% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
76 Global Economy Matters 264 Large decrease 0.53% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
77 Globalisation and the Environment 237 Decrease 0.48% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
78 Common Tragedies 206 Large decrease 0.41% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
79 VoluntaryXchange 200 Large decrease 0.40% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
80 Window Manager 199 Decrease 0.40% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
81 EconoPundit 199 Increase 0.40% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
82 Truth on the Market 194 Large decrease 0.39% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
83 Eli Dourado 193 Large increase 0.39% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
84 N. Emrah Aydinonat 190 Decrease 0.38% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
85 Businomics 170 Large decrease 0.34% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
86 Alpha Sources 165 Increase 0.33% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
87 ArgMax 163 Large decrease 0.33% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
88 Cold Spring Shops 159 Large decrease 0.32% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
89 Trade Diversion 153 Increase 0.31% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
90 Business of America is Business 143 Large decrease 0.29% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
91 Economic Dreams, Economic Nightmares 142 Large decrease 0.28% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
92 Vox Baby 130 Large decrease 0.26% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
93 Italian Economy Watch 129 Large decrease 0.26% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
94 World Economic Forum Weblog 129 Decrease 0.26% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
95 Ecological Economics 129 Increase 0.26% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
96 Development Bank Research Bulletin 128 Large decrease 0.26% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
97 Inflation in the USA 127 Large decrease 0.25% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
98 Buyer Behaviour 126 Decrease 0.25% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
99 Economic Investigations 125 Large increase 0.25% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
100 Hypothetical Bias 120 Large increase 0.24% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
101 Labour and Capital 111 Large increase 0.22% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
102 Constrained Vision 107 Decrease 0.21% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
103 Deinonychus Antirrhopus 105 Decrease 0.21% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
104 Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development 100 Increase 0.20% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
105 Management R&D 99 Large decrease 0.20% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
106 Street Light 92 Large decrease 0.18% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
107 Oikos 83 Decrease 0.17% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
108 Let's Fly Under the Bridge 81 Decrease 0.16% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
109 L'Estable 72 Decrease 0.14% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
110 EconWeekly 65 Large decrease 0.13% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
111 Heavy Lifting 57 Decrease 0.11% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
112 Trade and Me (Spanish) 56 Increase 0.11% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
113 Egoist 56 Increase 0.11% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
114 Accidental Verbosity 55 Decrease 0.11% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
115 Sybil's Star 52 Large decrease 0.10% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
116 Labor Blog 48 Decrease 0.10% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
117 Ashish's Niti 40 Increase 0.08% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
118 General Glut 40 Large decrease 0.08% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
119 Willem Buiter 39 Large decrease 0.08% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
120 Age of Abundance 38 Large decrease 0.08% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
121 Real Economic Growth in the USA 34 Large decrease 0.07% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
122 Ivan Kitov 34 Large decrease 0.07% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
123 Different River 27 Decrease 0.05% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
124 Liberal Capitalist Party 26 Large increase 0.05% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
125 Research Design and Statistics 18 Large increase 0.04% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
126 One-Handed Economist 14 Large increase 0.03% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
127 Carnival of the Capitalists 12 Decrease 0.02% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
128 Awkward Utopia 11 Increase 0.02% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
129 Card-Carrying Member 8 Large decrease 0.02% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
130 Marek Hlavac 7 Large decrease 0.01% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
131 IPE at UNC 7 Large decrease 0.01% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
132 Moonballs from Planet Earth 7 Large decrease 0.01% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
133 De Gustibus 6 No change 0.01% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
134 Notes for Monetary Enthusiasts 6 Large decrease 0.01% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
135 The Lowest Deep 5 Large decrease 0.01% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
136 MacroMouse 5 Large decrease 0.01% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
137 Urban Economics and More 5 No change 0.01% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
138 Jacqueline Passey 3 Large decrease 0.01% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
139 Economics, Markets, and Probabilities 3 No change 0.01% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
140 Statistical Modeling 1 No change 0.00% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
141 Vancouver Housing 0 Large increase 0.00% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
142 Ben Muse 0 No change 0.00% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
143 Agoraphilia 0 No change 0.00% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
144 Go Figure 0 No change 0.00% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
145 Knowledge Problem 0 Large decrease 0.00% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
146 Catallarchy 0 Large decrease 0.00% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)


Traffic ratings from June 2, 2008 - by average daily visits

Rank Site Visits Change Visit Ratio If it were a newspaper, it would be:
1 Big Picture 40024 Increase 100.00% USA Today (Washington, DC)
2 Calculated Risk 37281 Decrease 93.15% The Wall Street Journal (New York, NY)
3 Michael Shedlock 22834 Decrease 57.05% Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA)
4 Marginal Revolution 15816 Decrease 39.52% The Washington Post (Washington, DC)
5 Naked Capitalism 8549 Large increase 21.36% Long Island Newsday (Long Island, NY)
6 Gregory Mankiw 7662 Decrease 19.14% San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, CA)
7 Economist's View 5821 Large decrease 14.54% Kansas City Star (Kansas City, MO)
8 Triple Pundit 4176 Large increase 10.43% San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA)
9 Overcoming Bias 4094 Large increase 10.23% St. Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, MN)
10 Tax Prof 4073 Decrease 10.18% St. Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, MN)
11 QandO 2980 Decrease 7.45% Los Angeles Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
12 Coyote Blog 2877 Decrease 7.19% Birmingham News (Birmingham, AL)
13 Trader Mike 2671 Increase 6.67% Dayton Daily News (Dayton, OH)
14 Gongol 2448 No change 6.12% Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
15 Drezner 2432 Increase 6.08% Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
16 Angry Bear 2338 Decrease 5.84% The Journal News (White Plains, NY)
17 Carpe Diem 2253 Decrease 5.63% Lexington Herald-Leader (Lexington, KY)
18 Financial Armageddon 2208 Decrease 5.52% Herald-Tribune (Sarasota, FL)
19 Stephen Bainbridge 1983 Large decrease 4.95% The Philadelphia Daily News (Philadelphia, PA)
20 Mess that Greenspan Made 1979 Decrease 4.94% The Philadelphia Daily News (Philadelphia, PA)
21 Angry Economist 1909 Increase 4.77% Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA)
22 Wages of Wins 1876 Large increase 4.69% Mobile Register (Mobile, AL)
23 VoxEU 1859 Large decrease 4.64% Mobile Register (Mobile, AL)
24 European Tribune 1763 Decrease 4.40% Post and Courier (Charleston, SC)
25 EconBrowser 1762 Decrease 4.40% Post and Courier (Charleston, SC)
26 Winter Watch 1735 Decrease 4.33% Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
27 Half Sigma 1619 Decrease 4.05% Times (Washington, DC)
28 Willisms 1588 Decrease 3.97% Ventura County Star (Ventura, CA)
29 Chicago Boyz 1494 No change 3.73% Journal (Winston-Salem, NC)
30 John Lott 1491 Large increase 3.73% Journal (Winston-Salem, NC)
31 Truck and Barter 1243 Decrease 3.11% Asheville Citizen-Times (Asheville, NC)
32 Tim Worstall 1210 Large decrease 3.02% Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
33 Bonddad Blog 1199 Decrease 3.00% Cedar Rapids Gazette (Cedar Rapids, IA)
34 Becker-Posner 1187 No change 2.97% Bakersfield Californian (Bakersfield, CA)
35 Environmental Economics (Haab and Whitehead) 1153 Decrease 2.88% San Bernardino Sun (San Bernardino, CA)
36 Random Roger's Big Picture 1069 Decrease 2.67% Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, CA)
37 Carl Futia 1043 Increase 2.61% Belleville News-Democrat (Belleville, IL)
38 Long or Short Capital 1037 Large decrease 2.59% The Stockton Record (Stockton, CA)
39 Accrued Interest 1020 Decrease 2.55% Duluth News-Tribune (Duluth, MN)
40 Indian Economy 949 Increase 2.37% Statesman Journal (Salem, OR)
41 The Conglomerate 921 Large decrease 2.30% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
42 New Economist 888 Large decrease 2.22% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
43 Visualizing Economics 841 Increase 2.10% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
44 Atanu Dey 814 Increase 2.03% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
45 Escape from Cubicle Nation 751 Increase 1.88% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
46 Fat Pitch Financials 695 Decrease 1.74% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
47 Political Calculations 626 No change 1.56% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
48 Newmark's Door 604 Large decrease 1.51% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
49 Fistful of Euros 568 Decrease 1.42% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
50 Entrepreneurial Mind 549 Increase 1.37% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
51 Ekonomi Turk (Turkish) 544 Decrease 1.36% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
52 Virginia Postrel 533 Decrease 1.33% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
53 Alea 531 Decrease 1.33% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
54 Andrew Leigh 478 Decrease 1.19% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
55 Economicrot 437 Decrease 1.09% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
56 Billboardom 436 Large decrease 1.09% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
57 Sports Economist 428 No change 1.07% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
58 Chris Blattman 423 Increase 1.06% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
59 Roth and Co. 408 Large decrease 1.02% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
60 SCSU Scholars 386 No change 0.96% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
61 Blogo Existo (Portuguese) 381 Increase 0.95% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
62 Bayesian Heresy 376 Large increase 0.94% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
63 Econospeak 374 Increase 0.93% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
64 Core Economics 374 Increase 0.93% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
65 Ajay Shah 357 Large increase 0.89% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
66 Environmental and Urban Economics 350 Decrease 0.87% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
67 Emirates Economist 341 Decrease 0.85% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
68 EclectEcon 320 Large decrease 0.80% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)
69 Asymmetrical Information 314 Decrease 0.78% (below threshold for top 200 newspapers)