Law Prof Blog Rankings

Below are the updated quarterly traffic rankings (page views and visitors) of the Top 35 blogs edited by law professors with publicly available SiteMeters for the most recent 12-month period (Oct. 1, 2008 - Sept. 30, 2009).  In a new feature, I have included the percentage change in traffic from the prior 12-month period:

	Blog	Page Views	Change
1	InstaPundit	131,797,851	+39.3%
2	Volokh Conspiracy	15,280,786	+8.6%
3	Althouse	13,027,558	+100.4%
4	Hugh Hewitt	12,205,544	-25.0%
5	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	3,779,106	+21.7%
6	TaxProf Blog	3,647,217	+27.8%
7	Patently-O	3,464,367	-4.2%
8	Jack Bog's Blog	2,506,306	+8.2%
9	Concurring Opinions	1,741,459	-10.7%
10	Sentencing Law & Policy	1,628,497	-2.0%
11	Balkanization	1,398,761	-28.7%
12	PrawfsBlawg	1,347,354	+3.6%
13	Legal Insurrection	1,314,949	n/a
14	Leiter's Law School Reports	1,282,155	+8.1%
15	The Faculty Lounge	657,954	n/a
16	Opinio Juris	652,102	+4.9%
17	Workplace Prof Blog	547,734	-3.6%
18	The Right Coast	504,022	+2.9%
19	Discourse.net	486,543	-23.1%
20	White Collar Crime Prof Blog	477,818	-19.0%
21	Conglomerate	436,147	-24.7%
22	ImmigrationProf Blog	386,794	+15.5%
23	Wills, Trusts & Est. Prof Blog	386,731	+9.3%
24	Religion Clause	349,770	+26.8%
25	Sports Law Blog	343,756	-24.3%
26	Mirror of Justice	304,045	+70.0%
27	Election Law Blog	284,721	+20.5%
28	Legal History Blog	281,429	+41.5%
29	Dissenting Justice	279,633	n/a
30	Ideoblog	265,123	+5.8%
31	Legal Profession Blog	263,029	+28.8%
32	Legal Writing Prof Blog	253,006	+175.0%
33	CrimProf Blog	245,734	+4.1%
34	Chicago Faculty Blog	240,224	-8.5%
35	Antitrust & Competition Policy	235,022	+67.1%

	Blog	Visitors	Change
1	InstaPundit	127,465,424	+42.1%
2	Volokh Conspiracy	11,258,376	+11.4%
3	Hugh Hewitt	10,032,180	-24.0%
4	Althouse	6,842,476	+85.0%
5	TaxProf Blog	2,805,176	+46.4%
6	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	2,307,771	+23.4%
7	Patently-O	1,784,076	+30.1%
8	Concurring Opinions	1,161,039	-10.0%
9	Jack Bog's Blog	1,088,062	+18.6%
10	Legal Insurrection	1,009,480	n/a
11	Sentencing Law & Policy	955,533	+3.6%
12	Leiter's Law School Reports	894,639	+7.1%
13	balkinization	810,948	-28.4%
14	PrawfsBlawg	757,612	-4.4%
15	The Faculty Lounge	392,727	n/a
16	Workplace Prof Blog	388,449	-4.0%
17	Opinio Juris	383,095	+5.9%
18	Discourse.net	365,779	-22.1%
19	White Collar Crime Prof Blog	333,150	-16.1%
20	The Right Coast	325,011	-8.2%
21	Conglomerate	299,117	-25.5%
22	ImmigrationProf Blog	265,473	+16.2%
23	Wills, Trusts & Est. Prof Blog	265,384	+7.3%
24	Religion Clause	240,917	+31.8%
25	Sports Law Blog	224,748	-17.1%
26	Dissenting Justice	203,611	n/a
27	Legal History Blog	199,949	+58.8%
28	Mirror of Justice	198,916	+67.1%
29	Ideoblog	195,246	+9.4%
30	CrimProf Blog	184,037	-6.0%
31	Election Law Blog	182,404	+22.6%
32	Legal Profession Blog	173,569	+32.1%
33	Legal Writing Prof Blog	173,237	+193.6%
34	Chicago Faculty Blog	152,599	-11.0%
35	Antitrust & Competition Policy	146,318	+49.7%

 

Here are the largest percentage increases (page views and visitors) among the Top 35 blogs from the prior 12-month period:

 

	Blog	Page Views	Blog	Visitors
1	Legal Writing Prof Blog	+175.0%	Legal Writing Prof Blog	+193.6%
2	Althouse	+100.4%	Althouse	+85.0%
3	Mirror of Justice	+70.0%	Mirror of Justice	+67.1%
4	Antitrust & Competition	+67.1%	Legal History Blog	+58.8%
5	Legal History Blog	+41.5%	Antitrust & Competition	+49.7%
6	InstaPundit	+39.3%	TaxProf Blog	+46.4%
7	Legal Profession Blog	+28.8%	InstaPundit	+42.1%
8	TaxProf Blog	+27.8%	Legal Profession Blog	+32.1%
9	Religion Clause	+26.8%	Religion Clause	+31.8%
10	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	+21.7%	Patently-O	+30.1%

 

In absolute terms, the Top 32 blogs with 2-year track records increased their traffic by 26.5% (page views) and 30.6% (visitors).  The mean changes were +16.1% (page views) and +18.3% (visitors); the median changes were +7.0% (page views) and +8.4% (visitors).

• These Law Prof Blog Rankings are drawn from Dan Solove's Law Professor Blogger Census, as updated by Colin Miller' Legal Educator Blog Census.  They include all blogs edited by law professors -- both law-related and non law-related.
• Please email me the names of any Law Prof Blogs with traffic over the past twelve months that would qualify for inclusion on the lists (235,023 page views and/or 146,319 visitors).  If necessary, I will re-publish the list to include all qualifying blogs.
• Several popular Law Prof Blogs do not have publicly available SiteMeters and thus are not included on the list:  e.g., BlackProf, California Appellate Report, Credit Slips, The Deal Professor, Dorf on Law, Feminist Law Professors, Legal Theory, Point of Law, ProfessorBainbridge.com. 
• These rankings cover only those blogs edited by law professors.  Other law-related blogs edited by practitioners, librarians, non-law school academics, and journalists are not included on this list:  e.g., Above the Law, How Appealing, Law Librarian Blog, Wall Street Journal Law Blog.
• Members of our Law Professor Blogs Network comprise, by page views, two of the Top 10, four of the Top 20, and ten of the Top 35 blogs; and by visitors, one of the Top 10, four of the Top 20, and ten of the Top 35 blogs.
• Members of our Law Professor Blogs Network comprise four of the ten fastest growing Law Prof Blog (including Legal Writing Prof Blog, the fasted growing blog by both page views and visitors).