2009 Law Prof Blog Rankings

Below are the 2009 traffic rankings (page views and visitors) of the Top 35 blogs edited by law professors with publicly available SiteMeters, as well as the percentage change in traffic from 2008: 

	Blog	Page Views	Change
1	InstaPundit	140,929,193	+36.2%
2	Volokh Conspiracy	15,280,872	+6.7%
3	Althouse	14,101,170	+27.6%
4	Hugh Hewitt	9,273,872	-48.2%
5	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	4,056,118	+29.2%
6	TaxProf Blog	3,466,809	+2.9%
7	Patently-O	3,421,330	-4.2%
8	Jack Bog's Blog	2,502,302	+8.0%
9	Legal Insurrection	1,914,160	n/a
10	Sentencing Law & Policy	1,683,246	+4.4%
11	Concurring Opinions	1,527,250	-23.0%
12	PrawfsBlawg	1,391,782	-1.7%
13	Leiter's Law School Reports	1,265,175	+5.3%
14	Balkanization	1,245,880	-35.6%
15	The Faculty Lounge	778,620	n/a
16	Opinio Juris	702,916	+15.4%
17	Workplace Prof Blog	492,992	-19.1%
18	The Right Coast	491,046	+3.1%
19	Discourse.net	432,616	-30.9%
20	White Collar Crime Prof Blog	408,109	-33.6%
21	Wills, Trusts & Est. Prof Blog	404,949	+8.7%
22	Conglomerate	397,621	-31.5%
23	ImmigrationProf Blog	378,441	+2.8%
24	Religion Clause	356,408	+16.8%
25	Sports Law Blog	348,268	-12.5%
26	Mirror of Justice	311,217	+24.2%
27	Legal History Blog	300,494	+38.3%
28	Dissenting Justice	293,953	n/a
29	Ideoblog	266,723	+3.5%
30	Legal Writing Prof Blog	266,700	+139.8%
31	Legal Profession Blog	263,218	+10.2%
32	Antitrust & Competition Policy	247,880	+48.2%
33	Election Law Blog	246,075	-10.5%
34	CrimProf Blog	226,343	-19.7%
35	Chicago Faculty Blog	195,111	-25.0%

 

	Blog	Visitors	Change
1	InstaPundit	136,702,947	+38.4%
2	Volokh Conspiracy	11,193,721	+7.0%
3	Althouse	7,456,778	+19.4%
4	Hugh Hewitt	7,208,602	-51.3%
5	TaxProf Blog	2,666,285	+10.9%
6	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	2,488,923	+29.4%
7	Patently-O	1,787,245	-1.3%
8	Legal Insurrection	1,464,356	n/a
9	Jack Bog's Blog	1,069,990	+13.6%
10	Concurring Opinions	1,025,861	-23.1%
11	Sentencing Law & Policy	978,283	+5.1%
12	Leiter's Law School Reports	872,468	+2.4%
13	PrawfsBlawg	761,596	-8.1%
14	balkinization	746,886	-30.4%
15	The Faculty Lounge	461,120	n/a
16	Opinio Juris	416,252	+18.5%
17	Workplace Prof Blog	342,547	-21.4%
18	Discourse.net	321,525	-31.7%
19	The Right Coast	311,477	-6.9%
20	White Collar Crime Prof Blog	291,219	-28.1%
21	Wills, Trusts & Est. Prof Blog	273,115	+4.3%
22	Conglomerate	268,096	-33.8%
23	ImmigrationProf Blog	261,368	+4.4%
24	Religion Clause	241,731	+17.5%
25	Sports Law Blog	231,740	-4.4%
26	Dissenting Justice	214,622	n/a
27	Legal History Blog	208,934	+35.4%
28	Mirror of Justice	202,037	+21.2%
29	Ideoblog	198,534	+7.0%
30	Legal Writing Prof Blog	182,735	+158.2%
31	Legal Profession Blog	173,463	+11.3%
32	CrimProf Blog	167,797	-25.5%
33	Election Law Blog	161,818	-6.6%
34	Antitrust & Competition Policy	153,755	+37.3%
35	Chicago Faculty Blog	124,997	-26.2%

 

Here are the largest percentage increases (page views and visitors) among the Top 35 blogs from 2008:

 

	Blog	Page Views	Blog	Visitors
1	Legal Writing Prof Blog	+139.8%	Legal Writing Prof Blog	+158.2%
2	Antitrust & Competition	+48.2%	InstaPundit	+38.4%
3	Legal History Blog	+38.3%	Antitrust & Competition	+37.3%
4	InstaPundit	+36.2%	Legal History Blog	+35.4%
5	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	+29.2%	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	+29.4%
6	Althouse	+27.6%	Mirror of Justice	+21.2%
7	Mirror of Justice	+24.2%	Althouse	+19.4%
8	Religion Clause	+16.2%	Opinio Juris	+18.5%
9	Opinio Juris	+15.4%	Religion Clause	+17.5%
10	Legal Profession Blog	+10.2%	Jack Bog's Blog	+13.6%

 

In absolute terms, the Top 32 blogs with 2-year track records increased their traffic by 18.7% (page views) and 22.0% (visitors).  The mean changes were +4.3% (page views) and +4.4% (visitors); the median changes were +3.9% (page views) and +4.4% (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 (195,112 page views and/or 124,998 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 three of the ten fastest growing Law Prof Blog by page views, and two of the of the ten fastest growing Law Prof Blog by visitors (including Legal Writing Prof Blog, the fasted growing blog by both page views and visitors).