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 (April 1, 2009 - March 31, 2010), as well as the percentage change in traffic from the prior 12-month period:

	Blog	Page Views	Change
1	InstaPundit	152,674,600	32.8%
2	Volokh Conspiracy	14,935,286	0.9%
3	Althouse	14,769,900	20.2%
4	Hugh Hewitt	8,923,944	-44.2%
5	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	4,069,673	17.0%
6	TaxProf Blog	3,604,223	3.8%
7	Patently-O	3,462,353	-4.8%
8	Legal Insurrection	2,979,162	n/a
9	Jack Bog's Blog	2,510,690	3.2%
10	Sentencing Law & Policy	1,675,550	4.6%
11	Concurring Opinions	1,399,585	-26.3%
12	PrawfsBlawg	1,398,962	-2.1%
13	Balkanization	1,201,717	-33.0%
14	Leiter's Law School Reports	1,196,991	-8.9%
15	The Faculty Lounge	837,589	124.5%
16	Opinio Juris	719,343	16.9%
17	The Right Coast	515,083	0.0%
18	Workplace Prof Blog	454,545	-27.3%
19	Conglomerate	409,358	-27.1%
20	Wills, Trusts & Est. Prof Blog	407,955	5.0%
21	Discourse.net	399,473	-31.6%
22	ImmigrationProf Blog	367,807	-6.2%
23	Religion Clause	358,072	4.7%
24	Sports Law Blog	357,721	0.7%
25	White Collar Crime Prof Blog	357,006	-38.5%
26	Mirror of Justice	336,492	21.5%
27	Legal History Blog	314,992	28.1%
28	Election Law Blog	262,482	-4.9%
29	Antitrust & Competition Policy	260,027	30.3%
30	Ideoblog	256,961	2.1%
31	Legal Writing Prof Blog	255,028	57.5%
32	Legal Profession Blog	254,591	-3.9%
33	Harvard Law  Corp Gov	253,060	n/a
34	Dissenting Justice	223,576	n/a
35	CrimProf Blog	217,740	-26.0%

	Blog	Visitors	Change
1	InstaPundit	148,450,470	34.7%
2	Volokh Conspiracy	10,920,879	0.3%
3	Althouse	8,082,115	19.4%
4	Hugh Hewitt	6,872,034	-47.8%
5	TaxProf Blog	2,789,969	8.8%
6	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	2,580,552	22.6%
7	Legal Insurrection	2,316,738	n/a
8	Patently-O	1,812,820	-1.6%
9	Jack Bog's Blog	1,073,737	6.7%
10	Sentencing Law & Policy	976,184	4.7%
11	Concurring Opinions	946,989	-24.6%
12	Leiter's Law School Reports	830,552	-10.4%
13	PrawfsBlawg	756,534	-8.4%
14	balkinization	726,475	-27.7%
15	The Faculty Lounge	489,039	119.8%
16	Opinio Juris	430,384	21.0%
17	The Right Coast	326,876	-8.0%
18	Workplace Prof Blog	313,820	-29.7%
19	Discourse.net	297,918	-32.2%
20	Conglomerate	281,749	-28.4%
21	Wills, Trusts & Est. Prof Blog	273,021	0.4%
22	White Collar Crime Prof Blog	261,189	-32.0%
23	ImmigrationProf Blog	254,269	-4.5%
24	Religion Clause	240,649	3.7%
25	Sports Law Blog	238,430	6.5%
26	Mirror of Justice	215,690	18.9%
27	Legal History Blog	213,995	23.3%
28	Ideoblog	192,793	6.5%
29	Legal Writing Prof Blog	175,206	62.0%
30	Election Law Blog	171,465	-2.0%
31	Legal Profession Blog	168,497	-2.9%
32	Antitrust & Competition Policy	159,373	23.9%
33	CrimProf Blog	159,077	-30.3%
34	Dissenting Justice	153,863	n/a
35	Harvard Law Corp. Gov.	152,580	n/a

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	The Faculty Lounge	124.5%	The Faculty Lounge	119.8%
2	Legal Writing Prof Blog	57.5%	Legal Writing Prof Blog	62.0%
3	InstaPundit	32.8%	InstaPundit	34.7%
4	Antitrust & Comp. Policy	30.3%	Antitrust & Comp. Policy	23.9%
5	Legal History Blog	28.1%	Legal History Blog	23.3%
6	Mirror of Justice	21.5%	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	22.6%
7	Althouse	20.2%	Opinio Juris	21.0%
8	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	17.0%	Althouse	19.4%
9	Opinio Juris	16.9%	Mirror of Justice	18.9%
10	Wills, Trusts & Est. Prof Blog	5.0%	TaxProf Blog	8.8%

In absolute terms, the Top 32 blogs with 2-year track records increased their traffic by 17.6% (page views) and 21.0% (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 (217,741 page views and/or 152,581 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, two of the Top 10, three 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.