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 (July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2010), as well as the percentage change in traffic from the prior 12-month period:

	Blog	Page Views	Change
1	InstaPundit	147,636,731	17.6%
2	Althouse	14,829,817	13.4%
3	Volokh Conspiracy	14,409,741	-6.8%
4	Hugh Hewitt	8,351,548	-43.7%
5	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	4,269,607	18.2%
6	TaxProf Blog	3,629,743	-1.4%
7	Patently-O	3,595,777	1.8%
8	Legal Insurrection	3,361,054	n/a
9	Jack Bog's Blog	2,549,743	1.2%
10	Sentencing Law & Policy	1,674,120	5.2%
11	PrawfsBlawg	1,423,528	4.8%
12	Concurring Opinions	1,279,221	-32.2%
13	Leiter's Law School Reports	1,180,817	-8.5%
14	Balkanization	1,118,590	-28.5%
15	The Faculty Lounge	890,285	86.6%
16	Opinio Juris	737,343	13.0%
17	Conglomerate	535,391	5.0%
18	The Right Coast	514,244	-10.5%
19	Workplace Prof Blog	437,317	-24.6%
20	Wills, Trusts & Est. Prof Blog	419,859	10.2%
21	ImmigrationProf Blog	388,906	0.1%
22	Harvard Law  Corp Gov	363,563	n/a
23	Sports Law Blog	361,875	4.0%
24	Discourse.net	361,241	-33.2%
25	Religion Clause	357,185	-1.5%
26	Mirror of Justice	346,154	18.0%
27	Legal History Blog	333,814	24.5%
28	White Collar Crime Prof Blog	325,737	-38.8%
29	Constitutional Law Prof Blog	291,250	n/a
30	Antitrust & Competition Policy	272,403	24.1%
31	Legal Profession Blog	253,418	-6.3%
32	Election Law Blog	246,908	-15.8%
33	Ideoblog	234,990	-7.7%
34	CrimProf Blog	228,869	-13.2%
35	IntLawGrrls	214,932	35.9%

	Blog	Visitors	Change
1	InstaPundit	143,549,793	18.7%
2	Volokh Conspiracy	10,534,341	-7.8%
3	Althouse	8,478,897	21.4%
4	Hugh Hewitt	6,355,437	-48.2%
5	TaxProf Blog	2,811,168	1.2%
6	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	2,740,423	24.7%
7	Legal Insurrection	2,621,549	n/a
8	Patently-O	1,894,824	4.7%
9	Jack Bog's Blog	1,094,100	2.8%
10	Sentencing Law & Policy	975,204	4.3%
11	Concurring Opinions	857,342	-31.1%
12	Leiter's Law School Reports	802,357	-11.5%
13	PrawfsBlawg	761,874	-2.5%
14	balkinization	710,224	-20.1%
15	The Faculty Lounge	528,592	87.7%
16	Opinio Juris	437,987	17.3%
17	Conglomerate	343,860	-2.9%
18	The Right Coast	329,677	-14.4%
19	Workplace Prof Blog	301,089	-27.3%
20	Wills, Trusts & Est. Prof Blog	278,640	5.2%
21	Discourse.net	268,695	-33.7%
22	ImmigrationProf Blog	267,249	1.7%
23	Sports Law Blog	241,834	7.4%
24	Religion Clause	237,733	-5.2%
25	White Collar Crime Prof Blog	235,813	-35.0%
26	Legal History Blog	218,019	15.3%
27	Mirror of Justice	217,722	11.7%
28	Harvard Law  Corp Gov	216,483	n/a
29	Constitutional Law Prof Blog	210,905	n/a
30	Ideoblog	177,668	-3.4%
31	Legal Profession Blog	168,647	-5.6%
32	Antitrust & Competition Policy	165,949	21.2%
33	CrimProf Blog	165,166	-17.3%
34	Election Law Blog	161,430	-13.8%
35	Legal Writing Prof Blog	136,968	-11.6%

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	86.6%	The Faculty Lounge	87.7%
2	IntLawGrrls	35.9%	IntLawGrrls	28.8%
3	Legal History Blog	24.5%	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	24.7%
4	Antitrust & Competition Policy	24.1%	Althouse	21.4%
5	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	18.2%	Antitrust & Competition Policy	21.2%
6	Mirror of Justice	18.0%	InstaPundit	18.7%
7	InstaPundit	17.6%	Opinio Juris	17.3%
8	Althouse	13.4%	Legal History Blog	15.3%
9	Opinio Juris	13.0%	Mirror of Justice	11.7%
10	Wills, Trusts & Est. Prof Blog	10.2%	Sports Law Blog	7.4%

In absolute terms, the Top 32 blogs with 2-year track records increased their traffic by 8.2% (page views) and 10.1% (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 (214,933 page views and/or 136,969 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., 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 eleven of the Top 35 blogs; and by visitors, two of the Top 10, four of the Top 20, and ten of the Top 35 blogs.
• Members of our Law Professor Blogs Network comprise two of the ten fastest growing Law Prof Blogs.