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Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Law Prof Blog Traffic Rankings

Below are the updated quarterly traffic rankings by page views of the Top 50 blogs edited by law professors for the most recent 12-month period (Oct. 1, 2012 - Sept. 30, 2013), as well as the percentage change in traffic from the prior 12-month period.  As I previously announced, in response to several requests and in light of the continued degrading of Site Meter, I am now including the more accurate, stable Google Analytics data in these quarterly traffic rankings (marked with an asterisk).

1 InstaPundit* 145,595,168 n/a
2 Althouse 17,780,559 +0.1%
3 Legal Insurrection* 15,970,418 +25.1%
4 Volokh Conspiracy* 11,613,277 -2.3%
5 Patently-O* 6,555,895 +88.4%
6 Leiter Reports: Philosophy 5,764,417 +1.3%
7 Hugh Hewitt 5,129,171 -20.0%
8 TaxProf Blog* 4,653,273 +45.3%
9 PrawfsBlawg 1,979,193 +7.4%
10 Jack Bog's Blog 1,932,989 -40.0%
11 Lawfare* 1,624,335 +46.6%
12 Faculty Lounge 1,452,695 +16.5%
13 The Incidental Economist 1,383,180 +29.7%
14 Sentencing Law & Policy 1,308,955 -3.6%
15 Harvard Law Corp Gov 1,298,585 +24.7%
16 Leiter's Law School Reports 988,390 -3.1%
17 Opinio Juris* 981,984 -2.3%
18 Concurring Opinions 884,586 -21.7%
19 Election Law Blog 831,961 -7.2%
20 College Insurrection* 820,924 n/a
21 Balkinization 714,980 -30.3%
22 Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog 713,043 +20.6%
23 Turtle Talk 520,585 -4.8%
24 Constitutional Law Prof Blog 504,995 +61.7%
25 Conglomerate 442,130 +12.3%
26 Mirror of Justice 401,246 -7.3%
27 ImmigrationProf Blog 317,815 -2.4%
28 Antitrust & Comp. Policy Blog 311,455 +7.2%
29 Religion Clause 296,359 -13.7%
30 Workplace Prof Blog 291,366 +4.4%
31 Legal History Blog 286,869 -20.4%
32 Josh Blackman Blog* 261,239 n/a
33 Legal Skills 248,055 +34.2%
34 Sports Law Blog 231,783 -24.2%
35 IntLawGrrls 225,555 -46.7%
36 Legal Profession Blog 222,234 +4.0%
37 Legal Ethics Forum 219,332 +18.8%
38 Dorf on Law* 195,833 n/a
39 White Collar Crime Prof Blog 189,318 -20.8%
40 Legal Whiteboard 179,564 n/a
41 ContractsProf Blog 168,325 +9.4%
42 CrimProf Blog 161,675 +4.5%
43 Discourse.net 154,297 -21.7%
44 Witnesseth* 150,271 n/a
45 EvidenceProf Blog 147,697 +23.0%
46 The Right Coast 145,498 -28.8%
47 Legal Writing Prof Blog 141,093 -3.3%
48 M&A Prof Blog 134,841 -6.3%
49 PropertyProf Blog 123,128 +6.7%
50 Nonprofit Law Prof Blog 102,895 +40.5%

  • These Law Prof Blog Traffic Rankings are drawn from Dan Solove's Law Professor Blogger Census, as updated by Colin Miller's Legal Educator Blog Census.  The rankings include all blogs edited by law professors -- both law-related and non law-related.
  • The rankings include all blogs edited by law professors that have publicly available Site Meters or that have emailed me a screenshot of their Google Analytics data (or granted me read-only access to their data).
  • Please email me the names of any Law Prof Blogs with traffic over the past twelve months that would qualify for inclusion on the list (102,896 page views). If necessary, I will re-publish the list to include all qualifying blogs.
  • Several popular Law Prof Blogs do not have publicly available Site Meters and have not sent me Google Analytics data and thus are not included on the list:  e.g., California Appellate Report, Credit Slips, The Deal Professor, 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, Wall Street Journal Law Blog.
  • Members of my Law Professor Blogs Network comprise five of the Top 25 blogs and seventeen of the Top 50 blogs.

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Comments

It looks like Instapundit has more traffic that every else totaled together. Probably because instapundit has become much more than a law blog, it has become a rival to drudge.

Posted by: richard40 | Oct 23, 2013 2:30:58 PM

Curious, pardon my ignorance. Does Google Analytics capture readers who use RSS feeders, or only actual visits to the web site?

Posted by: TennLion | Oct 22, 2013 5:34:19 PM

good post

Posted by: sammay | Oct 22, 2013 5:45:27 AM