Anderson: The Reading Level of Law Professor Blogs

Robert Anderson (Pepperdine), The Reading Level of Law Professor Blogs:

I recently discovered a feature of Google that allows the user to filter searches by "reading level." ... [D]rawing on the websites listed in Paul Caron's blog traffic rankings on TaxProf Blog, plus a few choices of my own, I produced the following ranking [of 59 blogs and websites]. ...

Rank	Caron Rank	Blog	Basic Level	Advanced Level	Advanced/Basic Difference
1	50	Legal History Blog	2	51	49
2	24	Antitrust & Comp. Policy Blog	1	44	43
3	8	Patently-O	4	32	28
4	18	Harvard Law Corp Gov	1	25	24
5	19	Opinio Juris	1	16	15
6	45	Civil Procedure Prof Blog	0	14	14
7	10	The Incidental Economist	10	23	13
8	31	EvidenceProf Blog	1	12	11
9	30	Legal Whiteboard	0	10	10
10	48	Dorf on Law	1	10	9
11	29	Workplace Prof Blog	2	11	9
12	20	Concurring Opinions	3	12	9
13	6	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	11	20	9
14	NA	Witnesseth	1	9	8
15	47	Legal Ethics Forum	3	10	7
16	22	Constitutional Law Prof	1	7	6
17	11	Lawfare	1	6	5
18	15	Sentencing Law & Policy	1	6	5
19	38	CrimProf Blog	1	6	5
20	28	Balkinization	3	8	5
21	41	Nonprofit Law Prof Blog	0	4	4
22	4	TaxProf Blog	1	5	4
23	2	Volokh Conspiracy	2	6	4
24	49	Adjunct Law Prof Blog	1	4	3
25	13	Leiter's Law School Reports	7	10	3

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 July 1, 2013 - June 30, 2014 period, 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).

Rank	Blog	Page Views	Change
1	InstaPundit*	147,883,140	n/a
2	Volokh Conspiracy*a	15,429,923	+42.7%
3	Legal Insurrection*	15,367,741	+6.2%
4	TaxProf Blog*	14,915,193	+347.9%
5	Althouse	14,248,540	-26.1%
6	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	5,721,050	-0.4%
7	Hugh Hewitt	3,455,156	-43.9%
8	Patently-O	3,223,956	-14.1%
9	PrawfsBlawg	2,231,847	+13.4%
10	The Incidental Economist*	1,854,619	+38.6%
11	Lawfare*	1,794,468	+33.5%
12	Faculty Lounge	1,407,739	+2.9%
13	Leiter's Law School Reports	1,364,938	+35.1%
14	Wills, Tr. & Est. Prof Blog	1,302,188	+119.2%
15	Sentencing Law & Policy	1,267,974	-2.0%
16	Gregory S. McNeal*a	1,147,520	n/a
17	Liberty Law Blog*	1,133,967	n/a
18	Harvard Law Corp Gov	1,051,456	-18.2%
19	Opinio Juris*	989,473	-6.9%
20	Concurring Opinions	943,259	-4.0%
21	College Insurrection*	883,371	+24.6%
22	Constitutional Law Prof Blog	737,649	+57.3%
23	Conglomerate	735,986	+89.1%
24	Antitrust & Comp. Policy Blog	709,997	+178.2%
25	ImmigrationProf Blog	709,952	+157.6%
26	Election Law Blog*	699,839	-25.2%
27	Legal Skills	611,962	+256.0%
28	Balkinization	609,672	-20.9%
29	Workplace Prof Blog	531,472	+110.0%
30	Legal Whiteboard	438,677	+168.9%
31	EvidenceProf Blog	406,067	+239.7%
32	ContractsProf Blog	386,565	+192.6%
33	Legal Profession Blog	377,364	+101.5%
34	Turtle Talk* (incomplete data)	375,475	-43.9%
35	Josh Blackman Blog*	366,243	+31.2%
36	White Collar Crime Prof Blog	346,038	+120.3%
37	Jack Bog's Blog	340,277	-89.8%
38	CrimProf Blog	303,227	+129.2%
39	Mirror of Justice	288,055	-32.9%
40	M&A Prof Blog	285,357	+128.1%
41	Nonprofit Law Prof Blog	277,974	+282.5%
42	Religion Clause	274,171	-13.7%
43	PropertyProf Blog	238,468	+118.4%
44	Legal Writing Prof Blog	235,252	+63.1%
45	Civil Procedure Prof Blog	231,820	+203.4%
46	Law School Academic Support	222,256	+210.7%
47	Legal Ethics Forum	215,372	+10.3%
48	Dorf on Law*	214,614	+22.2%
49	Adjunct Law Prof Blog	197,914	+129.2%
50	Legal History Blog	184,979	-40.6%

a Proprietary data based in part on Google Analytics.

• The rankings include all blogs edited by law professors -- both law-related and non law-related.
• The rankings include all blogs 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 for the July 1, 2013 - June 30, 2014 period that would qualify for inclusion on the list (184,980 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 7 of the Top 25 blogs and 22 of the Top 50 blogs.

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 April 1, 2013 - March 31, 2014 period, 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).

Rank	Blog	Page Views	Change
1	InstaPundit*	137,555,358	n/a
2	Legal Insurrection*	16,085,516	+9.1%
3	Althouse	15,273,957	-23.2%
4	TaxProf Blog*	12,506,717	+264.4%
5	Volokh Conspiracy*	10,123,791	-14.6%
6	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	5,561,484	-2.9%
7	Patently-O*	5,029,535	+41.2%
8	Hugh Hewitt	3,705,278	-46.1%
9	PrawfsBlawg	1,922,508	-3.0%
10	Lawfare*	1,802,330	+62.2%
11	The Incidental Economist*	1,801,825	+42.8%
12	Faculty Lounge	1,360,941	+2.0%
13	Sentencing Law & Policy	1,313,160	+3.0%
14	Leiter's Law School Reports	1,263,600	+21.7%
15	Liberty Law Blog*	1,216,776	n/a
16	Harvard Law Corp Gov	1,203,270	+2.3%
17	Wills, Tr. & Est. Prof Blog	1,136,359	+95.9%
18	Opinio Juris*	1,037,921	+0.2%
19	College Insurrection*	906,565	n/a
20	Concurring Opinions	866,333	-15.5%
21	Election Law Blog	676,737	-29.3%
22	Conglomerate	670,196	+79.2%
23	Balkinization	660,636	-26.2%
24	Constitutional Law Prof Blog	644,411	+32.1%
25	Antitrust & Comp. Policy Blog	613,959	+140.6%
26	ImmigrationProf Blog	598,682	+114.5%
27	Legal Skills	520,415	+195.5%
28	Turtle Talk	510,706	-2.4%
29	Workplace Prof Blog	487,897	+92.7%
30	Jack Bog's Blog	431,131	-87.0%
31	Legal Whiteboard	385,620	+140.7%
32	Mirror of Justice	341,466	-19.3%
33	ContractsProf Blog	334,954	+147.0%
34	EvidenceProf Blog	331,112	+177.0%
35	Legal Profession Blog	326,853	+73.3%
36	White Collar Crime Prof Blog	310,738	+64.1%
37	Religion Clause	286,713	-9.4%
38	Josh Blackman’s Blog*	284,237	+35.0%
39	CrimProf Blog	267,150	+95.6%
40	M&A Prof Blog	244,734	+61.9%
41	Legal Ethics Forum	232,219	+27.5%
42	Legal History Blog	224,869	-32.6%
43	Nonprofit Law Prof Blog	221,270	+210.8%
44	Dorf on Law*	219,109	+24.4%
45	Legal Writing Prof Blog	209,274	+40.0%
46	PropertyProf Blog	206,912	+80.4%
47	Witnesseth*	201,598	n/a
48	Civil Procedure Prof Blog	182,579	+110.2%
49	Law School Academic Support	182,477	+151.6%
50	Adjunct Law Prof Blog	163,729	+82.0%

• The rankings include all blogs edited by law professors -- both law-related and non law-related.
• The rankings include all blogs 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 for the April 1, 2013 - March 31, 2014 period that would qualify for inclusion on the list (163,730 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 6 of the Top 25 blogs and 22 of the Top 50 blogs.

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 2013 (Jan. 1, 2013 - Dec. 31, 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).

Rank	Blog	2013 Page Views	Change From 2012
1	InstaPundit*	145,305,741	n/a
2	Althouse	15,809,760	-18.8%
3	Legal Insurrection*	15,630,309	+22.4%
4	Volokh Conspiracy*	11,461,210	-6.4%
5	TaxProf Blog*	8,862,872	+169.8%
6	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	5,277,589	-8.5%
7	Hugh Hewitt	3,805,156	-49.4%
8	PrawfsBlawg	1,975,522	+5.5%
9	Lawfare*	1,767,565	+68.7%
10	The Incidental Economist*	1,611,466	+38.9%
11	Faculty Lounge	1,457,008	+18.4%
12	Harvard Law Corp Governance	1,336,770	+23.0%
13	Sentencing Law & Policy	1,319,699	+1.9%
14	Jack Bog's Blog	1,161,184	-64.8%
15	Opinio Juris*	1,008,157	-0.4%
16	Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog	917,721	+47.7%
17	College Insurrection*	861,276	n/a
18	Leiter's Law School Reports	757,467	-25.8%
19	Balkinization	716,709	-24.2%
20	Constitutional Law Prof Blog	684,743	+122.4%
21	Concurring Opinions	655,491	-38.8%
22	Election Law Blog	569,388	-43.3%
23	Conglomerate	547,145	+37.1%
24	Turtle Talk	528,634	-2.1%
25	Antitrust & Comp. Policy Blog	495,058	+80.5%
26	ImmigrationProf Blog	462,063	+49.2%
27	Legal Skills Prof Blog	388,377	+100.3%
28	Workplace Prof Blog	385,131	+44.9%
29	Mirror of Justice	372,038	-15.7%
30	Religion Clause	294,955	-8.5%
31	Legal Whiteboard	280,768	+108.4%
32	Legal Profession Blog	277,018	+39.2%
33	Josh Blackman Blog*	274,219	+155.5%
34	Legal History Blog	265,754	-26.2%
35	ContractsProf Blog	265,464	+79.9%
36	White Collar Crime Prof Blog	251,506	+16.7%
37	Legal Ethics Forum	236,175	+32.0%
38	EvidenceProf Blog	230,884	+89.2%
39	Dorf on Law	214,611	n/a
40	CrimProf Blog	211,554	+44.7%
41	Sports Law Blog	198,685	-34.3%
42	M&A Prof Blog	197,012	+46.6%
43	Witnesseth	179,862	n/a
44	PropertyProf Blog	174,786	+50.7%
45	Legal Writing Prof Blog	164,161	+7.5%
46	Nonprofit Law Prof Blog	156,804	+116.3%
47	IntLawGrrls	155,768	-62.2%
48	Law School Academic Support	138,287	+92.8%
49	Discourse.net	131,757	-27.4%
50	Adjunct Law Prof Blog	130,975	+7.1%

• The rankings include all blogs edited by law professors -- both law-related and non law-related.
• The rankings include all blogs 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 in 2013 that would qualify for inclusion on the list (130,795 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, PatentlyO, 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 6 of the Top 25 blogs and 21 of the Top 50 blogs.

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.

Law Prof Blog Traffic Rankings

In response to several requests and in light of the continued degrading of Site Meter, I will for the first time include the more accurate, stable Google Analytics data in my quarterly Law Professor Blog Traffic Rankings, which are forthcoming next week for the most recent one-year period (Oct. 1, 2012 - Sept. 30, 2013).  If you are a law professor with a blog and would like me to use Google Analytics data in your blog's traffic statistics, please email me a screenshot of your Google Analytics page view data (or grant me read-only access to your data, and I will retrieve it myself).

Law Prof Blog Traffic 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, 2012 - June 30, 2013), as well as the percentage change in traffic from the prior 12-month period:

	Blog	Page Views	Change
1	Althouse	19,274,484	+13.1%
2	Legal Insurrection	14,971,596	+67.2%
3	Hugh Hewitt	6,159,753	+12.0%
4	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	5,743,519	+0.4%
5	Patently-O	3,753,510	+1.3%
6	TaxProf Blog	3,330,253	-3.0%
7	Jack Bog's Blog	2,656,112	-11.1%
8	PrawfsBlawg	1,967,352	+13.1%
9	The Faculty Lounge	1,367,702	+9.5%
10	The Incidental Economist	1,338,336	+36.1%
11	Sentencing Law & Policy	1,294,144	-13.8%
12	Harvard Law Corp Gov	1,286,040	+43.5%
13	Lawfare	1,215,410	+61.2%
14	Opinio Juris	1,062,998	+17.0%
15	Leiter's Law School Reports	1,010,301	-2.9%
16	Concurring Opinions	982,564	-14.6%
17	Election Law Blog	935,534	+48.0%
18	Balkinization	770,792	-25.3%
19	Wills, Tr. & Est. Prof Blog	594,165	+10.3%
20	Turtle Talk	519,718	+0.9%
21	Constitutional Law Prof Blog	468,970	+52.6%
22	Mirror of Justice	429,442	+5.2%
23	Conglomerate	389,130	+3.5%
24	Religion Clause	317,785	-13.7%
25	Legal History Blog	311,551	-7.8%
26	IntLawGrrls	287,234	-27.3%
27	Sports Law Blog	279,551	-8.7%
28	Josh Blackman Blog	279,253	+126.5%
29	ImmigrationProf Blog	275,576	-24.5%
30	Workplace Prof Blog	253,055	-20.7%
31	Antitrust & Comp.Pol'y Blog	241,137	-26.7%
32	Legal Ethics Forum	195,248	+0.5%
33	Legal Profession Blog	187,283	-16.5%
34	The Right Coast	172,123	-33.8%
35	Discourse.net	170,661	-21.5%

 

	Blog	Visitors	Change
1	Althouse	11,604,694	+10.6%
2	Legal Insurrection	11,460,915	+82.5%
3	Hugh Hewitt	4,951,007	+15.0%
4	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	3,962,822	+3.3%
5	TaxProf Blog	2,527,167	-3.0%
6	Patently-O	2,058,505	1.1%
7	Jack Bog's Blog	1,123,437	-12.7%
8	PrawfsBlawg	990,309	+12.0%
9	The Incidental Economist	857,890	+36.7%
10	Sentencing Law & Policy	789,440	+25.8%
11	Harvard Law Corp Gov	779,674	+43.1%
12	The Faculty Lounge	752,944	+6.5%
13	Lawfare	713,761	+48.9%
14	Leiter's Law School Reports	706,383	-2.3%
15	Concurring Opinions	634,719	-14.2%
16	Opinio Juris	623,119	+14.9%
17	Balkinization	541,077	-20.8%
18	Election Law Blog	512,407	+50.0%
19	Wills, Tr. & Est. Prof Blog	391,400	+12.7%
20	Mirror of Justice	352,209	+39.4%
21	Turtle Talk	351,833	+7.4%
22	Conglomerate	218,133	-11.4%
23	Religion Clause	196,988	-11.9%
24	Legal History Blog	192,391	-8.3%
25	Constitutional Law Prof Blog	190,801	-11.5%
26	ImmigrationProf Blog	190,333	-19.7%
27	Josh Blackman Blog	186,427	+108.8%
28	Sports Law Blog	179,944	-15.1%
29	Workplace Prof Blog	173,340	-19.6%
30	IntLawGrrls	169,905	-28.5%
31	Antitrust & Comp. Pol’y Blog	145,337	-25.1%
32	The Right Coast	130,537	-23.7%
33	Legal Profession Blog	126,396	-14.2%
34	Legal Ethics Forum	125,389	+8.3%
35	White Collar Crime Prof Blog	123,177	-36.1%

• 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.  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 (170,662 page views and/or 123,178 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, InstaPundit, Legal Theory, Point of Law, ProfessorBainbridge.com, Volokh Conspiracy.
• 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 one of the Top 10 and nine of the Top 35 blogs.

Update:  Removed Volokh Conspiracy from the rankings because it did not have a full twelve months of SiteMeter data.

Law Prof Blog Traffic 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, 2012 - March 31, 2013), as well as the percentage change in traffic from the prior 12-month period:

	Blog	Page Views	Change
1	Althouse	19,876,719	+16.6%
2	Legal Insurrection	14,749,820	+64.7%
3	Hugh Hewitt	6,879,670	+25.1%
4	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	5,727,403	+0.1%
5	Patently-O	3,562,246	-3.9%
6	Jack Bog's Blog	3,308,120	+10.8%
7	TaxProf Blog	3,283,047	-4.3%
8	PrawfsBlawg	1,982,377	+14.0%
9	The Faculty Lounge	1,333,904	+6.8%
10	Sentencing Law & Policy	1,275,184	-15.0%
11	The Incidental Economist	1,262,139	+28.3%
12	Harvard Law  Corp Gov	1,176,588	+31.2%
13	Lawfare	1,111,240	+47.4%
14	Leiter's Law School Reports	1,038,175	-0.2%
15	Opinio Juris	1,035,833	14.0%
16	Concurring Opinions	1,025,108	-10.9%
17	Election Law Blog	956,577	+51.4%
18	Balkinization	895,739	-13.2%
19	Wills, Tr. & Est. Prof Blog	580,129	+7.7%
20	Turtle Talk	523,419	+1.6%
21	Constitutional Law Prof Blog	487,710	+58.7%
22	Mirror of Justice	423,032	+3.7%
23	Conglomerate	373,911	-0.5%
24	IntLawGrrls	359,504	-9.0%
25	Legal History Blog	333,750	-1.2%
26	Religion Clause	316,371	-14.1%
27	Sports Law Blog	299,884	-2.0%
28	ImmigrationProf Blog	279,077	-23.5%
29	Antitrust & Comp. Pol’y Blog	255,182	-22.4%
30	Workplace Prof Blog	253,211	-20.7%
31	Josh Blackman Blog	210,601	+70.8%
32	Truth on the Market	199,105	-40.0%
33	The Right Coast	190,240	-26.8%
34	White Collar Crime Prof Blog	189,389	-34.6%
35	Legal Profession Blog	188,613	-15.9%

 

	Blog	Visitors	Change
1	Althouse	11,925,565	+13.6%
2	Legal Insurrection	11,249,198	+79.2%
3	Hugh Hewitt	5,498,036	+27.7%
4	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	3,907,744	+1.9%
5	TaxProf Blog	2,494,801	-4.3%
6	Patently-O	1,930,885	-5.1%
7	Jack Bog's Blog	1,378,594	+7.1%
8	PrawfsBlawg	982,003	+11.1%
9	The Incidental Economist	793,673	+26.5%
10	Sentencing Law & Policy	771,146	+22.9%
11	Harvard Law  Corp Gov	728,265	+33.7%
12	The Faculty Lounge	727,745	+2.9%
13	Leiter's Law School Reports	714,757	-1.1%
14	Concurring Opinions	641,248	-13.3%
15	Lawfare	632,705	+32.0%
16	Balkinization	627,236	-8.2%
17	Opinio Juris	589,447	+8.7%
18	Election Law Blog	498,810	+46.0%
19	Wills, Tr. & Est. Prof Blog	394,400	+13.5%
20	Turtle Talk	347,996	+6.2%
21	Mirror of Justice	309,357	+22.5%
22	Conglomerate	228,834	-7.0%
23	IntLawGrrls	204,819	-13.8%
24	Constitutional Law Prof Blog	204,387	-5.2%
25	Legal History Blog	203,689	-2.9%
26	Religion Clause	193,873	-13.3%
27	Sports Law Blog	192,029	-9.4%
28	ImmigrationProf Blog	191,377	-19.3%
29	Workplace Prof Blog	180,069	-16.5%
30	Truth on the Market	174,806	-32.9%
31	Antitrust & Comp. Pol’y Blog	151,072	-22.1%
32	The Right Coast	141,285	-17.4%
33	Josh Blackman Blog	139,995	+56.8%
34	White Collar Crime Prof Blog	136,399	-29.2%
35	Legal Profession Blog	125,951	-14.5%

• 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.  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 (188,614 page views and/or 125,952 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, InstaPundit, Legal Theory, Point of Law, ProfessorBainbridge.com, Volokh Conspiracy. 
• 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 both page views and visitors, two of the Top 10 and nine of the Top 35 blogs.

2012 Law Prof Traffic 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 (January 1, 2012 - December 31, 2012), as well as the percentage change in traffic from 2011:

	Blog	Page Views	Change
1	Althouse	19,474,405	+7.7%
2	Legal Insurrection	14,598,724	+84.4%
3	Hugh Hewitt	7,522,966	+43.4%
4	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	5,765,627	+0.5%
5	Patently-O	3,471,345	-4.2%
6	Jack Bog's Blog	3,298,899	+14.0%
7	TaxProf Blog	3,292,704	-7.5%
8	PrawfsBlawg	1,872,081	+14.9%
9	Sentencing Law & Policy	1,294,550	-13.5%
10	The Faculty Lounge	1,230,915	+3.6%
11	The Incidental Economist	1,160,058	+20.7%
12	Harvard Law  Corp Gov	1,086,435	+34.9%
13	Concurring Opinions	1,070,340	-11.7%
14	Lawfare	1,048,033	n/a
15	Opinio Juris	1,011,965	+21.7%
16	Election Law Blog	1,004,470	+130.3%
17	Leiter's Law School Reports	1,001,762	-6.7%
18	Balkinization	945,225	-9.3%
19	Wills, Tr.  & Est. Prof Blog	621,515	+26.0%
20	Turtle Talk	540,039	+12.2%
21	Mirror of Justice	441,393	+10.2%
22	IntLawGrrls	412,456	+11.7%
23	Conglomerate	399,009	0.0%
24	Legal History Blog	360,108	+10.4%
25	Religion Clause	322,221	-11.0%
26	ImmigrationProf Blog	309,663	-16.0%
27	Constitutional Law Prof Blog	307,481	+4.2%
28	Sports Law Blog	302,414	-9.5%
29	Antitrust & Comp. Pol’y Blog	274,201	-18.7%
30	Workplace Prof Blog	265,741	-21.9%
31	Truth on the Market	240,141	-36.1%
32	White Collar Crime Prof Blog	215,439	-28.4%
33	The Right Coast	206,756	-37.8%
34	Legal Profession Blog	199,048	-14.5%
35	Madisonian Theory	184,177	+50.2%

 

	Blog	Visitors	Change
1	Althouse	11,784,142	+6.3%
2	Legal Insurrection	11,033,417	+93.1%
3	Hugh Hewitt	5,990,911	+45.6%
4	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	3,901,340	+3.3%
5	TaxProf Blog	2,506,885	-7.7%
6	Patently-O	1,896,047	-4.6%
7	Jack Bog's Blog	1,382,264	+11.7%
8	PrawfsBlawg	936,723	+11.4%
9	Sentencing Law & Policy	787,397	-11.3%
10	The Incidental Economist	731,593	+19.1%
11	The Faculty Lounge	702,386	+4.4%
12	Leiter's Law School Reports	691,707	-6.5%
13	Concurring Opinions	665,084	-16.0%
14	Harvard Law  Corp Gov	662,615	+34.8%
15	Balkinization	657,069	-5.2%
16	Lawfare	611,928	n/a
17	Opinio Juris	570,402	+11.6%
18	Election Law Blog	536,733	+123.8%
19	Wills, Tr. & Est. Prof Blog	404,263	+26.1%
20	Turtle Talk	351,142	+14.2%
21	Mirror of Justice	287,638	+19.2%
22	Conglomerate	247,383	-9.2%
23	IntLawGrrls	230,780	-0.3%
24	Constitutional Law Prof Blog	222,331	+7.5%
25	Legal History Blog	217,682	+3.8%
26	ImmigrationProf Blog	211,095	-10.8%
27	Sports Law Blog	202,396	-12.6%
28	Truth on the Market	195,135	-35.0%
29	Religion Clause	194,707	-13.9%
30	Workplace Prof Blog	187,441	-17.9%
31	Antitrust & Comp. Pol’y’ Blog	161,790	-19.4%
32	White Collar Crime Prof Blog	150,695	-23.9%
33	The Right Coast	148,930	-32.9%
34	Legal Profession Blog	134,003	-12.9%
35	Discourse.net	115,759	-24.5%

• These Law Prof Blog Rankings are drawn from Dan Solove's Law Professor Blogger Census, as updated by Colin Miller's 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 (184,178 page views and/or 115,760 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, InstaPundit, Legal Theory, Point of Law, ProfessorBainbridge.com, Volokh Conspiracy. 
• 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 both page views and visitors, two of the Top 10 and nine of the Top 35 blogs.

Law Prof Blog Traffic 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 (October 1, 2011 - September 30, 2012), as well as the percentage change in traffic from the prior 12-month period:

	Blog	Page Views	Change
1	Althouse	17,765,378	-1.5%
2	Legal Insurrection	12,767,013	+83.0%
3	Hugh Hewitt	6,411,500	+14.6%
4	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	5,689,919	+0.4%
5	Patently-O	3,479,729	-1.9%
6	Jack Bog's Blog	3,223,336	+14.9%
7	TaxProf Blog	3,203,552	-14.8%
8	PrawfsBlawg	1,843,279	+16.2%
9	Sentencing Law & Policy	1,357,636	-9.6%
10	The Faculty Lounge	1,246,610	-6.6%
11	Concurring Opinions	1,129,607	-16.1%
12	Lawfare	1,107,726	n/a
13	The Incidental Economist	1,066,656	n/a
14	Harvard Law  Corp Gov	1,041,407	+40.4%
15	Balkinization	1,025,291	-1.9%
16	Leiter's Law School Reports	1,020,418	-3.0%
17	Opinio Juris	1,005,429	+22.4%
18	Election Law Blog	896,154	+158.6%
19	Professor Bainbridge	759,373	n/a
20	Wills, Tr. & Est. Prof Blog	591,344	+23.4%
21	Turtle Talk	546,940	+21.8%
22	Mirror of Justice	432,820	+7.4%
23	IntLawGrrls	423,340	+25.1%
24	Conglomerate	393,744	-7.9%
25	Legal History Blog	360,543	+7.0%
26	Religion Clause	343,530	-7.8%
27	ImmigrationProf Blog	325,723	-13.6%
28	Constitutional Law Prof Blog	312,246	+3.8%
29	Sports Law Blog	305,597	-13.4%
30	Truth on the Market	298,774	-28.1%
31	Antitrust & Comp. Pol’y Blog	290,517	-12.6%
32	Workplace Prof Blog	278,956	-22.4%
33	White Collar Crime Prof Blog	239,169	-21.8%
34	Legal Profession Blog	213,774	-5.0%
35	The Right Coast	204,465	-45.7%

 

	Blog	Visitors	Change
1	Althouse	10,740,700	-3.0%
2	Legal Insurrection	9,401,844	+79.1%
3	Hugh Hewitt	4,959,506	+12.8%
4	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	3,855,484	+5.4%
5	TaxProf Blog	2,434,109	-15.1%
6	Patently-O	1,894,559	-1.4%
7	Jack Bog's Blog	1,354,056	+13.4%
8	PrawfsBlawg	920,788	+3.2%
9	Sentencing Law & Policy	820,138	-7.7%
10	The Faculty Lounge	707,280	+6.0%
11	Leiter's Law School Reports	701,200	-3.8%
12	Balkinization	697,486	+0.4%
13	Concurring Opinions	688,195	-23.9%
14	Lawfare	664,439	n/a
15	The Incidental Economist	663,116	n/a
16	Harvard Law  Corp Gov	620,417	+36.8%
17	Professor Bainbridge	564,893	n/a
18	Opinio Juris	558,928	+8.8%
19	Election Law Blog	449,937	+122.5%
20	Wills, Tr. & Est. Prof Blog	388,755	+24.2%
21	Turtle Talk	350,471	+22.4%
22	Mirror of Justice	276,129	+17.4%
23	Conglomerate	255,387	-14.9%
24	Truth on the Market	240,819	-26.4%
25	IntLawGrrls	237,405	+10.6%
26	Constitutional Law Prof Blog	225,118	+6.2%
27	ImmigrationProf Blog	220,180	-8.9%
28	Legal History Blog	215,727	-2.6%
29	Sports Law Blog	204,788	-16.0%
30	Religion Clause	202,729	-14.2%
31	Workplace Prof Blog	194,777	-18.5%
32	Antitrust & Comp. Pol’y’ Blog	172,209	-12.9%
33	White Collar Crime Prof Blog	165,537	-17.0%
34	The Right Coast	147,495	-40.4%
35	Legal Profession Blog	143,207	-3.6%

• These Law Prof Blog Rankings are drawn from Dan Solove's Law Professor Blogger Census, as updated by Colin Miller's 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 (204,466 page views and/or 143,208 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, InstaPundit, Legal Theory, Point of Law, Volokh Conspiracy. 
• 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 both page views and visitors, two of the Top 10, three of the Top 25, and nine of the Top 35 blogs.

Law Prof Blog Traffic 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, 2011 - March 31, 2012), as well as the percentage change in traffic from the prior 12-month period:

	Blog	Page Views	Change
1	Althouse	17,041,898	+14.1%
2	Volokh Conspiracy	11,852,543	+12.9%
3	Legal Insurrection	8,956,026	+72.0%
4	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	5,722,003	+11.4%
5	Hugh Hewitt	5,500,161	-5.3%
6	Patently-O	3,706,584	-8.3%
7	TaxProf Blog	3,432,114	-10.0%
8	Jack Bog's Blog	2,986,838	+7.3%
9	PrawfsBlawg	1,738,819	+19.1%
10	Sentencing Law & Policy	1,501,067	-3.6%
11	The Faculty Lounge	1,248,554	+25.1%
12	Concurring Opinions	1,150,058	-23.0%
13	Leiter's Law School Reports	1,040,540	-4.5%
14	Balkinization	1,031,988	-4.2%
15	The Incidental Economist	983,580	+69.1%
16	Opinio Juris	908,838	+8.8%
17	Harvard Law  Corp Gov	896,483	+43.9%
18	Professor Bainbridge	828,781	n/a
19	Lawfareblog	754,104	n/a
20	Election Law Blog	632,015	+155%
21	Wills, Tr. & Est. Prof Blog	538,575	+22.9%
22	Turtle Talk	515,139	+94.5%
23	Mirror of Justice	408,101	+5.5%
24	IntLawGrrls	395,205	+37.7%
25	Conglomerate	375,842	-37.5%
26	Religion Clause	368,319	-0.9%
27	ImmigrationProf Blog	365,030	-7.2%
28	Legal History Blog	337,863	-4.2%
29	Truth on the Market	331,858	-45.6%
30	Antitrust & Comp. Pol’y Blog	329,011	+12.1%
31	Workplace Prof Blog	319,176	-16.3%
32	Constitutional Law Prof Blog	307,382	-26.5%
33	Sports Law Blog	306,151	-19.3%
34	White Collar Crime Prof Blog	289,411	-2.8%
35	The Right Coast	259,810	-47.1%

	Blog	Visitors	Change
1	Althouse	10,495,936	+13.8%
2	Volokh Conspiracy	8,415,177	-18.1%
3	Legal Insurrection	6,278,762	+50.6%
4	Hugh Hewitt	4,306,618	-4.5%
5	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	3,834,550	+17.3%
6	TaxProf Blog	2,605,616	-10.5%
7	Patently-O	2,035,544	+11.8%
8	Jack Bog's Blog	1,286,684	+10.4%
9	Sentencing Law & Policy	887,635	-3.8%
10	PrawfsBlawg	883,927	+15.0%
11	Concurring Opinions	740,019	-25.7%
12	Leiter's Law School Reports	722,721	-2.6%
13	The Faculty Lounge	707,035	+20.7%
14	Balkinization	683,114	-6.1%
15	The Incidental Economist	627,632	+83.1%
16	Professor Bainbridge	612,443	n/a
17	Harvard Law  Corp Gov	544,704	+47.8%
18	Opinio Juris	542,216	+7.1%
19	Lawfareblog	479,241	n/a
20	Wills, Tr. & Est. Prof Blog	347,412	+20.7%
21	Election Law Blog	341,665	+117%
22	Turtle Talk	327,658	+91.8%
23	Truth on the Market	260,411	-43.3%
24	Mirror of Justice	252,626	+11.5%
25	Conglomerate	246,163	-39.6%
26	IntLawGrrls	237,656	+33.8%
27	ImmigrationProf Blog	237,054	-8.8%
28	Religion Clause	223,492	-7.4%
29	Workplace Prof Blog	215,583	-15.9%
30	Constitutional Law Prof Blog	215,511	-29.2%
31	Sports Law Blog	212,022	-17.6%
32	Legal History Blog	209,876	-7.9%
33	Antitrust & Comp. Pol’y Blog	193,986	+8.1%
34	White Collar Crime Prof Blog	192,665	-3.6%
35	The Right Coast	171,015	-48.1%

• 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 (259,811 page views and/or 171,016 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, InstaPundit, Legal Theory, Point of Law. 
• 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 both page views and visitors, two of the Top 10, three of the Top 25, and eight of the Top 35 blogs.

2011 Law Prof Blog Traffic 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 2011, as well as the percentage change in traffic from 2010:

	Blog	Page Views	Change
1	Althouse	18,086,251	+27.4%
2	Volokh Conspiracy	12,246,705	-13.7%
3	Legal Insurrection	7,915,974	+65.0%
4	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	5,735,061	+19.9%
5	Hugh Hewitt	5,245,150	-21.7%
6	Patently-O	3,625,378	+2.7%
7	TaxProf Blog	3,558,335	-6.9%
8	Jack Bog's Blog	2,893,365	+5.9%
9	PrawfsBlawg	1,629,939	13.8%
10	Sentencing Law & Policy	1,497,044	-6.9%
11	Concurring Opinions	1,212,451	-20.3%
12	The Faculty Lounge	1,188,599	+26.8%
13	Leiter's Law School Reports	1,074,154	-1.6%
14	Professor Bainbridge	1,046,349	n/a
15	Balkinization	1,041,924	-9.6%
16	The Incidental Economist	960,938	n/a
17	Opinio Juris	831,259	1.1%
18	Harvard Law  Corp Gov	805,320	49.1%
19	Wills, Tr. & Est. Prof Blog	493,330	16.2%
20	Turtle Talk	481,437	n/a
21	Lawfare	464,848	n/a
22	Election Law Blog	436,079	+65.6%
23	Mirror of Justice	400,536	+7.2%
24	Conglomerate	399,182	-33.7%
25	Truth on the Market	375,558	-32.0%
26	IntLawGrrls	369,096	+41.8%
27	ImmigrationProf Blog	368,650	-7.0%
28	Religion Clause	361,953	-4.5%
29	Workplace Prof Blog	340,129	-13.8%
30	Antitrust & Comp. Pol’y Blog	337,154	+18.9%
31	Sports Law Blog	333,991	-10.8%
32	The Right Coast	332,576	-35.9%
33	Legal History Blog	326,285	-8.4%
34	White Collar Crime Prof Blog	300,854	-1.0%
35	Constitutional Law Prof Blog	295,042	-24.5%

 

	Blog	Visitors	Change
1	Althouse	11,086,906	+27.5%
2	Volokh Conspiracy	8,797,178	-15.5%
3	Legal Insurrection	5,714,374	+49.2%
4	Hugh Hewitt	4,115,133	-20.9%
5	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	3,776,465	22.8%
6	TaxProf Blog	2,715,487	-7.5%
7	Patently-O	1,987,499	+7.6%
8	Jack Bog's Blog	1,237,984	+7.5%
9	Sentencing Law & Policy	888,016	-6.4%
10	PrawfsBlawg	840,547	+11.1%
11	Concurring Opinions	791,992	-21.6%
12	Leiter's Law School Reports	740,072	-0.7%
13	Professor Bainbridge	736,836	n/a
14	Balkinization	692,791	-7.4%
15	The Faculty Lounge	672,504	+21.9%
16	The Incidental Economist	614,294	n/a
17	Opinio Juris	511,234	+3.9%
18	Harvard Law  Corp Gov	491,624	+56.6%
19	Wills, Tr. & Est. Prof Blog	320,596	+14.6%
20	Turtle Talk	307,538	n/a
21	Truth on the Market	300,363	-25.2%
22	Lawfare	299,758	n/a
23	Conglomerate	272,415	-33.6%
24	Mirror of Justice	241,232	+9.2%
25	Election Law Blog	239,778	+43.5%
26	ImmigrationProf Blog	236,603	-10.9%
27	Sports Law Blog	231,627	-7.9%
28	IntLawGrrls	230,081	+46.8%
29	Workplace Prof Blog	228,400	-14.6%
30	Religion Clause	226,185	-7.6%
31	The Right Coast	221,826	-35.9%
32	Legal History Blog	209,674	-7.9%
33	Constitutional Law Prof Blog	206,907	-26.8%
34	Antitrust & Comp. Pol’y Blog	200,758	+17.8%
35	White Collar Crime Prof Blog	197,949	-5.6%

• 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 (295,043 page views and/or 198,950 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, InstaPundit, Legal Theory, Point of Law. 
• 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 both page views and visitors, two of the Top 10, four of the Top 25, and nine of the Top 35 blogs.

Law Prof Blog Traffic 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 (October 1, 2010 - September 30, 2011), as well as the percentage change in traffic from the prior 12-month period:

	Blog	Page Views	Change
1	Althouse	18,044,829	+23.0%
2	Volokh Conspiracy	12,729,673	-11.4%
3	Legal Insurrection	6,977,583	+69.0%
4	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	5,669,623	+25.6%
5	Hugh Hewitt	5,592,950	-23.5%
6	TaxProf Blog	3,758,696	-1.7%
7	Patently-O	3,546,493	-0.9%
8	Jack Bog's Blog	2,806,133	+6.3%
9	PrawfsBlawg	1,586,719	+7.8%
10	Sentencing Law & Policy	1,502,212	-9.7%
11	Concurring Opinions	1,346,565	-2.2%
12	The Faculty Lounge	1,169,358	+36.9%
13	Incidental Economist	1,054,048	n/a
14	Leiter's Law School Reports	1,051,471	-7.9%
15	Balkinization	1,044,672	-7.8%
16	Opinio Juris	821,463	+7.0%
17	Harvard Law  Corp Gov	741,873	+62.1%
18	Wills, Trusts & Est. Prof Blog	479,159	+12.5%
19	Turtle Talk	449,149	n/a
20	Conglomerate	427,524	-27.4%
21	Truth on the Market	415,526	+250.1%
22	Mirror of Justice	402,915	+12.4%
23	ImmigrationProf Blog	376,849	-5.5%
24	The Right Coast	376,579	-30.5%
25	Religion Clause	372,509	+0.5%
26	Workplace Prof Blog	359,553	-14.2%
27	Sports Law Blog	352,684	-5.0%
28	Election Law Blog	346,452	+38.7%
29	IntLawGrrls	338,363	+43.1%
30	Legal History Blog	337,014	-4.1%
31	Antitrust & Comp. Pol’y Blog	332,586	+19.6%
32	White Collar Crime Prof Blog	305,822	-3.7%
33	Constitutional Law Prof Blog	300,856	-14.2%
34	Discourse.net	243,913	-19.6%
35	Legal Profession Blog	225,024	-11.6%

 

	Blog	Visitors	Change
1	Althouse	11,069,377	+27.1%
2	Volokh Conspiracy	9,197,933	-12.8%
3	Legal Insurrection	5,250,656	+60.5%
4	Hugh Hewitt	4,396,540	-20.0%
5	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	3,657,706	+26.0%
6	TaxProf Blog	2,866,213	-2.7%
7	Patently-O	1,921,094	+2.1%
8	Jack Bog's Blog	1,193,631	+6.7%
9	Concurring Opinions	903,752	-0.6%
10	Sentencing Law & Policy	888,736	-8.9%
11	PrawfsBlawg	829,205	+8.0%
12	Leiter's Law School Reports	729,160	-5.3%
13	Balkinization	694,404	-5.5%
14	The Faculty Lounge	667,504	+33.6%
15	Incidental Economist	647,216	n/a
16	Opinio Juris	513,505	+12.7%
17	Harvard Law  Corp Gov	453,383	+72.1%
18	Truth on the Market	327,191	+373.2%
19	Wills, Trusts & Est. Prof Blog	313,111	+11.9%
20	Conglomerate	300,167	-23.3%
21	Turtle Talk	286,398	n/a
22	The Right Coast	247,417	-30.5%
23	Sports Law Blog	243,715	-2.2%
24	ImmigrationProf Blog	241,682	-10.3%
25	Workplace Prof Blog	239,059	-16.0%
26	Religion Clause	236,282	-2.5%
27	Mirror of Justice	235,179	+6.3%
28	Legal History Blog	221,405	-1.0%
29	IntLawGrrls	214,731	+51.8%
30	Constitutional Law Prof Blog	211,954	-16.4%
31	Election Law Blog	202,209	+24.5%
32	White Collar Crime Prof Blog	199,499	-11.0%
33	Antitrust & Comp. Pol’y Blog	197,630	+17.2%
34	Discourse.net	169,541	-23.6%
35	Legal Profession Blog	148,568	-12.9%

• 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 (225,025 page views and/or 148,569 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, InstaPundit, 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 25, and nine of the Top 35 blogs; and by visitors, two of the Top 10, five of the Top 25, and ten of the Top 35 blogs.

Law Prof Blog Traffic 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, 2010 - June 31, 2011), as well as the percentage change in traffic from the prior 12-month period:

Rank	Blog	Page Views	Change
1	Althouse	16,572,700	+11.8%
2	Volokh Conspiracy	13,469,038	-6.5%
3	Legal Insurrection	6,064,182	+80.4%
4	Hugh Hewitt	5,619,493	-32.7%
5	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	5,423,469	+27.0%
6	TaxProf Blog	3,808,372	+4.9%
7	Patently-O	3,386,369	-5.8%
8	Jack Bog's Blog	2,753,815	-8.0%
9	Sentencing Law & Policy	1,526,013	-8.8%
10	PrawfsBlawg	1,516,611	+6.5%
11	Concurring Opinions	1,454,667	+13.7%
12	The Faculty Lounge	1,063,824	+19.5%
13	Leiter's Law School Reports	1,027,816	-13.0%
14	balkinization	991,918	-11.3%
15	The Incidental Economist	879,629	n/a
16	Opinio Juris	836,861	+13.5%
17	Harvard Law  Corp Gov	711,845	+95.8%
18	Truth on the Market	644,162	+365.0%
19	Conglomerate	484,889	-9.4%
20	Wills, Trusts & Est. Prof Blog	466,531	+11.1%
21	The Right Coast	451,835	-12.1%
22	Mirror of Justice	394,970	+14.1%
23	ImmigrationProf Blog	389,297	+0.1%
24	Sports Law Blog	380,057	+5.0%
25	Turtle  Talk	379,962	n/a
26	Religion Clause	377,144	+5.6%
27	Workplace Prof Blog	373,984	-14.5%
28	Legal History Blog	350,724	+5.1%
29	Constitutional Law Prof Blog	325,428	+11.7%
30	Antitrust & Comp. Pol’y Blog	321,606	+18.1%
31	IntLawGrrls	320,323	+49.0%
32	White Collar Crime Prof Blog	306,412	-5.9%
33	Election Law Blog	282,519	+14.4%
34	Discourse.net	237,208	-34.3%
35	Legal Profession Blog	234,121	-7.6%

 

Rank	Blog	Visitors	Change
1	Althouse	10,229,419	+20.6%
2	Volokh Conspiracy	9,810,511	-6.9%
3	Legal Insurrection	4,814,283	+83.6%
4	Hugh Hewitt	4,402,184	-30.7%
5	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	3,481,584	+27.0%
6	TaxProf Blog	2,899,194	+3.1%
7	Patently-O	1,811,876	-4.4%
8	Jack Bog's Blog	1,163,912	+6.4%
9	Concurring Opinions	975,003	+13.7%
10	Sentencing Law & Policy	901,324	-7.6%
11	PrawfsBlawg	798,174	+4.8%
12	Leiter's Law School Reports	717,501	-10.6%
13	balkinization	669,633	-5.7%
14	The Faculty Lounge	612,108	+15.8%
15	The incidental Economist	533,842	n/a
16	Opinio Juris	523,647	+19.6%
17	Truth on the Market	493,641	+506.7%
18	Harvard Law Corp Gov	427,349	+97.4%
19	Conglomerate	350,639	+2.0%
20	Wills, Trusts & Est. Prof Blog	304,409	+9.3%
21	The Right Coast	301,718	-8.5%
22	Sports Law Blog	260,112	+7.6%
23	ImmigrationProf Blog	252,046	-5.7%
24	Workplace Prof Blog	248,412	-17.5%
25	Religion Clause	244,970	+3.0%
26	Turtle Talk	243,519	n/a
27	Legal History Blog	230,811	+5.9%
28	Constitutional Law Prof Blog	230,327	+9.2%
29	Mirror of Justice	229,831	+5.6%
30	IntLawGrrls	203,736	+58.5%
31	White Collar Crime Prof Blog	200,367	-15.0%
32	Antitrust & Comp. Pol’y Blog	192,783	+16.2%
33	Election Law Blog	173,361	+7.4%
34	Discourse.net	158,720	-40.9%
35	Legal Profession Blog	155,962	-7.5%

• 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 (234,122 page views and/or 155,963 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, InstaPundit, 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 25, and nine of the Top 35 blogs; and by visitors, two of the Top 10, five of the Top 25, and ten of the Top 35 blogs.

Law Prof Blog Traffic 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 (Apr. 1, 2010 - Mar. 31, 2011), as well as the percentage change in traffic from the prior 12-month period:

	Blog	Page Views	Change
1	Althouse	14,935,921	+1.1%
2	Volokh Conspiracy	10,501,021	-29.7%
3	Hugh Hewitt	5,806,544	-34.9%
4	Legal Insurrection	5,206,704	+74.8%
5	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	5,136,847	+26.2%
6	TaxProf Blog	3,812,654	+5.8%
7	Patently-O	3,420,985	-1.2%
8	Jack Bog's Blog	2,784,239	+10.9%
9	Sentencing Law & Policy	1,557,369	-7.1%
10	Concurring Opinions	1,493,258	+6.7%
11	PrawfsBlawg	1,459,966	+4.4%
12	Leiter's Law School Reports	1,089,530	-9.0%
13	Balkinization	1,077,484	-10.3%
14	The Faculty Lounge	997,949	+19.1%
15	Opinio Juris	835,177	+16.1%
16	Harvard Law  Corp Gov	623,194	+146.3%
17	Truth on the Market	610,299	+371.9%
18	Conglomerate	600,925	+46.8%
19	The Right Coast	491,454	-4.6%
20	Wills, Trusts & Est. Prof Blog	438,162	+7.4%
21	Constitutional Law Prof Blog	418,209	+163.0%
22	ImmigrationProf Blog	393,497	+7.0%
23	Mirror of Justice	386,788	+14.9%
24	Workplace Prof Blog	381,116	-16.2%
25	Sports Law Blog	379,290	+6.0%
26	Religion Clause	371,660	+3.8%
27	Legal History Blog	352,787	+12.0%
28	White Collar Crime Prof Blog	297,619	-16.6%
29	Antitrust & Comp. Pol’y Blog	293,391	+12.8%
30	IntLawGrrls	287,104	+42.9%
31	Turtle Talk	264,915	n/a
32	Discourse.net	253,112	-36.6%
33	Election Law Blog	247,802	-5.6%
34	Legal Profession Blog	243,261	-4.5%
35	Legal Ethics Forum	211,851	+10.4%

 

	Blog	Visitors	Change
1	Volokh Conspiracy	10,272,884	-5.9%
2	Althouse	9,221,526	+14.1%
3	Hugh Hewitt	4,508,002	-34.4%
4	Legal Insurrection	4,169,535	+80.0%
5	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	3,269,490	+26.7%
6	TaxProf Blog	2,912,221	+4.4%
7	Patently-O	1,819,893	+0.4%
8	Jack Bog's Blog	1,165,940	+8.6%
9	Concurring Opinions	996,115	+5.2%
10	Sentencing Law & Policy	922,412	-5.5%
11	PrawfsBlawg	768,869	+1.6%
12	Leiter's Law School Reports	741,699	-10.7%
13	Balkinization	727,642	+0.2%
14	The Faculty Lounge	585,658	+19.8%
15	Opinio Juris	506,318	+17.6%
16	Truth on the Market	459,144	+510.1%
17	Conglomerate	407,780	+44.7%
18	Harvard Law  Corp Gov	368,437	+141.5%
19	The Right Coast	329,364	+0.8%
20	Constitutional Law Prof Blog	304,423	+176.5%
21	Wills, Trusts & Est. Prof Blog	287,736	+5.4%
22	ImmigrationProf Blog	259,935	+2.2%
23	Sports Law Blog	257,421	+8.0%
24	Workplace Prof Blog	256,410	-18.3%
25	Religion Clause	241,462	+0.3%
26	Legal History Blog	227,818	+6.5%
27	Mirror of Justice	226,515	+5.0%
28	White Collar Crime Prof Blog	199,961	-23.4%
29	Antitrust & Comp. Pol’y Blog	179,409	+12.6%
30	IntLawGrrls	177,594	+43.0%
31	Discourse.net	173,860	-41.6%
32	Turtle talk	170,790	n/a
33	Legal Profession Blog	164,735	-2.2%
34	Election Law Blog	157,616	-8.1%
35	CrimProf Blog	133,851	-15.9%

• 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 (211,852 page views and/or 133,852 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, InstaPundit, 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, six of the Top 25, and nine of the Top 35 blogs; and by visitors, two of the Top 10, six of the Top 25, and ten of the Top 35 blogs.

2010 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 (Jan. 1, 2010 - Dec. 31, 2010), as well as the percentage change in traffic from the prior 12-month period:

	Blog	Page Views	Change
1	Volokh Conspiracy	14,195,409	-7.1%
2	Althouse	14,193,982	+0.7%
3	Hugh Hewitt	6,702,690	-27.7%
4	Legal Insurrection	4,796,137	+150.6%
5	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	4,785,197	+18.0%
6	TaxProf Blog	3,823,669	+10.3%
7	Patently-O	3,528,374	+3.1%
8	Jack Bog's Blog	2,732,559	+9.2%
9	Sentencing Law & Policy	1,608,126	-4.5%
10	Concurring Opinions	1,521,689	-0.4%
11	PrawfsBlawg	1,432,089	2.9%
12	Balkinization	1,151,949	-7.5%
13	Leiter's Law School Reports	1,091,067	-13.8%
14	Faculty Lounge	937,668	+20.4%
15	Opinio Juris	822,342	+17.0%
16	Conglomerate	602,383	+51.5%
17	Truth on the Market	552,337	+363.4%
18	Harvard Law  Corp Gov	540,178	+239.9%
19	The Right Coast	519,235	+5.7%
20	Wills, Trusts & Est. Prof Blog	424,611	+4.9%
21	ImmigrationProf Blog	396,584	+4.8%
22	Workplace Prof Blog	394,560	-20.0%
23	Constitutional Law Prof Blog	390,612	+198.4%
24	Religion Clause	378,828	+6.3%
25	Sports Law Blog	374,518	+7.5%
26	Mirror of Justice	373,804	+20.1%
27	Legal History Blog	356,288	+18.6%
28	White Collar Crime Prof Blog	304,045	-25.5%
29	Antitrust & Comp. Pol’y Blog	283,656	+14.4%
30	Discourse.net	280,440	-35.2%
31	Election Law Blog	263,315	+7.0%
32	IntLawGrrls	260,357	+36.5%
33	Legal Profession Blog	236,534	-10.1%
34	Legal Ethics Forum	220,515	+28.1%
35	CrimProf Blog	202,063	-10.7%

 

	Blog	Visitors	Change
1	Volokh Conspiracy	10,408,275	-7.0%
2	Althouse	8,696,090	+16.6%
3	Hugh Hewitt	5,204,059	-27.8%
4	Legal Insurrection	3,830,631	+161.6%
5	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	3,075,136	+23.6%
6	TaxProf Blog	2,936,301	+10.1%
7	Patently-O	1,847,269	+3.4%
8	Jack Bog's Blog	1,151,147	+7.6%
9	Concurring Opinions	1,009,838	-1.6%
10	Sentencing Law & Policy	948,574	-3.0%
11	PrawfsBlawg	756,712	-0.6%
12	Balkinization	748,234	+0.2%
13	Leiter's Law School Reports	745,293	-14.6%
14	Faculty Lounge	551,856	+19.7%
15	Opinio Juris	492,043	+18.2%
16	Conglomerate	410,280	+53.0%
17	Truth on the Market	401,673	+477.7%
18	The Right Coast	345,816	+11.0%
19	Harvard Law  Corp Gov	313,958	+217.0%
20	Constitutional Law Prof Blog	282,712	+219.9%
21	Wills, Trusts & Est. Prof Blog	279,656	+2.4%
22	Workplace Prof Blog	267,368	-21.9%
23	ImmigrationProf Blog	265,576	+1.6%
24	Sports Law Blog	251,525	+8.5%
25	Religion Clause	244,693	+1.2%
26	Legal History Blog	227,572	+8.9%
27	Mirror of Justice	220,975	+9.4%
28	White Collar Crime Prof Blog	209,718	-28.0%
29	Discourse.net	200,092	-37.8%
30	Antitrust & Comp. Pol’y’Blog	170,485	+10.9%
31	Election Law Blog	167,036	+3.2%
32	Legal Profession Blog	159,535	-8.0%
33	IntLawGrrls	156,710	+31.7%
34	CrimProf Blog	145,367	-13.4%
35	Legal Ethics Forum	135,328	+31.5%

• 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 (202,064 page views and/or 135,329 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, InstaPundit, 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, six of the Top 25, and ten of the Top 35 blogs; and by visitors, two of the Top 10, six of the Top 25, and ten of the Top 35 blogs.

Law Prof Blog Traffic 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, 2009 - Sept. 30, 2010), as well as the percentage change in traffic from the prior 12-month period:

	Blog	Page Views	Change
1	Althouse	14,674,249	+12.6%
2	Volokh Conspiracy	14,364,434	-6.0%
3	Hugh Hewitt	7,306,984	-40.1%
4	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	4,512,532	+19.4%
5	Legal Insurrection	4,129,884	+214.1%
6	TaxProf Blog	3,822,776	+4.8%
7	Patently-O	3,580,203	+3.3%
8	Jack Bog's Blog	2,638,863	+5.3%
9	Sentencing Law & Policy	1,662,700	+2.1%
10	PrawfsBlawg	1,471,231	+9.2%
11	Concurring Opinions	1,376,614	-21.0%
12	Leiter's Law School Reports	1,141,870	-10.9%
13	Balkanization	1,133,494	-19.0%
14	The Faculty Lounge	854,350	+29.8%
15	Opinio Juris	767,670	+17.7%
16	Conglomerate	588,844	+35.0%
17	The Right Coast	542,044	+7.5%
18	Harvard Law  Corp Gov	457,678	+534.3%
19	Wills, Trusts & Est. Prof Blog	425,978	+10.1%
20	Workplace Prof Blog	419,281	-23.5%
21	ImmigrationProf Blog	398,778	+3.1%
22	Sports Law Blog	371,408	+8.0%
23	Religion Clause	370,761	+6.0%
24	Mirror of Justice	358,526	+17.9%
25	Legal History Blog	351,241	+24.8%
26	Constitutional Law Prof Blog	350,471	+253.2%
27	White Collar Crime Prof Blog	317,668	-33.5%
28	Discourse.net	303,541	-37.6%
29	Antitrust & Competition Pol'y	278,107	+18.3%
30	Legal Profession Blog	254,513	-3.2%
31	Election Law Blog	249,801	-12.3%
32	IntLawGrrls	236,403	+36.3%
33	CrimProf Blog	224,183	-8.8%
34	Legal Ethics Forum	220,377	+42.3%
35	Legal Writing Prof Blog	174,963	-30.8%

 

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Law Prof Blog Rankings by Citations in Journals and Judicial Opinions

Following up on my recent rankings of law professor blogs by traffic and 'stickiness': Dave Hoffman (Temple) ranks the Top 20 law blogs by citations in law reviews and the Top 15 law blogs by citations by courts (the spreadsheet with all the law blog data is here -- TaxProf Blog is #24 in citations in law reviews).  The only blogs on both citations lists are:

• Volokh Conspiracy (2, 3)
• Sentencing Law & Policy (7, 1)
• Prawfs Blawg (9, 5)
• Becker-Posner (10, 5)
• Technology Law & Marketing (17, 5)

Prior TaxProf Blog coverage:

• Law Prof Blog Ranking by Citation in Law Reviews (Feb. 22, 2008)
• Law Prof Blog Ranking by Citation by Courts (Feb. 24, 2008)

The "Stickiest" Law Prof Blogs

Following up on yesterday's post, Law Prof Blog Rankings:  as others have pointed out, raw traffic numbers (visitors and page views) are only one of the measures of the influence of blogs.  "Stickiness' -- the amount of time readers spend on a blog -- also is an important metric.  Unfortunately, the SiteMeter measure -- Average Visit Length -- is problematic for at least two reasons.  First, it computes the average only for the most recent week.  Second, it begins counting the visit length only when a reader goes to a second page; if a reader stays on a single page, the visit is given a 0 visit length (no matter how long the reader lingers on that page).

From what I am told, Alexa uses a more sophisticated aproach in computing its Time on Site metric, which it measures over rolling weekly, monthly, and three-month periods.  Here are the three-month Time on Site data for the 25 of the Top 35 Law Prof blogs by traffic as measured by Alexa:

	Blog	Time on Site	Traffic Rank
1	Volokh Conspiracy	4.19	2
2	Sentencing Law & Policy	3.90	10
3	Mirror of Justice	3.39	26
4	Legal Insurrection	2.63	8
5	Discourse.net	2.38	21
6	Althouse	2.15	3
7	Jack Bog's Blog	2.00	9
8	Patently-O	1.95	7
9	Hugh Hewitt	1.78	4
10	Balkanization	1.76	13
11	Leiter's Law School Reports	1.66	14
12	TaxProf Blog	1.65	6
13	Opinio Juris	1.55	16
14	Conglomerate	1.48	19
15	The Right Coast	1.47	17
16	Election Law Blog	1.44	28
17	Concurring Opinions	1.41	11
18	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	1.39	5
19	Religion Clause	1.32	23
20	PrawfsBlawg	1.31	12
21	The Faculty Lounge	1.31	15
22	Dissenting Justice	1.15	34
23	Sports Law Blog	1.01	24
24	Legal History Blog	0.77	27
25	InstaPundit	0.36	1

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.

The "Stickiest" Law Prof Blogs

Following up on yesterday's post, Law Prof Blog Rankings:  as others have pointed out, raw traffic numbers (visitors and page views) are only one of the measures of the influence of blogs.  "Stickiness' -- the amount of time readers spend on a blog -- also is an important metric.  Unfortunately, the SiteMeter measure -- Average Visit Length -- is problematic for at least two reasons.  First, it computes the average only for the most recent week.  Second, it begins counting the visit length only when a reader goes to a second page; if a reader stays on a single page, the visit is given a 0 visit length (no matter how long the reader lingers on that page).

From what I am told, Alexa uses a more sophisticated aproach in computing its Time on Site metric, which it measures over rolling weekly, monthly, and three-month periods.  Here are the three-month Time on Site data for the 26 of the Top 35 Law Prof blogs by traffic as measured by Alexa:

	Blog	Time on Site	Traffic Rank
1	Volokh Conspiracy	3.47	2
2	Mirror of Justice	3.02	26
3	Althouse	2.59	3
4	Sentencing Law & Policy	2.55	10
5	Jack Bog's Blog	2.48	9
6	Legal Insurrection	2.40	8
7	Balkanization	2.06	13
8	Religion Clause	1.92	23
9	Wills, Trusts & Est. Prof Blog	1.84	20
10	Patently-O	1.78	7
11	Dissenting Justice	1.77	34
12	PrawfsBlawg	1.59	12
13	TaxProf Blog	1.58	6
14	Discourse.net	1.57	21
15	The Faculty Lounge	1.55	15
16	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	1.50	5
17	Sports Law Blog	1.50	24
18	The Right Coast	1.49	17
19	Concurring Opinions	1.41	11
20	Legal History Blog	1.38	27
21	Ideoblog	1.04	30
22	Conglomerate	1.03	19
23	Opinio Juris	1.03	16
24	Election Law Blog	1.03	28
25	Leiter's Law School Reports	0.80	14
26	InstaPundit	0.19	1

 

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.

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).

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).

The "Stickiest" Law Prof Blogs

Roger Alford (Pepperdine) has an interesting take on my quarterly traffic ranking (by visitors and page views) of the Top 35 blogs edited by law professors:  he re-ranks the blogs based on their "average visit length."  As Roger notes, SiteMeter measures traffic length on a daily basis and does not track visit length over a longer period.  Roger's snapshot ranking based on a single day's average visit length neverthless is interesting -- only three of the Top 10 blogs as measured by yearly traffic rank in the Top 10 in average visit length.  The "stickiest" blog is Tax Prof Jack Bogdanski's non-law blog, Jack Bog's Blog, with an average visit length of 2:56.  The Top 10 Law Prof blogs in average visit length, with the their corresponding traffic rankings, are:

1.   2:56 Jack Bog’s Blog (9)
2.   2:50 Sentencing Law & Policy Blog (10)
3.   2:42 Althouse (4)
4.   2:39 Opinio Juris (17)
4.   2:39 Election Law Blog (28)
6.   2:26 Mirror of Justice (26)
7.   2:21 Antitrust & Competition (35)
8.   2:19 Sports Law Blog (24)
9.   2:16 The Faculty Lounge (20)
10. 2:07 Right Coast (16)

Law Prof Blog Rankings

Below are the updated quarterly traffic rankings (visitors and page views) of the Top 35 blogs edited by law professors with publicly available SiteMeters for the most recent 12-month period (July 1, 2008 - June 30, 2009):

		Visitors		Page Views
1	InstaPundit	120,920,620	InstaPundit	125,495,827
2	Hugh Hewitt	12,270,165	Volokh Conspiracy	15,467,726
3	Volokh Conspiracy	11,427,028	Hugh Hewitt	14,836,132
4	Althouse	6,984,017	Althouse	13,079,260
5	TaxProf Blog	2,777,292	TaxProf Blog	3,683,047
6	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	2,197,064	Leiter Reports: Philosophy	3,611,730
7	Patently-O	1,810,131	Patently-O	3,532,889
8	Concurring Opinions	1,245,154	Jack Bog's Blog	2,519,341
9	Jack Bog's Blog	1,064,055	Concurring Opinions	1,887,558
10	Sentencing Law & Policy	935,378	Sentencing Law & Policy	1,590,752
11	Leiter's Law School Reports	906,937	Balkinization	1,563,694
12	Balkinization	888,625	PrawfsBlawg	1,358,322
13	PrawfsBlawg	781,735	Leiter's Law School Reports	1,290,732
14	Workplace Prof Blog	413,874	Opinio Juris	652,449
15	Discourse.net	405,150	Workplace Prof Blog	580,175
16	The Right Coast	385,240	The Right Coast	574,310
17	Opinio Juris	373,464	Discourse.net	541,133
18	White Collar Crime Prof Blog	362,926	White Collar Crime Prof Blog	532,591
19	Conglomerate	354,292	Conglomerate	509,989
20	The Faculty Lounge	281,606	The Faculty Lounge	477,125
21	Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof	264,798	ImmigrationProf Blog	388,386
22	ImmigrationProf Blog	262,768	Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof	381,115
23	Religion Clause	250,742	Religion Clause	362,803
24	Sports Law Blog	225,235	Sports Law Blog	347,837
25	CrimProf Blog	199,751	Mirror of Justice	293,247
26	Mirror of Justice	194,838	Election Law Blog	293,092
27	Legal History Blog	189,068	Legal Profession Blog	270,366
28	Election Law Blog	187,223	Legal History Blog	268,227
29	Ideoblog	183,979	CrimProf Blog	263,583
30	Legal Profession Blog	178,618	Ideoblog	254,574
31	Chicago Faculty Blog	159,399	Chicago Faculty Blog	251,473
32	Empirical Legal Studies	156,736	Legal Writing Prof Blog	229,400
33	Legal Writing Prof Blog	154,953	Empirical Legal Studies	225,529
34	MoneyLaw	153,373	Antitrust & Competition	219,583
35	Antitrust & Competition	136,966	MoneyLaw	200,899

• These Law Prof Blog Rankings are drawn from Dan Solove's comprehensive Law Professor Blogger 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 (136,966 visitors and/or 200,899 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 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 visitors, two of the Top 10, four of the Top 20, and ten of the Top 35 blogs; and by page views, two of the Top 10, four of the Top 20, and ten of the Top 35 blogs.
• These rankings reflect 6.7% growth in visitors (169,683,200 v. 159,028,769) and 5.7% growth in page views (197,833,997 v. 187,177,399) from the last quarterly rankings (April 1, 2008 - March 31, 2009).

Law Prof Blog Rankings

Below are the updated quarterly traffic rankings (visitors and page views) of the Top 35 blogs edited by law professors with publicly available SiteMeters for the most recent 12-month period (April 1, 2008 - March 31, 2009) [click on chart to enlarge]:

• These Law Prof Blog Rankings are drawn from Dan Solove's comprehensive Law Professor Blogger 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 (144,236 visitors and/or 199,584 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 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, Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog, 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 visitors, one of the Top 10, six of the Top 20, and ten of the Top 35 blogs; and by page views, one of the Top 10, five of the Top 20, and ten of the Top 35 blogs.
• These rankings reflect 7.0% growth in visitors (159,028,769 v. 148,557,893) and 6.1% growth in page views (187,177,399 v. 176,493,186) from the last quarterly rankings (January 1, 2008 - December 31, 2008).

The Top 10 Tax Blogs

The folks at Blogs.com asked me for my list of the Top 10 Tax Blogs:

ataxingmatter
Don't Mess With Taxes
Mauled Again
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
Roth & Co.
Start Making Sense
The Tax Girl
Tax Policy Blog
TaxProf Blog
TaxVox Blog

For links to 68 tax blogs, see the left column permanent resources on TaxProf Blog.

2008 Law Prof Blog Traffic Rankings

Below are the updated quarterly traffic rankings (visitors and page views) of the Top 35 blogs edited by law professors with publicly available SiteMeters for the most recent 12-month period (January 1, 2008 - December 31, 2008) [click on chart to enlarge]:

• These Law Prof Blog Rankings are drawn from Dan Solove's comprehensive Law Professor Blogger 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 (146,795 visitors and/or 197,853 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 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, Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog, Legal Theory, Point of Law. 
• 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 visitors, one of the Top 10, five of the Top 20, and nine of the Top 35 blogs; and by page views, one of the Top 10, five of the Top 20, and ten of the Top 35 blogs.
• These rankings reflect 11.0% growth in visitors (148,557,893 v. 133,809,690) and 7.7% growth in page views (176,493,186 v. 163,841,443) from the last quarterly rankings (October 1, 2007 - September 30, 2008).

Law Prof Blog Rankings

Below are the updated quarterly traffic rankings (visitors and page views) of the Top 35 blogs edited by law professors with publicly available SiteMeters for the most recent 12-month period (October 1, 2007 - September 30, 2008) [click on chart to enlarge]:

  

• These Law Prof Blog Rankings are drawn from Dan Solove's comprehensive Law Professor Blogger 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 (125,947 visitors and/or 180,245 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 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, Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog, Legal Theory, Point of Law.
• The list includes only those Law Prof Blogs that have been in operation for at least a year (and thus does not include popular blogs such as The Faculty Lounge).
• 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 visitors, two of the Top 10, five of the Top 20, and eleven of the Top 35 blogs; and by page views, one of the Top 10, five of the Top 20, and ten the Top 35 blogs.
• These rankings reflect 8.8% growth in visitors (133,809.690 v. 123,040,260) and 9.7% growth in page views (163,841,443 v. 149,406,023) from the last quarterly rankings (July 1, 2007 - June 30, 2008).

TaxProf Blog Crosses 5,000,000-Visitor Mark

After less than 4 1/2 years in operation, TaxProf Blog has crossed the 5,000,000-visitor mark. (We crossed the 4,000,000-visitor mark less than six months ago.) To put that number in perspective, it is the most visitors to any law-focused blog edited by a single law professor, according to publicly-available traffic statistics. (It is also 4,993,422 more than the number of number of downloads of all of my articles!)  For more on law professor blog traffic data, see here and here.

I have made over 11,700 posts to the blog, readers have posted 9,000 comments, and other bloggers have linked to the blog over 2,800 times.

The 5,000,000th visitor came to TaxProf Blog from Los Angeles, California at 11:33 p.m. EST yesterday.

I am grateful to the growing number of regular readers and hope you are finding the blog helpful in your tax research, teaching, practice, and policymaking roles.

Law Prof Blog Rankings

Below are the updated quarterly traffic rankings (visitors and page views) of the Top 35 blogs edited by law professors with publicly available SiteMeters for the most recent 12-month period (July 2007 - June 2008):

• These Law Prof Blog Rankings are drawn from Dan Solove's comprehensive Law Professor Blogger 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 (113,359 visitors and/or 161,532 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 SIteMeters and thus are not included on the list:  e.g., BlackProf, California Appellate Reports, Credit Slips, The Deal Professor, Dorf on Law, Feminist Law Professors, Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog, Legal Theory, Point of Law.
• The list includes only those Law Prof Blogs that have been in operation for at least a year (and thus does not include popular blogs such as The Faculty Lounge, Leiter's Legal Philosophy Blog, and Race to the Bottom).
• 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 visitors, two of the Top 10, five of the Top 20, and eleven of the Top 35 blogs; and by page views, one of the Top 10, five of the Top 20, and eleven of the Top 35 blogs.
• These rankings reflect 4.8% growth in visitors (123,040,260 v.117,348,819) and 4.5% growth in page views (149,406,023 v. 142,926,499) from the last quarterly rankings (April 2007 - March 2008).

Law Prof Blog Rankings

Below are the updated quarterly traffic rankings (visitors and page views) of the leading blogs edited by law professors with publicly available SiteMeters for the most recent 12-month period (April 2007 - March 2008):

• These Law Prof Blog Rankings are drawn from Dan Solove's comprehensive Law Professor Blogger 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 (82,141 visitors and/or 125,333 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 SIteMeters and thus are not included on the list:  e.g., BlackProf, California Appellate Reports, Credit Slips, The Deal Professor, Dorf on Law, Feminist Law Professors, Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog, Legal Theory, Point of Law, The Right Coast.
• The list includes only those Law Prof Blogs that have been in operation for at least a year (and thus does not include popular blogs such as The Faculty Lounge, Leiter's Legal Philosophy Blog, M&A Law Prof Blog, and Race to the Bottom).
• 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 visitors, two of the Top 10, five of the Top 20, and eleven of the Top 35 blogs; and by page views, one of the Top 10, five of the Top 20, and eleven of the Top 35 blogs.

TaxProf Blog: 8th Most Influential Law Faculty Blog

Race to the Bottom has ranked the 50 Most Influential Law Faculty Blogs for 2007:

[T]here is no single metric for ranking the popularity and/or influence of blogs, much less law blogs. There are two principle ways of ranking blogs: traffic (which is not a term with automatic meaning) and through the number of links to a page. Links has generally been used as sign of influence. Two ranking systems, Google (Page Rank) and Technorati (www.technorati.com) rely mostly on links. Justia relies on traffic although it assesses traffic largely from the results of its own search engine. In addition, a number of blogs have a site meter or were willing to provide internal traffic data. Finally, with respect to law faculty blogs, influence can be seen from the number of court and law review citations. This system, therefore, ranks law faculty blogs based upon traffic, links, and citations. For each category, blogs were assigned a score, generally 1-10, with the lowest signifying the best performance.

I am delighted that TaxProf Blog is tied for eighth under this measure.  Here are the Top 10:

1. Volokh Conspiracy

2. Sentencing Law and Policy

3. Jurist- Paper Chase

4. Instapundit.com

5. Balkanization

6. Concurring Opinions

7. Hugh Hewitt's Townhall Blog

8. Prawfs Blawg

8. TaxProf Blog

8. ProfessorBainbridge.com

I am thrilled that thirteen of the Top 50 blogs are members of our Law Professor Blogs Network:

2.  Sentencing Law and Policy

8.  TaxProf Blog

13. White Collar Crime Prof Blog

17. Workplace Prof Blog

21. Immigration Prof Blog

26. Brian Leiter's Law School Reports

26. Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog

31. CrimProf Blog

35. M & A Law Prof Blog

40. TortsProf Blog

40. Legal Profession Blog

43. Family Law Prof Blog

47. PropertyProf Blog

Law Prof Blog Ranking by Citation by Courts

Following up on recent posts on Law Prof Blog Rankings (here, here and here):  J. Robert Brown, Jr. (Denver) has ranked the Top 10 Law Prof Blogs by citation by courts.  Our sister Sentencing Law and Policy blog has an amazing 28 of the 37 total court citations of Law Prof Blogs.

Law Prof Blog Ranking by Citation in Law Reviews

Following up on recent posts on Law Prof Blog Rankings (here and here):  J. Robert Brown, Jr. (Denver) has ranked the Top 20 Law Prof Blogs by citation in law reviews.  TaxProf Blog is #14 with 25 citations in law reviews (tied with InstaPundit).

More on Law Prof Blog Rankings

Following up on Tuesday's post on Law Prof Blog Rankings, which lists the Top 30 Law Prof Blogs by traffic over the past twelve months (by both visitors and page views):  J. Robert Brown, Jr. (Denver) has posted Of Empires, Independents, and Captives: Law Blogging, Law Scholarship, and Law School Rankings on SSRN.  Here is the abstract:

Law faculty blogs have been around for much of the new millennium. This article examines these blogs, including their role in the legal scholarship continuum and their growing influence of legal community.

The paper begins with an evolutionary study, noting that law blogging originally began in a state of nature, with few rules governing frequency or content of posts. Increased competition and the emergence of Empire and Captive law blogs, however, has resulted in a growing sense of order on the legal blogosphere.

Perhaps as a result, the influence of law blogs has increased. The paper relies on a list of approximately 130 law faculty blogs and studies the frequency of law review and case citations. The numbers have been undergoing significant growth. The growth is particularly noteworthy given the difficulty in searching for material posted on the Internet.

The paper also studies the impact of law blogging on rankings in the US News. In the short term, blogging can disproportionately benefit law schools and faculty outside the top tier. Blogs can enhance the reputation of the sponsoring faculty member, enable them to route around the biases inherent in the system of law review placements and SSRN downloads, permit a level of participation in the legal debate that might otherwise not be available, and facilitate the dissemination of information important to alumni and other constituencies. Most critically, however, they represent a cost effective mechanism for improving a law school's reputational rankings and, perforce, its overall rankings in the infamous US News and World Report.

Much of the data used in the paper is derived from a list of 130 law faculty blogs, something paired down to the top 50 law faculty blogs. The top 50 was determined based upon a number of ranking metrics. These lists are included as an Appendix to this article.

Jay has begun a series of posts on his Race to the Bottom blog on Law Faculty Blogs and Rankings and promises to release "a list of the top 50 law faculty blogs next week using a variety of metrics that, in addition to traffic, attempt to assess influence. Thus, the ranking takes into account the number of law review and court citations."  I have been following Jay's work with great interest and will share his results here.

Law Prof Blog Rankings

In Are Scholars Better Bloggers?, 84 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1025 (2006), my introduction to our symposium on Bloggership: How Blogs Are Transforming Legal Scholarship, I measured the performance of our participants and their blogs under these metrics:

• Citation Counts (p. 1029)
• SSRN Download Counts (p. 1030)
• Blog Traffic -- Visitors and Page Views (pp. 1031-32)

The following charts list the traffic statistics of the leading blogs edited by law professors.  After looking at various methods of ranking blogs -- those that focus on traffic (e.g., Compete), often generated through a particular search engine (e.g., Alexa, Justia), and those that focus on links (e.g., Google Page Rank, Technorati, Truth Laid Bare) -- I decided to use the actual traffic statistics of those Law Prof Blogs with publicly available SiteMeters.  Here are the Top 35 Law Prof Blogs by both visitors and page views for the most recent 12-month period (Feburary 2007 - January 2008):

Law Prof Blog Traffic Ranking -- Visitors (Feb. 2007 - Jan. 2008)

1.   InstaPundit	70,748,231
2.   Hugh Hewitt	13,392,343
3.   Volokh Conspiracy	8,647,368
4.   Althouse	4,429,672
5.   Leiter Reports: Philosophy	1,629,699
6.   Patently-O	1,532,860
7.   TaxProf Blog	1,358,016
8.   Balkinization	1,294,363
9.   Concurring Opinions	1,125,512
10. Sentencing Law & Policy	907,141
11. Professor Bainbridge.com	856,240
12. Jack Bog's Blog	776,272
13. Leiter's Law School Reports	726,005
14. PrawfsBlawg	639,468
15. Discourse.net	451,091
16. White Collar Crime Prof Blog	383,443
17. Conglomerate	378,787
18. Opinio Juris	323,519
19. Workplace Prof Blog	298,525
20. Is That Legal?	242,119
21. Chicago Faculty Blog	235,028
22. CrimProf Blog	211,119
23. Wills, Trusts & Est. Prof Blog	202,324
24. Ideoblog	186,511
25. ImmigrationProf Blog	181,055
26. ContractsProf Blog	167,861
27. Empirical Legal Studies	148,157
28. Election Law Blog	127,488
29. Religion Clause	122,352
30. Legal History Blog	109,834
31. Family Law Prof Blog	108,608
32. MoneyLaw	100,298
33. Sex Crimes	89,459
34. Legal Profession Blog	88,811
35. Madisonian Theory	78,821

Law Prof Blog Traffic Ranking -- Page Views (Feb. 2007 - Jan. 2008)

1.   InstaPundit	75,868,173
2.   Hugh Hewitt	16,604,852
3.   Volokh Conspiracy	12,403,944
4.   Althouse	8,062,853
5.   Patently-O	3,015,706
6.   Leiter Reports: Philosophy	2,706,134
7.   Jack Bog's Blog	1,974,956
8.   Balkinization	1,961,379
9.   TaxProf Blog	1,946,062
10. Concurring Opinions	1,751,358
11. Sentencing Law & Policy	1,666,960
12. Professor Bainbridge.com	1,209,228
13. PrawfsBlawg	1,079,328
14. Leiter's Law School Reports	1,057,960
15. Discourse.net	615,598
16. Conglomerate	569,339
17. Opinio Juris	557,642
18. White Collar Crime Prof Blog	512,520
19. Workplace Prof Blog	448,000
20. Chicago Faculty Blog	382,379
21. Is That Legal?	355,722
22. Wills, Trusts & Est. Prof Blog	298,280
23. ImmigrationProf Blog	270,566
24. Ideoblog	268,983
25. CrimProf Blog	246,824
26. Empirical Legal Studies	222,198
27. Election Law Blog	205,442
28. Religion Clause	188,766
29. Sex Crimes	163,491
30. ContractsProf Blog	160,461
31. Legal History Blog	158,708
32. Family Law Prof Blog	150,433
33. MoneyLaw	144,258
34. Legal Profession Blog	141,376
35. Truth on the Market	119,888

Some comments:

• These Law Prof Blog Rankings are drawn from Dan Solove's comprehensive Law Professor Blogger Census. They include all blogs edited by law professors -- both law-related and non law-related.
• Although I have tried to cull these Top 35 lists from the blogs that plausibly could generate enough traffic for inclusion, I may have inadvertently omitted qualifying blogs.  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 (78,821 visitors and/or 119,888 page views).  I will re-publish the lists to include all qualifying blogs.
• Several popular Law Prof Blogs do not have publicly available SIteMeters and thus are not included on the lists:  e.g., BlackProf, California Appellate Reports, Credit Slips, The Deal Professor, Dorf on Law, Feminist Law Professors, Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog, Legal History, Legal Theory, Mirror of Justice, Point of Law, The Right Coast.
• The lists include only those Law Prof Blogs that have been in operation for at least a year (and thus do not include popular blogs such as The Faculty Lounge, Leiter's Legal Philosophy Blog, M&A Law Prof Blog, and Race to the Bottom.
• Several popular law blogs are not included on these lists because they are not edited by law professors:  e.g., Above the Law, How Appealing, Law Librarian Blog, Wall Street Journal Law Blog.
• Two of the Top 10, five of the Top 20, and eleven of the Top 35 blogs are members of our Law Professor Blogs Network.

Update #1:  For blogosphere commentary on these rankings, see:

• Above the Law
• Althouse
• Balkinization
• Business Associations Blog
• Concurring Opinions I
• Concurring Opinions II
• Hugh Hewitt
• ImmigrationProf Blog
• InstaPundit
• Leiter's Law School Reports
• Mirror of Justice
• Race to the Bottom

Update #2:  Since my original post, Legal History Blog has opened its SiteMeter to the public, and Mirror of Justice and Race to the Bottom have added a SiteMeter. Legal History Blog now makes the Top 30 list in both visitors and page views; Mirror of Justice and Race to the Bottom report that they too would have made the Top 30 lists using data tracked by another service.  In addition, I inadvertently omitted Patenly-O (#6 visitors, #5 page views) and Sex Crimes (#33, #29) in my prior listing.