07 Mar Most Popular Law Blogs
Here is the March report of the most popular law blogs. I applied the same criteria and qualifications as applied in the January report. If I missed an academic law blog, please email me. I will update throughout the day.
1. Volokh Conspiracy (#50)
2. How Appealing (#127)
3. ProfessorBainbridge (#162)
4. Tax Prof Blog (#294)
5. Leiter’s Law School Reports (#369)
6. Sentencing Law and Policy (#382)
7. Concurring Opinions (#397)
8. Prawfsblawg (#422)
9. Discourse.net (#496)
10. Conglomerate (#529)
11. Balkinization (#548)
12. CrimProf Blog (#714)
13. ACS Blog (#775)
14. Opinio Juris (#826)
15. Workplace Prof Blog (#836)
16. Ideoblog (#982)
17. ContractsProf Blog (#1172)
18. Truth on the Market (#1408)
19. Election Law (#1459)
20. CrimLaw Blog (#1519)
21. Southern California Law Blog (#1584)
22. Family Law Prof Blog (#1666)
23. Business Law Prof (#1729)
24. Health Law Prof (#1852)
25. Phosita (#1910)
UPDATE: Ian Best at 3L Epiphany has a post today that lists the entire universe of legal blogs, all 500 or so.
Are you going by incoming links or by daily visits (as determined by a common measurement, say, SiteMeter)? I ask because CrimProf didn’t make this list, but it averages 960 SiteMeter visits a day — which is many more visitors than some blogs on your list. Though it does have relatively few sites linking to it (83). Still, if you’re using incoming links as your measurement, then Evan Schaeffer is ranked higher than a lot of blogs on that list with 278 sites linking to it.
Anyhow, I don’t want to start an argument. But when making a list of the “top” blogs, it might be helpful to use a truly common criteria. The problem with using The Truth Laid Bear is that many blogs aren’t indexed there.
A much better list, imho, would use SiteMeter or Technorati to quantify “topness.” The problem with using SiteMeter is that some blogs keep their stats private. OTOH, Technorati “ranks” every blog. And anyone can “tell” Technorati to crawl a blog, so there wouldn’t be the problem of underinclusivenes that there is with any list that uses TTLB.
Mike,
I have added CrimProf Blog. Thanks for the update. As indicated in the January report, I am using traffic ranking, not link ranking, although others have done a similar report using link ranking.
Since the January report I know of at least one major blog (Workplace Prof Blog) that has included a traffic meter on their site. There is no inherent reason why other major law blogs could not do so. I hope that in the coming months every major law blog moves toward transparency so we can have a more accurate assessment of the most popular law blogs.
Roger Alford
Election Law Blog Makes Roger Alford’s List of Most Popular Law Blogs Based on Traffic
See here. These figures don’t include RSS feeds or listservs, so they are not entirely accurate. For example, more than 600 people receive my blog posts every morning via the Election law listserv, and more people receive legislation-related posts via…
I wish you would stop describing this as the “most popular law blogs,” rather than the more accurate “most popular law blogs listed on TTLB,” since your methodology excludes popular law blogs that don’t want to slow down site performance by adding low-performing javascript that adds no utility. It’s especially misleading when you cross-reference a list that does include all the law blogs.
Overlawyered would be in the top four, and higher if our RSS and email subscribers were counted, since we provide a full RSS feed and other sites inflate their statistics by failing to provide that service.
Ted,
I would be delighted to include Overlawyered on the list of the most popular law blogs if you choose to include a traffic meter on your site. I do not doubt that you would be near the top of the list.
I also am more than willing to consider using RSS feed subscriptions if there is an accurate way to include all of the relevant data of all of the major law blogs.
But my sense is that this information is fairly indicative of what are actually the most popular law blogs and subsequent reports will be even more accurate as other major law blogs embrace transparency.
Roger Alford
I hope that in the coming months every major law blog moves toward transparency
I agree. I kept my stats private when I blogged anonymously, since it would have been easy to look at my stats and figure out, at least, what law school I was blogging from. I’m not sure why more folks don’t keep their stats public.
I think that you should list the “Mirror of Justice” blog . . . just because. =-) RG
I agree with some of the comments above. I don’t want to share the traffic levels for my primary blog – which is popular among practicing corporate &securities lawyers for over 3 years – and I refuse to play the “cross-linking” game.
I am just happy that my blog helps me accomplish what I strive for – a wide audience in my niche, which helps me make a living by running a variety of legal websites. Funny how there is so much focus on “who has the best blog” but folks forget there is much more to the Web than the blogosphere…check out TheCorporateCounsel.net, DealLawyers.com and CompensationStandards.com.
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