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Paul L. Caron
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Pepperdine Caruso
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Blog Rankings

  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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%…

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  • 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…

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  • 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%…

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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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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. …

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  • The Top 10 Tax Blogs

    The folks at Blogs.com asked me for my list of the Top 10 Tax Blogs: ataxingmatterDon't Mess With TaxesMauled AgainNonprofit Law Prof BlogRoth & Co.Start Making SenseThe Tax GirlTax Policy BlogTaxProf BlogTaxVox Blog For links to 68 tax blogs, see the left column permanent resources on TaxProf Blog.

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  • 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. …

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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