Oz Politics Blog

Just for fun, I thought I would find out which site is the top ranked blog on Australian politics. I decided to use Alex Traffic Rankings and my feeds list (plus assorted others) as the starting point for this experiment. A lower Alexa number is a higher ranking.

Anyway, the results are as follows:

1. Tim Blair - 85,011
2. Oz Politics Blog - 110,978
3. Ambit Gambit - 120,775
4. Jennifer Marohasy - 158,201
5. The Spin Starts Here - 278,780
6. Larvatus Prodeo - 309,436
7. John Quiggin - 433,695
8. Catallaxy - 474,606
9. Andrew Landeryou - 526,127
10. ROCKET - 532,656
11. Reasons You Will Hate Me - 604,011
12. The Road to Surfdom - 666,437
13. Club Troppo - 668,647
14. Webdiary - 674,500
15. Bastards Inc. - 839,600
16. The Bartlett Diaries - 869,744
17. AnonymousLefty - 881,570
18. The Pigs are Flying! - 943,064
19. A Western Heart - 1,086,938
20. man of lettuce - 1,108,319
21. Henry Thornton Blogs - 1,109,565
22. Andrew Leigh - 1,339,768
23. Antony Loewenstein - 1,594,099
24. Your New Reality - 1,651,035
25. The Orstrahyun - 1,670,536
26. Leftwrites - 1,698,748
27. The View From Benambra - 1,720,694
28. CoreEcon - 1,814,324
29. JF Beck - 1,960,846
30. Electron soup - 1,991,134
31. Harry Clarke - 2,368,492
32. Moment to Moment - 2,373,524
33. The Adventures of QueerPenguin - 2,478,327
34. The Dead Roo - 2,483,503
35. DogfightAtBankstown - 2,538,593
36. Bilegrip - 2,538,920
37. Machine Gun Keyboard - 2,544,608
38. Mumble - 2,752,307
39. Ampersand Duck - 2,833,678
40. Your Democracy - 3,255,533
41. Whacking Day - 3,617,667
42. GrodsCorp - 3,791,346
43. Event mechanics - 3,965,281
44. The Poll Bludger - 4,027,363
45. Sachi's hyperbolic space - 4,030,762
46. Thoughts on Freedom - 4,178,720
47. Stoush - 4,186,105
48. Father Bob - 4,409,742
49. Sailing Close to the Wind - 4,514,525
50. The Killfile - 4,693,214
51. Andrew Norton - 4,723,243
52. There Aint no Sanity Clause - 4,742,257
53. Personal political - 5,017,198
54. Hyperidian Bannerman - 5,142,709
55. Austrolabe - 5,326,999
56. William Burroughs' Baboon - 5,705,161
57. LaborFirst Blog - 5,781,319
58. Polemica - 5,962,727
59. Crazybrave - 6,481,629
60. Graeme Bird - 6,557,040
61. Politically homeless - 6,705,782
62. Modia Minotaur - 6,718,173
63. Fair Crack of the Whip - 7,510,140
64. Virulent Memes - 7,859,987
65. Planet Irf - 8,123,090
66. South Sea Republic - 8,217,942

Unfortunately, Alexa did not rank some sites that should have scored highly. Note: some of the following were ranked, but the rank was for multiple blogs from the one primary address.

• 101 Uses for a John Howard - not ranked
• A Quiet Storm - not ranked
• armagnac'd - not ranked
• Barista - not ranked
• Beelzebublog - not ranked
• Beyond The Fringe - not ranked
• Blogger on the Cast Iron Balcony - not ranked
• Blogocracy - not ranked
• Broken Left Leg Blog - not ranked
• Chris Berg - not ranked
• Criticality - not ranked
• Cross-wire - not ranked
• Daily Flute - not ranked
• Decomposing Trees - not ranked
• Deltoid - not ranked
• Dennis Shanahan - not ranked
• For Battle! - not ranked
• Faris QC Blog - not ranked
• GordonMoyes.com - not ranked
• GuruAnn Blog - not ranked
• HarrangueMan - not ranked
• Journal - not ranked
• kevgillett.net - not ranked
• Lachlan Connor, Independent - not ranked
• letters from the back bench - not ranked
• mark lawrence - not ranked
• Matt Price - not ranked
• Max Baumann - not ranked
• Moral Dilemma - not ranked
• Oz Conservative - not ranked
• Paul Kelly - not ranked
• Peter Martin - not ranked
• Rank and Vile - not ranked
• Simon Jackman - not ranked
• Slattsnews - not ranked
• Suki Has An Opinion - not ranked
• The Dog's Bollocks - not ranked
• The Legal Soapbox - not ranked
• The Raving Wingnut - not ranked
• The South Coast - not ranked
• The Thinker's Podium - not ranked
• Tug Boat Potemkin - not ranked
• Upperhouse.info - not ranked
• Urbancreature - not ranked
• veni vidi blogi - not ranked

Second is not too bad! But to be fair, most of the traffic coming here is not for my erudite posts. My visitors come for the politics test. The market place for serious analysis is much smaller than for cheap baubles. There are many better blogs than mine.

Some day I might repeat this exercise using Technorati.