Here's a curious site that ranks blogs based on average visits per day. Only blogs with Site Meter are counted. (I'm in the process of signing up for Site Meter, but when the instructions arrived about installation, they immediately exceeded my limited technical competence...so I'm waiting for help.) I'm not quite sure what period is used for calculating the average. If it's a 7-day-average, then this fine blog you are now reading comes in at 900 visits per day, or #123 (higher on weekdays, lower on weekends, like most others it appears).
This site does shed some light on why one might have the impression that the blogosphere tilts rather strongly to the right. Reynolds, Volokh and Bainbridge--all on the right--have total average visits per day of over 113,000. This is a bit more than my 900, or Balkin's 500 (and Balkin's is way up because of a recent link from Reynolds). Admittedly, there are lots of more-or-less liberal sites with lots of readers, but what's striking is that legal academics on the web are so skewed to the right. Some reasons why that might be so were addressed here.
Another interesting bit of data one can glean from this site: the correlation between number of other blogs that link to a blog and the actual number of readers of that blog is rather weak. You can see this by comparing the traffic ranking to the "blogosphere ecosystem" compiled at the same site. (This is really weird, isn't it?)
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