Peter Kirby

Top 50 Biblioblogs by Traffic

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Here is the complete list. Why not add some of them to your Feedly reader?

  1. Zwinglius Redivivus
  2. Bible Places
  3. Teknia
  4. Reading Acts
  5. Deep Bible Study
  6. Unsettled Christianity
  7. Bible Geek Gone Wild
  8. Near Emmaus
  9. The Naked Bible
  10. Sansblogue
  11. 5 Minute Bible
  12. Biblioblog Top 50
  13. Andy Naselli
  14. Larry Hurtado
  15. The Sacred Page
  16. Joshua L. Mann
  17. Diaspora
  18. XKV8R
  19. Tabor Blog
  20. The Bible in Church and Academy
  21. Ferrell’s Travel Blog
  22. New Life
  23. Words on the Word
  24. Ancient Hebrew Poetry
  25. NT Blog
  26. Prof. Lawrence H. Schiffman
  27. Crux Sola
  28. Daniel B. Wallace
  29. Evangelical Textual Criticism
  30. Common Denominator
  31. Claude Mariottini
  32. biblicalia
  33. Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth
  34. Philip Harland
  35. Political Jesus
  36. Blog of the Twelve
  37. The Book of Doctrines and Opinions
  38. The Biblical World
  39. Better Bibles Blog
  40. Brice C. Jones
  41. NT Resources
  42. Apocryphicity
  43. Hypotyposeis
  44. LXXI
  45. Heavenly Ascents
  46. Daniel O. McClellan
  47. PaleoJudaica
  48. The Musings of Tom Verenna
  49. Chrisendom
  50. Vridar

Traffic data compiled from Alexa Rankings. Complete list of biblioblogs cribbed from the official top 50 biblioblogs site, which is, interestingly, #12 itself on this list.

Some websites have been left out, notably those on Patheos because Alexa does not have separate data on these blogs. No offense is intended to bloggers on these platforms.

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Alexa isn’t really a precise tool, but it does give a ballpark estimate (as long as nobody is manipulating it). It depends on counting website impressions of people who’ve installed the Alexa toolbar.

The rankings don’t tell the whole story. The traffic itself follows a power law curve. This means that, with every ranking increase, the increase in traffic becomes greater. It also means that a lot of blogs aren’t read very widely. Although there are many power law curves that vary regarding just how steep they are, most people have heard of the power law curve in the form of the “80-20 rule” illustrated below.

Power Law Curve

(The bloggers in the graphs above are mentioned for their accomplishments with respect and by way of illustration.)

Comments

13 responses to “Top 50 Biblioblogs by Traffic”

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  3. James F. McGrath Avatar
    James F. McGrath

    Is there a particular reason why all the blogs at Patheos were left off, such as Jesus Creed as well as my own Exploring Our Matrix? 🙁

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    1. peterkirby Avatar
      peterkirby

      As mentioned, I wasn’t able to rank them because Alexa doesn’t have any particular data on Patheos blogs. This also affected users of Livejournal. Apparently, WordPress and Blogspot blogs are tabulated separately by Alexa just fine, but, otherwise, it just shows data by domain name.

      You’re definitely up there, no doubt about it. 🙂

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