Previously I had posted the Top 50 Biblioblogs by Traffic, which used Alexa rankings and which could not rank sites hosted on some platforms (such as Patheos or LiveJournal). Soon after I followed up with the Top 225 Biblioblogs by Linkage, which sought to be more inclusive (both in the number of blogs listed and by using a method that could rank them all), but this post used a metric (number of domains linking in) that does not correlate well with the amount of traffic received recently.
So I’ve blended the methods: Alexa is used for rankings, and sites that can’t be ranked that way are interpolated into the list using discretion and a peek at various other stats. Below is the Winter 2013 quarterly report on the top biblioblogs. Think about adding any that interest you to your regular reading.
As before, please let me know if there’s a blog you want to see in the results next quarter.
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Hi, I would be grateful if you would please reply to my two emails about my site http://www.truthinreality.com being entered onto this list.
If you do not want to put my site on your list, the right thing to do would be to let me know the reason/s why.
As I recall the Bible tells us, the disciples of Jesus were not the learned men of the time, but simple fishermen.
Thank you.
Alice Harding
No problem. I did not receive any emails.
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It looks like you have averaged the Alexa rankings over the three months – is that a good guess?
They were sampled on the 31st of December. I am not sure what period Alexa averages over.
Thanks Peter – I think you are right – Alexa would do its own averaging. My Alexa ranking at Dust – meafar.blogspot.com at that time is 465863 – how does that fit your sequence?
I see there is a discrepancy between meafar.blogspot.com and meafar.blogspot.ca. I wonder also if Alexa is smart enough to see people reading in feed readers like Feedly.
I sent a question to other measuring sites like Google analytics and Quantcast to see if they have considered the alias problem. I doubt it.
Yes, the rank using meafar.blogspot.ca is higher than the rank using meafar.blogspot.com … sorry about that.
Your blog moves to position #17.
Has my blog totally slipped off the grid? I’ve never been concerned with ratings, but I’m surprised it’s not on here at all now. It may be partly because I haven’t been posting as much, along with obvious lack of interest in the content.
Jeff
Thanks for saying something. I will add it to the list.
Note to self: add Loren Rosson, The Busybody.
http://lorenrosson.blogspot.com/
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Not sure I left my comment in the right spot.
Hi, at one time I was on the list, and my blog is currently on the “Complete List” (at the biblioblogtop50 WordPress site) but it isn’t showing up in your quarterly reports. Blog name: Fundamentally Reformed, Blog url: http://fundamentallyreformed.com. I’d appreciate if you could include it in the reports. My blog is registered in Alexa, does it need to be registered anywhere else?
Thanks!
Nope. No problem.
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