Top of the Scottish Political Blogs # 1

Top of the Scottish Political Blogs
7 June 2005
by Sitemeter - Average per Day

1. USS Neverdock 1,310
2. Naked Blog 799
3. Cabalamat Journal 476
4. Freedom and Whisky 189
5. Doctorvee 167
6. Independence 103
7. Arthur's Seat 100
8. No Geek is an Island 91
9. Cabarfeidh Pages 83
10. Shuggy's Blogspot 48

11. Gurn from Nurn 44
12. A Place to Stand 39
13. The Moral Highground 27
14. Bishop Hill 19
15. Times New Roman 15
16. Gàidhlig - cha bhithinn às a h-aonais! 14
17. Holyrood Chronicles 7
18. AK Land 6
19. Bag of Bears 5
20. Air fàire 4

Top of the Scottish Political Blogs
7 June 2005
by Sitemeter - Average Visit Length

1. Gàidhlig - cha bhithinn às a h-aonais! 6:31
2. Gurn from Nurn 5:12
3. Independence 4:07
4. Freedom and Whisky 2:33
5. The Moral Highground 2:01
6. AK Land 1:38
7. Holyrood Chronicles 1:29
8. Doctorvee 1:16
9. Arthur's Seat 1:13
10. Times New Roman 1:09

11. USS Neverdock 1:01
12. No Geek is an Island 0:57
13. Shuggy's Blogspot 0:51
14. Air fàire 0:42
15. Bishop Hill 0:34
16. Cabalamat Journal 0:33
17. A Place to Stand 0:31
18. Naked Blog 0:31
19. Cabarfeidh Pages 0:29
20. Bag of Bears 0:08

Those lists are very far from comprehensive, for 3 reasons: only a minority of the relevant blogs use Sitemeter, some who do use it do not make the stats publicly available, and my list of Scottish Political blogs (see my sidebar) is highly unlikely to be exhaustive (but I do try my best).

My definition of Scottish Political Blog is: "a blog written by a Scot, or someone resident in Scotland, which contains a reasonable proportion of posts regarding politics." The politics covered need not be Scottish politics. What does "reasonable" mean in this context? Good question. It is just a judgement call - my judgement - you may have a different opinion.

There is another method of measuring the "Pops", and it may be more useful because it is 100% comprehensive. It is the "Most Linked To" method, using Technorati, as used by Troubled Diva. Here is a version edited to only show the Scottish Political Blogs:

Most Linked To (Scottish Political) Weblogs, May 2005
adapted from Troubled Diva
(using Technorati)

1. Freedom and Whisky (367)
2. Independence (278)
3. Honourable Fiend (263)
4. The Skakagrall (238)
5. Shuggy's Blogspot (229)
6. Naked Blog (191)

... but I may have to contact Troubled Diva with a couple that could be added to his list:

Most Linked Scottish Political Blogs
7 June
using Technorati

1. Freedom and Whisky (395)
2. Independence (314)
3. The Early Days of a Better Nation (299)
4. Shuggy's Blogspot (265)
5. Honourable Fiend (263)
6. The Skakagrall (238)
7. NewsHog (201)
8= UK Future (199)
8= Naked Blog (199)
10. Doctorvee (171)

11. The Woolamaloo Gazette (166)
12. USS Neverdock (86)
13. Perspective (61)
14. Cabarfeidh Pages (56)
15. Bishop Hill (53)
16. Arthur's Seat (38)
17. Indymedia Scotland (37)
18. Online Parliamentarian (36)
19. Bloomfield.me.uk (32)
20. A Big Stick and a Small Carrot (30)

21. No Geek is an Island (29)
22. Inveresk Street Ingrate (28)
23. Times New Roman (26)
24. qwghlm.co.uk (25)
25. The Scottish Patient (20)
26= Bill's Comment Page (17)
26= A Place to Stand (17)
27. Right for Scotland (14)
28= Don't Hold Your Breath (13)
28= Lost in Westminster (13)
28= The Big Blowdown (13)

31. Gàidhlig - cha bhithinn às a h-aonais! (12)
32. AK Land (10)
33= Gurn from Nurn (9)
33= The Bag of Bears (9)
35= Musings from the Merse (8)
35= 1820 (8)
37= Edinburgh Sucks (7)
37= Joe Middleton (7)
37= David Stewart - British Conservative (7)
37= SarahAnne.co.uk (7)

41. Adventures in Ethical Consumerism (6)
42= A Hack's Life (5)
42= 'S anmoch a rinn mi dùsgadh (5)
42= Alabamah (5)
45= A Man Called Hamish (4)
45= The Moral Highground (4)
45= Dere-Street.com (4)
45= Scottish Christian Weblog (4)
49= Ar Nàisean (3)
49= Air fàire (3)

49= Cabalamat Journal (3)
52= Laodicea (2)
52= Tierra Del AK (2)
52= The Rebel Ink Columns (2)
52= NO2ID Scotland (2)
52= The First Minister's Diary (2)
52= New Era Investor (2)
52= Akatsuki talks rot (2)
52= Fiendbot (2)
52= Cosmopolitan Scum (2)

52= Kenny Sheerin (2)
52= Leyton.org (2)
63= Herald Watch (1)
63= The Sharpener - Scotland (1)
63= An Oasis of Politics (1)
63= Voice from the North (1)
63= Absolutely PC (1)
63= The Anti Arty Farty Party (1)
63= Anne Begg is my MP (1)
63= Danny Duff MSP (1)

63= The Aardvark Blog (1)
72= NewsDevine (0)
72= Paul Coletti (0)
72= Holyrood Chronicles (0)

Contrary to what Loïc le Meur may think, Troubled Diva actually uses an Excel spreadsheet for his chart. I did not. I hope that you appreciate my labours.

(first published here)