Is it really that time again?
Alexa = Alexa ranking
NZ ranking = Alexa NZ ranking
Technorati.com authority score (1 if none)
HD Score calculated Alexa*AlexaNZ/Authority/10000. Greens blog multiplied by 80.
All data was downloaded this evening.
Notes:
1. If you think your data is wrong, feel free to check in the next 12 hours – after midday things tend to change. I had some trouble this time around so I won’t be surprised to find some mistakes.
2. There are no prizes for asking why frog blog is “out of place”. Strictly speaking they should be on the “doesn’t compute” list.
3. There were a bunch of things I was going to do this time around, but I haven’t had time.
Note: Original Blog list, and original concept from Tumeke, who have a more considered ranking of the NZ blogosphere here. No Hamsters were harmed in the compiling of these statistics.
| HD Rank | Tumeke | Blog | Alexa | Alexa NZ | Authority | HD Score |
| 1 | #1 | Kiwiblog | 82769 | 133 | 250 | 4 |
| 2 | #2 | The Standard 2.02 | 185687 | 269 | 114 | 43 |
| 3 | #4 | Public Address | 202131 | 406 | 174 | 47 |
| 4 | #7 | Whale Oil Beef Hooked – Comments | 171202 | 232 | 69 | 57 |
| 5 | #3 | Not PC | 271034 | 752 | 89 | 229 |
| 6 | #39 | MandM  |
365051 | 373 | 59 | 230 |
| 7 | #5 | No Minister | 339007 | 587 | 61 | 326 |
| 8 | #30 | New Zealand Conservative |
352061 | 454 | 44 | 363 |
| 9 | #9 | TUMEKE! | 517581 | 983 | 94 | 541 |
| 10 | #10 | The Dim-Post | 385371 | 826 | 52 | 612 |
| 11 | #22 | Open Parachute | 525694 | 504 | 43 | 616 |
| 12 | #6 | No Right Turn | 597809 | 1388 | 126 | 658 |
| 13 | #31 | Something should go here, maybe later. |
544499 | 797 | 65 | 667 |
| 14 | #15 | Homepaddock  |
525944 | 1186 | 60 | 1039 |
| 15 | #19 | The visible hand in economics  |
397760 | 946 | 35 | 1075 |
| 16 | #14 | The Inquiring Mind | 580681 | 1111 | 57 | 1131 |
| 17 | #28 | Barnsley Bill | 622977 | 827 | 42 | 1226 |
| 18 | #37 | Jack Yan: The Persuader | 507629 | 1225 | 30 | 2072 |
| 19 | #13 | roarprawn | 697528 | 1239 | 40 | 2160 |
| 20 | #12 | The Hand Mirror  |
789439 | 2164 | 72 | 2372 |
| 21 | #38 | Big News | 721323 | 2062 | 43 | 3458 |
| 22 | #16 | New Zeal | 750899 | 9588 | 205 | 3512 |
| 23 | #27 | MacDoctor Moments |
897864 | 1555 | 32 | 4363 |
| 24 | #35 | Keeping Stock |
905762 | 1905 | 35 | 4929 |
| 25 | #18 | Kiwipolitico | 706839 | 4401 | 48 | 6480 |
| 26 | #8 | frogblog | 171603 | 741 | 109 | 116 |
| 27 | #47 | Oswald Bastable’s Ranting | 1212307 | 2667 | 34 | 9509 |
| 28 | #29 | Liberty Scott | 1037069 | 3236 | 31 | 10825 |
| 29 | #50 | Clint Heine and Friends | 1276737 | 2718 | 32 | 10844 |
| 30 | #24 | Anti-Dismal |
1022117 | 4804 | 45 | 10911 |
| 31 | #88 | Samuel Dennis |
798919 | 2036 | 14 | 11618 |
| 32 | – | the wellingtonista – a blog about wellington, new zealand | 1269293 | 4971 | 50 | 12619 |
| 33 | #45 | Policy Blog – Chris Trotter & Matthew Hooton | 1171070 | 7375 | 66 | 13085 |
| 34 | #11 | Poneke’s Weblog | 1122573 | 11321 | 89 | 14279 |
| 35 | #43 | MonkeyWithTypewriter | 974197 | 2572 | 17 | 14739 |
| 36 | #40 | Lindsay Mitchell | 1172292 | 4792 | 36 | 15604 |
| 37 | #42 | Just Left | 1252003 | 6738 | 52 | 16223 |
| 38 | #20 | Hot Topic | 1370608 | 5285 | 43 | 16845 |
| 39 | #48 | The Humanitarian Chronicle |
1284374 | 1840 | 14 | 16880 |
| 40 | – | Being Frank |
803089 | 1485 | 7 | 17036 |
| 41 | #25 | TBR.cc |
1317347 | 3691 | 23 | 21140 |
| 42 | #58 | Ethical Martini | 1676362 | 2864 | 19 | 25268 |
| 43 | #54 | John Key | 1929554 | 5358 | 35 | 29538 |
| 44 | #79 | Say Hello to my Little Friend: Shooting from the lip |
1820244 | 2940 | 17 | 31479 |
| 45 | #57 | StephenFranks.co.nz | 2144769 | 6848 | 35 | 41963 |
| 46 | #65 | Knowledge Workers | 2251922 | 6261 | 32 | 44060 |
| 47 | #23 | In a strange land |
1757542 | 12491 | 47 | 46709 |
| 48 | #44 | Hitting Metal With A Hammer | 1808704 | 6471 | 25 | 46816 |
| 49 | #59 | Mulholland Drive | 1863343 | 6583 | 26 | 47178 |
| 50 | #26 | Radical Cross Stitch | 860142 | 45000 | 76 | 50929 |
| 51 | #17 | Cactus Kate | 507961 | 1087 | 1 | 55215 |
| 52 | #36 | The Fundy Post | 1828953 | 12228 | 40 | 55911 |
| 53 | #55 | Dave Gee: Life from Right Field | 1171949 | 3342 | 7 | 55952 |
| 54 | – | sustain:if:able kiwi |
2839093 | 12275 | 58 | 60085 |
| 55 | #56 | g.blog | 2355540 | 7336 | 28 | 61715 |
| 56 | #51 | Aotearoa: a wider perspective | 1295905 | 19332 | 37 | 67709 |
| 57 | – | Liturgy |
327043 | 2095 | 1 | 68515 |
| 58 | #52 | Kotare | 1478045 | 21505 | 43 | 73919 |
| 59 | #76 | Contra Celsum |
1914897 | 3870 | 10 | 74106 |
| 60 | #70 | goNZo Freakpower Brains Trust | 1892141 | 8872 | 22 | 76304 |
| 61 | #49 | RobiNZ Personal Blog | 432029 | 13109 | 7 | 80906 |
| 62 | – | NZ Blogosphere | 914770 | 1141 | 1 | 104375 |
| 63 | – | And Slaters Go Plop | 2162816 | 2788 | 5 | 120598 |
| 64 | #72 | Greenpeace New Zealand Weblog  |
1336090 | 15096 | 16 | 126060 |
| 65 | – | Put up thy Sword! |
1857760 | 6910 | 10 | 128371 |
| 66 | #34 | whoar.co.nz | 1556790 | 12086 | 14 | 134395 |
| 67 | #77 | Liberation | 2475046 | 16443 | 30 | 135657 |
| 68 | #61 | Kiwi Polemicist |
2336035 | 11948 | 20 | 139554 |
| 69 | – | Micky’s Muses | 4843740 | 19372 | 60 | 156388 |
| 70 | #68 | Auckland Blog | 2014603 | 9865 | 12 | 165617 |
| 71 | #63 | Silent Running | 4063406 | 18443 | 41 | 182783 |
| 72 | – | developing the mind of Christ |
1078126 | 1746 | 1 | 188240 |
| 73 | #74 | Christian News |
2023931 | 9361 | 10 | 189460 |
| 74 | – | The Fairfacts Media Show | 1442588 | 1415 | 1 | 204126 |
| 75 | #21 | Reading the Maps | 2959934 | 26495 | 38 | 206377 |
| 76 | – | Semper Vita |
2531997 | 9340 | 11 | 214989 |
| 77 | #82 | Media Law Journal | 3732641 | 11023 | 19 | 216552 |
| 78 | #41 | Workers Party (NZ) | 3122150 | 25512 | 30 | 265507 |
| 79 | #62 | Alliance Party of New Zealand | 2515740 | 45000 | 30 | 377361 |
| 80 | #33 | Put ’em all on an island  |
2251244 | 34060 | 20 | 383386 |
| 81 | – | The Hive | 4503425 | 45000 | 52 | 389719 |
| 82 | – | True Paradigm |
4068149 | 12096 | 12 | 410069 |
| 83 | – | Pordigal Kiwi(s) Blog |
4511890 | 45000 | 42 | 483416 |
| 84 | #71 | PM of NZ | 2865869 | 19785 | 11 | 515465 |
| 85 | #53 | Pundit | 1417499 | 4021 | 1 | 569976 |
| 86 | #90 | Star Studded Super Step |
1995191 | 8803 | 3 | 585455 |
| 87 | – | Muzzerino Blog 1.3 | 3284763 | 14333 | 8 | 588506 |
| 88 | #69 | Object Dart | 2928317 | 45000 | 22 | 598973 |
| 89 | #64 | Website.net.nz | 1235273 | 45000 | 9 | 617636 |
| 90 | #84 | I See Red | 3587875 | 45000 | 26 | 620978 |
| 91 | #78 | WebWeaver’s World |
1655588 | 45000 | 11 | 677286 |
| 92 | – | ACT New Zealand blogs | 1301694 | 5215 | 1 | 678833 |
| 93 | – | Jafapete’s Weblog | 6099578 | 45000 | 39 | 703797 |
| 94 | – | GavinKnight.com |
3949775 | 22108 | 11 | 793832 |
| 95 | #95 | Ideologically Impure | 4417115 | 45000 | 24 | 828209 |
| 96 | #67 | cbmilne33 | 2771225 | 45000 | 15 | 831367 |
| 97 | #100 | Political Animal | 3898018 | 20436 | 9 | 885109 |
| 98 | – | Watching Brief | 11932654 | 45000 | 60 | 894949 |
| 99 | #93 | LAWS 179: Elephants and the law | 5798256 | 26702 | 17 | 910735 |
| 100 | #75 | dad4justice | 3563209 | 26912 | 10 | 958930 |
| 101 | #87 | Pacific Empire | 2679573 | 45000 | 12 | 1004839 |
| 102 | – | earth is my favourite planet |
3164573 | 26009 | 8 | 1028842 |
| 103 | #46 | Dear John | 1114096 | 9376 | 1 | 1044576 |
| 104 | #97 | Café Pacific | 3919283 | 45000 | 15 | 1175784 |
| 105 | – | Cr!key Creek | 6734241 | 33311 | 19 | 1180654 |
| 106 | – | agridata.co.nz |
1771716 | 6723 | 1 | 1191124 |
| 107 | #92 | AGAINST THE CURRENT | 4979465 | 45000 | 17 | 1318093 |
| 108 | – | Offsetting Behaviour | 1512173 | 8977 | 1 | 1357477 |
| 109 | – | NewZblog | 6127100 | 45000 | 20 | 1378597 |
| 110 | – | Ozymandias Warning | 4392391 | 19007 | 6 | 1391436 |
| 111 | – | Rubbish Free Year | 5708952 | 45000 | 17 | 1511193 |
| 112 | #94 | stargazer |
5940036 | 45000 | 17 | 1572362 |
| 113 | #66 | Media Fetish | 3995221 | 32090 | 8 | 1602583 |
| 114 | #83 | Eye of the Fish | 4664787 | 45000 | 13 | 1614733 |
| 115 | – | Neil Stockley | 6196198 | 45000 | 16 | 1742680 |
| 116 | – | NZBC | 7420135 | 45000 | 17 | 1964153 |
| 117 | – | Grant Robertson – Wellington Central | 6645921 | 45000 | 15 | 1993776 |
| 118 | – | Robyn’s Secret Passage | 6222409 | 38516 | 12 | 1997185 |
| 119 | – | LudditeJourno | 10645662 | 45000 | 22 | 2177521 |
| 120 | – | Genius | 4613107 | 45000 | 9 | 2306553 |
| 121 | – | Save the Humans |
5669265 | 45000 | 11 | 2319244 |
| 122 | – | The Ex-Expat | 16522174 | 45000 | 32 | 2323430 |
| 123 | – | lefthandpalm | 4309404 | 45000 | 8 | 2424039 |
| 124 | – | backin15 | 7027739 | 45000 | 12 | 2635402 |
| 125 | – | Get the Skinny from Skinny | 5938874 | 45000 | 10 | 2672493 |
| 126 | #91 | Canvassing for Opinion | 4244655 | 45000 | 7 | 2728706 |
| 127 | – | Joe Hendren | 10553570 | 45000 | 17 | 2793592 |
| 128 | #85 | Blessed Economist |
5731429 | 45000 | 9 | 2865714 |
| 129 | – | Brain Stab | 7193246 | 45000 | 11 | 2942691 |
| 130 | – | NZ Conservative | 7566866 | 45000 | 11 | 3095536 |
| 131 | – | Lolly Scramble | 4948248 | 45000 | 7 | 3181016 |
| 132 | – | This is half-pie. | 5129290 | 45000 | 7 | 3297400 |
| 133 | – | Douglas to Dancing – ACT Watch | 7029487 | 23502 | 5 | 3304140 |
| 134 | – | kaiwai’s blog |
2942101 | 45000 | 4 | 3309863 |
| 135 | – | Anarchia | 16706822 | 45000 | 22 | 3417304 |
| 136 | #89 | Bowalley Road | 3008250 | 12049 | 1 | 3624640 |
| 137 | #80 | Republican Movement | 1642233 | 23493 | 1 | 3858097 |
| 138 | – | Gman inc. | 11157263 | 45000 | 13 | 3862129 |
| 139 | – | All Embracing But Underwhelming | 9653758 | 45000 | 11 | 3949264 |
| 140 | #96 | The Tailor of Panama Street | 3056904 | 13965 | 1 | 4268966 |
| 141 | – | Socialist Democracy | 15239976 | 45000 | 16 | 4286243 |
| 142 | – | section59 blog – A loving smack is not child abuse |
9677989 | 45000 | 10 | 4355095 |
| 143 | – | Courage to tremble |
3893711 | 45000 | 4 | 4380424 |
| 144 | – | Distractions | 12216892 | 45000 | 12 | 4581334 |
| 145 | – | redrave | 6419239 | 45000 | 6 | 4814429 |
| 146 | – | Ellis in Wellyland | 6484541 | 45000 | 6 | 4863405 |
| 147 | – | Craig Foss MP | 9819397 | 45000 | 9 | 4909698 |
| 148 | #81 | Alf Grumble |
2084825 | 26068 | 1 | 5434721 |
| 149 | #73 | Truth Seeker | 2892600 | 19666 | 1 | 5688587 |
| 150 | – | ACT on Campus blogs | 6513169 | 18390 | 2 | 5988858 |
| 151 | – | Nevermind | 10651848 | 45000 | 8 | 5991664 |
| 152 | #32 | Capitalism Bad; Tree Pretty |
3274320 | 18474 | 1 | 6048978 |
| 153 | #98 | UNITYblogNZ.com | 14842684 | 45000 | 11 | 6072007 |
| 154 | – | Stranded In Reality | 23156100 | 45000 | 17 | 6129555 |
| 155 | – | Grim Planet | 4122490 | 45000 | 3 | 6183735 |
| 156 | – | Consumist | 5687908 | 45000 | 4 | 6398896 |
| 157 | – | Bill English MP | 13646140 | 45000 | 9 | 6823070 |
| 158 | – | Kiwi back in Sydney! | 7709747 | 45000 | 5 | 6938772 |
| 159 | – | stanselen~ (to sparkle + & spark) | 17045724 | 45000 | 11 | 6973250 |
| 160 | – | NZ Media and Other Stuff | 6454262 | 45000 | 4 | 7261044 |
| 161 | #60 | Socialist Aotearoa | 3863156 | 20805 | 1 | 8037296 |
| 162 | – | Stu’s a-Musings |
16242546 | 45000 | 9 | 8121273 |
| 163 | – | Contradiction | 25369763 | 45000 | 14 | 8154566 |
| 164 | – | Scalia | 8210261 | 20063 | 2 | 8236123 |
| 165 | – | Quest For Security – Politics, economics and culture in NZ |
24395125 | 45000 | 13 | 8444466 |
| 166 | – | Fighting Talk | 19057975 | 45000 | 10 | 8576088 |
| 167 | – | John Minto | 8482659 | 45000 | 4 | 9542991 |
| 168 | – | Prog Blog | 19696495 | 45000 | 9 | 9848247 |
| 169 | – | 2 B Sophora |
15613029 | 45000 | 7 | 10036947 |
| 170 | – | Sus’s Sound-Bites | 2285277 | 45000 | 1 | 10283746 |
| 171 | – | Tuckr | 9482424 | 45000 | 4 | 10667727 |
| 172 | – | HIGH WINDOWS | 17259940 | 45000 | 7 | 11095675 |
| 173 | – | …the gossip | 7529171 | 45000 | 3 | 11293756 |
| 174 | – | Christian Theist |
13407435 | 45000 | 5 | 12066691 |
| 175 | – | Oliver Woods | 35000000 | 45000 | 13 | 12115384 |
| 176 | – | Still Truckin’ |
24606383 | 45000 | 9 | 12303191 |
| 177 | – | Farmgirl |
6820633 | 18557 | 1 | 12657048 |
| 178 | – | Three Point Turn | 14178468 | 45000 | 5 | 12760621 |
| 179 | – | Rural Network.co.nz |
8602919 | 45000 | 3 | 12904378 |
| 180 | – | Thesproutandthebean | 35000000 | 45000 | 12 | 13125000 |
| 181 | – | Cicero on Politics | 23339329 | 45000 | 8 | 13128372 |
| 182 | – | 15 Lampton Quay | 7672768 | 17812 | 1 | 13666734 |
| 183 | – | The Reluctant Botanist | 35000000 | 45000 | 11 | 14318181 |
| 184 | – | The Home Office | 7289357 | 20027 | 1 | 14598395 |
| 185 | – | Mike’s View | 14131820 | 45000 | 4 | 15898297 |
| 186 | – | Dread Times |
3661044 | 45000 | 1 | 16474698 |
| 187 | – | Whenua Fenua Enua Vanua | 3801204 | 45000 | 1 | 17105418 |
| 188 | – | Red Confectionery | 23118150 | 45000 | 6 | 17338612 |
| 189 | – | Daktari’s World | 4063357 | 45000 | 1 | 18285106 |
| 190 | – | Born on State Highway One | 35000000 | 45000 | 8 | 19687500 |
| 191 | – | wine enhanced metacognitions | 8946373 | 45000 | 2 | 20129339 |
| 192 | – | Karl du Fresne | 4585971 | 45000 | 1 | 20636869 |
| 193 | – | The Clunking Fist | 4600135 | 45000 | 1 | 20700607 |
| 194 | – | The Linesman | 4782745 | 45000 | 1 | 21522352 |
| 195 | – | Writeups | 9805558 | 45000 | 2 | 22062505 |
| 196 | – | Global Peace and Justice Auckland – Global Peace and Justice Auckland | 4963842 | 45000 | 1 | 22337289 |
| 197 | – | Rob Good in LA | 35000000 | 45000 | 7 | 22500000 |
| 198 | – | United Future Blogs | Peter’s Position | 5154708 | 45000 | 1 | 23196186 |
| 199 | – | Green is Good! |
10392718 | 45000 | 2 | 23383615 |
| 200 | – | NZ Debate |
35000000 | 45000 | 6 | 26250000 |
| 201 | – | Winston says… | 6224754 | 45000 | 1 | 28011393 |
| 202 | #99 | Spleen | 6337640 | 45000 | 1 | 28519380 |
| 203 | – | Dr Michael Bassett | 6431638 | 45000 | 1 | 28942371 |
| 204 | – | Brendon Burns | 35000000 | 45000 | 5 | 31500000 |
| 204 | – | Concerned of Linwood | 35000000 | 45000 | 5 | 31500000 |
| 206 | #86 | The Evolving Newsroom | 7433267 | 45000 | 1 | 33449701 |
| 207 | – | Opposable thumb | 7622076 | 45000 | 1 | 34299342 |
| 208 | – | Jim Benson | 24561882 | 45000 | 3 | 36842823 |
| 209 | – | i am jonny king |
8201842 | 45000 | 1 | 36908289 |
| 210 | – | Too Right – Moving at the Speed of Life | 35000000 | 45000 | 4 | 39375000 |
| 210 | – | The Tomahawk Kid | 35000000 | 45000 | 4 | 39375000 |
| 210 | – | NZ right wing Leftie | 35000000 | 45000 | 4 | 39375000 |
| 213 | – | Si Quando Dubium, Illic Est Scilicet | 8820903 | 45000 | 1 | 39694063 |
| 214 | – | Rob’s Blockhead Blog | 8847615 | 45000 | 1 | 39814267 |
| 215 | – | Jimmy Jangles presents: The Optimus Prime Experiment | 9389654 | 45000 | 1 | 42253443 |
| 216 | – | The Libertarian Front-New Zealand’s Youngest Libertarian | 9861207 | 45000 | 1 | 44375431 |
| 217 | – | Blogging it real | 21349604 | 45000 | 2 | 48036609 |
| 218 | – | Loco Burro Politics – NZ | 11065682 | 45000 | 1 | 49795569 |
| 219 | – | John Ansell | 11090764 | 45000 | 1 | 49908438 |
| 220 | – | sagenz | 11276562 | 45000 | 1 | 50744529 |
| 221 | – | Confessions of an ex Labour Voter | 11341691 | 45000 | 1 | 51037609 |
| 222 | – | Zackarate Island | 11477911 | 45000 | 1 | 51650599 |
| 223 | – | Hier sta ik, ik kan niet anders… |
11586156 | 45000 | 1 | 52137702 |
| 224 | – | The Re[mixed]baptist |
35000000 | 45000 | 3 | 52500000 |
| 225 | – | Policy Matters | 24531028 | 45000 | 2 | 55194813 |
| 226 | – | anarchafairy | 12729202 | 45000 | 1 | 57281409 |
| 227 | – | New Zealand Crime Watch | 13993569 | 45000 | 1 | 62971060 |
| 228 | – | Libertycaroline | 14017018 | 45000 | 1 | 63076581 |
| 229 | – | Long Ago and Not True Anyway | 14287526 | 45000 | 1 | 64293867 |
| 230 | – | Over the fence |
16257791 | 45000 | 1 | 73160059 |
| 231 | – | Chris Hipkins – Candidate’s Blog | 17194558 | 45000 | 1 | 77375511 |
| 232 | – | Wallisra’s Weblog | 17194798 | 45000 | 1 | 77376591 |
| 233 | – | NX-Files | 35000000 | 45000 | 2 | 78750000 |
| 233 | – | The Right Times | 35000000 | 45000 | 2 | 78750000 |
| 233 | – | the Nicholas O’Kane blog | 35000000 | 45000 | 2 | 78750000 |
| 233 | – | Linda Reid | 35000000 | 45000 | 2 | 78750000 |
| 233 | – | korero | 35000000 | 45000 | 2 | 78750000 |
| 233 | – | Frank Observations | 35000000 | 45000 | 2 | 78750000 |
| 233 | – | maidennz | 35000000 | 45000 | 2 | 78750000 |
| 240 | – | Betty Blue | 17677488 | 45000 | 1 | 79548696 |
| 241 | – | New Masses | 17794644 | 45000 | 1 | 80075898 |
| 242 | – | Barber’s Meaty Issues |
18219539 | 45000 | 1 | 81987925 |
| 243 | – | Think Big | 19425839 | 45000 | 1 | 87416275 |
| 244 | – | Renascent Exegete | 21696489 | 45000 | 1 | 97634200 |
| 245 | – | rivettingKateTaylor |
23078050 | 45000 | 1 | 103851225 |
| 246 | – | Micro Party Watch | 23156041 | 45000 | 1 | 104202184 |
| 247 | – | Adding Noughts in Vain | 24530234 | 45000 | 1 | 110386053 |
| 248 | – | The Bull Pen |
24606458 | 45000 | 1 | 110729061 |
| 249 | – | His Name Is Freedom |
24690423 | 45000 | 1 | 111106903 |
Something should go here, maybe later. 
Are you able to confirm what category of blogs you rank in a nice short sentence? Would you say public discourse as in any nz blog that engages culture? Would that be accurate?
Blogs of public interest. Generally, this is people who are discussing or producing something that people in the general public might be interested in, and the
This is deliberately a bit wider than Tumeke!. This allows blogs that don’t quite qualify for his to have an idea where they stand.
Just looking at the top 20 blogs, it seems to me the list is a little out of kilter. No Minister gets around 900 unique visitors a day, whereas NZC are down at around 200, yet we are close.
I suspect NRT, Frog Blog, Hand Mirror and DimPost would all get far more visitors than our blog.
A way to balance this would be to include the unique visit count.
If those stats are not easily available, I think reducing the Alexa ranking variable and putting more weight on the Technorati rank might work.
Our Alexa rank has improved dramatically recently, and it’s probably only takes a regular visitor or two using Alexa to boost the score. I’ve noticed with a few extra posts on Obama (well he is President of the free world 🙂 ), we’ve attracted more international visitors, especially from the States, and Alexa is probably used more widely there.
Perhaps including the Google Page Rank score is another factor that could be incorporated?
I was wondering where google might end up on your rankings, and I realised that the HD score would go into fractions with a score very slightly above zero. Which got me to thinking that your equation should modified otherwise. Rather than divide by 10000 I think you should take a logarithm. That way you will still get the same order but the HD rank would be more manageable and better reflect the fact you have multiplication and division in your equation.
Log (base 10) transformed results for #1 kiwiblog is 4.6
for #249 his name is freedom is 12.0
These are much better numbers to deal with.
Oh, and you have misspelled Prodigal #83
I think there are inevitable problems with any individual method of ranking (eg.; Alexa, Technorati). ZenTiger has mentioned the Sensitivity of Alexa Rank and neither of the measures correlate well with stat traffic data. (There would be good reasosn for this in most cases).
My analysis of data for March (27 NZ blogs) indicates that Alexa Rank can explain only about 30% of the variation in stat counter figures. Technorati doesn’t really explain much at all. And some of the link measures (eg. Google) and RSS subscriptions (eg. Google Reader) actually correlate better with the Stat counter data than Alexa (about 40%).
Of course, even the stat counter data itself can be interpreted in different ways. And they are not really available for most blogs.
My approach has been to use a number of measures for rank (Alexa, Alexa NZ, Technorati, Google Page), links (Alexa, Yahoo, All the Werb, Google Web, Google Blogs) and RSS subscriptions (Google reader, Bloglines) and aggregate each rank to produce a final rank (see Ranking methods for NZ blogs and NZ blog ranks – March ‘09). I would prefer this to introducing weighting factors – especially without some objective data to determine the factor. I don’t know how one could get that data.
I guess, in the end one chooses the ranking system one prefers (for one’s own subjective reasons).