NZ blog ranks – June ‘09

July 3, 2009 · 26 Comments

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My latest attempt to rank New Zealand blogs in the tables below.

The methods used are outlined in Ranking methods for NZ blogs. The change is the change in ranking compared with May 09 (NZ blog sitemeter ranking – May ‘09).

Briefly the method involves ranking the blogs according to 11 different ranking indices – 4 page ranking (Google Pagerank, Alexa 3 month rank, Technorati rank and Alexa NZ rank), 5 linking indices (Alexa links, Google web links, Google blog links, All the Web links and Yahoo links) and 2 RSS subscription counts (Google reader and Bloglines). The average rankings for the 11 indices are then ranked to produce a final rank.

I also include a separate ranking for each of the 3 broad classes – Page ranking, Links and RSS subscription counts.

If you want a more immediate measure of blog performance have a look at the NZ blog ranking tool. This lists the performance of over 50 NZ blogs based on actual sitemeter visit statistics. The data is for average visits/day over the previous 7 days. Obviously only the blogs which allow public access to the statistics are included. Data changes daily and one can watch blogs moving up and down the list on a daily basis.

(Note: I might try to transfer some of the rankings below into an online daily updated format like the NZ blog ranking tool. Currently I find difficulty in uploading large tables onto this blog site – presumably my broadband is just not adequate).

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Total Rank	Change	Name	Rank	Links	RSS subs
1	0	Kiwiblog	1	1	1
2	0	Public Address	2	4	1
3	0	frogblog	3	2	13
4	0	The Standard 2.02	4	3	16
5	1	Not PC	5	7	11
6	3	TUMEKE!	7	12	17
7	-2	No Right Turn	31	9	3
8	0	The Dim-Post	10	21	13
9	-2	The Inquiring Mind	18	14	53
10	0	Whale Oil Beef Hooked	53	5	46
11	1	Halfdone	14	17	61
12	5	MacDoctor Moments	17	25	51
13	12	MandM	16	21	10%
14	-3	Auckland Daily Photo	46	12	38
15	-2	No Minister	6	50	34
16	5	Open Parachute	12	41	41
17	6	The Wellingtonista	30	52	5
18	-4	Liturgy	51	16	46
19	-4	In a stange land	47	28	24
20	39	Life is not a race to be first finished	34	51	9
21	13	Cactus Kate	9	79	10
22	8	Kiwipolitico	20	33	77
23	-5	Beatie’s Book Blog	40	35	36
24	4	Wellington Daily Photo	50	23	35
25	-9	Jack Yan: The Persuader	72	11	43
26	-2	The Fundy Post	60	24	22
27	-7	New Zeal	25	59	24
28	-10	Nelson Daily Photo	48	10	108
29	-7	The Hand Mirror	15	85	12
30	-4	New Zealand Conservative	8	46	101
31	-4	The visible hand in economics	13	31	148
32	7	Allthings2all	130	8	27
33	-2	Ethical Martini	26	45	69
34	27	Offsetting Behaviour	37	55	39
35	-2	Liberty Scott	35	57	44
36	9	Stephenfranks.co.nz	43	47	46
37	-1	Hot Topic	27	53	74
38	-3	Keeping Stock	22	69	62
39	-10	Derek’s blog	100	37	6
40	new	Artichoke	123	30	3
41	6	Hitting Metal With A Hammer	44	38	85
42	1	Lindsay Mitchell	24	63	81
43	19	Silent running	66	6	182
44	-2	Clint Heine and Friends	31	73	64
45	12	Big News	19	62	127
46	-9	sustain:if:able kiwi	69	28	83
47	-15	Capitalism is bad	177	15	21
48	-10	Radical Cross Stitch	41	111	7
49	new	Lively	61	42	86
50	22	Knowledge Workers	28	61	122
51	4	Media Law Journal	66	66	31
52	19	Educational Origami	10%	84	22
53	-3	Oswald Bastable’s Ranting	28	87	74
54	new	A cat of impossible colour	52	86	33
55	-14	Homepaddock	11	130	40
56	-10	Christchurch Daily Photo	73	39	93
57	-6	from the morgue	92	49	57
58	-4	Reading the Maps	68	68	49
59	-19	Poneke’s Weblog	36	132	8
60	-7	Just Left	57	102	15
61	-13	Object dart	97	60	45
62	26	Educating the dragon	78	83	20
63	-14	Anti-Dismal	33	110	65
64	-20	Barnsley Bill	20	127	65
65	-9	Pacific Empire	96	40	96
66	2	Anarchia	127	27	90
67	35	Red Alert	95	32	145
68	-16	Pundit	82	19	185
69	new	Teaching Sagittarian	64	67	99
70	-3	Put ‘em all on an island	82	80	55
71	4	John Key	48	70	139
72	new	Signposts	42	105	81
73	-13	Christchurch City Libraries Blog	125	72	29
74	-10	En Avant	102	77	49
75	-17	The Hive	98	95	28
76	-10	roarprawn	38	108	115
77	-9	Evolving Newsroom	82	120	24
78	new	Contradiction	157	47	76
79	-14	Kotare	137	94	19
80	-10	Policy Blog	126	36	154
81	-7	Greenpeace New Zealand Weblog	65	43	233
82	new	Adventure into romance	143	34	149
83	-20	Greg’s Blog	148	90	29
84	-4	NewZblog	117	65	101
85	new	Luddite Journo	79	89	113
86	0	Einstein Music Journal	56	97	146
87	new	Robyn’s Secret Passage	113	109	37
88	-15	ACT New Zealand blogs	92	26	289
89	-8	Bowalley Road	112	99	71
90	-13	Bioblog	55	81	219
91	-15	Prodigal Kiwi(s) Blog	89	150	18
92	-10	Greenflame	139	74	108
93	30	Liberation	63	153	51
94	-15	Samuel Dennis	45	124	174
95	6	CORE	104	93	131
96	-3	Art and my life	140	92	94
97	-8	Webweaver’s world	135	122	59
98	-15	Monkey with typewriter	54	160	84
99	-15	Bits on the side	175	75	121
100	8	Say Hello	110	101	132

101 – 150
Against the current Alliance Party of New Zealand Aotearoa: a wider perspective Auckland Blog Beautiful Monsters Being Frank Blessed Economist café pacific Canterbury Atheists Christian News NZ Daily New Zealand News Dave Gee: Life from Right Field Education investigation Eye of the Fish Fighting talk g.blog get the skinny:[from skinny]	goNZo Freakpower Brains Trust Hamilton Daily Photo Henry Humanitarian Chronicle Joe Hendren Karl du Fresne KiwiSmithFamily Lefthandpalm Love in a tent Micky’s muses . . From the antipodes Mulholland Drive NZ Blogosphere PM of NZ Put up thy Sword! RobiNZ Personal Blog SageNZ Semper Vita	Sharing the addiction Socialist Aotearoa Stargazer Su’s Sound Bites Tauranga Daily Photo TBR.cc the gossip The Republican Movement of Aotearoa new Zealand The sound of butterflies The world according to Misha theSection59Blog This is halfpie Thoughtspurs Unity Blog whoar.co.nz Workers Party

150 – 200
A Sensitivity to Things Alf Grumble Ali’s blog All embracing, but underwhelming Bill English Blogging it real Brian Edward’s Media Canvassing for opinion cbmilne33 Contra Celsum Cr!key Creek dad4justice definitive Developing the mind of Christ Distractions Dragonsinger Dunedin Public Libraries news and reviews blog	Ellis in Wellyland ereport Family integrity Funerals and snakes Genius Home Education Foundation I see red ki ta himi titiro Leigh Blackall Lunchbox Manaia Kindergarten Maori Party Naketa’s Blog Neil Stockley Nevermind Not quite perfect NZ Conservative	Opposable thumb People Points Physics Stop Planet NZ Tech Prog blog rob’s blockhead blog simon.net.nz Spleen Stanselen Star Studded Super Step The Fairfacts Media Show Thinking Matters Talk Truth Seeker Turning the supertanker United Future Website.net.nz

201 – 370
99 Problems but Style Ain’t One A dark feathered art A novelist speaks on books … A view from the pew ACT on campus agridata.co.nz And Slaters go Plop Artblackhead Aspiring writer Author of confusion B K Drinkwater Backchat Café Barber’s meaty issues Bitemymoko Brendon Burns Catch the wave Chalkface 2.0 Christian Theist Climate Kiwi Comme il Faut Consumist Courage to tremble Creative Voice Culture and Wine Daktari’s world Deadball Dear John Deep(ish) Thought Digital Learning Di’s Blog – ICT in Education Donovan’s world Dr Sapna Earth is my Favourite Planet Elsewoman Emeth aletheia Everyone is gifted Extreme team 14 Farmgirl Flying High From the Ends of the Earth fruitful faith GavinKnight.com Going Places Grant Robertson Green is good Half-Geek Harvest bird Here I stand Hey Milly! High windows Hipkens on line I am Johnny King ICT in Early ChildhoodEducation ICT teaching and learning ICTPD Indelible freckles	ithink Janis Freeguard’s weblog Jedd Jesus was a titman Jews, Christians and Muslims Working Together Joey Hill Kahukura’s blog Kai Tua o te Pae kaiwai’s blog Kerre Woodham’s World Kiwi thoughts on life, travel .. Kiwitravelwriter Korero Pt England Life and Politics.co.nz Loco Burro Politics – NZ Lolly Scramble lukesnedden.com – Confused? Don’t be! m3teacher Madness and Mess Maidennz Manaiakalani Maungaturoto Daily Photo Media Fetish Moturoa’s blog Mr Publics organ of electric intercourse myplacenictspace Neuseeland New Day New Zealand Dog News New Zealand Micro Party Watch Blog New Zealand vs the world New Zealand Websites Newlifenz’s blog No excuses, just write Nothing is what it seems NZ Right Wing Leftie NZ Skeptic NZPI Ohuirere Class Blog Over the fence Ozymandias Warning Paul Long’s Ramblings pete’s kiwi watch Photos from around New Zealand Phrenic philosophy Pip’s squeaks Political animal Pre-frontal lobotomy Prior knowledge Pt England school Quote unquote Reality Check Realitively science redrave Reporter Girl Right to Life	rivetting KateTaylor Room 10 @ Morrinsville Intermediate school Room 10 Grey Lynn School Room 18 learners Room 18’s Sharing Space Room 8 @ Melville Intermediate Room Ten’s Blog Ruth’s reflections Sandhurst Winery Scalia Scepticon Science Media Centre Blog Si Quando Dubium, Illic Est Scilicet Sleep500dotcom Sleeping with books Snowballs Socialist Democracy St Pius X – Room Six’s creations!!! Subversive ICT Surfr Swritches Tamahere forum Tamaki Schools Consortium Tamaki Tales TANSA Talk TCTV Teacher etalk The adventures of a homely wife The Atavism The Bull Pen The chicken or the egg . . The flightless writer The Home Office The Linesman The Other Blog The Podgorani The Positive Atheist The quiet world project The re(mixed) Baptist Theology Geek Think Beyond Three point turn Today is my Birthday toni twiss True Paradigm Tuckr Upwardly Mobile VirtualNorth Watchblog Watching brief Web Help NZ – SEO Blog Wendyl Nissen What’s a simple man to do Widgets and wikis and blogs . . . Oh my!!! Wine enahnced metacognitions Winged Ink

Categories: NZ blog rankings · New Zealand · blogging
Tagged: Alexa, Google, Google Pagerank, Google Reader, New Zealand, PageRank, RSS, Technorati, Yahoo

26 responses so far ↓

Phil Bilbrough // July 3, 2009 at 11:38 am

Hi Ken

I’ll have to try harder to make the top 100. One very popular blog on Scoop.co.nz is http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/. Local and very relevant.

Phil
Phil Bilbrough // July 3, 2009 at 11:39 am

My blog didn’t show up in the comment field,

http://advertising.scoop.co.nz
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Andrea // July 3, 2009 at 2:34 pm

I find it completely bizarre that my blog is so far up the list.
Ken // July 3, 2009 at 2:50 pm

Andrea – according to just sitemeter stats you should actually be doing better – have a look at NZ blog ranking tool for your place in the list for blogs which make their stats public.
alison // July 3, 2009 at 5:34 pm

Curses! What am I doing there? I must get one of those sitemeter thingies
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Andrea // July 3, 2009 at 6:07 pm

Ken – wowza! That’s unexpected. Thanks for showing me!
uroskin // July 6, 2009 at 3:18 pm

Your blog ranking tool has a strange URL for my blog Put ‘em all on an Island. It should be http://uroskin.blogspot.com
Cheers
Ken // July 6, 2009 at 4:28 pm

Sorry, uroskin. Had omitted something in the spreadsheet but the data was (is) OK. Should be fixed now.
godlessmonkey // July 12, 2009 at 4:18 pm

In answer to your comment to me, mine for one:

godlessmonkey.wordpress.com

But there are many listed on feedjit.com by region. You might find it useful to check that out. There are many in Auckland alone not on your list.
Ken // July 13, 2009 at 10:51 am

Ill put your site in the database – although I can’t see any identification as a NZ blog I take your word for it.

I have been thorugh feedjit a few times – but if you know of ones not on the current list (June), please pass them on.

Also, If you a willing to make your stacounter data public I can include your blog in my NZ blog ranking tool (see NZ blogs average daily visits).
godlessmonkey // July 13, 2009 at 11:09 am

My Statcounter data is free to view at all times.
Ken // July 13, 2009 at 11:20 am

I mean access to the details. You are displaying a number but I clicking on the icon gets through just top the generic statcounter site. If you change your setting to enable public access the spreadsheet I use can get at the visits/day data (and the monthly visits data).
godlessmonkey // July 13, 2009 at 11:43 am

I can add you as a user. I’ll need an email address, a user name and a password for you.

you can reach me at rds@ihug.co.nz
Ken // July 13, 2009 at 11:59 am

That won’t work godlessmonkey as the data is imported on the web into a google document spreadsheet (cookies on my computer and passwords don’t work – I think it’s a guest login). All I need is a link (something like:http://my8.statcounter.com/project/standard2/stats.php?account_id=2417659&login_id=1&code=863e938e085e8e44255ec77c0810750f&guest_login=1&project_id=4509080) which goes to your data. There doesn’t actually have to be public access from your site, unless you want it.
godlessmonkey // July 13, 2009 at 12:18 pm

I see. Well then, here you go:

http://my3.statcounter.com/project/standard2/stats.php?project_id=4785335
Ken // July 13, 2009 at 1:13 pm

That doesn’t work (presumably because I don’t have the cookies you have). The link should have something like “&guest_login=1&project_id=” in it.

If you go login to your statcounter dashboard, go to the padlock symbol (which gives control and access), click on the 3rd choice (“all stats are public”) you should get the link with guest in it.

Going to the spanner and then “install code” you can get the code to put in a widget. This should include a “view my stats” link as well as the button.

However, you don’t need to have that link – just send me the link you get when you make “all stats are public”.
godlessmonkey // July 13, 2009 at 3:35 pm

Ok, here it is:

http://my.statcounter.com/project/standard/stats.php?project_id=4785335&guest=1

Cheers.
Ken // July 14, 2009 at 10:16 am

Thanks, it’s working now.

However, I have a horrible feeling that the visits/day row is not lining up properly for the data imported from Stacounter. It seems to be importing new visitors instead. If so it will be ranking blogs with statcounter lower than it should. I’ll have a look at that. I may be temporary, but if not it’s easy to adjust for.

Ken.

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godlessmonkey // July 14, 2009 at 10:24 am

Well, on top of that the data for Statcounter never matches up with the data for WordPress. A few days ago Statcounter said over 1900 while WordPress said just over 1400. It’s not usually out by that much, but it’s often out by 200 or more on any given day. I discovered that Statcounter was counting my visits and changed that, but since I rarely go there more than once a day that doesn’t account for the discrepancy. Add to that the fact that when I was on Blogspot I was getting more than twice the number of hits I do on WordPress and then whole thing makes me thing all of this data is faulty, which is why I’m not sure your rankings actually amount to much, but I interested in your data nonetheless.
Ken // July 14, 2009 at 5:25 pm

Granted every ranking method is going to have problems – some aspects will be arbitrary. I guess using some uniform method of visits may not tell a lot to the individual blogger as many visits will terminate immediately, some will read and some will browse through other posts. But I think if a blogger compares their visit numbers with those for other blogs using similar counters then the ranking, rather than absolute numbers, gives them some information.

I think this argument has some merit for visit stats. I am less confident that it does for ranking methods like Technorati, Alexa, etc. The RSS subscription counts may be more valuable. I adopted the approach of averaging ranks over 11 indices. Tumeke basically uses Alexa to estimate visits and adds commment number, posting frequency, etc., and Halfdone combines Alexa 3 month, Alexa NZ and Technorati.

However, one works with what is available. If more people made their stats publicly accessible I think that would provide the most useful ranking system. Even with just 60 or so at this stage, though, it is possible for others to compare their own numbers with the ranked blogs and get some idea of their relative performance. Its probably best to use the tool to estimate ones own performance – rather than thinking it objectively rates the worth of all the blogs.
godlessmonkey // July 14, 2009 at 6:54 pm

I read somewhere recently that one shouldn’t get too absorbed in one’s stats. I know I have always been, I’m still mystified why I dropped by half when I moved from Blogspot to WordPress. I think it has to do with the decline of Alphainventions to some extent. I still get nothing but high praise from those who do bother to comment, so I guess I’m doing something right. What is your feeling about the relevance of numbers to the blogger?
Ken // July 15, 2009 at 10:52 am

Irrespective of the difficulties in interpretation your blog does rate highly for visit stats. Interestingly, I have located a few NZ writers blogs lately and this seems to be common – they rank higher than the more political/religious/social commentary blogs which dominate the usual ranking systems (for some reason writers blogs have been ignored in the past).

I think some bloggers (only a few) become obsessed with numbers. I have been accused of rigging things by at least one person who thinks like that. Really, the blogger should try to assess them as an indication (hopefully objective) of how effectively they are “getting their message across.” To reject the evidence because it doesn’t fit in with one’s wishes, rather than taking it on board and making changes if necessary, seems to me silly.

I guess, ideally one should not give a stuff about the numbers – as long as you are enjoying what you do. Then again, if you are interested in getting a message through (rather than writing entirely for one’s own satisfaction (and then why bother about putting it on line) you should have some interest in the numbers – although it pays to be realistic about one’s “market.” Don’t expect to compete with blogs like Kiwiblog, for example.

I don’t concern myself too much – but I do try to communicate a message so I hope I am getting readers. One thing, though, is that by establishing some sort of record of posting frequency and ranking I now find I can get books to review on-line. Providing they are books I probably want to read anyway that is a win-win situation.
alfon // July 27, 2009 at 12:10 am

what the great article, but i’m little bit confuse to read that table can u explain clearly?
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