Jan09 - Top 100 Personal Finance Blogs - Ranked By Traffic


[This post is written and copyrighted by FIRE Finance (http://firefinance.blogspot.com).]

The LATEST RANKINGS are available HERE.

Updated on Jan 22, 2009: We wish you a great new year ahead :). Welcome back to our rankings of personal finance (pf) blogs for January 2009 based on traffic data of December 2008.

Jan 24, 2009 (4:00 am): We had to publish this month's rankings three times due to discrepancies in data from Quantcast. Perhaps their new model of tracking traffic has not yet stabilized.

Initially we generated the rankings using the metric "People/Month" from Quantcast. Upon investigation we found that this metric was way off from similar ones offered by Google Analytics, SiteMeter and Compete.

Next, we regenerated the rankings with the "PageViews/Month" metric from Quantcast since this was slightly more accurate wrt similar metrics from other tracking companies. Unfortunately, there were glitches on Quantcast's side. For several of the top blogs, Quantcast simply did not display any data for this metric! Perhaps it'd be useful for site owners to let them know about it.

So we had to redo the rankings once again with the "Visits/Months" metric from Quantcast. Though most of the top 100 pf blogs did have data for this metric, there are a handful for whom this data is not being displayed by Quantcast. Please make sure that in your account's settings you have the following option enabled:
  • Show Traffic Data Using -> Direct Measurement
However not all is well with Quantcast. There is still some goofy stuff. For example: The data for the blog "A Frugal Living" shows that it had 714 visits in the month while the number of visitors for the month were 2453! This is logically incorrect :).

As you may have noticed, there are some discrepancies in Quantcast and Compete's results. This may be due to the fact that many sites have not implemented requisite trackers and plugins (details are here). It makes sense to go through with the implementations to make this game an even playing field.


The following tables show traffic rankings of individual and group personal finance blogs respectively based on monthly traffic data (Dec 2008) from corresponding sources.

TABLE's LEGEND
» FIRE RANK: Overall Traffic Rank of a site
» BLOG: Name of the blog being ranked
» CHANGE: Change in FIRE RANK of a blog wrt previous month's position
» SITEMETER: Traffic rank based on Sitemeter's data
» QUANTCAST: Traffic rank based on Quantcast's data
» COMPETE: Traffic rank based on Compete's data
» SCORE: Average Traffic rank (Sitemeter, Quantcast, Compete)
» PAGE RANK: Google's page rank for the blog


RankingsMethodology Raw Traffic Data Master List Notes
INDIVIDUAL PF BLOGS - RANKED

Last updated on Sat Jan 24 2009 01:03 AM EST
FIRE RANKBLOGCHANGESITEMETERQUANTCASTCOMPETESCOREPAGE RANK
1GetRichSlowly-1111.05
2TheSimpleDollar13322.76
3MoneySavingMom12242.75
4BankDeals15
4
4.03
5BluePrintForFinancialPros-
534.02
6MyMoneyBlog4
756.06
7MomAdvice-
676.54
8FiveCentNickel2
867.05
9CommonSenseWithMoney14510129.05
10NotMadeOfMoney206111410.33

11FreeMoneyFinance2
12910.56
12CouponCravings16421811.05
12MoneyBlueBook5
91311.05
13FrugalDad27161813.73
14NoCreditNeeded211172016.05
15BeingFrugal39251516.33
16MoneySmartLife712132416.32
17CashMoneyLife78261616.73
18ChristianPF3
151917.03
19MyDollarPlan2
142218.03

20IWillTeachYouToBeRich27
301020.03
21GenerationXFinance915192820.73
22LazyManAndMoney816232722.03
23TheDigeratiLife15
331122.02
24Moolanomy13
222523.53
25MoneyMatter&MoreMusings1
183325.53
26MoneyNing2018293025.74
27BibleMoneyMatters2310472126.05
28PaidTwice119273627.33
29FrugalUpstate32234
28.04

30TheDoughRoller8
322629.03
31BeingFrugalIsFabulousNew2831
29.53
32AskMrCreditCard61743
30.04
32MyTwoDollars1914532330.04
33SavingToInvest824244631.36
34TheFrugalDuchess3333

33.05
35KeepingKingdomFirst3127
4134.04
36BloggingAwayDebt7
284235.03
37ExperimentsInFinance413
5835.53
38DontMessWithTaxes213438
36.05

39GiveMeBackMyFiveBucks363141
36.03
40DividendGrowthInvestor6
205437.04
41GatherLittleByLittle1920622937.03
41ItsJustMoney2137

37.03
41TheSun'sFinancialDiary22
571737.03
42PTMoney1029364737.34
43MrsMicah8
393838.52
44SenseToSave132424339.02
45MightyBargainHunter5
493240.53
46CleverDude1321683742.03

47TheFinanceBuffNew30356342.74
48FreeFromBroke140405143.72
49ADashOfInsight5
44
44.06
50FrugalLawStudent1423694044.03
51SingleGuyMoney1345

45.04
52MillionDollarJourney25

4545.03
52MoneyCrashers1
375345.03
53TheHappyRock336485646.74
54ThriftyFloridaMamaNew
454947.03
55TheWanderingTaxPro1349

49.05

56MyOpenWallet1426566649.33
57HowISaveMoney4
505050.02
58BudgetsAre$exy3742
5950.54
59Neville'sFinancialBlog5
465550.53
60PunnyMoney325824851.72
61AlmostFrugal8

5252.04
62StopBuyingCrap8
713452.55
63WellHeeledNew
54
54.05
64DebtKid33
773154.04
65EngineerADebtFreeLifeNew
55
55.03

66MoneyMusings29
753555.00
67TheBaglady956

56.02
68NoDebtPlan547527257.03
69PoorerThanYou746
6857.02
70FIREFinance314472
58.04
71MyPersonalFinanceJourney2838795758.03
722millionBlog15
586059.03
73DebtFree133980
59.53
74My1stMillionAt3323

6161.03
75TiredButHappy1061

61.02

76ZenPersonalFinance948617561.35
77DebitVsCreditNew

6262.03
78TightFistedMiserNew54
7062.02
79MyFinancialJourney541
8563.02
80OneFrugalGirl195870
64.03
80SavvySaverNew
64
64.03
81TheFinancialBlogger9

6565.05
82PluggedInFinanceNew35
9565.03
83BankBonuses1155677766.30
84EnglishMajorMoney16073
66.52

85APennyCloserNew

6767.03
86MyInvestingBlog23
656967.02
87Mapgirl’sFiscalChallenge151638967.72
88MoneyUnder3044
924468.05
89YetAnotherBlogAboutMoney968

68.04
90TheWisdomJournal16
973968.03
91DinksFinance36
518668.56
92PlonkeeMoney13

7171.00
93LittlePeopleWealthNew
608472.03
94MoneyAndValues96283
72.53

95ArtOfMoneyNew

7373.03
96RealmOfProsperityNew70
7874.02
97OnlineSavingsBlog8

7474.00
98Caveman'sFinJourney853
9775.03
98MoneyAndSuch-6684
75.03
99DebtFreeRevolution21

7676.04
100TheMoneyKingsNew43889876.30

GROUP PF BLOGS - RANKED

Last updated on Sat Jan 17 2009 09:52 PM EST
FIRE RANKBLOGCHANGESITEMETERQUANTCASTCOMPETESCOREPAGE RANK
1WiseBread-1111.04
2PersonalFinanceAdvice-
2
2.03
3ConsumerismCommentary-2332.76
4AllFinancialMaters-
423.05
5Queercents14544.33
6QuestForFourPillars23
96.02
7SoundMoneyTips-
856.54
8CreditBloggers3
777.04
9SmartMoneyDaily4
687.00
10AmericanConsumerNews1
967.53

11TheDiv-Net1510108.33

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