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Most Popular Catholic Blogs

Posted By Eric Sammons On June 3, 2010 @ 7:15 am In Blog,Geekiness,Technology | Comments Disabled

One of the things that most Catholic bloggers and blog-visitors would love to know is: “What are the most popular Catholic blogs?” Unfortunately, there has been no good way to find out, as such statistics have either not been publicly available or difficult to compile.

Until now.

As a service to the Catholic blog community, I decided to put on my programming hat and attack this problem. I knew two things: the list of Catholic blogs is publicly available at the Catholic Blog Directory [1] and the number of Google Reader subscribers for every blog is also publicly available. The problem: who is going to manually determine the subscriber numbers for over 2,000 blogs? Thus, I wrote a program that would do the work for me (programmers are essentially lazy people), gathering the subscriber numbers for every Catholic blog at the Directory. I then ranked them in order by number of subscribers. Below is the top 25 plus a link to the top 200.

Big red disclaimer: this list is based on Google Reader subscribers only. I imagine that this is a good indicator of a blog’s popularity compared to other blogs, but it does not measure actual traffic to the site or the total number of subscribers across different feed readers. Furthermore, it doesn’t guage a blog’s current popularity as much as its popularity over the full history of the blog.

Top 25 Most Popular Catholic Blogs by Google Reader Subscribers

(1) What Does the Prayer Really Say? [2]: 4841
(2) Whispers in the Loggia [3]: 4685
(3) Charlotte Was Both [4]: 3053
(4) Conversion Diary [5]: 1817
(5) New Advent Blog [6]: 1429
(6) Creative Minority Report [7]: 1248
(7) Patrick Madrid [8]: 1173
(8) Standing on my Head [9]: 1156
(9) The Hermeneutic of Continuity [10]: 1053
(10) Damian Thompson [11]: 954
(11) Rorate Caeli [12]: 933
(12) The New Liturgical Movement [13]: 892
(13) Ask Sister Mary Martha [14]: 867
(14) Mere Comments [15]: 811
(15) Catholic and Enjoying It! [16]: 796
(16) Ignatius Insight Scoop [17]: 749
(17) By Sun and Candlelight [18]: 712
(18) Catholic Cuisine [19]: 648
(19) The Shrine of the Holy Whapping [20]: 643
(20) Testosterhome [21]: 638
(21) Happy Catholic [22]: 607
(22) The Crescat [23]: 573
(23) Domine, da mihi hanc aquam! [24]: 521
(24) Shower of Roses [25]: 481
(25) Wildflowers and Marbles [26]: 474

See the list of the Top 200 Most Popular Catholic Blogs [27] over at my main website.

For those who are curious, my blog came in #303, which isn’t bad out of over 2,000 blogs considering I’ve only been doing this for a little over a year. But feel free to subscribe to my blog [28] to bump me up.

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URLs in this post:

[1] Catholic Blog Directory: http://catholicblogs.blogspot.com/

[2] What Does the Prayer Really Say?: http://wdtprs.com/blog/

[3] Whispers in the Loggia: http://whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com/

[4] Charlotte Was Both: http://amywelborn.wordpress.com/

[5] Conversion Diary: http://www.conversiondiary.com/

[6] New Advent Blog: http://www.newadvent.org/

[7] Creative Minority Report: http://www.creativeminorityreport.com/

[8] Patrick Madrid: http://patrickmadrid.blogspot.com/

[9] Standing on my Head: http://gkupsidedown.blogspot.com/

[10] The Hermeneutic of Continuity: http://the-hermeneutic-of-continuity.blogspot.com/

[11] Damian Thompson: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/damianthompson/

[12] Rorate Caeli: http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/

[13] The New Liturgical Movement: http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/

[14] Ask Sister Mary Martha: http://asksistermarymartha.blogspot.com/

[15] Mere Comments: http://merecomments.typepad.com/merecomments/

[16] Catholic and Enjoying It!: http://markshea.blogspot.com/

[17] Ignatius Insight Scoop: http://insightscoop.typepad.com/

[18] By Sun and Candlelight: http://dawnathome.typepad.com/by_sun_and_candlelight/

[19] Catholic Cuisine: http://catholiccuisine.blogspot.com/

[20] The Shrine of the Holy Whapping: http://holywhapping.blogspot.com/

[21] Testosterhome: http://www.testosterhome.net/

[22] Happy Catholic: http://happycatholic.blogspot.com/

[23] The Crescat: http://thecrescat.blogspot.com/

[24] Domine, da mihi hanc aquam!: http://hancaquam.blogspot.com/

[25] Shower of Roses: http://showerofroses.blogspot.com/

[26] Wildflowers and Marbles: http://wildflowersandmarbles.blogspot.com/

[27] Top 200 Most Popular Catholic Blogs: http://ericsammons.com/topcatholicblogs.html

[28] subscribe to my blog: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/DivineLife

[29] subscribe to my RSS feed: http://ericsammons.com/blog/feed/

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