Top 50 Seattle Media Websites - October 2008

Here are our top 50 Seattle media websites (including upstart WEB ONLY outlets) for the month of October, 2008.
Our ranking system is based on Alexa/Quantcast (estimated US people per month)/websiteoutlook.com (estimated daily page views & daily ad revenue of main page) and also our own voodoo.

Seattle's number one ranked media website is the combined realm of the daily dinosaur duo Seattle Times/Seattle P-I:
1. nwsource.com (Times & P-I) Alexa: 1,144 Quantcast : 3,400,000 / WSO: dpv 982,142 dar $2,949.07

2. komonews.com Alexa: 14,542 / Quantcast: 652,700 / WSO: dpv 58,398 dar $177.19

3. king5.com Alexa: 18,955 / Quantcast: 579,600 / WSO: dpv 33,238 dar $102.16

4. thenewstribune.com Alexa: 23,806 / Quantcast: 483,100 / WSO: dpv 49,760 dar $151.73

5. kirotv.com Alexa: 23,642 / Quantcast: 443,500 / WSO: dpv 45,150 dar $137.90

6. thestranger.com Alexa: 15,583 /Quantcast: 355,700 / WSO: dpv 37,437 dar $114.76

7. seattlest.com Alexa: 100,934 / Quantcast: 84,000 / WSO: dpv 10,035 dar $32.55 WEB ONLY

8. crosscut.com Alexa: 155,905 / Quantcast: 136,900 / WSO: dpv 3,563 dar $10.69 WEB ONLY

9. seattleweekly.com Alexa: 56,061 / Quantcast: 81,100 / WSO: dpv 17,352 dar $54.51

10. mynorthwest.com Alexa: 137,317 / Quantcast: 81,700 / WSO: dpv 5,736 dar $19.44

11. nwcn.com Alexa: 87,432 / Quantcast: 68,819 / WSO: dpv 12,581 dar $40.19

12. q13fox.com Alexa: 5,482 / Quantcast: 32,577 / WSO: dpv 191,804 dar $578.06
Those WSO stats don't seem right, so we'll go with Quantcast here.

13. westseattleblog.com Alexa: 244,020 / Quantcast: 26,600 / WSO: dpv 2,822 dar $10.70 WEB ONLY
Seattle's leading neighblog.

14. seattlebubble.com Alexa: 160,836 / Quantcast: 17,800 / WSO: dpv 6,839 dar $22.97 WEB ONLY

15. seattle.metblogs.com Alexa: no data / Quantcast: 12,300 / WSO: dpv 56,508 dar $172.17 WEB ONLY

16. kuow.org Alexa: 106,971 / Quantcast: 13,500 / WSO: dpv 10,283 dar $33.4

17. kplu.org Alexa: 173,317 / Quantcast: 5,600 / WSO: dpv 6,346 dar $21.49

18. kvi.com Alexa: 193,843 / Quantcast: 14,200 / WSO: dpv 5,674 dar $19.47

19. horsesass.org Alexa: 244,318 / Quantcast: 9,800 / WSO: dpv 2,979 dar $11.17 WEB ONLY

20. am1090seattle.com Alexa: 403,462 / Quantcast: 12,900 / WSO: dpv 3,332 dar $9.97

21. kcts9.org Alexa: 561,678 / Quantcast: 21,900 / WSO: dpv 1,956 dar $7.87

22. djc.com Alexa: 250,738 / Quantcast: 10,100 / WSO: dpv 4,387 dar $15.61

23. sgn.org Alexa: 482,071 / Quantcast: 19,800 / WSO: dpv 1,478 dar $6.67

24. seattlesoundmag.com Alexa: 791,050 / Quantcast: no data / WSO: dpv 1390 dar $6.41

25. parentmap.com Alexa: 225,186 / Quantcast: 4,500 / WSO: dpv 4,884 dar $16.89

26. robinsonnews.com Alexa: 804,340 / Quantcast: 7,700 & 124 / WSO: dpv 1,367 dar $6.34
(West Seattle Herald & White Center News)

27. seattlechannel.org Alexa: 852,412 / Quantcast: 10,000 / WSO: dpv 1,290 dar $6.32

28. therainiervalley.com Alexa: 865,621 / Quantcast: 16,300 / WSO: dpv 1,270 dar $5.54 WEB ONLY

29. dailyuw.com Alexa: 557,950 / Quantcast: 4,500 / WSO: dpv 1,971 dar $8.36

30. b-townblog.com Alexa: 728,292 / Quantcast: 4,900 / WSO: dpv 1,510 dar $6.53 WEB ONLY

31. seattlemag.com Alexa: 435,232 / Quantcast: 5,500 / WSO: dpv 1,294 dar $6.12

32. capitolhillseattle.com Alexa: 333,446 / Quantcast: 3,600 / WSO: dpv 3,503 dar $12.51 WEB ONLY

33. eatthestate.org Alexa: 604,612 / Quantcast: 3,800 / WSO: dpv 1,836 dar $7.74

34. centraldistrictnews.com Alexa: 624,539 / Quantcast: 45(no data) / WSO: dpv 1,761 dar $7.28 WEB ONLY

35. myballard.com Alexa: 378,070 / Quantcast: 2,700 / WSO: dpv 2,740 dar $10.22 WEB ONLY

36. realchangenews.org Alexa: 1,727,897 / Quantcast: 6,700 / WSO: dpv 636 dar $4.11

37. nwasianweekly.com Alexa: 1,162,634 / Quantcast: 4,100 / WSO: dpv 636 dar $4.14

38. jtnews.net Alexa: 1,500,522 / Quantcast: 3,200 / WSO: dpv 733 dar $4.44

39. theskanner.com Alexa: 1,047,547 / Quantcast: 3,100 / WSO: dpv 1,050 dar $5.39

40. pacificpublishingcompany.com Alexa: 1,032,586 / Quantcast: 3,000 / WSO: dpv 1,065 dar $5.20
Just this month they re-worked their web site (for Queen Anne News, South Seattle Beacon, etc.) with a new domain system and stuff - we'll add their new individual domain names to our charts in November.

41. tvw.org Alexa: 838,556 / Quantcast: 1,200 / WSO: dpv 1,324 dar $6.42

42. seattlecondoreview.com Alexa: 670,652 Quantcast: no data/ WSO: dpv 1,671 dar $7.01 WEB ONLY
This is an advertising site for real estate agent Wendy Leung, but she does produce original "news" now and then too. Her Google ads can be seen all over the place around these parts.

43. belltownmessenger.com Alexa: 2,060,590 / Quantcast: 2,497 / WSO: dpv 530 dar $3.59
Since I know the stats for this one pretty well, I can vouch for the accuracy of the WSO numbers. There are indeed an average of over 500 unique human beings seeing the site every day, after you subtract the netbots and crawlers and other junk traffic.

44. seattlemedium.com Alexa: 2,065,722 Quantcast: no data

45. sportsnwmag.com Alexa: 676,466 Quantcast: no data

46. washingtonceo.com Alexa: 384,472 Quantcast: no data

47. downtowndispatch.com Alexa: 743,949 / Quantcast: no data / WSO: dpv 1,163 dar $5.22 WEB ONLY
Our brand new blog forgoes the stat-pumping benefit of reader comments, since we discourage them.

48. seattlebusinessmonthly.com Alexa: 1,224,340 / Quantcast: no data / WSO: dpv 898 dar $4.93

49. ballardnewstribune.com Alexa: 1,009,361 / Quantcast: 416 / WSO: dpv 592 dar $1.78

50. nguoiviet-taybac.com Alexa: 1,199,067 / Quantcast: no data / WSO: dpv 885 dar $4.39

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51. belltowner.com Alexa: 1,450,641 Quantcast: no data / WSO: dpv 758 dar $4.27 WEB ONLY
Not much original content on this newbie neighblog, which is connected to the myballard.com neighblog empire.

52. magnoliavoice.com Alexa: 1,825,577 Quantcast: no data / WSO: dpv 602 dar $3.81 WEB ONL

53. seattlemet.com Alexa: 1,676,710 Quantcast: no dat

54. colorsnw.com Alexa: 2,144,738 / Quantcast: no data / WSO: dpv 507 dar $3.76 WEB ONLY
Just ceased print publication of glossy mag, now "web only."

55. rainiervalleypost.com Alexa: 1,712,189 Quantcast: no data WEB ONLY
Number of unique pages viewed per user per day at the RVP down 25% in 3 months.

56. phinneywood.com Alexa: 2,794,048 / Quantcast: no data / WSO: dpv 437 dar $3.31 WEB ONLY
Part of the myballard.com neighblog conglomerate.

57. blogginggeorgetown.com Alexa: 3,310,960 Quantcast: no data WEB ONLY

58. thesouthlake.com Alexa: 3,227,926 / Quantcast: no data / WSO: dpv 396 dar $3.19 WEB ONLY

59. fremontuniverse.com Alexa: 3,097,762 / Quantcast: no data / WSO: dpv 355 dar $3.07 WEB ONLY
Part of the myballard.com neighblog conglomerate.

60. wafreepress.org Alexa: 3,253,703 Quantcast: no data

61. theseattlesinner.com Alexa: 3,939,795 Quantcast: no data

62. soysource.net Alexa: 4,186,538 Quantcast: no data

63. iexaminer.org Alexa: 5,558,027 Quantcast: no data

64. seattlechinesepost.com Alexa: 9,373,093 Quantcast: no data

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Based on data from quantcast.com, websiteoutlook.com* and Alexa, plus our own secret formulas.
*Does not include subdomains, directories or inner pages.

Here's the first version of our list from 10-16-2008: Traffic Truth: Top 50 Seattle Media Websites

Will be updating this until it's made official on November 1. Now also using websiteoutlook.com to help verify these unscientific figures. Of course, all the stats in the universe and three bucks will get you a cup of coffee.

Put it in perspective!
Editor & Publisher 10-21-2008: Top 30 Most Popular News Outlets on the Web for Sept.