We often use the end of the year to do a quick review of the state of the blog. We will soon pass our 87,000,000 view mark and our community continues to grow rapidly around the world. As a mark of that growth, we are now staggering our periodic updates that used to occur with each new millionth marker since we are now surpassing a million such views on average in less than a month.
As always, I want to offer special thanks for Darren Smith, who has continued to help manage the blog. I also want to thank our dedicated editors Kristin Oren and Hartwell Harrison, who continue their amazing work proofing posts on a daily basis to remove my embarrassing typos. Finally, I would like to thank our regular readers who alert me to typos or any violations of the civility or copyright policies on the blog.
The growth on Twitter this year has been astonishing. We are now approaching 900,000 followers on X (formerly known as Twitter), up around 40 percent from last year. Thousands of new people have signed up for emails, and we have over 21,000 WordPress subscribers, double our number from last year.
This week, we passed 22,175 posts and roughly 1,430,000 comments.
So here are the annual figures. Over the last year, our ten biggest international sources for readers came from:
- United States
2. Canada
3. Australia
4. United Kingdom
5. Germany
6. New Zealand
7. Netherlands
8. France
9. Japan
10. Mexico
The biggest surprise was how Australia passed Great Britain this year as the second highest traffic outside of the United States.
The top five posts in terms of traffic in the last year were:
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- Garland’s Moment of Truth: With the Perjury Referral, the Attorney General Faces a Clear Choice Between Principle and Politics
- Nightmare Scenario: How a Trump Trial Could Now Run Up to (or Through) the 2024 Election
- Jake Tapper and CNN Lose Major Motions in Defamation Case by Navy Veteran
- “The Laptop is Real”: Justice Department Denounces Claims of Russian Disinformation as a Biden “Conspiracy Theory”
- Congress’s Jan. 6 Investigation Looks Less and Less Credible
The success of the blog continues to amaze me. I am deeply honored to be the host of this blog and to see the continued rapid expansion of its readership.
We are now routinely ranked among the top legal blogs in the world. We have also attracted our share of accolades, including the ABA Journal for its blog Hall of Fame. That is due in large part to our regulars who add perspectives and passion to the issues that we discuss.
In these trying times, it is nice to have a place (even a virtual place) where you can go to discuss the issues from the momentous to the simply odd. I hope that you continue to find this to be a site worthy of your time and your contributions.
So, here’s hoping for a great year to come for our country, our families, and, yes, our blog in 2025.
I like the democratic nature of the statistics. The click of a morose troll counts to your benefit every bit as much as that of a friend. They come here with no intention other than to attempt to disparage whatever you post, with the result that they help to increase the prominence of your blog. I still think you should add some sort of paywall, for comments at least, or at the very least a character limit.
I want put so bad. I want my pho e to my peoplr
The only reason I’m not dead yet is I failed to get my Tod pod straight! Or I’d n
Be hung
Area 51 not worth their secrets glowing balls boss!
It truly is nice to have a place, even just a virtual one, to learn, to share, and to feel as if I (we) am/are part of something worthwhile.
Congratulations to you! I am not at all surprised by your incredible success and achievement. I read your column daily and share it as well. Happy New Year to you and your family and keep up the great work!
So why bothet?
Professor, your blog is more popular than many MSM sites. Congratulations!!
If I may recommend, a paid to comment service. All proceeds go toward one or two or more scholarships for low income high school students. Winners are selected based on submitted essays on Constitutional topics.
I’ll ‘second’ that proposal.
Sorry old friend Upstate, I have to disagree. If there is a pay to comment policy guess who will hire trolls to comment constantly. It is already easy to imagine that the libs on here are paid by their DNC masters and we have actual proof that the Biden team had embedded agents involved in many social media sites.
Light is the best disinfectant, let is all comment freely so we can discern what is truly right and what is truly wrong (left).
Then again, should we stop them from wasting their own money? The sensible among us already scroll past them, ignoring their bile.
Lib or not, who is a lib master that’s going to pay me to vote for the for the unhinged left or the swinging door right?
Upstate wants to pay to post “Well Said”
Comedy gold!
I read this blog every morning and I scroll through the comments thru out the day while actually commenting a few times daily. I have 9 or 10 sites that I visit daily, but the professor’s take on issues is always enjoyable and informative.
Thanks to Professor Turley, thanks to his team and thanks to the group of regular commenters that truly make this site so much fun. I guess thanks to the weirdo contrarians that give the rest of us something to laugh about (at) and the chance to see how the other side’s (alleged) brain works. I have to say that it is interesting.