So College Publisher, which provides the software to The Hatchet’s Web site, has started ranking college paper sites by hits. The Hatchet’s #17 among College Publisher’s over 300 sites, which is really impressive, considering we are the only non-daily in a top-30 that includes only daily papers from mostly state schools with HUGE student populations. Also impressive since hits on the blog site are not included in the rankings.

Top 100 Papers by Traffic on College Publisher in the Last 2 Weeks View Top 5
Rank Paper % Optimized
1 Daily Iowan, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 60%
2 The Chronicle, Duke University, Durham, NC 48%
3 The Battalion, Texas A&M, College Station, TX 60%
4 The Daily Texan, University of Texas, Austin, Austin, TX 72%
5 The Lantern, Ohio State, Columbus, OH 72%
6 The Observer, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN 60%
7 Michigan Daily, Univeristy of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48%
8 The Daily Orange, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 48%
9 The Cornell Daily Sun, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 48%
10 Daily Tar Heel, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 72%
11 Brown Daily Herald, Brown University, Providence, RI 60%
12 Daily Trojan, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 36%
13 Iowa State Daily, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 60%
14 The Daily Campus, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 60%
15 Arizona Daily Wildcat, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 60%
16 The Daily Illini, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 48%
17 GW Hatchet, George Washington University, Washington, DC 60%
18 The Daily Free Press, Boston University, Boston, MA 60%
19 The Daily Targum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 48%
20 The Heights, Boston College, Boston, MA 60%
21 The Gamecock, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 72%
22 Daily Nebraskan, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 36%
23 Daily Mississippian, University of Mississippi, University, MS 72%
24 The Daily Utah Chronicle, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 60%
25 Daily Kent Stater, Kent State University, Kent, OH 60%
26 KY Kernel, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 72%
27 The California Aggie, University of California – Davis, Davis, CA 60%
28 Daily Collegian, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Amherst, MA 60%
29 Student Life, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO 48%
30 Tufts Daily, Tufts University, Medford, MA 48%
31 The Hilltop, Howard University, Washington, DC 60%
32 Daily Lobo, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 84%
33 Technician, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 84%
34 Daily Toreador, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 48%
35 Miami Student, Miami University, Oxford, OH 48%
36 Rocky Mountain Collegian, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 36%
37 Northeastern News, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 72%
38 The Traveler, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 60%
39 The New Hampshire, University of New Hampsire, Durham, NH 60%
40 Ball State Daily News, Ball State University, Muncie, IN 84%
41 College Heights Herald, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY 60%
42 The Fairfield Mirror, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT 84%
43 Pitt News, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 48%
44 BG News, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 48%
45 Temple News, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 48%
46 The Daily Eastern News, Eastern Illinois University, Charelston, IL 48%
47 The Triangle, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 48%
48 The Northerner, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY 72%
49 Campus Times, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 48%
50 The Daily Aztec, San Diego State, San Diego, CA 48%
51 The Eagle, American Unversity, Washington, DC 36%
52 The Statesman, Utah State University, Logan, UT 60%
53 The Current, University of Missouri Saint Louis, Saint Louis, MO 60%
54 The Middlebury Campus, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 48%
55 The Good 5 Cent Cigar, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 48%
56 The Beacon, Florida International University, Miami, FL 48%
57 The Daily Vidette, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 48%
58 The Famuan, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL 72%
59 Central Florida Future, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 48%
60 Miami Hurricane, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 48%
61 The Spectator, University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI 48%
62 The Emory Wheel, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 48%
63 The Sidelines, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN 60%
64 The Parthenon, Marshall University, Huntingon, WV 48%
65 The Orion, California State University, Chico, Chico, CA 36%
66 Western Courier, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL 60%
67 Maine Campus, University of Maine, Orono, ME 48%
68 Harbus, Harvard university, Boston, MA 48%
69 The Varsity, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON 24%
70 Signal, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ 60%
71 The Record, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA 48%
72 The Oracle, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 48%
73 Chicago Business, University of Chicago GSB, Chicago, IL 24%
74 The Eastern Progress, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY 48%
75 The News Record, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 48%
76 The Justice, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 24%
77 Wharton Journal, Wharton, Philadelphia, PA 48%
78 Keene Equinox, Keene State College, Keene, NH 60%
79 The Tripod, Trinity College (CT), Hartford, CT 72%
80 Independent Collegian, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 48%
81 The Greyhound, Loyola College, Baltimore, MD 24%
82 The Bulletin, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA 48%
83 The University News, University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, MO 60%
84 Chronicle, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT 60%
85 The Sagebrush, University of Nevada – Reno, Reno, NV 48%
86 The Review, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 72%
87 Index, Truman State University, Kirksville, MO 24%
88 Brock Press, Brock Univesity, St. Catharines, ON 24%
89 The Maroon, Loyola University – New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 60%
90 The Villanovan, Villanova University, Villanova, PA 36%
91 Houstonian, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX 48%
92 The McGill Tribune, McGill University, Montreal, QC 24%
93 Volante, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD 24%
94 Spartan Daily, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA 48%
95 The Vanguard, Bentley College, Waltham, MA 72%
96 Los Angeles Loyolan, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA 72%
97 East Tennessean, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 48%
98 Pace Press, Pace University, New York, NY 48%
99 Vermont Cynic, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 48%
100 Clarkson Integrator, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY 60%