Top 100 Engineering Blogs

Rank	Name				Total
1	Cooking for Engineers	53	53	54	160
2	Joel on Software	54	54	51	159
3	The Energy Blog	51	52	52	155
4	Rands In Repose	52	51	39	142
5	iMechanica	43	49	48	140
6	Scientists & Engineers for America Action Fund	48	47	41	136
7	Women in Science	49	46	39	134
8	stevenf.com	50	44	39	133
9	Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog	48	45	39	132
10	CCIE Blog	45	43	39	127
11	Candid Engineer in Academia	46	41	39	126
12	eContent	40	36	49	125
13	CCIE Pursuit Blog	44	40	39	123
14	Rants of a Feminist Engineer	42	35	39	116
	ardenpackeer.com	39	38	39	116
16	The Mind of Dr. Pion	33	42	39	114
	Engineering Science	25	50	39	114
18	Chemical Engineering World	37	37	39	113
	blinkdagger	42	18	53	113
20	Faraday's Cage is where you put Schroedinger's Cat	37	34	39	110
21	CCIE Candidate	39	28	39	106
	CCIE Journey	34	33	39	106
23	UrbanWorkbench	33	30	40	103
24	Richard Bannister’s CCIE Blog	33	29	39	101
25	The Art of Engineering	22	39	39	100
	Cell Tech Hub	35	26	39	100
27	Wireless Sensor Networks Blog	33	24	39	96
28	Aurelie Thiele	29	20	46	95
29	Space Prizes	7	48	39	94
30	Cisco Network Engineer	29	23	39	91
31	The Learning Diary of an Israeli Water Engineer	22	27	39	88
32	Invent Civil	22	21	42	85
33	Chris Gammell's Analog Life	27	9	47	83
34	The Energy Zarr Blog	27	10	44	81
35	www.bitbucketblog.com	7	32	39	78
	Ocean Engineering Blog	25	14	39	78
	MPLSVPN	17	22	39	78
38	Engineering & …	7	31	39	77
	Software Engineering - Best Practices	25	13	39	77
40	NetworkersOnline	7	19	50	76
41	EngineeringDaily.net	15	15	45	75
42	Journeys of an Academic	7	25	39	71
	Engineering Ethics Blog	15	17	39	71
44	World of Engineering	12	16	39	67
	Software Engineering Matters	17	11	39	67
46	Flying Flux	22	5	39	66
47	The Farming Engineers	22	4	39	65
48	We Know Engineers	12	12	39	63
49	Screaming Circuits	12	7	43	62
50	Machine Vision 4 Users	12	8	39	59
51	Aircraft Designers Engineers and Notables	15	1	39	55
52	All About Flexible Macroelectronics	12	3	39	54
53	Engineering Education	7	6	39	52
54	ETHOSagapes	7	2	39	48

Last Updated June 24, 2009

Methodology

We currently combine four different measurements to rank the top engineering blogs:

	- Technorati's Authority rating
	- The number of inbound links reported by Yahoo!
	- The number of monthly visitors reported by Quantcast

The blogs are ranked for each measurement and then receive a score based on their ranking, with the maximum possible score being equal to the number of blogs in the list.

For a list of 100 engineering blogs, for example, the blog with the most Bloglines subscribers would receive 100 points, the next would receive 99 points, etc. The scores for each measurement are then combined to get the total score.

Show Off Your Ranking

We have two different badges you can add to your site to show off your ranking. Click your blog's Total to get the code for your site.

How Do I Improve My Ranking?

Right now we only have traffic data for a very small percentage of these blogs, causing a jam at the bottom of that category. By simply signing up with Quantcast and adding their code to your site, you'll automatically jump ahead of the blogs who haven't when Quantcast starts reporting your numbers.

Additionally, Quantcast tends to drastically underestimate traffic for sites that they aren't tracking directly, so even if they do have stats for your blog, those stats could double if you add their code.

How Do I Add a Blog to the Top 100?

If you know of a blog that meets these criteria, we'd love to have it in this list:

Focused primarily on engineering.
Posted to regularly for at least the last two months.
Hosted on a dedicated domain or subdomain. (Regrettably, we can't accurately calculate traffic for blogs in a subdirectory.)

Just email us at topblogs@engineerjobs.com, and we'll get it added right away!