Top 100 Engineering Blogs

Rank	Name				Total
1	Cooking for Engineers	65	65	66	196
2	Joel on Software	66	66	62	194
3	The Energy Blog	63	64	63	190
4	stevenf.com	62	56	65	183
5	Rands In Repose	64	63	38	165
	The Auto Prophet	53	54	58	165
7	Scientists & Engineers for America Action Fund	60	58	43	161
8	Candid Engineer in Academia	58	50	52	160
9	eContent	54	45	57	156
10	Women in Science	58	57	38	153
	CCIE Pursuit Blog	44	48	61	153
12	Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog	59	55	38	152
13	On the slide	61	52	38	151
14	iMechanica	33	60	55	148
15	CCIE Blog	58	49	38	145
16	Richard Bannister’s CCIE Blog	47	39	51	137
	blinkdagger	49	24	64	137
	Engineering Science	37	62	38	137
19	The Mind of Dr. Pion	47	51	38	136
20	Rants of a Feminist Engineer	55	41	38	134
21	Chemical Engineering World	51	44	38	133
22	ardenpackeer.com	47	46	38	131
23	Faraday's Cage is where you put Schroedinger's Cat	48	43	38	129
24	Chair Force Engineer	37	53	38	128
	The Art of Engineering	33	47	48	128
26	CCIE Candidate	52	35	38	125
27	Bulk-Blog	26	59	38	123
28	CCIE Journey	41	42	38	121
29	UrbanWorkbench	41	38	41	120
	Aurelie Thiele	44	27	49	120
31	Cell Tech Hub	51	30	38	119
32	Cisco Network Engineer	44	34	38	116
33	EngineeringDaily.net	41	21	53	115
34	MPLSVPN	26	31	56	113
35	Space Prizes	10	61	38	109
	The Energy Zarr Blog	41	18	50	109
37	The Learning Diary of an Israeli Water Engineer	30	36	38	104
38	Chris Gammell's Analog Life	30	13	59	102
39	Invent Civil	30	26	45	101
40	Ocean Engineering Blog	37	23	38	98
	NetworkersOnline	10	28	60	98
42	Software Engineering - Best Practices	37	19	38	94
43	Screaming Circuits	26	11	55	92
44	Engineering Ethics Blog	26	25	38	89
45	www.bitbucketblog.com	10	40	38	88
46	Wireless Sensor Networks Blog	17	32	38	87
47	World of Engineering	17	22	47	86
48	Engineering & …	10	37	38	85
49	Flying Flux	33	7	44	84
	Ambivalent Engineer	17	29	38	84
51	CADCAM Blog	26	18	38	82
52	Journeys of an Academic	10	33	38	81
53	GROG: green tech blog	26	8	46	80
	Landslides under Microscope	26	16	38	80
55	Software Engineering Matters	26	14	38	78
56	The Farming Engineers	30	5	40	75
57	We Know Engineers	17	16	38	71
58	Engineering Education Blog	10	20	38	68
59	Machine Vision 4 Users	17	12	38	67
60	Aircraft Designers Engineers and Notables	26	1	38	65
61	Unrealized Mineral Deposit	17	9	38	64
62	All About Flexible Macroelectronics	17	4	42	63
63	Engineering Education	10	10	39	59
64	I Think Mining	10	6	38	54
65	Aviation Critic & Enthusiast	10	3	38	51
66	ETHOSagapes	10	2	38	50

Last Updated August 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

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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!