Top 100 Engineering Blogs

Rank	Name					Total
1	Cooking for Engineers	46	46	46	46	184
2	The Energy Blog	44	44	45	45	178
3	Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog	41	44	39	40	164
	Scientists & Engineers for America Action Fund	43	44	43	34	164
5	Rands In Repose	45	44	44	27	160
6	eContent	36	44	37	42	159
7	CCIE Pursuit Blog	39	44	29	43	155
8	Chemical Engineering World	30	44	34	41	149
	iMechanica	38	44	40	27	149
10	CCIE Blog	42	44	35	27	148
11	ardenpackeer.com	40	44	30	27	141
12	UrbanWorkbench	35	44	31	30	140
13	Engineering Science	21	44	42	32	139
	The Art of Engineering	29	44	33	33	139
15	blinkdagger	32	44	18	44	138
16	Rants of a Feminist Engineer	27	44	36	27	134
17	Candid Engineer in Academia	32	44	21	36	133
18	The Mind of Dr. Pion	28	44	32	27	131
	Faraday's Cage is where you put Schroedinger's Cat	34	44	26	27	131
20	CCIE Journey	33	44	25	27	129
21	CCIE Candidate	37	44	16	27	124
22	Space Prizes	10	44	41	27	122
23	Women in Science	10	44	38	27	119
	Cell Tech Hub	24	44	24	27	119
25	The Learning Diary of an Israeli Water Engineer	20	44	27	27	118
	Aurelie Thiele	25	44	14	35	118
27	Wireless Sensor Networks Blog	24	44	22	27	117
28	Cisco Network Engineer	26	44	15	27	112
29	Richard Bannister’s CCIE Blog	10	44	20	37	111
	We Know Engineers	17	44	23	27	111
31	www.bitbucketblog.com	10	44	28	27	109
32	NetworkersOnline	10	44	13	39	106
33	Chris Gammell's Analog Life	17	44	5	39	105
34	Software Engineering Matters	22	44	10	27	103
35	Software Engineering - Best Practices	20	44	11	27	102
36	Engineering & …	10	44	19	27	100
37	Ocean Engineering Blog	15	45	12	27	99
38	Engineering Ethics Blog	18	44	9	27	98
	Journeys of an Academic	10	44	17	27	98
40	Invent Civil	15	44	6	31	96
41	The Farming Engineers	15	44	8	28	95
42	Engineering Education	10	44	7	29	90
	All About Flexible Macroelectronics	15	44	4	27	90
44	Machine Vision 4 Users	15	44	2	27	88
45	ETHOSagapes	10	44	3	27	84
46	Aircraft Designers Engineers and Notables	10	44	1	27	82

Last Updated October 28, 2008

Methodology

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

	- Technorati's Authority rating
	- The number of feed subscribers reported by Bloglines
	- 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!