Welcome, and wazzup! As has been my custom for the past 4 years, on basically the last day of the year I post the Top CAD Blogs of the year. Once again, I’m at it. Let’s see who ranked where.
As I explain each year: I ranked the top CAD blogs according to Alexa’s Global Traffic Rank. Alexa explains that their traffic rank is a measure of a site’s popularity. The rank is calculated using a combination of average daily visitors and page views over the past 3 months. The site with the highest combination of visitors and page views is ranked #1.
The websites that qualified for consideration were website that were:
- Structured primarily as a CAD blog.
- Active.
- Not highly commercial.
Top CAD Blogs of 2015
This year I considered about 80 blogs, but only 73 made it to my larger list. This is because a number of blogs didn’t have data for consecutive years, so I dropped them. My larger list is in table format below.
Here are two charts displaying the top 25 blogs.
Here’s the pie chart of the top 25.
Here’s the bar chart of the top 25.
In tabular form, the Alexa Global Traffic Ranks for the 73 blogs are:
| Top CAD Blogs | Alexa Global Traffic Rank |
|---|---|
| 1. cad-notes.com | 198,034 |
| 2. cadblog.pl | 254,073 |
| 3. autodesk.blogs.com | 362,605 |
| 4. thebuildingcoder.typepad.com | 421,933 |
| 5. through-the-interface.typepad.com | 478,834 |
| 6. labs.blogs.com | 678,798 |
| 7. revitclinic.typepad.com | 745,066 |
| 8. blog.jtbworld.com | 812,080 |
| 9. cadsetterout.com | 883,535 |
| 10. designandmotion.net | 914,193 |
| geospatial.blogs.com | 952,706 |
| 3dcadportal.com | 1,063,250 |
| thecadgeek.com | 1,066,373 |
| mayastation.typepad.com | 1,131,170 |
| lynn.blogs.com | 1,232,490 |
| rcd.typepad.com | 1,262,003 |
| heidihewett.blogs.com | 1,287,740 |
| modthemachine.typepad.com | 1,445,656 |
| beingcivil.typepad.com | 1,567,041 |
| otb.manusoft.com | 1,694,341 |
| caddmanager.com/CMB | 1,948,326 |
| cadpanacea.com | 2,016,895 |
| insidethefactory.typepad.com | 2,301,939 |
| bestcadtips.com | 2,344,131 |
| deelip.com | 2,360,834 |
| dwf.blogs.com | 2,444,377 |
| blog.cadnauseam.com | 2,582,326 |
| ltunlimited.typepad.com | 2,801,646 |
| bimblog.typepad.com | 2,933,225 |
| jamiesjewels.typepad.com | 3,180,713 |
| ontheedge.dezignstuff.com | 3,341,849 |
| themadcadder.blogs.com | 3,490,979 |
| geospatialfrance.typepad.com | 3,821,065 |
| justonesandzeros.typepad.com | 3,908,872 |
| underthehood-autodesk.typepad.com | 3,912,108 |
| autodeskmfg.typepad.com | 3,989,032 |
| withoutanet.typepad.com | 4,041,309 |
| worldcadaccess.typepad.com | 4,143,493 |
| in-the-pipes.typepad.com | 4,434,855 |
| bimandbeam.typepad.com | 4,506,600 |
| gisexchange.typepad.com | 5,271,525 |
| fromthegroundup.typepad.com | 5,459,418 |
| cadinsider.typepad.com | 5,764,605 |
| kungfudrafter.com | 5,775,019 |
| hyperpics.blogs.com | 5,926,956 |
| dux.typepad.com | 6,472,724 |
| inside-the-system.typepad.com | 6,710,245 |
| bimontherocks.typepad.com | 6,977,556 |
| crackingthevault.typepad.com | 7,144,894 |
| civilfrance.typepad.com | 7,407,776 |
| betterateverything.info | 9,118,275 |
| cadshack.blogspot.com | 9,352,345 |
| cadblog.info | 10,549,474 |
| cadtoolbox.com | 11,792,150 |
| inventor-ru.typepad.com | 12,378,583 |
| tonyscivil3dworld.blogspot.com | 13,068,811 |
| geospatialnavigator.typepad.com | 13,628,621 |
| mistressofthedorkness.blogspot.com | 14,352,091 |
| cadtipstricks.wordpress.com | 14,594,807 |
| inthemachine-autodesk.typepad.com | 15,709,564 |
| doddsandends.typepad.com | 15,822,534 |
| ellipsis-autodesk.typepad.com | 16,372,660 |
| lazydrafter.blogspot.com | 17,965,788 |
| atlandsend.typepad.com | 18,400,751 |
| autocadtips.wordpress.com | 20,641,093 |
| engineeringeducation.typepad.com | 20,698,939 |
| whatamesh.typepad.com | 22,227,589 |
| inventortopix.blogspot.com | no data |
| cad-a-blog.com | no data |
| caddhelp.blogspot.com | no data |
| familyjewels.typepad.com | no data |
| opendesignproject.org | no data |
Let’s congratulate Edwin Prakoso for his third year in a row as the #1 CAD Blog with his blog http://www.cad-notes.com. Congrats Edwin!!
Congrats to the newcomer Maciej Stanisławski for earning the #2 spot with his blog http://www.cadblog.pl. Welcome to the top 3 Maciej!!
And congratulations to Shaan Hurley for his #3 placing with http://autodesk.blogs.com/. Way to go Shaan!!
Conclusion
This is a wrap for 2015. I hope 2016 is the best and most prosperous year of your life!
Note
If you’d like your CAD blog to be included next year, then please leave a message in the comments below.
Awesome job as always Brian! Happy new year and hope you have a great 2016!
Looking forward to see where my new site lands next year.
Hey Brandon. I’m putting the finishing touches on my 2016 edition. You’re in it
Hi,
Congratulation to Edwin, Shaan and Maciej. Can you also include my Blog? Because of written in German the traffic rank could be low.
Thanks.
Regards Jürgen
Hi Jurgen. You made it into my 2016 edition. It’s coming out on 12/31/16.
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Hi Brian. I listed my website for you to include. I believe it may be 5 years old soon. Thanks again.
Hello Sam. You’re in my 2016 edition. It’ll be out at the end of the month.
Hi Brian, It seems like I am late to the party! can you include my blog in the list too?
Hey Jaiprakash. Sure. Thanks for letting me know.