Top 25 Gadget Blogs (By the Numbers)
Tuesday, September 4, 2007 at 10:09am by The Free Geek
At Free Geekery, gadgetry is more than a hobby: it’s an obsession. Fueling our obsession requires that we stay on top of the latest gadget news with the help of some top-notch blogs. Recently, our obsession for gadgetry begged the question: which gadget blogs have the biggest reach? With nowhere to turn to answer this question definitively, we thought it would be an interesting exercise to rank all of the blogs in the gadget niche.
In ranking the top gadget blogs, our goal was to show — using objective data from reliable sources — which blogs about gadgets are the most popular. To this end, we used data for these four metrics to calculate the rankings:
Top 25 (see complete methodology below)
| Rank | Site |  |
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Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gizmodo | 7 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 37 |
| 2 | Engadget | 6 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 36 |
| 3 | Ubergizmo | 6 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 33 |
| 4 | Gizmag | 5 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 33 |
| 5 | Popgadget | 6 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 33 |
| 6 | OhGizmo! | 6 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 32 |
| 7 | The Gadgeteer | 6 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 32 |
| 8 | Tech Digest | 6 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 32 |
| 9 | The Raw Feed | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 30 |
| 10 | CrunchGear | 6 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 29 |
| 11 | The Uber Review | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 29 |
| 12 | Mobilewhack | 6 | 9 | 3 | 9 | 27 |
| 13 | The Gadget Blog | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 25 |
| 14 | Medgadget | 6 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 24 |
| 15 | Gadget Spy | 5 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 24 |
| 16 | The Gadgets Weblog | 5 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 24 |
| 17 | Mobile Gazette | 4 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 22 |
| 18 | FreshTrend | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 22 |
| 19 | GPS Gazette | 5 | 3 | 10 | 4 | 22 |
| 20 | Gizmos for Geeks | 5 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 21 |
| 21 | Gadget Reviews | 5 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 21 |
| 22 | Cellphone9 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 20 |
| 23 | GadgetMadness | 0 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 20 |
| 24 | Electric Guitar Review | 5 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 20 |
| 25 | pdaBuzz | 6 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 20 |
Methodology
To begin, we found a set of Web sites that met a certain criteria. To become a member of the set of Web sites to be ranked, a Web site must, as of August 13, 2007:
- be listed on The Gadget Blog List by Gadgetizer; or
- be ranked in the top 200 for the phrase gadget blog on Google; and
- be primarily a blog about gadgets.
For each metric, a score was assigned on a 0–10 scale. For Google PageRank, raw PageRank data was scored. For Alexa Rank, Technorati Authority, and Bloglines Subscribers, the Web sites were broken up into deciles. If a Web site was in the 0>10% decile, a 1 was scored; for the 10>20% decile, a 2 was scored; and so on, up to a 10 being scored for the 90–100% decile. If no data was available, a 0 was scored.
The overall score for each Web site is the sum of the scores of the four metrics. In the event of a tie in overall score, the tie is broken according to the Alexa Rank raw data.
Raw Data for Entire Set
| Rank | Site | |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gizmodo | 7 | 757 | 24,363 | 43,174 |
| 2 | Engadget | 6 | 592 | 30,421 | 3,252 |
| 3 | Ubergizmo | 6 | 16,595 | 1,698 | 714 |
| 4 | Gizmag | 5 | 24,647 | 1,677 | 1,631 |
| 5 | Popgadget | 6 | 45,223 | 1,419 | 13,224 |
| 6 | OhGizmo! | 6 | 34,121 | 1,620 | 1,094 |
| 7 | The Gadgeteer | 6 | 41,958 | 529 | 1,254 |
| 8 | Tech Digest | 6 | 44,331 | 1,399 | 966 |
| 9 | The Raw Feed | 6 | 111,221 | 794 | 766 |
| 10 | CrunchGear | 6 | 12,133 | 3,569 | 15 |
| 11 | The Uber Review | 6 | 98,078 | 860 | 306 |
| 12 | Mobilewhack | 6 | 20,428 | 0 | 1,022 |
| 13 | The Gadget Blog | 6 | 152,351 | 77 | 195 |
| 14 | Medgadget | 6 | 100,051 | 0 | 617 |
| 15 | Gadget Spy | 5 | 288,013 | 147 | 155 |
| 16 | The Gadgets Weblog | 5 | 360,611 | 328 | 245 |
| 17 | Mobile Gazette | 4 | 30,299 | 0 | 99 |
| 18 | FreshTrend | 5 | 229,800 | 72 | 65 |
| 19 | GPS Gazette | 5 | 481,949 | 1,909 | 20 |
| 20 | Gizmos for Geeks | 5 | 159,753 | 76 | 24 |
| 21 | Gadget Reviews | 5 | 242,122 | 204 | 20 |
| 22 | Cellphone9 | 6 | 173,293 | 0 | 51 |
| 23 | GadgetMadness | 0 | 248,419 | 180 | 458 |
| 24 | Electric Guitar Review | 5 | 531,608 | 102 | 47 |
| 25 | pdaBuzz | 6 | 545,180 | 19 | 76 |
| 26 | Xataka | 6 | 6,026 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | Gadget Road | 4 | 206,841 | 96 | 9 |
| 28 | playgirlz | 5 | 368,511 | 0 | 31 |
| 29 | dottocomu | 4 | 2,387,891 | 65 | 257 |
| 30 | Unplugged Living | 5 | 670,678 | 0 | 32 |
| 31 | Office Freaks | 5 | 3,627,932 | 31 | 22 |
| 32 | TeamDroid | 5 | 703,173 | 0 | 19 |
| 33 | Church of the iPod | 5 | 2,735,780 | 13 | 11 |
| 34 | Wired@Home.blog | 4 | 1,249,985 | 4 | 18 |
| 35 | Cooking Gadgets | 0 | 885,923 | 0 | 54 |
| 36 | Pomocon | 4 | 1,743,352 | 6 | 1 |
| 37 | All Handhelds | 4 | 3,829,859 | 2 | 4 |
| 38 | Gadget.ca | 4 | N/A | 18 | 2 |
| 39 | DeGadget | 0 | 365,278 | 68 | 0 |
| 40 | Gadget Man’s Blog | 3 | N/A | 0 | 2 |
| 41 | Gadget User Blog | 3 | N/A | 2 | 0 |
| 42 | Gadget & Tech Blog | 0 | N/A | 8 | 0 |
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