Top 25 Ubuntu Blogs (By the Numbers)
Tuesday, August 28, 2007 at 12:41pm by The Free Geek
At Free Geekery, we absolutely love open source. It’s why we use WordPress to power this blog, and it’s why we use the Ubuntu operating system on the computers here in the Free Geekery “office” (read: mother’s basement). Recently, our infatuation with Ubuntu begged the question: which Ubuntu 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 Ubuntu niche.
In ranking the top Ubuntu blogs, our goal was to show — using objective data from reliable sources — which blogs about the highly acclaimed Linux distro are the most popular, according to visitor traffic and site backlinks. 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 | Ubuntu Geek | 6 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 36 |
| 2 | Ubuntu Blog | 6 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 36 |
| 3 | Mark Shuttleworth | 7 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 36 |
| 4 | The Fridge | 6 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 35 |
| 5 | All About Linux | 5 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 34 |
| 6 | Ubuntu Tutorials | 5 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 32 |
| 7 | Linux on Desktop | 6 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 32 |
| 8 | jonbacon@home | 6 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 32 |
| 9 | Wombat Ubuntu Blog | 3 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 30 |
| 10 | Only Ubuntu Linux | 3 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 29 |
| 11 | UbuntuOS | 4 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 25 |
| 12 | Motho ke motho ka botho | 2 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 24 |
| 13 | Ubuntu Linux Tips & Tutorials | 3 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 24 |
| 14 | ID- Ubuntu Blog\s | 4 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 22 |
| 15 | Ubuntu Tutorials | 4 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 21 |
| 16 | Ubuntu Demon’s Blog | 5 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 21 |
| 17 | Ubuntu Linux Blog by Ralph | 1 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 20 |
| 18 | Ubuntu Tutorials, Howtos, and More | 4 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 20 |
| 19 | Xubuntu Blog | 4 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 20 |
| 20 | The Ubustu Feed | 0 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 19 |
| 21 | Joey Stanford | 4 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 19 |
| 22 | The Ubucon Blog | 5 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 18 |
| 23 | All About Ubuntu | 0 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 17 |
| 24 | Free Software Blog | 4 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 17 |
| 25 | Ubuntu Christian Edition Facts | 5 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 16 |
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 this list of Ubuntu blogs on Carthik’s Ubuntu Blog; or
- be ranked in the top 200 for the phrase ubuntu blog on Google; and
- be primarily a blog about Ubuntu.
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 | Ubuntu Geek | 6 | 67,106 | 416 | 172 |
| 2 | Ubuntu Blog | 6 | 96,193 | 593 | 560 |
| 3 | Mark Shuttleworth | 7 | 137,730 | 1,124 | 1,048 |
| 4 | The Fridge | 6 | 3,477 | 231 | 1,007 |
| 5 | All About Linux | 5 | 129,248 | 327 | 505 |
| 6 | Ubuntu Tutorials | 5 | 145,602 | 267 | 97 |
| 7 | Linux on Desktop | 6 | 336,708 | 296 | 36 |
| 8 | jonbacon@home | 6 | 491,710 | 227 | 152 |
| 9 | Wombat Ubuntu Blog | 3 | 119,026 | 71 | 124 |
| 10 | Only Ubuntu Linux | 3 | 250,900 | 286 | 83 |
| 11 | UbuntuOS | 4 | 1,142,435 | 33 | 51 |
| 12 | Motho ke motho ka botho | 5 | 525,531 | 138 | 28 |
| 13 | Ubuntu Linux Tips & Tutorials | 3 | 635,063 | 46 | 20 |
| 14 | ID- Ubuntu Blog\s | 4 | 612,677 | 40 | 5 |
| 15 | Ubuntu Tutorials | 4 | 2,509,386 | 49 | 17 |
| 16 | Ubuntu Demon’s Blog | 5 | 6,376,013 | 42 | 54 |
| 17 | Ubuntu Linux Blog by Ralph | 1 | 1,608,530 | 23 | 58 |
| 18 | Ubuntu Tutorials, Howtos, and More | 4 | 1,738,468 | 14 | 27 |
| 19 | Xubuntu Blog | 4 | 2,193,821 | 11 | 30 |
| 20 | The Ubustu Feed | 0 | 678,979 | 33 | 17 |
| 21 | Joey Stanford | 4 | 1,203,176 | 30 | 4 |
| 22 | The Ubucon Blog | 5 | N/A | 128 | 8 |
| 23 | All About Ubuntu | 0 | 712,872 | 30 | 10 |
| 24 | Free Software Blog | 4 | 4,265,060 | 10 | 13 |
| 25 | Ubuntu Christian Edition Facts | 5 | 1,647,490 | 0 | 5 |
| 26 | Simply Ubuntu | 4 | 3,491,699 | 1 | 8 |
| 27 | Fresh Ubuntu | 3 | 8,445,424 | 8 | 13 |
| 28 | Ubuntu Living | 4 | N/A | 21 | 8 |
| 29 | Ubuntu Heaven | 4 | 8,787,619 | 2 | 2 |
| 30 | Ubuntu-FS | 3 | 2,333,761 | 1 | 0 |
| 31 | Ubufied | 4 | 6,370,081 | 0 | 0 |
| 32 | another Ubuntu blog | 4 | N/A | 5 | 0 |
| 33 | xubuntu | 2 | 8,138,203 | 8 | 0 |
| 34 | Ubuntu Fan | 4 | N/A | 3 | 0 |
| 35 | Using Ubuntu | 0 | 5,147,875 | 9 | 0 |
| 36 | Rolando’s Ubuntu Blog | 2 | N/A | 5 | 0 |
| 37 | Schlasim’s Ubuntu Blog | 0 | N/A | 0 | 4 |
| 38 | Ubuntu Learner | 0 | 4,248,097 | 0 | 0 |
| 39 | Bheesh! Windows to Ubuntu | 0 | N/A | 1 | 0 |
| 40 | Getting Critical About Ubuntu | 2 | N/A | 0 | 0 |
| 41 | EF Ubuntu | 0 | N/A | 0 | 0 |
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Interesting list. Good to see that I am a little better off than the Ubuntu Geek, at least in the raw data
Comment by Carthik — August 28, 2007 @ 2:48 pm
I’m really surprised that mines even at No:30, seeing as though I haven’t posted to it for quite a while.
Nice to know where the site stands, cheers for the list
Comment by Tripmonkey_uk — August 30, 2007 @ 8:10 am
As any web designer / developer knows, Alexa’s data is useless! Why are you using it here?
Comment by Kirrus — August 30, 2007 @ 8:34 am
Great simple research!
Comment by Beta Uliansyah — September 4, 2007 @ 12:26 am