There are hundreds of great inspiring and creative blogs to read, but do you ever wonder which blogs everyone else is reading? I do, which is why I have compiled a list of the top 150 design, inspiration, and DIY blogs – I call them all Makers.

The blogs are measured and ranked based on 5 criteria (Alexa rank, Compete traffic, Google Pagerank, Google Reader subscribers, Yahoo! inlinks). Scroll down to the bottom of the list to see specifics on how the list was compiled.

This list certainly isn’t perfect. Each of the 5 criteria have their quirks. However, I do think this mashup is a step in the right direction of creating better lists. Because of these quirks, one blogger has requested to be removed from the rankings, which is noted in the list.

I tried to scour and dig for the most popular sites out there, but it’s nearly impossible to know about them all. By all means, if you don’t see a blog on the list that you think should be there, please email me at info at evie-s.com

Have fun browsing! I’m sure you will find a bunch of blogs you didn’t know about.

Rank Name Author 1 Apartment Therapy Various 3,346 588,860 7 59,759 1,512,454 2 Craft Zine Various 26,388 222,726 7 19,067 404,760 3 Decor8 Holly Becker 37,834 34,286 6 48,666 718,229 4 swissmiss Tina Roth Eisenberg 18,831 47,659 6 17,767 741,050 5 Booooooom Jeff Hamada 34,152 70,907 6 19,716 336,841 6 A Cup of Jo Joanna Goddard 38,892 27,413 6 38,076 289,691 7 re-nest Various 27,381 134,538 6 7,507 573,999 8 How About Orange Jessica Jones 56,438 85,981 5 24,842 313,422 9 Oh Joy Joy Cho 50,339 20,677 6 24,906 229,875 10 Purl Bee Various 77,772 108,274 5 24,412 214,491 11 Desire to Inspire Jo and Kim 30,964 80,057 6 11,701 146,672 12 Centsational Girl Kate 58,963 61,685 5 17,342 206,510 13 SFGirlbybay Victoria Smith 85,750 30,079 6 10,945 274,753 14 Style Files Danielle de Lange 106,059 16,443 6 12,772 273,044 15 Design Sponge Grace Bonney 8,325 189,467 4 112,543 3,243,835 16 Soule Mama Amanda Blake Soule 70,047 15,327 5 14,551 206,292 17 Creature Comforts Ez Pudewa 89,301 17,487 5 10,430 259,831 18 Design Mom Gabrielle Blair 72,902 56,980 5 5,279 211,049 19 Not Martha Megan Reardon 107,618 47,122 5 5,440 235,420 20 The Crafts Dept Various 3,050 61,338 6 4,846 63,206 21 Anna Maria Anna Maria Horner 237,301 14,222 5 15,449 280,384 22 coco+kelley Various 116,483 6,155 6 12,227 274,775 23 Design Milk Various 24,701 47,752 4 14,414 277,479 24 grain edit Various 94,539 7,998 6 9,294 191,267 25 Angry Chicken Amy Karol 216,242 16,801 5 24,242 125,996 26 Rockstar Diaries Taza 87,913 8,177 5 16,992 130,063 27 A Beautiful Mess Elsie Flannigan 69,654 31,423 5 15,834 53,023 28 Design for Mankind Erin Loechner 139,319 13,385 6 4,453 187,108 29 Graphic Exchange Fabien Barral 52,763 20,371 5 7,033 62,484 30 Posie Gets Cozy Alicia Paulson 258,412 10,697 5 18,314 164,088 31 Hello My Name is Heather Heather Bailey 333,746 16,582 6 15,920 82,190 32 Black Eiffel Rachel Jones 220,431 9,582 6 9,188 119,032 33 Eat Drink Chic Amy Moss 137,675 10,827 5 8,818 104,887 34 print + pattern Bowie Style 226,848 6,655 5 9,514 338,381 35 Inchmark Brooke Reynolds 1,803 10,712 5 5,210 65,995 36 Removed on request 37 Oh Happy Day Jordan Ferney 126,123 13,902 6 13,981 15,132 38 Bloesem Irene Hoofs 145,869 1,750 5 8,948 179,140 39 Made by Girl Jen Ramos 105,719 11,369 3 16,134 352,266 40 Design is Mine Summer Allen 319,507 2,892 5 11,335 181,675 41 Twig & Thistle Kathleen 165,303 21,354 4 7,712 86,988 42 Maya Made Maya Donenfeld 314,911 4,902 5 7,072 117,710 43 Say Yes to Hoboken Liz Stanley 190,123 12,094 5 5,572 39,058 44 Design Work Life Courtney 92,000 8,488 5 2,791 69,858 45 Sweet Paul Paul Lowe 215,643 6,500 5 5,958 54,564 46 Geninne’s Art Blog Geninne 559,716 2,686 5 8,191 179,788 47 Design Public Various 81,395 5,346 5 2,657 66,065 48 Day Dream Lily Liss 430,259 2,227 5 6,804 99,740 49 Bleubird Vintage Miss James 143,975 4,828 5 7,498 32,681 50 Bliss Traci French 513,763 2,274 5 6,081 117,192 51 For Me, For You Kate Miss 265,569 1,587 6 3,432 105,584 52 Rifle Paper Co Anna Bond 1,803 2,486 5 3,465 38,475 53 Modish Jena 275,652 5,621 5 4,024 54,379 54 The City Sage Anne Sage 156,998 6,259 4 4,932 98,133 55 Dottie Angel Tif Fussell 333,513 9,553 4 5,200 135,129 56 My Sweet Savannah Melaine Thompson 547,939 17,091 4 5,922 101,809 57 Mint Design Blog Ellie 284,592 4,192 6 2,395 90,697 58 Wise Craft Blair Stocker 657,006 8,722 5 12,538 42,490 59 StephModo Stephanie 276,356 5,261 5 4,114 52,518 60 A Little Sussy Nicole Hill Gerulat 405,175 5,103 5 5,263 51,803 61 Design Crush Kelly Beall 196,061 16,826 5 1,399 51,536 62 Ritzy Bee Various 397,260 2,877 5 4,594 61,127 63 Under the Sycamore Ashley Campbell 141,723 20,942 4 6,331 26,474 64 Zakka Life Jessica Okui 213,533 21,387 4 3,674 53,378 65 Dude Craft Paul Overton 291,290 8,600 5 3,223 44,012 66 Smile and Wave Rachel Denbow 327,485 10,219 4 7,316 56,100 67 A Field Journal Livy 684,522 3,029 5 5,257 78,964 68 Unruly Things Alyson Graves Brown 422,937 880 5 4,431 111,586 69 pia jane bijkerk pia jane bijkerk 321,770 0 5 3,692 123,882 70 A Little Hut Patricia Zapata 609,729 11,843 5 2,654 63,117 71 Whip Up Kathreen Ricketson 116,540 50,704 5 1,063 25,457 72 Paper n Stitch Brittni 210,809 12,331 4 2,583 76,594 73 Lena Corwin Lena Corwin 491,698 0 6 4,256 98,105 74 Alisa Burke Alisa Burke 409,830 14,547 4 4,966 44,014 75 Wee Wonderfuls Hillary Lang 953,665 6,845 5 2,820 94,092 76 frolic! Chelsea Fuss 527,843 1,894 5 4,534 83,799 77 Automatism Lori Langille 500,098 0 5 3,759 82,199 78 Amy Atlas Amy Atlas 156,801 12,384 0 3,998 55,078 79 SimpleSong Suann Song 591,093 1,766 5 3,766 54,361 80 Camilla Engman Camilla Engman 890,482 0 5 4,500 195,974 81 DesignLoveFest Brieanne Paige 178,707 5,520 4 3,405 45,184 82 Fryd Design Jeanette Lunde 574,436 0 5 3,248 123,933 83 Uppercase Janine Vangool 416,747 6,024 5 2,165 40,866 84 Darling Dexter Whitney Deal 881,093 1,901 5 3,427 68,700 85 All the Mountains Amy 1,067,315 1,661 6 3,201 81,658 86 Oh So Beautiful Paper Nole Garey 134,972 11,222 2 2,379 67,327 87 The Small Object Sarah Neuburger 945,385 6,264 5 2,923 53,651 88 3191 Stephanie & Mav 715,682 0 8 2,391 173,573 89 Oh Hello Friend Danni Hong 161,923 34,207 0 3,336 36,815 90 Where the Lovely Things Are Mallory 441,427 2,253 5 2,799 38,824 91 Aesthetic Outburst Abbey Hendrickson 848,883 12,584 5 3,064 19,843 92 Hula Seventy Andrea Jenkins 998,741 1,115 5 3,456 95,826 93 Apartment #34 Erin Hiemstra 257,039 2,350 3 4,520 67,654 94 Pikaland Amy Ng 401,968 1,322 5 2,546 43,069 95 handmade charlotte Charlotte 360,385 8,108 5 1,239 29,543 96 ban.do Various 193,228 10,407 5 462 14,089 97 Heart of Light Rachel Grace 752,494 1,617 5 3,228 46,176 98 Wiksten Made Jenny Gordy 635,425 358 5 4,736 35,132 99 The Lil Bee Melissa 726,851 422 5 2,423 71,497 100 The Neo-Traditionalist Katie Armour 209,421 9,558 4 246 65,290 101 Pugly Pixel Katrina 245,043 6,947 4 2,205 36,732 102 Here’s Looking At Me Kid Amanda Johnson 610,790 4,587 5 2,583 22,566 103 Fine Little Day Elisabeth Dunker 479,375 2,728 5 1,848 29,502 104 The Scoop Various 635,856 8,914 5 2,884 3,188 105 Forty-Sixth at Grace Nikole 1,572,289 635 5 3,344 65,731 106 Seesaw Designs Various 739,608 860 5 4,293 28,943 107 The Crafting Chicks Various 248,044 26,545 0 3,552 13,353 108 Olivet Mary Stonecypher 1,803 0 5 682 18,219 109 IS LY Melissa Esplin 258,779 10,649 3 3,594 19,556 110 A Print a Day Yasmine Surovec 1,581,796 4,042 4 4,460 62,848 111 Lovely Design Sharilyn 758,014 1,403 4 4,250 57,942 112 A Spoonful of Sugar Various 1,422,041 7,007 4 2,698 60,762 113 Going Home to Roost Bonnie 516,630 27,367 4 1,115 24,081 114 doe c doe Gina 1,948,823 2,862 5 1,995 45,813 115 Sweet Fine Day Jenna and Mark 480,185 1,510 5 1,470 19,574 116 Concrete and Honey Nikola Brooke 1,426,047 1,928 5 2,014 37,544 117 Make it Do Calli 434,613 17,646 0 925 53,768 118 Lovely Clusters Rachel Follett 694,731 975 4 3,329 50,984 119 Tangled and True Brittany 2,015,283 1,990 5 1,375 49,129 120 Simple + Pretty Jane 938,713 1,436 5 1,355 38,131 121 A Room Somewhere Leslie 1,192,130 11,998 4 2,181 29,887 122 Bright Bazaar Will 558,425 0 4 2,488 57,811 123 A Creative Mint Leslie 422,747 0 4 3,029 34,520 124 Please Sir Diana Martini 1,426,241 0 5 2,035 62,562 125 Housemartin Ink & Peat 832,078 0 5 2,012 35,654 126 Marta Writes Marta Dansie 500,529 4,981 4 1,948 15,394 127 Abby Try Again Abby Powell 869,300 1,740 4 2,944 31,110 128 Freshlyblended Nicole 1,618,598 0 5 2,287 49,934 129 Shim + Sons Sally Shim 1,283,755 0 4 5,815 38,971 130 Color Collective Lauren Willhite 573,686 0 4 3,047 28,659 131 Happiness Is… Shannon Eileen 342,717 3,681 4 1,238 9,676 132 Miss Moss Diana 202,038 0 3 1,263 36,893 133 Wren Handmade Laura Normandin 1,397,475 1,825 4 2,107 30,690 134 Thompson Family Danielle Thompson 576,306 9,644 0 2,617 1,650 135 The Bedlam of Beefy Bradford 1,106,962 0 4 1,721 55,105 136 You are My Fave Melanie Blodgett 332,793 5,511 0 1,297 7,163 137 Welcome to the Good Sarah Choi 614,852 7,266 2 2,218 1,789 138 Wit + Delight Kate Arends 449,675 449 4 2,101 328 139 Sarah Jane Sarah Jane 1,061,104 4,709 4 843 19,877 140 Aesthetic Nest Anneliese 728,430 11,051 2 1,637 3,509 141 Kickcan & Conkers Deborah Beau 878,872 0 4 1,316 41,162 142 Design Shimmer Siw Haveland 603,579 0 4 1,119 28,335 143 Design Therapy Brad Ford 1,186,560 671 4 1,245 36,112 144 Sandra Juto Sandra Juto 526,021 0 0 1,827 41,248 145 Two Straight Lines Courtney 2,058,791 909 4 1,846 29,748 146 B for Bonnie Bonnie Tsang 700,015 856 4 634 24,482 147 Stylizimo Nina Holst 431,743 0 2 1,696 20,637 148 The Jealous Curator Anonymous 707,610 1,190 3 1,658 24,064 149 Domestifluff Kristen 927,203 7,330 3 1,298 6,257 150 Chez Larsson Chez Larsson 1,497,437 1,793 2 3,533 11,623

LEGEND

Alexa Rank
Alexa’s traffic rankings are based on the usage patterns of Alexa Toolbar users and data collected from other, diverse sources over a rolling 3 month period. A site’s ranking is based on a combined measure of reach and pageviews. Reach is determined by the number of unique Alexa users who visit a site on a given day. Pageviews are the total number of Alexa user URL requests for a site. However, multiple requests for the same URL on the same day by the same user are counted as a single pageview. The site with the highest combination of users and pageviews is ranked #1.
Compete Visitors
The number of unique visitors that visited the website in August 2010 according to Compete.
Google PageRank
PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page’s value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves “important” weigh more heavily and help to make other pages “important.”
Google Reader Subscribers
The number of Google Reader users that subscribe to each blog. Note: this is not total RSS subscribers but rather how many Google Reader users subscribe to each blog.
Yahoo Inlinks
The number of links going to a blog’s entire site but excluding all self-linking links.

HOW THE LIST IS COMPUTED

1. Several hundred blogs are reviewed in a preliminary screening to determine if their statistics are competitive enough to be ranked.
2. 225 blogs were selected to be ranked.
3. Data is collected for each blog from all 5 measured criteria (i.e., Alexa Rank, Compete Visitors, Google PageRank, Google Reader Subscribers, and Yahoo Inlinks).
4. For each of the 5 measured criteria, each blog is ranked in comparison to all other blogs being evaluated.
5. A composite rank for each blog is determined by averaging each blogs ranking from the 5 measured criteria.
6. The top blogs are published.

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