One of the most stealthily popular pages on this blog is my list of the top disability blogs by traffic.  If you are unfamiliar with it – I wrote a script that uses the Alexa Ranking to work out which of a set of about 300 disability websites is the most popular. It automatically updates every 24 hours so you can see if there are new people producing a lot of good content and use it to get a feel for what the bits of the ‘community‘ are underserved.

This past week I decided to tidy up the code and make it work a little more efficiency, and in more of a transferable way. Once I’d done that, it was pretty easy to use it to create an entirely new list: for productivity blogs.

I do a certain amount of writing that ends up on productivity blogs so it was a fairly natural progression.  Here’s the method.

To build up a list of popular productivity blogs I used the following lists:

• http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/50-personal-productivity-blogs-youve-never-heard-of-before-and-about-a-dozen-you-probably-have.html
• http://www.betterproductivityblog.com/50-productivity-blogs/
• http://zenhabits.net/the-top-50-productivity-blogs-most-of-which-you-havent-heard-about/
• http://www.evancarmichael.com/Tools/Top-50-Productivity-Blogs-2009.htm

Each of those provided 50 blogs.  When I put them all together and removed duplicates I found I had a list of about 160 (actually that’s considerably less duplication than I expected.

I put them into my script (and you can, of course, have a look at the git hub repository) and it spat out the ranking. I’ve limited to top 60 for now – if the list expands as quickly as the disability one did then I’ll be able to extend that downwards pretty quickly.

So, without further ado, please go to:  the always up to date list of the top 60 productivity blogs!