We scored 58 tech and AI blogs across seven performance metrics to find the 25 best in 2026. No editorial picks, no sponsored placements, no padding with corporate engineering blogs that publish once a quarter. Every ranking here is earned through data — publishing cadence, site speed, domain authority, content depth, and trust signals. Of those 58 blogs, 48 scored above our 40-point minimum to qualify for the directory.
Best Tech & AI Blogs in 2026 (Quick List)
- Sebastian Raschka — 86/100
- Machine Learning Mastery — 84/100
- Josh Comeau — 82/100
- Simon Willison — 82/100
- Troy Hunt — 81/100
- The Defiant — 80/100
- Robin Wieruch — 80/100
- Krebs on Security — 80/100
- The New Stack — 79/100
- Michael Lynch — 78/100
- Daniel Miessler — 78/100
- Julia Evans — 78/100
- Cassidy Williams — 77/100
- Nolan Lawson — 77/100
- Will Larson — 76/100
- Lea Verou — 76/100
- Graham Cluley — 75/100
- Xe Iaso — 75/100
- Vicki Boykis — 74/100
- Chris Coyier — 74/100
- Maggie Appleton — 73/100
- Ahmad Shadeed — 73/100
- Kent C. Dodds — 73/100
- 404 Media — 72/100
- Salvatore Sanfilippo — 72/100
Read on for full write-ups, data insights, and sub-category picks — or jump to AI & machine learning, cybersecurity, web development, engineering leadership, or systems & infrastructure.
How We Score
Each blog receives an Awesome Score out of 100, calculated from domain authority (25 pts), content freshness (20 pts), site speed (10 pts), mobile readiness (10 pts), content volume (15 pts), SSL security (5 pts), and trust signals (15 pts). Scores refresh weekly to reflect changes in publishing activity and site performance. Read the full breakdown on our methodology page.
What the Data Shows
A few patterns that jumped out from the 58 tech and AI blogs we evaluated:
- Trust and volume matter more than domain authority. The top 25 average just 11.2 out of 25 on DA, but 19 of them earn a perfect 15/15 on content volume. In a category where most bloggers have deep archives — Simon Willison and The Defiant both exceed 10,000 posts — the real differentiators are freshness, speed, and trust signals.
- Speed separates the top tier from the pack. Sebastian Raschka, Josh Comeau, Machine Learning Mastery, Troy Hunt, Robin Wieruch, Julia Evans, Cassidy Williams, and Nolan Lawson all hit 10/10 on speed. Krebs on Security, The New Stack, Daniel Miessler, Lea Verou, and Kent C. Dodds all score 4/10 or below. That 6-10 point gap on a single metric is enough to shift rankings by five or more positions.
- Perfect freshness is nearly universal at the top. 16 of the top 25 earn 20/20 on freshness, meaning they published within the last week. The blogs scoring 15/20 or lower — Robin Wieruch, Michael Lynch, Julia Evans, Maggie Appleton, Ahmad Shadeed — tend to compensate with exceptional trust or speed scores. But dropping below biweekly publishing is a serious penalty.
- The highest DA in the category belongs to a blog outside the top 25. Martin Fowler's blog scores 13/25 on domain authority — the highest in our entire Tech & AI directory — but ranks outside the top 25 at 51/100 because the site has only 7 posts in its RSS feed and poor speed. Krebs on Security and The New Stack also hit 13/25 DA. Domain authority takes years to build, but it cannot carry a blog that falls short on other metrics.
Top 10 Tech & AI Blogs Compared
| Rank | Blog | Score | Best For | Posts | Speed | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sebastian Raschka | 86 | LLM research & tutorials | 398 | 10/10 | 20/20 |
| 2 | Machine Learning Mastery | 84 | Practical ML for all levels | 1,877 | 10/10 | 20/20 |
| 3 | Josh Comeau | 82 | Interactive React/CSS tutorials | 84 | 10/10 | 20/20 |
| 4 | Simon Willison | 82 | AI tools & open-source coverage | 10,000 | 7/10 | 20/20 |
| 5 | Troy Hunt | 81 | Data breaches & web security | 1,371 | 10/10 | 20/20 |
| 6 | The Defiant | 80 | DeFi & crypto journalism | 10,000 | 7/10 | 20/20 |
| 7 | Robin Wieruch | 80 | React & Node.js tutorials | 409 | 10/10 | 15/20 |
| 8 | Krebs on Security | 80 | Investigative cybersecurity | 2,511 | 7/10 | 20/20 |
| 9 | The New Stack | 79 | Cloud-native & DevOps | 7,549 | 4/10 | 20/20 |
| 10 | Michael Lynch | 78 | Indie hacking & bootstrapping | 384 | 7/10 | 15/20 |
The Top 10 Tech & AI Blogs
1. Sebastian Raschka — Awesome Score: 86
Best for: LLM research explained by someone who builds them
Sebastian Raschka taught statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before joining Lightning AI to focus on LLM research full-time. His book "Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch)" walks readers through building a ChatGPT-style model in raw PyTorch — no libraries, no shortcuts — and the companion GitHub repo has tens of thousands of stars. His blog extends this first-principles approach with architecture comparisons, research roundups covering 200+ papers per year, and an LLM Architecture Gallery with visual fact sheets for every major model. With 398 posts, perfect scores on freshness, speed, mobile, and volume, and the highest trust score possible, there is no weak point in his profile.
2. Machine Learning Mastery — Awesome Score: 84
Best for: structured ML tutorials from beginner to advanced
Jason Brownlee created Machine Learning Mastery in 2013 to solve a problem he experienced firsthand: academic ML resources were dense and impractical, while blog tutorials were scattered and inconsistent. The result is a 1,877-post library organized into learning paths — from basic Python for ML, through classical algorithms, to deep learning and LLMs. Each tutorial follows the same format: problem definition, worked code example, exercises. That consistency across nearly two thousand posts is rare. The site scores 10/10 on both speed and mobile, which is remarkable for a tutorial-heavy blog with code blocks on every page.
3. Josh Comeau — Awesome Score: 82
Best for: interactive tutorials that make CSS and React click
Josh Comeau worked as a senior engineer at Khan Academy, DigitalOcean, and Gatsby before going independent in 2020 — and promptly earned $550k in pre-orders for his first course, "CSS for JavaScript Developers." His blog posts are not articles; they are interactive playgrounds where you drag sliders to see flexbox reflow in real time or manipulate spring physics curves for animations. "An Interactive Guide to Flexbox" is probably the single best explanation of CSS layout ever published. With only 84 posts but over 20,000 course students, the archive is small but each post is production-quality educational software. Perfect 10/10 on speed despite all that interactivity is a technical achievement in itself.
4. Simon Willison — Awesome Score: 82
Best for: keeping up with AI tools and open-source developments
Simon Willison co-created Django, co-founded Lanyrd (a Y Combinator startup acquired by Eventbrite), worked as a data journalist at The Guardian, and now builds open-source tools full-time. His blog has over 10,000 posts — the highest count in our entire Tech & AI directory — and has been running for over two decades. He coined the term "prompt injection" in the AI security context, built Datasette for data journalism, and maintains LLM, a CLI for interacting with language models. He's a Python Software Foundation board member and his daily "Today I Learned" updates have made him the definitive source for practical AI tool coverage. Speed at 7/10 is the only metric holding him back from the top spot.
5. Troy Hunt — Awesome Score: 81
Best for: data breach analysis and practical web security
Troy Hunt spent 14 years at Pfizer, the last seven leading application architecture across Asia Pacific, before creating Have I Been Pwned in 2013 as a side project — it now processes billions of compromised records and is integrated into Firefox, 1Password, and government systems worldwide. He got phished himself in 2025 and blogged about it publicly, because that transparency is the point. His 1,371 posts cover breach disclosures, password security, and the human side of cybersecurity. He has been a Microsoft MVP since 2011 and Regional Director since 2016, and testified before the US Congress on data breach impact. Perfect scores across speed, mobile, freshness, and volume.
6. The Defiant — Awesome Score: 80
Best for: serious DeFi and crypto journalism with editorial standards
The Defiant was founded by Camila Russo, a former Bloomberg and Reuters journalist, and it operates more like a newsroom than a blog. Coverage spans DeFi protocols, Ethereum development, regulatory changes, and on-chain analytics — treated with the same editorial rigor as traditional financial journalism. With 10,000+ articles, the archive is enormous, and the daily publishing cadence earns a perfect freshness score. Camila also wrote "The Infinite Machine," the definitive history of Ethereum, and directed the documentary of the same name. This is not a crypto hype blog; it is financial journalism applied to decentralized finance.
7. Robin Wieruch — Awesome Score: 80
Best for: in-depth React and Node.js tutorials with full code examples
Robin Wieruch writes from Berlin, splitting his time between freelance engineering for clients like Vodafone and the US Government, and teaching React to 300,000 monthly readers. His book "The Road to React" earned endorsements from Dan Abramov and Kent C. Dodds and reached 50,000+ readers. He's a two-time GitHub Star, and unlike many educators, he's still shipping production code — which keeps his 409 tutorials grounded in real-world patterns rather than contrived examples. Perfect scores on speed, mobile, and trust. Freshness at 15/20 reflects a deliberate publishing pace.
8. Krebs on Security — Awesome Score: 80
Best for: investigative journalism on cybercrime and fraud
Brian Krebs spent 14 years at The Washington Post before launching Krebs on Security in 2009 — and became the most targeted cybersecurity journalist alive. He broke the Target breach story (40 million credit cards), identified the hacker selling the data six days later, and has been SWATted, mailed heroin by cybercriminals trying to frame him, and hit with a 665 Gbps DDoS attack via the Mirai botnet. The criminals went to prison. He kept blogging. His 2,511-post archive of investigative cybercrime reporting has led to real-world arrests. The highest DA in our top 10 at 13/25 reflects years of citations from every major publication. Speed at 7/10 is the main drag on the score.
9. The New Stack — Awesome Score: 79
Best for: cloud-native architecture, Kubernetes, and DevOps
The New Stack operates as a full-scale tech publication focused on the infrastructure layer — containers, orchestration, service meshes, observability, and platform engineering. Founded by Alex Williams in 2014, the 7,549-article archive is built by a team of editors and contributors, not a solo blogger. Coverage of Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and cloud-native development is granular and practitioner-focused. The site ties for the highest DA in the category at 13/25, and trust and volume scores are both perfect. Speed at 4/10 and mobile at 7/10 are the weak spots — not unusual for a high-traffic publication with heavy ad loads.
10. Michael Lynch — Awesome Score: 78
Best for: honest bootstrapping and indie product building
Michael Lynch quit Google in 2018 because — as he tells it — they wouldn't buy him a Christmas present. (The real reason: misaligned incentives between career advancement and doing good work.) He bootstrapped TinyPilot, a hardware KVM device, to $450K+ annual revenue and sold it for $600K in 2024. His 384 posts document everything — monthly revenue reports, a viral post about regretting a $46k website redesign, hiring mistakes, manufacturing nightmares. That radical transparency made the blog required reading in the indie hacker community. Perfect scores on mobile, volume, and trust.
Best AI & Machine Learning Blogs
The AI and ML sub-category includes researchers publishing original work, engineers translating papers into tutorials, and practitioners documenting real-world implementations. These are the blogs that working ML engineers actually read.
Sebastian Raschka — Awesome Score: 86
The top-ranked blog in our entire Tech & AI directory. Sebastian's work on LLMs from scratch, fine-tuning strategies, and model evaluation is the bridge between academic research and production engineering.
Machine Learning Mastery — Awesome Score: 84
Number two overall. Jason Brownlee's 1,877 structured tutorials have taught more people machine learning than most university programs. The learning path approach — beginner to advanced, topic by topic — is still unmatched.
Vicki Boykis — Awesome Score: 74
Vicki Boykis works as an ML engineer at Mozilla and writes about recommendation systems, ML infrastructure, and the engineering side of AI that rarely gets covered in the hype cycle. Her essay "What Are Embeddings" has been cited across the industry as one of the clearest explanations of the concept. Her newsletter "Normcore Tech" applies the same clarity to broader tech trends. A strong speed score of 10/10 and solid trust at 12/15 compensate for a freshness score that reflects deliberate, less frequent publishing.
Andrej Karpathy — Awesome Score: 55
Andrej Karpathy was the founding member of OpenAI, led Tesla's Autopilot vision team as Senior Director of AI, and returned to OpenAI before leaving again in 2024. His blog posts are infrequent but enormously influential — "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks" and his "Neural Networks: Zero to Hero" YouTube series are canonical learning resources. His "Let's build GPT from scratch" video has over 8 million views. The lower Awesome Score reflects publishing frequency and site speed, not content quality. When Karpathy publishes, the entire ML community reads it.
Lilian Weng — Awesome Score: 54
Lilian Weng served as VP of Research at OpenAI, and her blog is famous for exhaustive survey posts that synthesize entire research areas into single, deeply referenced articles. Her posts on attention mechanisms, diffusion models, and prompt engineering are frequently the top Google result for those topics. Each post contains dozens of diagrams and hundreds of citations. The archive is small, and publishing is infrequent — which limits the Awesome Score — but in terms of per-post impact, few blogs in any category can match it.
Best Cybersecurity Blogs
These blogs cover data breaches, threat intelligence, vulnerability disclosure, and security engineering. The writers are practitioners and investigative journalists, not commentators.
Troy Hunt — Awesome Score: 81
Number five overall. Troy's combination of Have I Been Pwned credibility and 1,371 in-depth posts on web security makes this the single most important cybersecurity blog for web developers.
Krebs on Security — Awesome Score: 80
Number eight overall. Brian Krebs' investigative reporting on cybercrime has led to real-world arrests and remains the gold standard for security journalism.
Daniel Miessler — Awesome Score: 78
Daniel Miessler runs the "Unsupervised Learning" newsletter alongside his blog, covering the intersection of cybersecurity and AI. With 3,098 posts, the archive is massive and covers everything from OWASP testing guides to AI-assisted threat detection. He created the "Fabric" framework for augmenting human work with AI, which has become a widely adopted open-source project. The 12/25 DA score is strong for a personal blog, and trust at 12/15 reflects a decade of consistent, credible output. Speed at 4/10 is the main weakness — fixing it would push the score into the low 80s.
Graham Cluley — Awesome Score: 75
Graham Cluley has been writing about computer security since the early 1990s, when he worked at Dr Solomon's and Sophos. His 4,557-post blog is a daily news operation covering malware, phishing, data breaches, and privacy issues. He co-hosts "Smashing Security," one of the most popular cybersecurity podcasts, and his writing brings a dry humor to security news that makes it accessible without dumbing it down. DA at 12/25 is among the best in the category. Speed at 4/10 is the drag on his overall score.
Best Web Development Blogs
Front-end, back-end, CSS, JavaScript, React, accessibility, web standards — these blogs are where working web developers go to learn and stay current.
Josh Comeau — Awesome Score: 82
Number three overall. Josh's interactive tutorials are a category of their own. If you have ever struggled with CSS layout, start here.
Robin Wieruch — Awesome Score: 80
Number seven overall. Complete, working tutorials for React, Node.js, and modern web development. 300,000 monthly readers trust these guides to build real applications.
Lea Verou — Awesome Score: 76
Lea Verou holds a PhD from MIT, sits on the W3C CSS Working Group, and has designed web technologies that shipped in every major browser. Her open-source tool PrismJS has over 2 billion npm downloads. Her book "CSS Secrets" was translated into 8 languages and named best CSS book by the Chicago Tribune. Her 240 posts cover CSS features she helped invent — many written before those features were standardized. She also created Color.js (50M+ npm downloads) and Mavo, a programming language for non-programmers born from her MIT research. DA at 12/25 and trust at 15/15 are both among the best in the category. Speed at 4/10 is the limiting factor.
Chris Coyier — Awesome Score: 74
Chris Coyier founded CSS-Tricks in 2007 and ran it for 15 years before selling it to DigitalOcean in 2022. He co-founded CodePen, the online code editor used by millions of developers. His personal blog at chriscoyier.net continues the tradition — short, opinionated posts about front-end development, design systems, and the web platform. With 137 posts on the personal site and the CSS-Tricks legacy behind him, the influence is outsized relative to the current archive size. Freshness at 20/20 shows he is still publishing regularly.
Ahmad Shadeed — Awesome Score: 73
Ahmad Shadeed publishes the most visually detailed CSS tutorials on the internet. Each of his 160+ articles includes custom diagrams, interactive demos, and annotated screenshots that break down layout concepts pixel by pixel. His deep-dives on CSS Grid, container queries, and the :has() selector have become go-to references. He also authored "Debugging CSS," a book focused entirely on identifying and fixing CSS bugs. Trust at 15/15 is a perfect score. Freshness at 10/20 reflects a slower cadence — each post is a significant production effort.
Kent C. Dodds — Awesome Score: 73
Kent C. Dodds created Testing Library, the most popular testing utility for React applications. His 598-post blog covers React patterns, testing strategies, and JavaScript best practices with a practitioner-first approach. He built EpicWeb.dev, a full-stack web development course platform, and his "Epic React" course has trained thousands of professional developers. DA at 12/25 is among the strongest in the web development sub-category. Speed at 4/10 is the weak point — a common issue for sites running heavy JavaScript frameworks.
A List Apart — Awesome Score: 70
A List Apart has been publishing articles about web standards, accessibility, and web design since 1998 — making it one of the oldest continuously running web development publications. Founded by Jeffrey Zeldman, the site published landmark articles like "Responsive Web Design" by Ethan Marcotte that literally changed how the industry builds websites. The 374-article archive reads like a history of the modern web. DA at 13/25 ties for the highest in the entire category. Publishing frequency has slowed in recent years, which limits the freshness score, but the historical importance and ongoing editorial quality keep it firmly in contention.
Best Engineering Leadership Blogs
Running engineering teams, scaling organizations, and making technical decisions at the leadership level. These blogs are written by people who have managed hundreds of engineers at major companies.
Will Larson — Awesome Score: 76
Will Larson is CTO at Carta and the author of "An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management" and "Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track" — two of the most widely read books on engineering leadership published in the last decade. His 1,199-post blog covers engineering strategy, organizational design, and infrastructure planning at a level of specificity that most leadership content avoids. Posts like "How to Size and Assess Teams" and "Running an Engineering Reorg" read like internal strategy documents made public. Perfect speed and mobile scores, with solid volume and freshness.
Michael Lynch — Awesome Score: 78
Also in our top 10. Michael Lynch's annual revenue reviews and honest documentation of building TinyPilot from scratch make this one of the most transparent engineering leadership blogs in our directory. The perspective is from the founder-engineer seat rather than the VP-of-engineering seat, which gives it a different flavor than most leadership content.
Coding Horror — Awesome Score: 68
Jeff Atwood co-founded Stack Overflow, the largest programming Q&A site in the world, and later created Discourse, the open-source forum platform. His blog Coding Horror ran from 2004 to 2020 as one of the most widely read programming blogs in existence. Posts like "The Best Code is No Code At All" and "Falling into the Pit of Success" have been quoted in engineering orgs worldwide. The archive of 1,434 posts still draws significant traffic. The lower Awesome Score reflects a site that is no longer actively published, but the archive remains a cornerstone of programming culture.
Best Systems & Infrastructure Blogs
Low-level systems programming, operating systems, networking, databases, and the kind of writing that requires thinking about how computers actually work.
Julia Evans — Awesome Score: 78
Julia Evans started her blog in 2013 by writing a post every single day during her Recurse Center batch, and never stopped. She's best known for Wizard Zines — hand-drawn comics that explain DNS, Git, bash, and debugging in a way that sticks. The zines sell well enough to fund her work full-time with no ads, no VC, and no sponsorships. She co-founded !!Con (bang bang con), a conference celebrating the joy of computing, and her 760-post blog captures that same energy — posts like "tcpdump is amazing" turn infrastructure tools into adventures. Perfect speed at 10/10 and the maximum trust score of 15/15. Mobile at 7/10 is the minor weak spot.
Xe Iaso — Awesome Score: 75
Xe Iaso writes about NixOS, systems administration, programming languages, and the philosophical side of technology with a distinctive voice that mixes technical depth with personal reflection. The 637-post archive covers Rust, Go, WebAssembly, Nix, and infrastructure topics that few other bloggers touch. Xe works at Tigris Data and previously worked at Tailscale, and the posts about real production infrastructure challenges are some of the most honest writing about DevOps on the internet. Solid scores across all metrics with no major weaknesses.
Salvatore Sanfilippo — Awesome Score: 72
Salvatore Sanfilippo — known as antirez — created Redis, the in-memory data store used by virtually every major tech company in the world. His blog covers systems programming, programming language design, and the kind of deep technical thinking that produced one of the most successful open-source projects in history. Posts on Redis internals, data structure design, and his thoughts on software craftsmanship are written with the clarity of someone who has spent decades thinking about how software should work. At 100 posts, the archive is small but densely valuable.
Dan Luu — Awesome Score: 58
Dan Luu's blog is visually the most minimal site you will encounter in any category — unstyled HTML, no CSS to speak of. The content is the opposite of minimal. His posts are long-form technical analyses that challenge conventional wisdom with data and rigorous reasoning. "In Defense of Simple Architectures," "Normalization of Deviance," and his annual hardware failure analyses are among the most cited blog posts in the engineering community. He has worked at Microsoft, Google, and Twitter. The low Awesome Score reflects the deliberately minimal design (speed is fine, mobile less so) and intermittent publishing. The thinking is first-rate.
Bartosz Ciechanowski — Awesome Score: 53
Bartosz Ciechanowski publishes interactive visual essays that explain mechanical and physical systems — GPS, internal combustion engines, cameras, mesh transforms — at an extraordinary level of detail. Each post takes months to produce and includes fully interactive 3D visualizations built from scratch. With only 27 posts, the archive is tiny, and publishing is measured in posts per year rather than per week. But each one is a standalone masterpiece of technical communication. The Awesome Score penalizes the low volume and infrequent publishing, but if you want to understand how things physically work, there is nothing else like it.
Category Overview
The Tech & AI category on AwesomeBloggers currently includes 58 blogs, with 48 scoring above the 40-point minimum for directory listing. The average Awesome Score across qualifying blogs is roughly 67, while the top 25 average 77 — a 10-point gap driven mainly by freshness, speed, and trust signals.
What makes this category unusual compared to travel or food is the consistency at the top. The top 10 tech blogs all score between 78 and 86 — a tight 8-point range — and most of them have no catastrophic weakness on any single metric. In travel, the spread is wider and speed problems are endemic. In tech, the bloggers tend to be developers themselves, so the sites are technically well-built.
The biggest surprise in the data is that personal blogs dominate. Only two entries in the top 25 — The New Stack and The Defiant — are multi-author publications. The other 23 are individual bloggers. In a category where you might expect corporate engineering blogs and major publications to rank highest, it is individual practitioners with deep expertise and consistent publishing habits who score best.
Several of these blogs are nominated in our Quarterly Awards. Scores refresh weekly, so rankings can shift — check the Tech & AI directory for the latest standings.
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If your score is lower than expected, our guide on how to improve your domain authority covers the most impactful changes you can make. Speed and mobile issues — which affect many JavaScript-heavy tech blogs — can often be resolved with better bundling, image optimization, and server-side rendering. Browse our free blogger toolkit for resources on performance, SEO, and content optimization. You can also see how other categories rank in our best digital marketing blogs and best food blogs articles.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the best tech blog in 2026?
Based on our data, Sebastian Raschka holds the top spot with an Awesome Score of 86 out of 100, followed by Machine Learning Mastery at 84 and Josh Comeau and Simon Willison tied at 82. The best blog for you depends on your focus — Sebastian Raschka is essential for LLM research, Machine Learning Mastery provides structured ML tutorials for all levels, and Simon Willison is the best source for keeping up with AI tools and open-source developments.
How do you rank tech and AI blogs?
We use the Awesome Score methodology, which evaluates seven independent metrics: domain authority (25 pts), content freshness (20 pts), site speed (10 pts), mobile readiness (10 pts), content volume (15 pts), SSL security (5 pts), and trust signals (15 pts). Scores are calculated automatically and refresh weekly. No blog can pay for a higher ranking. Read the full methodology here.
Why are personal blogs ranked higher than major publications?
Our scoring methodology measures the same seven metrics for every blog, regardless of team size. Personal blogs run by developers tend to have faster sites, better mobile performance, and more consistent publishing schedules than large publications burdened by ad tech, third-party scripts, and complex CMS setups. The data reflects that — 23 of the top 25 tech blogs are run by individuals.
What is a good Awesome Score for a tech blog?
The average score across all 48 qualifying tech blogs in our directory is roughly 67 out of 100. Scores above 73 place a blog in the top 25, and above 78 puts it in the top 10. The highest-scoring tech blog reaches 86. A minimum score of 40 is required for directory listing, which filters out inactive, abandoned, or poorly maintained sites.
Are tech blogs still relevant with AI assistants and video content?
Absolutely. AI assistants frequently cite blog posts as sources, and the blogs on this list are among the most-cited in their respective fields. Long-form written content provides the depth, code examples, and nuanced explanations that video tutorials and chat interactions cannot replicate. Simon Willison's coverage of AI tools, Julia Evans' systems explanations, and Sebastian Raschka's LLM tutorials all demonstrate that written blogs remain the primary medium for technical knowledge transfer. The top blogs in our directory are growing, not shrinking.
How can I get my tech blog listed?
Submit your blog for a free automated evaluation. The scoring takes a few minutes and gives you a breakdown across all seven metrics. If your blog scores 40 or above, it gets listed in the Tech & AI directory with a permanent do-follow backlink. If you want to improve your score first, check our guide on improving domain authority and the free blogger toolkit.
Which tech blogs have the best site performance?
Several blogs in our top 25 earn perfect 10/10 speed scores: Sebastian Raschka, Machine Learning Mastery, Josh Comeau, Troy Hunt, Robin Wieruch, Julia Evans, Cassidy Williams, Nolan Lawson, Maggie Appleton, and Vicki Boykis. Josh Comeau's perfect speed score is particularly notable given the heavy interactive elements on every post. Blogs scoring poorly on speed — The New Stack (4/10), Daniel Miessler (4/10), Lea Verou (4/10) — could gain 5-6 points by optimizing page load times alone.