Perth’s Hottest 100 Food Blogs 2014
Australia Day is our official national holiday and on this day there are countless parties, fireworks displays and festivals held across the nation all in the name of celebrating our great country. For many music buffs, including myself, there is one particular focus of this public holiday; that is the radio countdown broadcast of Triple J’s Hottest 100. The Hottest 100 is considered to be the world’s biggest music democracy and for about one month prior to Australia Day people can vote for their favourite songs of the year.
This year I was inspired with the anticipation of the big music event to compile a list of Perth’s Hottest 100 food blogs. Currently the only guide we have for measuring our state’s blog popularity is via the relatively useless Urbanspoon ranking. This system doesn’t actually use blog traffic for calculations but is merely a sum of the page views for the places the blog has reviewed. Additionally this list excludes other forms of food blogs that don’t write restaurant reviews such as recipe blogs.
Thang Ngo, the author of the Sydney based blog Noodlies identified this problem last year and took it upon himself to compile a list of Sydney food blogs that was ranked in a more accurate manner. He used a well-known website ranking tool called Alexa and manually obtained each blog’s ranking and listed all 300-odd of them. What a mammoth task! I was keen to do a similar list for Perth and with Thang’s guidance and support I commenced the very time consuming undertaking to list Perth and WA’s food blogs. I have done my best to include as many blogs as I could find including both wine and coffee blogs but my deepest apologies if I have missed your blog, please send me a comment and I can add you on.
Just a little word about Alexa ranking; Alexa Internet is a US-based subsidiary company of Amazon that provides commercial web traffic data. It estimates traffic by comparing how a website is doing compared to all other sites on the Internet over the past 3 months. Alexa’s website describes this rank as being “calculated using a combination of the estimated average daily unique visitors to the site and the estimated number of page views on the site over the past 3 months. The site with the highest combination of unique visitors and page views is ranked #1”. To give you an idea of how it goes, Google is number one closely followed by Facebook. Noodlies has given a more detailed explanation on Alexa’s merits and pit falls when used for ranking blogs. These rankings were taken on the 25th January 2014. For a complete list of all Perth’s Food Blogs click here.
So here it is: Perth’s Hottest 100 Food Blogs 2014
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Hi there, I just started my food blog in December and love to be added to the overall list if possible. Thanks!!
Hi Anna! Will do! And welcome!
Thank you!! Such an amazing list you have put together, well done!
That is amazing! I cannot believe my little baby (to be read ‘blog’) grew to be the second hottest around. So so happy. And thankful to you, for taking up the challenge to do the list!! xx
Nice list to find some local guides! Thank you!
Wow! What an honour! Thanks so much for taking the time to pull this altogether xx
Such a great idea! Thanks for putting the time and effort in to put this together! =D
Oh my god oh my god I am number 19, I cannot believe this. What a fantastic way to celebrate Australia day.
Hey girl, this is a very comprehensive list…love it! Thanks for the hard work that I know is behind this post…and congrats on number 5 ranking…off to have a look at all the others now!
xx
Oh, wow! I just followed someone else’s link here out of curiousity on who else was blogging in Perth – with no expectation of seeing myself on the list. What a pleasant surprise! Thank you so much 🙂
Wow. A significant effort. Thanks for pulling that together. Was blown away to see myself on there. Appreciate the confidence boost 🙂
Woo hoo! I am ranked at #39 – what a surprised that is!!! Thanks Chomp for doing a good job hun x
Wow, I am quite surprised I have ranked 24 🙂 Certainly is a wonderful way to celebrate Australia Day. I haven’t always been the most active, but lately I really have been trying to post at least once a week… it’s lovely to know it’s having a positive impact on my site! So many bloggers I idolise up on this list. Congratulations guys. You are amazing! <3
Thank you so much for including us and compiling the list together! It’s such an honour being on the same list alongside our favourite food bloggers! x
Hey Martine, thanks for putting the list up 🙂 Can’t believe I have came this far since starting my food blog last year. It is also great to see other Perth food bloggers on that list so we can visit and support each other 🙂 Good stuff and well done to each and everyone on the list! 🙂
Wow, what a lot of work! Great job. I’m still pretty new (read: clueless) to this blogging thing, so this definitely won’t rank on Alexa but here you go anyway: http://nerdygastronome.wordpress.com
Dear Martine, thank you so much for putting the list up!!! So glad to see my blog is on the list too! Happy Australia Day!!!
xoxo
Hey Martine – this is cool to see!
So different to the Urbanspoon ‘ranking’ list.
Great to have a list which includes recipe blogs as well – so many to add to my blog roll! 🙂 See you soon, Pia xx
Chomp Chomp number 5!!!
Congrats Martine!!! 🙂 🙂
Kat
What a great list and a great post.
I was just pipped coming in at 105…motivation to get writing!
Well done, Martine x
I’m so honoured to be part of this amazing list of bloggers! Thanks for putting such a lovely post together Martine, love your blog!
WOW!! I just found this. Am so thrilled that The Ponder Room made it in the Top 20. Thank you so much for going to all the effort of creating the list. I’ve been blogging in a vacuum so it’s great to get some feedback. Will be blogging about this for sure.
No doubt I’ve passed you at the same foodie events. Hope to say hi next time now I know what you look like. Thanks again woohoo
Hi Glennys, and congratulations too! Hope to cross paths soon! 🙂
What a great list. Very comprehensive!
Thanks Paul!
thanks for sharing the list…so precious for burger lovers!!!
He he he – my pleasure!
Thanks for the list. It’s like a burger directory!!
This is amazing – what a comprehensive list of food/recipe blogs. Always love a list like this where you go…”Hey I didn’t know about that”, then add to feedly..:)
Thanks heaps!
It was a wonderful journey discovering them all!
Amazing list and very useful blogs to follow. I was looking for such great blog lists and got it. Thanks for sharing such valuable information with us.