What is rising right now
Not the biggest numbers — the biggest change. This measures which topics saw far more independent designers publishing new models over the past month than in the three months before.
As of: 2026-07-27 · 2026-06-29 – 2026-07-27 vs 2026-04-06
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Searches on the rise
The demand side: what visitors searched for far more often in the past 7 days than in the month before.
How this is measured
Download and like counts are no use here: they get overwritten whenever a model is read again, so there is no history. What is used instead is the publication date — fixed when a model is first indexed, and never changed afterwards.
What gets counted is independent designers, not models. Otherwise any shop uploading its whole catalogue at once would top the list. A topic also has to have a track record, and every platform is measured against its own average.
From these platforms almost only contest entries are currently coming in, so they are compared against earlier contest entries rather than against normal publishing: MakerWorld (13%). Topics from them reflect what a contest was calling for.
Not represented in the ranking: MakerOnline – no tag data available; GrabCAD – no topic above the threshold.