Categories traffic
This table gives an indication of the typical amount of traffic received by each of the subject categories available on Designing Buildings Wiki (during 2017). Articles may be in more than one category, and so the percentages adds up to more than 100.
| Subject area | Category | Percentage of total traffic |
| Project activities | Appointments | 7.7 |
| BIM | 2.7 | |
| Client procedures | 8.3 | |
| Contracts / payment | 25.9 | |
| Construction management | 24.1 | |
| Construction techniques | 13.4 | |
| Cost / business planning | 14.1 | |
| Design | 24.6 | |
| Procurement | 26.6 | |
| Products / components | 14.9 | |
| Property development | 4.7 | |
| Public procedures | 3.9 | |
| Roles / services | 6.5 | |
| Legislaton and standards | Case law | 1.0 |
| Health and safety / CDM | 7.4 | |
| Other legislation | 6.7 | |
| Planning permission | 4.3 | |
| Policy | 2.2 | |
| Property law | 2.9 | |
| Regulations | 6.7 | |
| Standards / measurements | 8.6 | |
| Sustainability | 5.0 | |
| Taxation | 1.4 | |
| Industry context | Conservation | 2.1 |
| Education | 0.5 | |
| History | 3.3 | |
| International | 2.4 | |
| Organisations | 1.5 | |
| Projects and case studies | 2.9 | |
| Publications / reports | 2.0 | |
| Research / innovation | 1.7 | |
| Theory | 6.2 |
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