So your boss has just given you a tight deadline to find a component that will meet your biggest client’s newest project specs. You need to find the right part and research part data. So what do you do? You’ve tried your best to find the data sheets you need to make comparisons and select the best part. You’ve already checked www.Onlinecomponents.com and a few other sites but no one has that familiar PDF icon showing the data sheet you need. Where do you go now? Well you would want to check out one of the Top 5 data sheet sites of course. Here are what we consider to be the 5 best sites to find a data sheet:

1. 

Name: Alldatasheet

Description: All datasheet is one the most trafficked, if not the most trafficked data sheet only website online. This site lists millions of data sheets and is likely a good place to start as far as electronic data sheets. .
Site: http://www.alldatasheet.com/

# of searches monthly – per Similar Web: 4.8 Million searches a month

Approximate # of parts listed (per site): 20,000,000

2.

Name: Datasheet Archive

Description: Tied for 2nd in the amount of searches, Datasheet Archive allows you to search by part #, manufacturer and also by popularity.

Site: http://www.datasheetarchive.com/

# of searches monthly – per Similar Web: 1.1 Million searches a month

Approximate # of data sheets listed (per site): 345,000,000
 

3.

Name: DataSheet Catalog

Description: Datasheet Catalog is also right behind Alldatasheet as far as the number of monthly searches. In addition the site has a mirror site that appears to default to French called http://www.datasheetcatalog.net/ which gets a little less than ½ of the traffic as its English speaking sibling.

Site: http://www.datasheetcatalog.com/

# of searches monthly – per Similar Web: 1.1 Million searches month

Approximate # of parts listed: Millions

4.

Name: Datasheetpro

Description: DatasheetPro is apparently in Beta yet already receives about a 1/3 of the traffic from 2 out of 3 of its biggest competitors. This site allows you to search by part # and manufacturer but also by reference design.
Site: https://www.datasheetpro.com/

# of searches monthly – per Similar Web: 380,000 searches a month.

Approximate # of parts listed: 10’s of thousands

5.

Name: Datasheet Directory

Description: Datasheet directory apparently started as a hobby of an electrical engineer and has gradually grown from there. Although the site is dwarfed by its competitors it allows you to search not only by part # but also by broad category of component type.

Site: http://www.datasheetdir.com/

# of searches monthly – per Similar Web::: 183,000 a month

Approximate # of parts listed: Thousands