Thursday, April 05, 2007

The big bang of the blogosphere

Technorati tracks the data:

In summary:

  • 70 million weblogs
  • About 120,000 new weblogs each day, or...
  • 1.4 new blogs every second
  • 3000-7000 new splogs (fake, or spam blogs) created every day
  • Peak of 11,000 splogs per day last December
  • 1.5 million posts per day, or...
  • 17 posts per second
  • Growing from 35 to 75 million blogs took 320 days
  • 22 blogs among the top 100 blogs among the top 100 sources linked to in Q4 2006 - up from 12 in the prior quarter
  • Japanese the #1 blogging language at 37%
  • English second at 33%
  • Chinese third at 8%
  • Italian fourth at 3%
  • Farsi a newcomer in the top 10 at 1%
  • English the most even in postings around-the-clock
  • Tracking 230 million posts with tags or categories
  • 35% of all February 2007 posts used tags
  • 2.5 million blogs posted at least one tagged post in February
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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow! I'm ranked right around 70,000th - which means I'm in the top 0.1%!

I *rule*!

ellroon said...

Well... you do!

charley said...

i was 450th thousand.

so i rule too.

just not as much as eli.

here's what i wonder, how many of the 70 million are actually the splogs?

ellroon said...

And how many of them are dead in the water? I've tripped over many that haven't had any activity for months.