State Of The Blogosphere: October 2005

By Mike Manuel
Expert Author
Article Date: 2005-10-17

Just a quick pointer to Dave Sifry's latest State of the Blogosphere update (October). Part One is focused on Blogosphere Growth.

Following are some summary stats, but take a second to read the entire thing, it's *very* interesting, particularly the rate of blogs created per day:

1. As of October 2005, Technorati is now tracking 19.6 Million weblogs


2. The total number of weblogs tracked continues to double about every 5 months


3. The blogosphere is now over 30 times as big as it was 3 years ago, with no signs of letup in growth


4. About 70,000 new weblogs are created every day


5. About a new weblog is created each second 2% - 8% of new weblogs per day are fake or spam weblogs


6. Between 700,000 and 1.3 Million posts are made each day


7. About 33,000 posts are created per hour, or 9.2 posts per second


8. An additional 5.8% of posts (or about 50,000 posts/day) seen each day are from spam or fake blogs, on average

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