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Tuesday, October 18, 2005

State of the Blogosphere, On Blogosphere Growth, Technorati Weblog:

Blogging just keeps growing....

Technorati Weblog: State of the Blogosphere, October 2005 Part 1: On Blogosphere Growth: "State of the Blogosphere, October 2005 Part 1: On Blogosphere Growth Posted by Dave Sifry"

Chart shows the continued growth of the blogosphere

"Technorati is now tracking 19.6 Million weblogs, and the total number of weblogs tracked continues to double about every 5 months. This trend has been consistent for at least the last 36 months. In other words, the blogosphere has doubled at least 5 times in the last 3 years. Another way of looking at it is that the blogosphere is now over 30 times as big as it was 3 years ago"

new weblogsAbout 70,000 new weblogs are tracked every day, which is about a new weblog created each second, somewhere in the world...about 2% - 8% of new weblogs are fake or spam weblogs....

To summarize:
As of October 2005, Technorati is now tracking 19.6 million weblogs
The total number of weblogs tracked continues to double about every 5 months
The blogosphere is now over 30 times as big as it was 3 years ago, with no signs of letup in growth
About 70,000 new weblogs are created every day
About a new weblog is created each second
2% - 8% of new weblogs per day are fake or spam weblogs
Between 700,000 and 1.3 million posts are made each day
About 33,000 posts are created per hour, or 9.2 posts per second
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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