Be sure to read David Sifry’s regular State of the Blogosphere update. It was released today. Via Qumana.
According to Sifry, “The blogosphere is over 60 times bigger than it was only 3 years ago.”
“New blog creation continues to grow. We currently track over 75,000 new weblogs created every day, which means that on average, a new weblog is created every second of every day – and 13.7 million bloggers are still posting 3 months after their blogs are created. In other words, even though there’s a reasonable amount of tire-kicking going on, blogging is growing as a habitual activity. In October of 2005, when Technorati was only tracking 19 million blogs, about 10.4 million bloggers were still posting 3 months after the creation of their blogs.”
“In addition to that, about 2.7 million bloggers update their blogs at least weekly. Here’s a chart of the number of new blogs created each day, from January 2004 to January 2006:”
Summary:
– Technorati now tracks over 27.2 Million blogs
– The blogosphere is doubling in size every 5 and a half months
– It is now over 60 times bigger than it was 3 years ago
– On average, a new weblog is created every second of every day
– 13.7 million bloggers are still posting 3 months after their blogs are created
– Spings (Spam Pings) can sometimes account for as much as 60% of the total daily pings Technorati receives
– Sophisticated spam management tools eliminate the spings and find that about 9% of new blogs are spam or machine generated
– Technorati tracks about 1.2 Million new blog posts each day, about 50,000 per hour
– Over 81 Million posts with tags since January 2005, increasing by 400,000 per day
– Blog Finder has over 850,000 blogs, and over 2,500 popular categories have attracted a critical mass of topical bloggers
