viralavatar: Blogosphere statisthics: first trimester 2007

Friday, April 06, 2007

Blogosphere statisthics: first trimester 2007

From today there is the new study of Technorati about the blogosphere.
There are somethings really interesting

1) the blogosphere is composed around 70 million blogs..with an increase of 120.000 blogs each day..

2) The volume of post is increasing..

3) about the languages that the blog speak... Japanese is the first (37%) and English the second (36%)..surprise..at the third position there is China with 8% and at fourth Italy (double surprise) with 3%

4) Here you can watch the hourly posts for the first 4 languages.. It is really striking to see how many hours japanese use for their blogs.

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