State of the Blogosphere

• 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

—David Sifry —State of the Blogosphere (Sifry’s Alerts)