Massive Growth of the Blogosphere Continues
Dave Sifry the founder of Technorati the authority of the blogosphere released his ussual “State of the Blogosphere”. Great work by Dave and his team in getting these stats out. The conversation will continue no doubt on the TechMeme
Dave says “Today, the blogosphere is doubling in size every 200 days, or about once every 6 and a half months. That means things have slowed somewhat - the rate of doubling has increased by about half a month to once every seven months.”
In summary:
Technorati is now tracking over 50 Million Blogs.
The Blogosphere is over 100 times bigger than it was just 3 years ago.
Today, the blogosphere is doubling in size every 200 days, or about once every 6 and a half months.
From January 2004 until July 2006, the number of blogs that Technorati tracks has continued to double every 5-7 months.
About 175,000 new weblogs were created each day, which means that on average, there are more than 2 blogs created each second of each day.
About 8% of new blogs get past Technorati’s filters, even if it is only for a few hours or days.
About 70% of the pings Technorati receives are from known spam sources, but we drop them before we have to send out a spider to go and index the splog.
Total posting volume of the blogosphere continues to rise, showing about 1.6 Million postings per day, or about 18.6 posts per second.
This is about double the volume of about a year ago.
The most prevalent times for English-language posting is between the hours of 10AM and 2PM Pacific time, with an additional spike at around 5PM Pacific time
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August 26th, 2006 at 10:58 am
[…] My prediction? Lots of entrepreneuers will enter the market to try to make some money…and give up. If people think blogging is an easy and quick way to make some money, they will have a very tough road ahead of them. It takes time and persistance, something many people are short on, to build a blog audience. Especially given the increasing numbers of people starting up blogs every single day, bloggers will have a difficult time distinguising themselves from the thousands of other new blogs popping up. The blogosphere has been doubling every 6 months according to the most recent “State of the Blogosphere” report. Does anyone know if, internet-wide, the number of blog readers or the total time readers are spending reading blogs is also doubling every 6 months? Afterall, it really doesn’t matter how many blogs there are. Monetization of blogs comes through a blog’s audience, so if there if the audience is not growing, profits won’t grow either. […]