Comments on: State of the Blogosphere – October 2005

By: Eoghann Irving

Eoghann Irving — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:09:57 +0000

Hmm, does anyone else think this “growth” is a little missleading? Lets see. Technorati is tracking 19.6 million blogs but there are only 1.3 million posts made per day. That means that in the space of 14 days there aren’t enough blog posts to account for a single post per 14 day period per blog. And that’s taking the high value.

If we took the low value of 700,000 posts per day then it would take an entire month before we had one post for each blog tracked.And of course, statistics being what it is, that doesn’t take into account sites like this that post far more than once per day. For every ProBlogger posting 4 times a day, there would have to be 4 more blogs not posting.

Conclusion? A lot of those 19.6 million blogs are inactive.

Seems to me the real size of the blogosphere is a lot smaller than these figures make it sound.

By: shyboy

shyboy — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:10:08 +0000

The blogosphere is now over 30 times as big as it was 3 years ago, with no signs of letup in growth ! its’fabulous!

By: State of the Blogosphere - October 2005: Blog Tips at ProBlogger - William Stewart -

Mon, 17 Oct 2005 16:28:30 +0000

[...] State of the Blogosphere. About 33,000 posts are created per hour, or 9.2 posts per second [...]

By: Jon Gales

Jon Gales — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:37:26 +0000

I think the spam figures are low because those are the ones that Technorati tags as spam. I’m not sure about you guys, but I see a *lot* of spam in their SERPS. If they flag sites as spam I’m sure they don’t show up in any searches, so the ones we are seeing got by their radar and aren’t in that 5% figure.

By: LexBlog Blog

LexBlog Blog — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:18:16 +0000

Blogosphere doubles in size again, no slowdown seen

David Sifry, the founder of Technorati, just released the latest numbers on the size of the blogosphere. It’s doubled again. Here’s a summary of Sifry’s points from his state of the blogosphere, courtesy of Darren Rowse. As of October 2005,…

By: Hans Mast

Hans Mast — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 13:14:15 +0000

Lots and lots of splogs just came down the pipe via a massive script. Mark Cuban is cussing about it. Chris Pirillo talks about it too.

By: Andy Merrett

Andy Merrett — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:46:16 +0000

Maybe – that’s still between 1400 and 5600 “splogs” per day. And unfortunately because of their high posting (of c**p) frequency they do show up very often – maybe it just feels like more?

By: Greg Hoffman

Greg Hoffman — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 11:19:24 +0000

Only 2%-8% of new blogs created everyday are spam blogs??? I find that number too low to believe. The other stats are reasonable and expected. But spam blogs are really bothering me lately.

It’s a great thing blogger.com installed spam comment preventative tools. That was beginning to wear me down.

By the way, Darren, I’ll buy a Problogger shirt from CafePress as soon as I land that new job. Hopefully this week.

Thanks for blogging great content everyday.