State of the Blogosphere April, 2007

Posted on April 5, 2007

David Sifry, CEO and founder of Technorati, has posted a new State of the Blogosphere report. As usual the blogosphere keeps getting bigger, spam keeps being annoying and the international aspect of the blogosphere becomes more significant. Here are some highlights:

70 million blogs tracked by Technorati: "Technorati is now tracking over 70 million weblogs, and we're seeing about 120,000 new weblogs being created worldwide each day. That's about 1.4 blogs created every second of every day."

Splog Overload: "Technorati has been tracking between 3,000 - 7,000 new splogs created each day, but there was a significant spike in splog creation during early December, when we tracked over 11,000 splogs created each day during December - a total of 341,000 splogs that we removed from our indexes during that period."

Growth is slowing as the blogosphere gets bigger: "This shouldn't be surprising, as we're dealing with the law of large numbers - it takes a lot more growth to double from 35 million blogs to 70 million (which took about 320 days) than when it doubled from 5 million to 10 million blogs (which took about 180 days)."

More blogs entering the 100 sites list: "In previous reports, we looked at the popularity of mainstream media compared to blog sites. One interesting item to note in April 2007, the number of blogs in the top 100 most popular sites has risen substantially. During Q3 2006 there were only 12 blogs in the Top 100 most popular sites. In Q4, however, there were 22 blogs on the list -- further evidence of the continuing maturation of the Blogosphere."

The blogosphere is worldwide which means lots of languages. But Japanese (37%) and English (36%) dominate with 73% of all posts written in these two languages.

Be sure to visit David Sifry's post for cool graphs that illustrate the above trends.