# Dave Sifry's State of the Blogosphere - Part 1: On Blogosphere Growth

- Author: Joichi Ito
- Date: 2006-02-06T19:52:16Z


Dave has posted Part 1 of another round of his now regular State of the Blogosphere reports. Part 1 is about Blogosphere Growth.

Here is the Summary:    * Technorati now tracks over 27.2 Million blogs
    * The blogosphere is doubling in size every 5 and a half months
    * It is now over 60 times bigger than it was 3 years ago
    * On average, a new weblog is created every second of every day
    * 13.7 million bloggers are still posting 3 months after their blogs are created
    * Spings (Spam Pings) can sometimes account for as much as 60% of the total daily pings Technorati receives
    * Sophisticated spam management tools eliminate the spings and find that about 9% of new blogs are spam or machine generated
    * Technorati tracks about 1.2 Million new blog posts each day, about 50,000 per hour
    * Over 81 Million posts with tags since January 2005, increasing by 400,000 per day
    * Blog Finder has over 850,000 blogs, and over 2,500 popular categories have attracted a critical mass of topical bloggersSee his blog post for pretty charts and lots of details.





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