State of the Blogosphere in 2005 reported by Technorati

In research group's blog post, I posted about a report of the state of the blogosphere in 2005 by Technorati. I've put that post here for convenience in reading.

Here's the summary of Part 1 of the report from Technorati:

* Technorati was tracking over 14.2 Million weblogs, and over 1.3 billion links in July 2005
* The blogosphere continues to double about every 5.5 months
* A new blog is created about every second, there are over 80,000 created daily
* About 55% of all blogs are active, and that has remained a consistent statistic for at least a year
* About 13% of all blogs are updated at least weekly

According to the report, "There's a growing number of WordPress-based hosted services that are arising, including Laughing Squid, Dreamhost, and Blue Host, marking an interesting trend - that of ISPs and hosting providers using the GPL'ed software as a differentiating feature of their services." There also appears to be more people moblogging and photoblogging on their camera cell phones. Blogging is definitely now becoming a habit and people are blogging on a daily basis.

Here's the summary from Part 2 of the report on posting volume:

* Technorati is tracking about 900,000 blog posts created every day
* That's about 10.4 blog posts per second, on average
* Median time from posting to inclusion in the Technorati index is under 5 minutes
* Significant increases in posting volume are due to increased mainstream use of easy hosted tools as well as simple posting interfaces like post-from-IM and moblogging tools
* Weekends tend to be slower posting days by about 5-10% of the weekly averages
* During the day, posting tends to peak between the hours of 7AM and noon Pacific time (10AM - 3PM Eastern time)
* Worldwide news events cause ripples through the blogosphere - not only in search volume, but also in posting volume

Interesting statistics, but they're probably not that surprising.

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