Thursday, January 25, 2007 5:30 PM
A new feature was added to Blawg today that displays some high level statistics about the blawgosphere. In large part this has been added in response to visitor feedback and I hope the community finds the statistics useful. You will see these statistics on the home page and right column at Blawg.com.
I don't claim that every single blawg in the world is currently part of Blawg's directory or captured in these statistics. Indeed, I am very confident in saying that there are more blawgs out there. The numbers are increasing by the day and it would be nearly impossible to immediately add every new blawg worldwide. This may change in time, but for now consider these statistics the low end estimate of the blawgosphere.
Here are the current numbers:
Total Blogs: 1,220
Active Blogs: 888
Total Posts: 41,458
Posts Today: 547
The main question you may ask is what is the difference between 'Total' and 'Active.' The answer is simply whether a given weblog is actively posting new content. Time frames for posting new content are very reasonable and based on what I have seen over the last four years in tracking blawgs. My experience has been that some people take breaks, for myriad reasons, and then ultimately start re-posting. In short, a blawg may not be active at a given date in time, but that does not mean it is abandoned. For those blawgs that are clearly abandoned, they simply will be removed.
I hope these statistics start to give some sense of the growing size of the blawgosphere, both in numbers of blawgs and posts. If you have any thoughts or comments on these or other statistics that you would like to see, please feel free to let me know by clicking here.