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, Technorati is now tracking 19.6 Million weblogs
• The total number of weblogs tracked continues to double about every 5 months
• The blogosphere is now over 30 times as big as it was 3 years ago, with no signs of letup in growth
• About 70,000 new weblogs are created every day
• About a new weblog is created each second
• 2% – 8% of new weblogs per day are fake or spam weblogs
• Between 700,000 and 1.3 Million posts are made each day
• About 33,000 posts are created per hour, or 9.2 posts per second
• An additional 5.8% of posts (or about 50,000 posts/day) seen each day are from spam or fake blogs, on average

Thanks David, your regular reports on the blogosphere provide us the best statistical info on its growth.