Thanks to the very clever N.Z. Bear, I am working on an update to this Quantifying the Blogosphere post in which I looked at the correlation between the number of incoming links and daily blog visits.
In that post, I looked at 91 sites on my blogroll with publicly-available Sitemeter statistics. N.Z. Bear has now automated the gathering of such statistics, offering them for 712 sites (including some duplicates).
In response to a comment by CGHill, I am also incorporating blog-age into the analysis. For each of the blogs on NZB's list, I've attempted to identify the earliest post on the site. (These data are somewhat tainted by Dean Esmay's BlogSpot Jihad, as many of the sites he helped to move off BlogSpot neither imported earlier posts nor linked to the BlogSpot weblog.)
For what it's worth, for the first 426 sites on the Bear's list, the average blog is 12 months old, and the median weblog is 10 months old. 28% of them are younger than my site.
In case anyone is interested, I expect to post more details on the analysis in the next few days.
Posted by oscarjr at July 8, 2003 10:16 PM | TrackBackI'll be interested in the numbers. Keep 'em coming, and thanks for the work that goes into figuring it all out.
Posted by: zombyboy at 01:45 AMI hope the analysis will be interesting. With luck, the full post will be up tomorrow or Friday.
Oh, and I owe you an email. I'll be in touch soon.
OJr.
Posted by: Oscar Jr. at 11:26 PMI look forward both to your response (no matter the result) and to continuing to read your entries about blogs.
I'm feeling so young in comparison.
Posted by: zombyboy at 05:47 PMResponse sent, and kind thanks.
As well you should feel young -- only 23% of blogs are younger than yours.
Posted by: Oscar Jr. at 08:46 PM