Oscar Jr. Was Here

Quantifying the Blogosphere, Preview II

I'm still working on the updated Quantifying the Blogosphere analysis discussed below. In addition to N.Z. Bear's daily visit statistics, I've now gathered (NZB's) inbound link data and approximate first-post dates for 680 of the 712 blogs.

For these 680 sites, the mean blog-age is 11 months, and the median age is 9 months. 35% of the sites are younger than mine. Between June 1998 and June 2003, the month that saw the most new blogs was February 2003.

Here's the distribution of sites by blog-age:

For the entire sample, 52% of the blogs are on BlogSpot. However, for the top 100 most visited sites (with open SiteMeter statistics), only 23% use BlogSpot.

Please note that there are a substantial number of duplicates in these data. Once I'm done cleaning them up (to the extent that I can), I'll post the full analysis. I hope it will be interesting.

Posted by oscarjr at July 9, 2003 11:09 PM | TrackBack