Friday, May 19, 2006

Blogging Facts

English is not the most popular language of the blogosphere - it's Japanese. Thirty-seven percent of blogs are written in Japanese, 31 percent in English, and Chinese is rapidly rising in third place with 15 percent.

Some blog statistics:

85% allow comments on their blogs
33% use Google Adsense
22% use BlogAds
45% generate no revenue
40% generated under $5,000 per year
4% generated over $100,000 per year

MySpace ( A friendship site like orkut ) has more postings (1.4 million daily) than in the entire blogosphere, and 250,000 new people sign up daily.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Moonlight,

I think 15 percent of the first lot is way too cool. You just provide information or write expecting nothing...thats awesome !!! My friends ( who i don't write to ) use this blog to check on me and leave a line or two ocassionally...Anyways, thanks for the comment.

S said...

whoa.. cool.. didnt know that one,
like moonlight, i dont know which one i figure under either!!!!

Brijesh Nair said...

Japanese the most popular language of bloggers-I never knew that.