Anyone who checks out their Technorati profile regularly will have noticed the slow-downs, David Sifry has some updates on things. In the article he mentions these amasing stats:
Allow me to give you some growth statistics: One year ago, when I started Technorati on a single server in my basement, we were adding between 2,000-3,000 new weblogs each day, not counting the people who were updating sites we were already tracking. In March of this year, when we switched over to a 5 server cluster, we were keeping up with about 4,000-5,000 new weblogs each day. Right now, we're adding 8,000-9,000 new weblogs every day, not counting the 1.2 Million weblogs we already are tracking. That means that on average, a brand new weblog is created every 11 seconds. We're also seeing about 100,000 weblogs update every day as well, which means that on average, a weblog is updated every 0.86 seconds.
I wonder how many of these update regularly since there has been much talk around the fact that the typical blog is run by a 16 year old girl who gets bored of it after 30 days.
And while on the subject of technorati profiles, its rather depressing that about:blank has larger link cosmos than many blogs :-)
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