Blogging survey results, as promised! Even though we didn’t quite get to the magic 1,000 mark once junk entries were taken into account, I am going to start rolling out my survey results. Hopefully I will be able to get through them before my vacation so I can incorporate any feedback required to make them useful.
Todays result is how long people have been blogging and there were 911 useful entries once I had trimmed out junk and made each entry numeric. When people gave me a range, such as 2002-2003, I took the earliest year.
Year Started Blogging Result
How Many Years Blogging
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Table of Results
Years blogging results
< 5 | 757 |
5 – 10 | 142 |
> 10 | 12 |
Detailed results by year
What year did you start blogging? | Years | Count | % |
2008 | 0 | 139 | 15.25795829 |
2007 | 1 | 256 | 28.10098793 |
2006 | 2 | 159 | 17.45334797 |
2005 | 3 | 135 | 14.81888035 |
2004 | 4 | 68 | 7.464324918 |
2003 | 5 | 48 | 5.268935236 |
2002 | 6 | 36 | 3.951701427 |
2001 | 7 | 27 | 2.96377607 |
2000 | 8 | 10 | 1.097694841 |
1999 | 9 | 11 | 1.207464325 |
1998 | 10 | 10 | 1.097694841 |
1997 | 11 | 5 | 0.54884742 |
1996 | 12 | 2 | 0.219538968 |
1995 | 13 | 1 | 0.109769484 |
1994 | 14 | 3 | 0.329308452 |
1993 | 15 | 1 | 0.109769484 |
Summary
As you can see, the vast majority of people started blogging in the last few years. I am not entirely surprised, but with 17% or so saying you have been blogging more than 5 years, I wonder how many others started and quit?
Table of contents for series: Global Blogging Survey Results
- Blogging Survey Results: Years Blogging
- Blogging Survey Results: Demographics of Bloggers
- Blogging Survey Results: Why People Blog