Comment Spam Statistics
Posted August 7th, 2007 in Blogging
Another milestone reached here at this humble blog. Since May 2006, when I installed the fantastic anti-spam tool, Akismet, I have now clocked 200,000 comment spams on this blog.
Perhaps it’s my previous posts showing my fascination with comment spam (see this November 2006 post and this January 2007 post), or I am just an unwitting spam magnet, however the graph above illustrates that Akismet is catching an average of 12,500 spammy comments each month (this works out to 416 per day).
Please, celebrate this milestone with me. Let’s send our thanks to all of those peddling dubious medications, nasty spyware and other less than savoury products and services for this milestone.
Image: Graph of comment spam received at Miles’ Blog.
August 7th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
Okay I’m not in the same comment or traffic league as you are Miles. But I was getting about 50-100 spam comments a day being block by akismet. Now it’s down to 3-5 spam comments. What did I do. Well I looked at the stats, I wasn’t getting many real comments on old posts, so I have auto expired (closed) comments on them. Also I have put in a plug-ins to block comments that are only a few words in length. Not earth shattering, but it made a huge difference. Now I don’t have “readers” in China and India they seem to have lost interest..
416 spam comments a day is just obscene.
August 7th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
Great idea, Gary. Maybe I’ll try that.
August 17th, 2007 at 5:49 am
This may be sad, but it is certainly amusing!