I was wondering about some of the key facts of blogging this afternoon and with a quick Google search found a number of interesting statistics some of which were quite surprising.

Let's take a look.




Let discuss some of these then...

6.7 million people are posting blog sites. that's a hell of a lot of blogs to read about an insanely vast number of topics and lifestyles and you ended up here. cheers.

23% of all usage of the internet is devoted to social media and blogs - this one is also kind of surprising until you think about it. I'd estimate that of the 23%, 15-20% is Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and the like sites and apps and the other 8-3% is people looking at blogs. Also whether the blog browsing is educational (i.e learning a new recipe) or recreational (i.e reading about you're favourite lifestyle bloggers day to day) may make a sure difference as to how much of the 23% is on those 'mainstream' social media sites and how much the blogosphere is included in that amount.

I was also a little surprised that only 6% of original post blogger use guest posts when I consider it one of the best ways to jump up readership in the starting of a new blog.

I do believe that 43% of people admitted to skimming a blog and I must apologise to any blog in which i have done this now knowing the effort it takes to put a post up and not just that but then the confidence to share this around.

There's hundred of these statistics online and there are but a few of the ones I found in around ten minutes  so if you're interested in any more of these it wouldn't be a terribly difficult search.

So let me know down in the comment below which of these ones were surprising to you and which were not.

Cheers.