some stats on the Russian blogosphere I found
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charmianYandex, the top Russian search engine, conducted a study of the Russian blogosphere. The study (PDF link), gives a fair amount of data on the various sites which make up the majority of the blogs there.
Some facts:
76% of active Russian blogs are hosted on four services: livejournal.com, blogs.mail.ru, ya.ru, and liveinternet.ru. Livejournal.com has the most active blogs. Blogs.mail.ru, however, has the most active communities.
The average Russian blogger on LJ is a 26 year old man.
In general, the number of unique visitors of all blogs is increasing faster than the number of active blogs.
Of the active participants in Russian LJ, 22% make only posts and 25% only comments (the rest do both)
Only 2% of Russian bloggers have more than 100 subscribers. 0.2% have more than 500.
Spam blogs increased dramatically in number over the last half of 2008.
I wonder how they compiled these stats? Also, it's interesting that LJ in Russia is not associate with youthful bloggers (other blogging services are). I wonder if as Wordpress.com starts to increase its translation capacities, whether it or other Wordpress MU sites will gain traction among the Russian audience.
Some facts:
76% of active Russian blogs are hosted on four services: livejournal.com, blogs.mail.ru, ya.ru, and liveinternet.ru. Livejournal.com has the most active blogs. Blogs.mail.ru, however, has the most active communities.
The average Russian blogger on LJ is a 26 year old man.
In general, the number of unique visitors of all blogs is increasing faster than the number of active blogs.
Of the active participants in Russian LJ, 22% make only posts and 25% only comments (the rest do both)
Only 2% of Russian bloggers have more than 100 subscribers. 0.2% have more than 500.
Spam blogs increased dramatically in number over the last half of 2008.
I wonder how they compiled these stats? Also, it's interesting that LJ in Russia is not associate with youthful bloggers (other blogging services are). I wonder if as Wordpress.com starts to increase its translation capacities, whether it or other Wordpress MU sites will gain traction among the Russian audience.
