Statistics

Alain Petignat moved the weblog gallery to the blogug.ch domain and updated it. It’s currently not updated automatically, so new weblogs won’t have their picture taken, yet. I took the opportunity and included the thumbnails on the feed directory. See for example the detail page for the local.ch Weblog (and the other ca. 1100 detail pages). Thank you Alain! Stefan provided a nice favicon for the blogug project. I integrated those into “my” two sites (list and stats). Thank you Stefan! On the stats page I did a few detail fixes in the translation. And more important, the blog provider twoday.net is now recognized correctly. They even made it into the Top 5, which currently is: ...

As I pre-announced in my State of the Swiss Blogosphere article, I created a new Web site to keep track of the numbers in the Swiss blogosphere. The site stats.blogug.ch currently tracks: Number of weblogs (total and active) Number of posts per day Software or platform used The data for this comes from the weblog list and Planet Switzerland. Additionally historical data has been imported from a blog.ch database dump that Matthias kindly provided. Have fun with this new application. If you have questions or additional numbers you'd like to keep track of, please tell me. And site translations (French, Italian, Romansh) are of course welcome (contact me if you're interested and I'll tell you how to do it).