10.21.2004

Blogs and the Gender Statistics

I had a recent discussion with a friend about blogs and who visits/reads blogs, how long they stay, etc. We came up with some interesting facts in our searches, and a few other conjectures.
(1) The average blog visit is about 96 seconds (Darren's research)
(2) The top few blogs had an average of 36 seconds, and the bottom ten had 83 seconds. So, concise seems to be the way to go.
(3) The number of people visiting a blog is, on average, 3.88 a day.
(4) The number of people re-visiting a blog before it's updated is about 3.5.
(5) Blogs with comments are revisited more often (presumably to check if their comment has been replied to).

Then, I wondered about usage by gender... and here's some of the remarkable points (some of these are facts, some our estimates) :
(1) A new blog by female is more likely to be revisited than that by a male.
(2) There are more male bloggers than female.
(3) Female blogs are visited more than male blogs.
(4) Female blogs get more comments than male blogs.
(5) Female blogs get longer view times.
(6) Male bloggers read more female blogs than male blogs.
(7) Female bloggers read more female blogs than male blogs.
(Friend comments "Maybe I should write under a female pen-name")
(8) Female blogs get more comments than male blogs.

Of course, a lot of these stats depend on how truthful people's statements of their gender was. Also, it would depend on how many males and females took these surveys (I could not find these numbers anywhere... for a while. After which, I gave up !)

Anyways... I thought it was quite interesting.

1 Comments:

Blogger Vaishnavi Tekumalla said...

That's extremely interesting! Everybody has *blog* fever!

2:25 AM  

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