Two Billion
9 am, July 11th, 2007
Spam is growing.
From 0 to 1,000,000: 70 days
From 1,000,000 to 100,000,000: 190 days
100,000,000 to 1,000,000,000: 257 days
1 billion to 2 billion: 108 days
It’s funny how fast that last billion went. To celebrate we made a new chart showing total spam blocked over time.
July 11th, 2007 at 10:39 am
omg! that is insane and cool! serious thanks to the team for such an easy to use and very useful plugin to my WP powered website.
July 11th, 2007 at 11:15 am
108 Days…its depressing
July 11th, 2007 at 11:42 am
It’s weird how spam grows along with ham or vice versa.
July 11th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
I think it would be a lot more useful to see how many spam per site Akismet is catching. It’s obvious that Akismet would be catching more spam as time goes on because more sites are using it.
July 11th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
Very interesting data… I think the most curious thing about this graph is the sharp sudden (and sustained) increase in ham or legitimate comments in May 2007. What do you think was the cause of this increase? Was there really an increase in ham, or were you able to fine-tune the Akismet service to reduce your false positives around this time?
July 11th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
John, a major site started running a type of content through it that wasn’t comments, it’s 95% legit rather than the other way around, so the ham spiked because of that.
July 11th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
Congratulations to everyone who made this possible!
July 11th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
that’s so cool.
Congrats.
July 11th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
I guess the real question is “how long until 10 billion”? From the looks of it, that mark might even be reached by the end of the year.
Just out of curiosity, what sparked the large spike in “ham” around middle of 2007-05?
July 11th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
Wow! You guys really have done the community a massive service. Thank you so much for that. We all appreciate Akismet.
July 11th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
That graph shows some interesting features. There’s a jump of several hundred thousand spam messages in mid-May, and also some intriguing periodicity. Have you run it through a Fourier transform?
Also, I’d be curious to see what the ratio of spams caught over Akismet installations looks like as a function of time.
July 12th, 2007 at 7:01 am
I concur with Nick (comment 7). The charts are hard to make nay sense of, when the growth in sites using Askimet is not also shown. clearly if Askimet is downloaded by more and more people, you will get an evermore increasing spam/ham curve.
July 12th, 2007 at 11:43 am
right, i always feel secured with akismet, thanks to it
August 23rd, 2007 at 9:12 pm
I like the idea of “ham.” Thanks for the concept!
September 7th, 2007 at 10:36 pm
Thanks you very much for Akismet , the plugin is very good
September 8th, 2007 at 11:46 pm
thanx to akismet, my blog is spam free. without akismet, it would be hard to control spam comments myself, thanx akismet!!!
September 17th, 2007 at 4:32 am
If it was not for Akismet, I would have given up writing my blog months ago. I know that Steve Rubel has changed platform just so he could use Akismet. Must be nice going to work at a place like yours.
Congratulations on a great plugin and thanks again.
David