fun with numbers

Tuesday, July 06, 2004, at 12:30PM

By Eric Richardson

Just for fun I grabbed the html from LA Blogs, stripped it down to just the blogroll, and then ran some stats. It had seemed to me that there were a lot of blogspot users. I particularly notice them because blogspot likes to do weird things to my browser (not load the site for a couple tries, etc). So I wrote some quick perl to parse through the roll and what do I find? Of 641 blogs, here's the major hosting provider breakdown (as counted by comparing domain names):

155 blogspot.com
22  typepad.com
12  livejournal.com
10  xanga.com
8   diaryland.com

That's a pretty high percentage. Of course if a site is using a provider but doing it through a vanity domain name, that won't count here so the numbers could be different in reality. Still, just an interesting first glance. If anyone wants to play on their own, I've put the Perl up as host_stats.