Just the other day, I noticed that my Akismet Spam filter for the blog had blocked it’s 10,000th Spam comment. That’s a lotta spam.
It’s amazing to me how much Internet bandwidth must be consumed by spam-bots posting to blogs and forums. The official Akismet website hosts a segment they call the Spam Zeitgeist. I’ve included a screenshot of the stats as they are at the time of this post. Currently 94% of all comments processed by Akismet-enabled blogs are spam. That’s just wrong.
Since the folks from Akismet started measuring the number of Spam their nifty little tool has caught back in March of 2006, it has eliminated over 2.03 Billion (yes, with a “B”) blog spam messages. That’s an average of over 135 Million every month!
Thank You Akismet for keeping us all safe!
Wow that is indeed a lot of spams. I guess that’s why a lot of comment systems have a word verification box.
Yea, I’ve considered adding a Captcha to the comments for the blog, but Akismet does such a good job of catching them that I’ve decided not to inconvenience the legitimate commenters… for now.