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Akismet blog antispam stats

Submitted by Kai on Tue, 2007-10-16 15:00.

A while back, I needed an antispam tool for my blog comments. I decided to go with Akismet.

A few months down the line, my antispam solution have caught over 2 500 spams. 2 500 spam comments on my blog alone. I think that is a wast number - and can only assume what more popular blogs must handle.

According to Akismet, their service has caught more than 3 billion (as in 3,043,731,975) spam messages since they started. Their complete stats are available.

Thanks to Akismet, I am able to concentrate on doing the writing, and leaving the comments almost to itself. (So far, I have decided to approve all comments - I am now testing full automatic. You will soon discover if it works or not!)

Kai's blog

impressive

Submitted by Kai on Tue, 2007-10-16 22:40.

is the word I have. I am not using Wordpress, but Akismet works great with my server too.

Aksimet

Submitted by Larko (not verified) on Tue, 2007-10-16 21:43.

I have many of my blogs hosted by Wordpress.com which has Akismet as a standard tool. In my English blog alone Akismet has caught 93.500 spam comments since January 2006. The error rate (i.e blocking a legitimate comment or letting spam through) is amazingly low and Akismet tends to learn from its own mistakes.