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Interesting Akismet Stats

Since the late 2006 when I started moving to Akismet for some spam protection for this blog, it has already blocked around 930,000 spam comments. Automattic released the latest Akismet stats per blog which is accessible in the WP admin panel.

For this blog alone, Akismet had 936,274 spams caught with 31,680 legitimate comments. That’s and an overall accuracy rate of 99.862%. That’s a really good accuracy but even dealing with the remaining 0.138% of the spam has been already tedious. Had it not been with Akismet and other plugins like Spam Karma, blogs would suffer spam fatigue.

Akismet

If you look at the rate of spam attack, they range from about 1,000 to 3,000 a day.

Akismet

There’s also the problem with false-positives.

Akismet

Spammers always find ways to go around and circumvent the system. And since Akismet is a centralized system, the worst they could do is attack the “central nervous system” itself and the whole thing breaks down (hack, DDOS attacks, etc). I’m fairly certain there have been numerous attempts at this in the past.

There must be some way to decentralize this to avoid that possible catastrophe or every WordPress blog would go down in flames when that happens.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

4 Responses

  1. Avatar for kos3m kos3m says:

    good info….

  2. Avatar for Nick Nick says:

    Noticed it too after updating akismet. I could still see some get through though.

  3. Avatar for LiNTEK LiNTEK says:

    cool stats….

  4. Avatar for Payls Payls says:

    kahapon ko lang nakita ang Graph ng Akiset Spam..kakaiba din..at may 12000 spams na ako! ;)

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