Red Sports ranks in the top 8% in blogosphere (and other such self-congratulatory stats)

As a healthy sign that Red Sports is now entrenched in the blogosphere, typing in “Singapore sports news” in three well-known search engines – Yahoo!, Google, MSN – throws up Red Sports on the first page.

And, as we all know, showing up on Page 1 makes all the difference in the cyberworld instead of getting condemned into internet purgatory three or more pages down the line.

Red Sports is technically a blog and technorati.com gives us an authority rank of 134 (the number of blogs that linked to Red Sports in the last 6 months).

How does having an authority of 134 stack up?

According to Technorati, only 76,000 blogs in the world have an authority rank of 50 or higher, and they have indexed 133 million blogs in the world. So that puts Red Sports in the top 0.06% of the blogosphere.

Judged by the number of unique visitors a month, Red Sports is ranked in the top 18% of blogs. Judged by page views, Red Sports is ranked in the top 8% globally.

Red Sports wouldn’t be here without the volunteer folks who keep this place together. You’ve seen their names at the top of each post or at the end of each picture caption. So hats off to them for telling the Singapore sports story, the only website on earth dedicated to doing so in cyberspace.

Oh – and thanks for reading too. 😉

Statistics from Technorati.com:

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