In a previous post I discussed how Engadget appears to be getting more verbose with its posts, making it slower to skim through, and less effecient for obtaining useful information.
This was an observational hunch, until now…
Today, Yuvi has posted a detailed analysis of Engadget from the beginning of Engadget’s existance, and guess what I found…
That’s growing as well. The average number of words per post is now 160, up from just a 100 in May 2004. More words, more posts, more people, more news.
Could that be 60% more verbosity? Along with an increase of about 25% in the average number of posts per day, that’s twice as much information to read through from when they started, with 37.5%+ of post content being potentially redundant.
Bullet points!
Colinizer 
Fascinating! Thanks for sharing that graph. More words doesn’t necessarily mean more clutter though. Perhaps some of the increase is due to the fact that they are more connected and can find out more information about things than they used to? Not sure.