{"id":2231,"date":"2007-04-06T11:37:29","date_gmt":"2007-04-06T06:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/04\/japanese-not-english-is-most-common-blogging-language\/"},"modified":"2020-05-24T09:53:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T04:23:18","slug":"japanese-not-english-is-most-common-blogging-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/04\/japanese-not-english-is-most-common-blogging-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese (Not English) is Most Common Blogging Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You thought most blogs in the world wide web were in the English language? Actually you are wrong as <strong>Japanese is the top blogging language<\/strong> and English comes a close second in rank. The State of the Live Web, April 2007 is released and its time to dig into the data!<\/p>\n<p>Here are some language related findings from  the report.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Japanese retakes the top spot from the last report, with 37% (up from 33%) of the posts followed closely by English at 36% (down from 39%).<\/li>\n<li>There was movement in the middle of the top 10 languages, highlighted by Italian overtaking Spanish for the number four spot.<\/li>\n<li>The newcomer to the top 10 languages is Farsi, just joining the list at #10.<\/li>\n<li>Both English and Spanish are more global languages based on consistency of posting through a 24 hour period, whereas other top languages, specifically Japanese, Chinese, and Italian, are more geographically correlated.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Japanese the #1 blogging language at 37%, English second at 33%, Chinese third at 8%, Italian fourth at 3%<\/strong>, Farsi a newcomer in the top 10 at 1%<\/li>\n<li>English the most even in postings around-the-clock<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thus, it makes sense to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/02\/global-translator-wordpress-plugin-for-multilingual-blogging\/\">translate your blog<\/a> into multiple languages. Though I have been unable to fix the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/03\/google-403-errors-with-wordpress-translation-plugins\/\">Google 403 errors<\/a> associated with WordPress translation plugins, the option of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/03\/human-translators-superior-to-automatic-blog-translations\/\">Human Translators<\/a> seems superior to automatic blog translation tools now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You thought most blogs in the world wide web were in the English language? Actually you are wrong as Japanese&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-2231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}