Spam Statistics
Some basic spam statistics
The graph below shows the quantity of spam (spams per day) received by a single user (with multiple email addresses) every month since January 1996. The lower line indicates the quantity of spam received at a single email address, giving a possible indicator of the growth of spam overall during the period (but see the notes for some caveats.
Spam volume day-by-day
See also:
- Detailed analysis (January 1996-August 1999)
- SpamCop statistics
- Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse statistics
The graph above was created using GnuPlot (with a little help from Perl, MySQL and ImageMagick).