The latest Akismet version 2.2.1 brings a cool new feature: stats! In the wordpress dashboard we have now some nice stats on Akismet activity (you can find it under the “Akismet Stats” tab in your admin dashboard). What’s cool is that they present the information from the past also. I can see all my data from the time I have started this blog - actually from the time I activated akismet). Nice… I can see now graphically and in text that my blog is averaging about 10,000 spam comments per month.

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“Akismet has caught 202,526 spam for you since you first installed it…”

Wow… I can’t imagine how my blog commenting would have looked without Akismet. This has saved me from a lot of troubles and as you can see it just went over 200k. It is just unbelievable to see how much commenting spam is going on and I can’t imagine anyone having their blog ‘open’ and manually verifying all the comments.

Akismet has it’s problems, and from time to time I see it timing out and spam going through, but since I don’t get 15,000 spams / day like the big boys, this is not a huge problem.

A few days ago Six Apart launched a new free open source product called TypePad AntiSpam. It’s free (Akismet costs for a commercial license), it has a plugin for WordPress 2.5, it’s open source, and it’s compatible with Akismet (so you can even run them together). I will definitely test this out and if all is ok, start using it on this blog.