Spam Statistics
Spam Received Statistics
Most people talk of the percentage that spam makes up of all email sent, which is a useful rough measure of the global impact of spam. The actual percentage in any inbox will of course vary hugely, depending on the average rate at which people receive other email.
Better spam statistics
A better measure to gauge the impact on your own inbox might be the average rate at which spam is received by an average email account, since this is independent of the expected normal email load. A measure that avoids masking huge rises in spam would be the ratio of spam to normal email, since this will rise linearly with spam volume rather than tending to 100% as current spam measures do.
Spam Volume Redux - www.circleid.com/posts/spam_volume_redux/
More than 99% of Email is Spam? - www.circleid.com/posts/misleading_spam_data/
Big Company Statistics
Percentage of Email that is Spam
Postini Email Stat Track - www.postini.com/stats/
Messagelabs Spam Statistics - www.messagelabs.com/StatisticsThreat/StatisticsThreatType=Spam
Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse Graphs - www.dcc-servers.net/dcc/graphs/
Proofpoint Spam Detection - www.proofpoint.com/products/livespamstats.php
Statistics on spam trends - www.spamcop.net/spamstats.shtml
Ipswitch Warns that Spam Continues to Rise - www.ipswitch.com/company/press_releases/060831_spamometer.asp
Spamfighter stats graph - www.spamfighter.com/i_scripts/LastXDaysRatio.aspx
Worldwide Email Threat Activity - www.barracudacentral.org/index.cgi?p=spam
Spam-o-meter - www.junk-o-meter.com/stats/index.php
Other Spam Statistics
SpamFilterReview Spam Statistics - spam-filter-review.toptenreviews.com/spam-statistics.html
SenderBase - www.senderbase.org/ - all email, not just spam
CommTouch Spam Statistics - www.commtouch.com/Site/Resources/statistics.asp
Akismet Blog Spam Stats - akismet.com/stats/
AppRiver Stats - www.appriver.com/stats/stats_blocked_mail_daily.asp
Marshal spam statistics - www.marshal8e6.com/TRACE/spam_statistics.asp
Worldwide Email Threat Activity - www.barracudacentral.org/index.cgi?p=spam
Email Stat Center - www.emailstatcenter.com/
Google Spam data and trends: Q1 2009 - googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2009/03/spam-data-and-trends-q1-2009.html
Websense Security Labs Report — State of Internet Security, Q3-Q4 2009 - community.websense.com/blogs/websense-features/archive/2010/02/01/websense-security-labs-report-state-of-internet-security-q3-q4-2009.aspx
Infographic of the Day: The Spam Industry (New Scientist) - www.fastcompany.com/1595958/infographic-of-the-day-the-spam-industry
Individual Spam Statistics
Statistics from an individual or a single company.
Total UBE Rate for a dormant AOL account - www.tesp.com/ubetotalrate.htm
Total UBE Rate at TESP - www.tesp.com/tespUBErate.htm
xisl “the fight against spam” - www.xisl.com/spamfight.html
Sequoia Consulting Spamtrack - www.sagarmatha.com/
BenJammin Spam Statistics - www.benjammin.net/www/pages/spam/reports/Spam-Current.html
XMission spam blocked statistics - stats.xmission.com/spam/
e-scribe spam stats - e-scribe.com/antispam/?yesterday
ajackson.org spam stats - www.ajackson.org/Spamstats/
Spam statistics for utx@penguin.cz - www.penguin.cz/~utx/spam_statistics
Spam/virus stats - chris-linfoot.net/linfoot/blogsphe.nsf/BlogByCategory?OpenView&RestrictToCategory=SpamStatistics
SoftScan statistics - www.softscan.dk/composite-124.htm
Spam Wars Stats - spamwars.com/stats.html
Spin Statistics Server - spamecola.spin.it/index_en.html
Spam: As Seen From Sverre's Computer - shh.thathost.com/spam.html
Spam caught by SpamAssassin and Procmail - selenium.dowco.com/spam/spam.html
Mailscanner Spamratio - www.google.com/search?q=inurl:"spamratio+spamratio"
SpamAssassin Statistics for mailservices - mailservices.uwaterloo.ca/mrtg/spam/total_spam.html
Tliquest.net — spam statistics - www.tliquest.net/spam/stats/
Spam statistics for my mail - www.df.lth.se/~triad/spamstats.php
Integration Works stats - www.integrationworks.com/frontend/dispseccont.aspx?type=section§ion_id=60&auth_require=N
Faber Spam Statistics - www.isi.edu/~faber/spam/
PerfectMail stats - perfectmail.aei.on.ca/
Weekly spam summary - utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/?search=SpamSummary
University of Cambridge Computing Service email statistics - canvas.csi.cam.ac.uk/stats/ppsw/
Spam received at William Stearns' spamtraps - www.stearns.org/spamattach/spamreport.html
Spam Statistics for Bob Jonkman's mailbox - sobac.com/sobac/spam/
The Spam Register statistics - www.spamreg.com/statistics.php
Graphs of spam for Today - www.enc.com.au/spamgraph/
Spam Graphs - www.solipsys.co.uk/new/SpamGraphs.html
Spam Visualization - www.spamvisualization.net/
Historic Spam Statistics
Historic statistics from an individual or a single company.
Spam Fryer Long Term Statistics - geocities.com/SiliconValley/Foothills/5718/
Raingod Spam Statistics - www.spamnation.info/stats/
Raingod Detailed Spam Statistics - www.spamnation.info/stats/old/
Paul Wouters Spam Statistics - www.xtdnet.nl/paul/spam/all/
Bloodgate.com – spam statistics - bloodgate.com/spams/
halverson.org – spam statistics - www.halverson.org/spam/
The Weekly Spam Report - www.netwhatever.com/SpamReport/
Spam hits per day - www.megapathdsl.net/~hmurray/spam/spam-hist.gif
Spam Graph - www.timestretch.com/site/spam_graph/
Xensei SelectMail Service - www.xensei.com/support/selectmail.html
Spam graphs - andrew.triumf.ca/spam/graphs.html
nick-andrew.net stats - www.nick-andrew.net/Spam/
The Rise of Spam - stilgherrian.com/spam/
Cockeyed Stats - www.cockeyed.com/citizen/spam/spam_summary.html
Spam wonderful spam - ex-parrot.com/~chris/wwwitter/20040712-spam_wonderful_spam_again.html
Wildcat! SMTP Statistics & Anti-Spam Analysis - www.winserver.com/public/antispam/default.wct
Ralf Hildebrandt Spam Stats - www.arschkrebs.de/postfix/enterprise_spam_tagging.shtml
Spam Volume Statistics - www.caube.org.au/spamstats.html
Spam Statistics for jamyles@mtu.edu - www.ice.mtu.edu/~jamyles/spam/
Dom Spam statistics - people.w3.org/~dom/archives/2004/07/spam-statistics/
SPAM STATISTICS: TREND 2004 – 2005 - www.captain.at/review-spam-statistics.php
Spam Source Statistics
Spam Origination Statistics - www.spamhaus.org/statistics.lasso
BlockAlert - www.blockalert.com/ - spamvertised websites listed by IP block
Top 10 Black Hat ISPs - www.polarbeach.com/topics/topten.htm
Sophos “Dirty Dozen” - www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2004/02/sa_dirtydozen.html
NIC BR Security Office Brazilian Spam Sources - www.cert.br/stats/spam/
SPAM ISP Hall of Shame - www.frws.com/spam-hallofshame.html
Chinanet Spam - www.chinanetspam.com/
Spam Country of Origin - www.tqmcube.com/origins.php
TrustedSource by CipherTrust - www.trustedsource.org/
Spammer Botnets - www.revbeergoggles.com/spammers/botnets/
Everyone's Internet special spam policy - gandhi.greens.org/spam/ev1.html
XE-Filter: Spam Origin Study - www.cmsconnect.com/XEFPro/Lib/XEFSpamPercent.htm
Spam & BMS Statistics - www.linuxmagic.com/products/bms/statistics
Fast-flux spam statistics - dnsbl.abuse.ch/fast-flux/stats.php
Spammap - amegan.com/spammap/
This is where spam comes from - www.x-pose.org/spam.php
Think China is the top spamming country? Think again. - blogs.msdn.com/tzink/archive/2009/07/16/think-china-is-the-top-spamming-country-think-again.aspx
Virbl stats - virbl.bit.nl/stats/
Blacklist Statistics
DNSBL Statistics - stats.dnsbl.com/
DNS blacklist statistics - www.vamsoft.com/stats.asp
EasyStreet Mail Server Statistics - support.easystreet.com/spam/stats.html
Email & Spam Traffic - status.hiwaay.net/spam.html
Spam/Virus reject statistics for mail.raunvis.hi.is - www.raunvis.hi.is/spamcount.html
Rejected email messages - www.kom.com/spam/spam_log.shtml
Spam Statistics – DNSBL Hits - www.spamcannibal.org/dnsbl_stats.shtml
Mail Rejection Summary - geekbiker.net/cgi-bin/rejectstats.pl?days=30
Cumulative Mail Stats for ePaxsys Mail Servers - www.frws.com/workstats.html
Antispam and Blackholes - antispam.rothen.com/?Statistics
WPBL Analysis - wpbl.pc9.org/analysis.txt
Spamtest Quality - www2.spamchk.com/public.html
SpamCannibal Tarpit Stats - www.spamcannibal.org/spam_report.cgi, west.spamcannibal.org/spam_report.cgi
dnsbl.njabl.org zone stats - www.njabl.org/stats
An Empirical Study of Spam Traffic and the Use of DNS Black Lists - www.imconf.net/imc-2004/papers/p370-jung.pdf
Quantitative Evaluation of DNSBLs - www.nber.org/sys-admin/dnsbl-comparison.html
DroneBL statistical overview - dronebl.org/breakdown
Intra2Net Blacklist Monitor — accuracy and failure rates - www.intra2net.com/en/support/antispam/
Open Relay Statistics
Allowing Relaying in SMTP: A Series of Surveys - www.imc.org/ube-relay.html
Pentagon Email Relays in SMTP Census - www.angelfire.com/space/netcensus/smtp.html
Relaytest Stats - relaytest.kundenserver.de/stats.php
Open Proxy Statistics
Blitzed Open Proxy Monitor (BOPM) Stats - blitzed.org/stats/grapher.phtml?target=opm&range=dwmy
Statistics Scripts
spamrep - www.postconf.com/docs/spamrep/spamrep_today_byuser, www.postconf.com/docs/spamrep/spamrep_today
Postfix mailstats plotting with MRTG - taz.net.au/postfix/mrtg/
Mailgraph – Postfix statistics - mailgraph.schweikert.ch/
Postfix Log Entry Summarizer - jimsun.linxnet.com/postfix_contrib.html
LogReport and Lire - www.logreport.org/
Logrep - sourceforge.net/projects/logrep
Isoqlog - www.enderunix.org/isoqlog/
Mail-Graph - search.cpan.org/dist/Mail-Graph/
Histospam - scott.wiersdorf.org/blog/spam/util/histospam.html
Mailscanner-MRTG - mailscannermrtg.sourceforge.net/
SpamAssassin Choose Your Rules - wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/ChooseYourRules
RRDTool - oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/
Sawmill - www.sawmill.net/
MRTG-spamscorer - vvv.csma.biz/apps/mrtg-spamscorer.shtml
Spamstats - software.inl.fr/trac/wiki/EdenMail/SpamStats
Clapf statistics - clapf.acts.hu/stats.php
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