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Cloudflare
1.3× since 2022blog.cloudflare.com · 3,537 posts · 4.8M words · Apr 2009 to Aug 2026
197 of 209 months in that span carried a post, 12 none. 26 loaded without countable prose.
Per 1k words, 2024–now
1.88
Per 1k words, 2018–2022
1.49
Em dashes counted
7,001
Posts with at least one
44%
Em dashes per post
Monthly3.94
12-month average4.41
Cloudflare, latest month in the corpusBy year
En dashes are counted alongside as a control: if em dashes climb while en dashes hold flat, that is a change in writing style rather than a change in typography.
| Year | Posts | Em dashes | Per 1k words | En per 1k | Share of posts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 177 | 820 | 2.53 | 0.36 | 78% |
| 2025 | 292 | 1,198 | 2.14 | 0.61 | 75% |
| 2024 | 258 | 573 | 1.16 | 0.66 | 56% |
| 2023 | 355 | 638 | 1.12 | 0.57 | 41% |
| 2022 | 438 | 845 | 1.42 | 0.78 | 50% |
| 2021 | 388 | 1,445 | 2.68 | 0.07 | 71% |
| 2020 | 286 | 475 | 1.14 | 0.20 | 35% |
| 2019 | 209 | 250 | 0.81 | 0.20 | 33% |
| 2018 | 249 | 147 | 0.53 | 0.19 | 21% |
| 2017 | 177 | 146 | 0.69 | 0.29 | 23% |
| 2016 | 120 | 165 | 1.45 | 0.19 | 31% |
| 2015 | 117 | 141 | 1.57 | 0.17 | 44% |
| 2014 | 98 | 79 | 0.96 | 0.02 | 32% |
| 2013 | 67 | 33 | 0.56 | 0.10 | 13% |
| 2012 | 155 | 40 | 0.46 | 0.03 | 12% |
| 2011 | 134 | 6 | 0.12 | 0.00 | 3% |
| 2010 | 15 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0% |
| 2009 | 2 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0% |