Cloud and infrastructure
DigitalOcean
2.3× since 2022www.digitalocean.com · 813 posts · 655k words · Jan 2012 to Sep 2026
168 of 177 months in that span carried a post, 9 none. 1 loaded without countable prose.
Per 1k words, 2024–now
1.87
Per 1k words, 2018–2022
0.82
Em dashes counted
898
Posts with at least one
36%
Em dashes per post
Monthly0.50
12-month average2.85
DigitalOcean, 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 | 80 | 289 | 2.43 | 0.76 | 61% |
| 2025 | 92 | 133 | 1.94 | 1.56 | 60% |
| 2024 | 98 | 91 | 1.04 | 0.06 | 41% |
| 2023 | 49 | 66 | 1.40 | 0.17 | 47% |
| 2022 | 85 | 74 | 1.10 | 0.28 | 38% |
| 2021 | 63 | 27 | 0.56 | 0.54 | 17% |
| 2020 | 50 | 5 | 0.14 | 2.67 | 6% |
| 2019 | 49 | 20 | 0.53 | 3.15 | 12% |
| 2018 | 62 | 67 | 1.34 | 0.16 | 44% |
| 2017 | 37 | 77 | 2.60 | 0.00 | 62% |
| 2016 | 18 | 14 | 1.37 | 0.39 | 22% |
| 2015 | 26 | 23 | 1.33 | 0.41 | 38% |
| 2014 | 47 | 0 | 0.00 | 3.56 | 0% |
| 2013 | 39 | 6 | 0.49 | 0.74 | 8% |
| 2012 | 18 | 6 | 1.31 | 0.65 | 17% |