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Grafana Labs
2.2× since 2022grafana.com · 1,995 posts · 1.9M words · Apr 2014 to Jul 2026
135 of 148 months in that span carried a post, 13 none. 17 loaded without countable prose.
Per 1k words, 2024–now
3.12
Per 1k words, 2018–2022
1.40
Em dashes counted
4,315
Posts with at least one
58%
Em dashes per post
Monthly3.88
12-month average3.68
Grafana Labs, 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 | 110 | 360 | 2.59 | 0.08 | 69% |
| 2025 | 249 | 1,008 | 3.53 | 0.09 | 88% |
| 2024 | 272 | 939 | 2.98 | 0.13 | 80% |
| 2023 | 289 | 790 | 2.55 | 0.15 | 77% |
| 2022 | 259 | 576 | 2.28 | 0.26 | 67% |
| 2021 | 253 | 379 | 1.92 | 0.10 | 59% |
| 2020 | 244 | 191 | 0.89 | 1.82 | 25% |
| 2019 | 181 | 39 | 0.28 | 2.12 | 6% |
| 2018 | 71 | 19 | 0.42 | 0.80 | 17% |
| 2017 | 36 | 12 | 0.71 | 0.89 | 31% |
| 2016 | 13 | 2 | 0.14 | 0.07 | 8% |
| 2015 | 10 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0% |
| 2014 | 8 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0% |