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16 blogs, ordered by em dashes per 1,000 words since 2024.
Em dashes per post, 12-month trailing
6 of 16 shown
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| Blog | Per 1k words, 2024–now | 2018–2022 | Change | Posts with one | Posts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stripe | 4.81 | 3.87 | 1.2× | 92% | 215 / 210kw |
| Grafana Labs | 3.12 | 1.40 | 2.2× | 81% | 1,995 / 1.9Mw |
| Tailscale | 2.95 | 2.12 | 1.4× | 69% | 390 / 353kw |
| Netlify | 2.52 | 1.39 | 1.8× | 50% | 410 / 339kw |
| GitHub | 2.34 | 1.69 | 1.4× | 56% | 4,733 / 3.0Mw |
| Bun | 2.18 | 2.01 | — | 52% | 176 / 197kw |
| Sentry | 1.70 | 2.37 | 0.7× | 50% | 909 / 926kw |
| Docker | 1.56 | 1.88 | 0.8× | 39% | 930 / 808kw |
| Vercel | 1.55 | 1.81 | 0.9× | 35% | 460 / 405kw |
| Deno | 1.54 | 0.26 | 5.9× | 53% | 248 / 279kw |
| Neon | 1.50 | 0.33 | — | 42% | 465 / 506kw |
| Railway | 1.27 | 0.14 | — | 42% | 210 / 302kw |
| PlanetScale | 1.14 | 1.61 | 0.7× | 35% | 285 / 342kw |
| Fly.io | 0.94 | 1.01 | 0.9× | 44% | 410 / 507kw |
| Supabase | 0.72 | 0.50 | 1.5× | 18% | 412 / 350kw |
| JetBrains | 0.54 | 0.17 | 3.3× | 9% | 686 / 350kw |