| KEY | |
| Title | Average Unique Visits per Day |
| Expressways | more than 10,000 |
| Highways | 5,000 to 9,999 |
| City Streets | 1,000 to 4,999 |
| Country Lanes | 100 to 999 |
| Dirt Roads | 50 to 99 |
| Worn Paths | less than 50 |
| Since not all blogs use SiteMeter, not all blog were able to be used in tabulating traffic results | |
| How many days a week do you write something? | ||
| Ecosystem Ranking | Average response | |
| Expressways | 7 | |
| Highways | 5 | |
| City Streets | 7 | |
| Country Lanes | 7 | |
| Dirt Roads | 6 | |
| Worn Paths | 5 | |
| On the days you do write something on the average how many pieces do you publish? | ||
| Ecosystem Ranking | Average response | |
| Expressways | 7 | |
| Highways | 4 | |
| City Streets | 6 | |
| Country Lanes | 4 | |
| Dirt Roads | 3 | |
| Worn Paths | 3 | |
| Which of the following would you consider significant motivations for why you blog? | ||||||||
| Ecosystem Ranking | A. | B. | C. | D. | E. | F. | G. | |
| Expressways | 100% | 100% | 100% | |||||
| Highways | 66% | 66% | 33% | 33% | 33% | 33% | ||
| City Streets | 22% | 33% | 22% | 33% | 44% | |||
| Country Lanes | 15% | 41% | 68% | 47% | 33% | 42% | ||
| Dirt Roads | 4% | 50% | 68% | 40% | 31% | 31% | ||
| Worn Paths | 9% | 57% | 63% | 49% | 39% | 37% | ||
| A. to make money B. to improve my writing skills C. to vent my feelings D. to gain recognition E. to validate my ideas and opinions F. I don’t know, I just like it G. other |
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| How much time do you spend each day on your blog? | ||
| Ecosystem Ranking | Average response | |
| Expressways | more than four hours | |
| Highways | more than two hours but less than four hours | |
| City Streets | more than four hours | |
| Country Lanes | more than two hours but less than four hours | |
| Dirt Roads | more than two hours but less than four hours | |
| Worn Paths | more than two hours but less than four hours | |
| How much of that time do you spend researching? | ||
| Ecosystem Ranking | Average response | |
| Expressways | more than two hours but less than four hours | |
| Highways | more than an hour, but less than two hours | |
| City Streets | more than an hour, but less than two hours | |
| Country Lanes | more than an hour, but less than two hours | |
| Dirt Roads | more than an hour, but less than two hours | |
| Worn Paths | more than an hour, but less than two hours | |
| How much of that time do you spend writing? | ||
| Ecosystem Ranking | Average response | |
| Expressways | more than two hours but less than four hours | |
| Highways | more than an hour, but less than two hours | |
| City Streets | more than two hours but less than four hours | |