In a recent announcement, Akismet has launched some pretty nice graphs for WordPress blogs. The graphs are just a part of the new statistics features that come with the release of Akismet 2.2. Since the release of 2.2, version 2.2.1 was released, which fixes a few bugs.

Akismet stats tracks the nature of your comments and breaks it down into spam, ham (legit comments), missed spam, false positives, and a spam-to-ham ratio pie chart called “yummy pie”. The other major feature of 2.2 is instant adaptation to the feedback you give Akismet. This means that if you mark a comment as spam, it’s filter will adapt to that message so it gets better over time. It’s already pretty dang good, blocking 99.4% of all spam comments to this blog.

The next thing I’d like to see Akismet put in is a chart with all the IPs that have spammed and how many spams they’ve left. After one IP reaches a certain threshold, I’ll ban them into oblivion with no remorse. Until then, I’ll just monitor it manually.

Update: I left out a few important details. I assumed that everyone knew they’d have to update their copy of Akismet on their blog to see these changes. The other detail is that the stats page is on the main dashboard under “Akismet Stats”.