Techcrunch titles are getting longer, but I don't know if that trend stretches out to the web at large.

So I did a quick survey of my blog ( http://www.puremango.co.uk ) which has been running for 6 years.

Here is a graph of the results: http://i.imgur.com/l2iKC.png

There's a slight upward trend, but I'm certainly not seeing as direct a correlation as there is on techcrunch (but then they have more data)

So perhaps this is the result of a particular editorial style rather than a wider trend. Worth investigating though.

If you have a wordpress blog, here's the SQL I used:

    SELECT post_title, post_date
    FROM `wp_PREFIX_HERE_posts`
    WHERE post_type = "post"
    ORDER BY post_date ASC

Then I just took it into excel with the following formula to count words:

    =LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1;" ";""))+1