For those interested in monitoring the progress of WordPress.com, Matt has posted the January statistics for WordPress.
Here are the statistics Matt has provided:
- 372,519 blogs were created.
- 393,836 new users joined.
- 4,592,097 file uploads.
- 2,710 gigabytes of new files.
- 553 terabytes of content transferred from our data centers.
- 8,771,891 comments.
- 6,528,657 logins.
- 1,073,421,738 pageviews on WordPress.com, and another 945,105,050 on self-hosted blogs (2,018,526,788 total across all WordPress blogs we track).
- 1,373,108 active blogs and 18,768,022 active posts where “active” means they got a human visitor.
- 1,295,531,829 words.
The progress is pretty amazing and is definitely well deserved.
Kyle Eslick
Kyle Eslick is the founder and primary author of WordPress Hacks. You can learn more about him at KyleEslick.com or you can follow his personal tweets here.
Thanks for releasing this version. 
As your site has a lot of widgets, so I think it will significantly reduce the server usage. 
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Thanks amazing stats…
The blogs mentioned above are created under wordpress.com or wordpress.org?
cool lots of stuff and nice stats
8.623 blogs are started a minute with wordpress… can you imagine how many are made with blogger? And 1 billion pv’s!? I mean good for them, thats amazing progress. Must cost a fortune to host it all though.
The statistics speak for themselves.
WordPress has amazed many users and will continue to be on top.
wow, a lot of visits! a question for you:
what you use for get your statistics?