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January 2009 WordPress Statistics Now Available

Kyle Eslick — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:53:58 +0000

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.

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WordPress.com Releases October Statistics

Kyle Eslick — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:30:55 +0000

Somehow I missed this yesterday, so I’m making up for it now with this post. It looks like WordPress released their monthly wrap-up for October yesterday, complete with an announcement of their first billion-impression month! That is a hard number to wrap your head around if you really think about it, making it a great accomplishment.

Here are the October statistics for WordPress.com by Matt:

323,786 blogs were created.
343,832 new users joined.
4,085,148 file uploads.
1995.86 gigabytes of new files.
531 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters.
8,862,195 comments.
1,309,045 logins.
1,088,583,200 page views on WordPress.com, and another 738,282,634 on self-hosted blogs (1,826,865,834 total across all WordPress blogs we track).
1,418,933 active blogs and 16,599,550 active posts where “active” means they got a human visitor.
1,179,018,712 words.

Bonus statistic:

53,290 PollDaddy polls added this month — a 1250% increase from September!

It is good to see WordPress.com continue to grow and expand at such a rapid rate.

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WordPress News & Notes – September 11, 2008

Kyle Eslick — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:35:57 +0000

Here is another batch of fun and interesting WordPress-related posts that I thought many of you might enjoy:

10 Social WordPress Plugins – The WAHM Blog shares 10 different WordPress plugins that any social networking junkies may want to check out.
10 WordPress Statistics Tools – Mashable has collected a bunch of tools for collecting WordPress statistics.
The Ethics of Premium WordPress Themes and Open Source – This is an interesting post that examines the ethics of using open source code in your theme and then selling it as a premium WordPress theme.

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