As you might have already read, this past Saturday at WordCamp San Francisco Matt Mullenweg gave his annual “State of the Word” address, which is a much anticipated (at least by me) speech he has started giving yearly to cover the state of WordPress.

According to Matt, WordPress is has continued to show steady growth.    Here are the statistics he gave for WordPress.com:

  • Page views grew from 1.5 billion to 6.5 billion/month
  • 1/3 of the page views come from VIPs like CNN and LOLCats
  • 120-160 million global unique visitors per month
  • Two million new blogs created for the year
  • 35 million new blog posts (up from 20 million)

As for WordPress.org users (which makes up most of this sites readers), it looks like there are 2.6 million active user-installed WordPress blogs.  These stats are based off of real data, so they should be pretty accurate.

Matt also commented on the future of WordPress, and their focus on building WordPress into a self-updating system.   This new process will be a one-click upgrade and will generate a list of incompatible WordPress plugins or WordPress themes (which will be made possible via the WordPress theme directory and plugin directory) and make upgrading a snap.

Overall, I’m very excited about the future of WordPress and think they are taking the right steps to continue growing and improving the software.  I think as long as they continue to integrate more of the most popular plugins into the core installation and add additional CMS functionality, Wordpress will continue to grow in popularity.

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There Are 12 Responses So Far. »

  1. 1 dinu
    Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 at 6:14 am

    Oh !! awesome stats !! is Wordpress making money ? any stats about it ?

  2. 2 toyota
    Friday, August 22nd, 2008 at 8:27 am

    Good news. Wordpress rules

  3. 3 Serg
    Monday, August 25th, 2008 at 3:08 am

    Lets just hope it continues growing and growing further :)

  4. 4 Frank Gil
    Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 at 12:52 am

    Thats really good news, thanks for sharing!

  5. 5 max
    Friday, September 5th, 2008 at 5:59 am

    long live Wordpress!!

  6. 6 sunarso
    Saturday, September 6th, 2008 at 3:13 am

    1) I was not “THE” man behind the event last year. but one of the team of three (also consisting of Ehud Keynan and Hanit Cohen). and with us where some many more good people, each pitching in a bit.
    2) WordCamp Israel will be attempted to be on 2008(!) More on that in the next week and some.

  7. 7 Jam
    Sunday, September 21st, 2008 at 5:08 pm

    Wery good news, Thanks



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