Stats-updated
This is a collection of stats from around WordPress that we’ve decided to share with the world because there’s no good reason not to.
There are currently about 9.8 million WordPress publishers: 4.2 million blogs hosted on WordPress.com plus 5.6 million active installations of the WordPress.org software.
Please note that he numbers quoted below are for WordPress.com hosted blogs only – they do not count self-hosted WordPress.org blogs (because we can measure WordPress.com blogs using our own stats system, whereas self-hosted WordPress installations use a variety of their own systems to track their stats).
How many people publish blogs on WordPress.com?
Here’s a chart of total WordPress.com blogs since our launch in late 2005:
We also have more detail on daily new blogs, users, and deletions.
How many people read blogs on WordPress.com?
WordPress blogs are very popular. In September 2008, an impressive 235 million people visited one or more WordPress.com blogs, and they viewed close to a billion pages on those blogs:
WordPress.com monthly unique visitors:
WordPress.com monthly pageviews:
And here is some more detail on recent daily pageviews.
Where in the world is WordPress.com used?
We host WordPress blogs written in over 120 languages. Below is a break down of the top 20 – even though English is the biggest, we’re seeing some of the fastest growth in non-English speaking places (Indonesia, Germany, France, Turkey, etc):
English: 69%
Spanish: 10%
Portuguese: 6.6%
Italian: 2.4%
Turkish: 1.5%
German: 1.4%
Indonesian: 1.4%
French:1.2%
Polish: 1.1%
Swedish: 0.9%
Farsi: 0.8%
Romanian: 0.8%
Dutch: 0.5%
Vietnamese: 0.5%
Polish: 0.4%
Greek: 0.4%
Arabic: 0.3%
Finnish: 0.2%
Norwegian: 0.2%
Thai: 0.1%
How many blog posts are published on WordPress.com?
Last month, WordPress.com users published an average of 140,000 new posts every day. Here’s a look at the growth of total posts published on WordPress.com:
Here’s a whole page of daily posting stats if you’d like to dive deeper into posts, pages, comments, etc published every day.
What are some of the best known WordPress sites (both WordPress.com and WordPress.org based)?
From TechCrunch to The New York Times, and from the British Prime Minister to Curt Shilling, WordPress users span a broad range. Many of the Technorati Top 100 blogs use WordPress (as a matter of fact, WordPress is the most used platform among the T100). We showcase some leading WordPress sites here and here. And here are the top WordPress.com blogs of the moment.
What topics do people write about on WordPress.com?
All of them! Check out our tags to get a glimpse (other languages: Spanish, Indonesian, French, German, etc).
How does WordPress compare to other publishing platforms?
It’s a somewhat subjective call, but we like this Google Trends chart comparing the leading blogging platforms.
Will WordPress continue to grow?
Blogging is (still) growing both in the US and especially internationally. Tens of thousands of new WordPress blogs are created every day – by regular bloggers, companies, large media publishers, and many others. In addition, we seeing the beginnings of a promising trend that’s potentially even bigger than blogging: Publishers are starting to use WordPress as a platform to create all kinds of sites beyond blogs – large and small company sites, online magazines, social networks, travel sites, scrapbooking sites, contact managers, startups, multimedia archives, video sites, sports sites, etc.
What’s the difference between WordPress.org and WordPress.com?
WordPress.com is a service that hosts WordPress blogs. WordPress.org is a community where people work on the open source WordPress software, and where that software can be downloaded to be run on your own web server.
Do you have more public stats?
Why yes. Here’s info on embeds (posts that contain Flickr, Youtube, Photobucket and Google Video) and some miscellaneous stats (support requests, theme switches, new avatars).
