Signups
Number of blogs created per day.
New users per day. This varies from blogs because people might register just to comment or view a private blog, or get an Akismet API key. (That’s why we track it separately.)
We try to make it as easy to delete a blog as possible, as we try to discourage dead or zombie blogs, here’s how many per day do that:
We gather a little bit of data when people delete a blog, about half the time it’s because they’re switching to a different URL on WordPress.com. Another quarter it’s because they’re switching to self-hosted WordPress, and the final quarter is people who are either not using their blog, decide to stop blogging for a variety of reasons, or they wanted features that aren’t available here.
Think we should be tracking something else, or curious about more stats? Let us know in our blog.
