July was an awesome month. We released our Open Source iPhone app and rolled out updates on WordPress.com in tandem with version 2.6 on WordPress.org. Here’s the stats rundown:
- 257,163 blogs were created.
- 271,427 new users joined.
- 3,110,479 file uploads
- About 1,381 gigabytes of new files.
- 395 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters.
- 6,245,424 comments.
- 4,868,359 logins.
- 812,287,538 pageviews on WordPress.com, and another 567,059,283 on self-hosted blogs (1,379,346,821 pageviews total across WordPress blogs we track).
- 1,102,039 active blogs and 13,216,843 active posts where “active” means they got a human visitor.
Other interesting stuff:
We signed on The Real Dan Lyons as a VIP blogger (though you may know him as the Fake Steve Jobs).
You added more tags and categories than ever before: more than 8 thousand tags and 19 thousand categories.
You made great use of our new caption feature: more than 75 thousand in its first month.
Writers for Maclean’s, Canada’s only national weekly current affairs magazine, now blog with WordPress VIP.
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Wow! Those numbers are scarry!
Sweet thanks for the update… 🙂
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Congratulations! Mine was one of the 257,163 blogs created…
Good work.
Wow.. what a stats! congrat’s … wordpress is the best! 😀
Cool!!!
congrats to wordpress
i’m in poll position
hoho. that’s awesome!
(^_^)v
go WP, go!
Ahhh yes July was an awesome month…
Wordpress Roar, cheers!
WooHoo!
Great guys!
You all make the entire WP community to stand out in any other blogging platform.
Keep growing…
Wow… 😯
The stats above are just for July, aren’t they… so I wonder, how many blogs hosted in WordPress from the very beginning ’till now… 😀 *a very big number, I guess*
Ahaha… 😀
Yes, I am really like that one.
Thank you 🙂
Thanks, Great Job!! NOW AD ADSENSE & ADBRITE FELLAS!!!. (*_*) ..have a great day!
Cool. Let’s hope for even more this month.
Awesome! 🙂
Another stellar month! Keep up the great work!
I’m really glad I made the decision to blog here! 🙂
Great 🙂
You go higher in Poland’s Alexa ranking…
Good info
Awesome!
Thanks for the update. Hopefully you can keep the system performance up while handling all this growth. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for wonderfull information.
I’m very happy with WordPress. Thank you all for everything you do. Our family has a great looking website thanks to WordPress.com (and some help from the Custom CSS forum).
You guys are the best!
Yes thank you for the info.
Awesome! I can’t believe there are that much blogs!
Those numbers are impressive. Just wow! Congrats guys!
Mind blowing july.
Good static and big world
Cool
wordpress has been an amazing blessing to our christian ministry. to see how many other people benefit from wordpress is outstanding…
YAY! I’m a NEW USER! Wait just a minute… there’s 271,427 of us out there? *Hmuff* I don’t feel so special after-all. 😦
Sweet!
Well done – mine was also one of the 257,163 blogs created and I’m having fun!
Yay, I helped increase some statistics! 😛
Good static and very small big world
Wow. That’s a lot of logins. I just use the remember feature. 😛
Just wow! I can’t believe there are that much blogs!
395 TERAbites? Ohmigosh–the mind can no longer comprehend that which the web hath wrought.
keep up the awesome job!
You mean someone actually visits this place 😉
Cool , im one of the newbies and mysite has just started getting some hits. Thanks wordpress for being an easy tool to share my ideas and meet new visitors
Wowwwwwwwwwwwwww
That iPhone app is important. I hope it will progress with some speed.
Thank you, wordpress, It’s mean a lot for me
whoa, what a number, i’m sure im one of that stats…
Wow you guys really are getting better and better. This was my first month (well, 2 weeks i guess and its really worked for me, ive gotten 1,500 hits already. Thanks a lot wordpress,
wordpress is so successful… i wish my blog was like that sometimes lol bu8t congrats on all the new members!
Thank you !!
Great Month!
Good stuff, thank you and keep up the good work!
Those numbers are so big! wow good job!
right on. jump in the fire!
Great! Getting better everytime.. Congrats!!!
Well done!
wow i really feel proud of using wordpress
congratulations
cricky!
**About 1,381 gigabytes of new files.
when will you be clearing out some of the old files to make room for all the new ones?!
do we need to be backing up our masterpieces?
**395 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters.
what’s a terabyte?
i know what a trillion is – 10 to the power of 12 – 12 zero,ooo,ooo,ooo,ooos
terabytes of what?!
mgs? kbs?
Yep! statistically informed
great, Keep it up, cheers for WordPress team
that’s great!
cool wordpress 🙂
New here in July. I am amazed at how many blogs there are. I love the things I can do here on WordPress. Thanks!
Wow!
o…wow …wow …
superb jobs.
thanks to share with us.
Those numbers are huge! Great Job!
wow, Sounds very big 🙂 – Great job !!
Love it Matt! Now being the green blog queen that I am, any plan to promote green-ness on WordPress? I just think you can’t push this stuff enough . . . (La Marguerite)
Thank you very much!!!
As the entire world (including my grandmother!) seems to have started a wordpress-blog by now, is it still cool to do so?
0.0 big number
^.^ active blogger
Great job, keep up the good work ! Add more widgets please !
Nice!
Wow….tera is really a big number..
when can we get wordpress for blackberry?
awesome site for bloggers! i’ve tried and tested blogspot, livejournal and wordpress all alike. and nothing comes close to the experience that i’ve had with wordpress. kudos! keep up the good work. proud to be part of the family 😉
You are guys are great! With numbers like that I don’t know anybody had time to get anything else done. I love WORDPRESS.COM.
WordPress gets better and better month by month! 😀
Fine statistics..Wordpress making waves.
Awesome!
Thanks for your great effort!
YES!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!
😛
WOAH! very much blog’s!
thanks guys
As a new blogger, I feel confident with those numbers that I made the right choice. Thanks for everything so far….
Good Job
that’s awesome, glad to see this blog getting more and more popular. me and my friend collaborated our blogs together so hopefully that brought more ppl to view
great information
cool
by the way thanks
I have been with WordPress for 2 months now and I am most impressed! More themes would be nice since I am too stupid to upload it. Good going people!
O yes and the customer support is awesome. Not once has a query of mine gone unanswered.
Thanks
Excellent vital stats! Way to go! WordPress is getting better by the day. I just love WordPress. Keep up the good work!
Yay!
AWESOME BLOSSOM!!!
I just wish for more theme customization for free users…
All my support to wordpress.com!!!
Ever since I have started using this blogging service, my blog has become very organised, tidy and sleek.
I love you!!!
I am one of the new users and new blogs.
Everything is getting better here. That cool
awesome!
WordPress is the best for blogs in my opinion Excellent stuff great to be with you guys and the numbers just show it your doing a brilliant Job
THANKS