This month we grew not just in blogs and users, but in company size. As I mentioned in a previous post, the team from Intense Debate is now a part of Automattic. We’re also trucking along with Version 2.7, and listening to your input from the two design surveys opened up this month.
Here are the stats:
- 334,004 blogs were created.
- 335,693 new users joined.
- 3,753,063 file uploads.
- 1766.49 gigabytes of new files.
- 489 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters.
- 7,910,452 comments.
- 6,252,336 logins.
- 952,281,311 pageviews on WordPress.com, and another 694,985,128 on self-hosted blogs (1,647,266,439 total across all WordPress blogs we track — a jump of 191,084,227 views since last month).
- 1,317,190 active blogs and 15,433,379 active posts where “active” means they got a human visitor.
- 1,176,044,534 words.
Other interesting stuff:
We welcomed new WordPress VIPs, including The NFL.
Martha Stewart converted to WordPress and devoted an entire episode of The Martha Stewart Show to blogging.
The UK Royal Navy uses WordPress and is the first of the UK’s Armed Services to have a blog.
We had a record-breaking number of WordCamps this month, with fantastic turnouts:
- WordCamp Phillipines: 65 attendees in Davao; 400+ in Manila.
- WordCamp China: 400 attendees in Beijing; around 140 in Shanghai.
- WordCamp Tokyo: 100 attendees.
- WordCamp Portland: 150 attendees.
- WordCamp Utah: 140 attendees.
- WordCamp Vancouver: 80 attendees.
- WordCamp Birmingham: 80 attendees.
Phew!
Interesting. I worry about the site getting bogged own with so many users, and also about delays is response to problems. WP seems pretty big to me now. I’m not sure continued large-scale growth is always good.
Love me some WordPress … Well Done!
Congrats wordpress.
WordPress is not my first blog but from the day i made a blog on WP, I have never seen any of those. I found the best theme and never changed the theme too. Its so User friendly and the best place to put my expression for public view.
Its Great !!!
Anuj Shail gupt
Everyday is a best day, goodluck man !
congrats!
hi all how are you?
keep up the good work! so far so good!
My friend,
you are doing the great job for me. You push me up as a writter.
Thank you. God bless you and your helpers
Pradip Brahmbhatt
Houston.
OMG thats like awesome! Thanks to all of your hard work WP!!!
From day one I knew you’ll be the biggest and the best one around.
Good luck
I love wordpress. keep on rocken.
This is awsome news. Keep it up.
You guys rocks!!!
Keep Going……… 🙂
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Vikas Khera
http://vikaskhera.wordpress.com
keep growing
i love to see the success of wordpress. Keep up!
WP is number one 😉
WP rocks !!! Huge numbers… Keep Growing.
Wow, that is awesome!!!! That is neat.
Dave Barber
Not only are the wp numbers high but the content on users blogs too, that’s just crazy and leaves me with a lot of catching up to do, Thanks WP.
Congrats, WP!
you are all stupid if you don’t like wordpress!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So happy to hear that WP is doing so well!!!!!
I wanted to go to WordCamp Phil but my mom just wouldn’t allow me. XP But anyway this is great news! I just went over to themarthablog.com :))
sounds great 😀
WordPress is Great!!!
We are love blogging with wordpress, you’ve got it in the bag guys!
Word press is amazing. I love it. With WP my stories are now published
Thanks
keep doing great things!!!
I like it here!
Thanks for doing a great job!
Keep up with the good work. Congrats!
big numbers and that’s good… keep growing =)
sweet.
1,176,044,534 words. Woo!
good work wordpress
Thats GREAT………
Its always clear as no other blog sites are such a good than WordPress….. Keep it up 🙂
sweet, WordPress is awesome
Congrats!
Your formula is certainly working.
Hope in your later versions, you can help the less technically-inclined to make changes to the appearance of their blogs without too much coding.
Cheers from Singapore!
Complimenti! WordPress è veramente buono! Continuate così! Fernando
BRAVO>>>>GUY
Congratulations! I’m not so surprised about what wordpress can achieve! I am a big fan of yours! Keep going!
wow, nice info
Thanks for reliably hosting my blog for many months. I’m glad I switched to WordPress, now I don’t have to worry about keeping my own server and backups in shape. And it doesn’t even kost me money! You guys rock.
Keep up the good work!
very nice! Thanks for your work!
congrats =)
and i am one of those new users/blogs 😀 that makes me happy 😉
Thanks for everything you guys do! I made it on WordPress’ Top 100 Growing Blogs list on October 2, 2008 and I couldn’t have expanded so quickly without your wonderful features. You make blogging for idiots a reality. Thanks!
very goodd
Wow! Those are some big numbers. It is nice to know that WordPress is growing so fast. I joined WordPress a month a ago, and i am glad i did.
That’s an impressive number. Congratulations! All the best to you.
amazing!
Oh sure. Ignore Toronto.
woooow!
@gweedo: WordCamp Toronto was in October. Worry not, it’ll make it to the next wrap-up 🙂
Sounds totally cool — nice to see the wonderful community grow. 🙂
WordPress is the best blogging platform out there. Keep up the good work, guys.
Cheers!
Amazing.
Good news.
I wish all the best to wordpress.
Nice!! Keep you good work !!
I`m glad to hear this. Go on, go on! :->
WP rocks!
Awesome! I came over after AOL shut it’s blogs down. My whole “soap” contingent came with –hope it helped! LOL
I saw there was a “Wordcamp China,” and was wondering, what is wordpress’ position on censorship and freedom of speech in Communist countries?
We think that blogging enables free speech and we encourage free speech. However, we don’t have a specific political position on China and the restriction of political speech by governments. Our goal isn’t really to make those kind of judgement calls, but instead to give those with an opinion a place to voice it.
Keep up with good work;)
As one of the 335,693 new users in September, I have to say I like the WordPress interface a lot. It’s a bit sluggish at times, but still bearable.
How do those numbers stack up against other blogging sites, like blogspot? Where does WordPress stand in the grand scheme of things?
It is hard to compare apples and apples and the only real metric we can compare is traffic and third party traffic statistics aren’t always super reliable. We are a lot more transparent with our numbers than most. With that in mind, though, we feel pretty confident in saying that WordPress.com is definitely a major player in the blogging arena and that WordPress.org is a leader in the self-hosted blogging arena.
Kudos!!!!!!
it is a wonderful podium…..to speak your mind n heart out…