We kicked off the new year in style with a new theme and the launch of WordPressTV. (More themes on the way.) We also broke the two-billion mark for combined pageviews across all WordPress blogs we track. I’d say that’s a pretty great way to begin 2009. Here’s to more fun and surprises this year.
Here are the stats for January:
- 372,519 blogs were created.
- 393,836 new users joined.
- 4,592,097 file uploads.
- 2,710 gigabytes of new files.
- 808 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters. [corrected]
- 8,771,891 comments.
- 6,528,657 logins.
- 1,073,421,738 pageviews on WordPress.com, and another 945,105,050 on self-hosted blogs (2,018,526,788 total across all WordPress blogs we track).
- 1,373,108 active blogs and 18,768,022 active posts where “active” means they got a human visitor.
- 1,295,531,829 words.
Other cool stuff:
7,111 blogs were imported to WordPress.com from Livejournal. (We have some new LJ import stuff coming soon.)
January WordCamps: WordCamp Las Vegas, WordCamp Indonesia, and WordCamp Whistler.
The People’s Choice Awards selected WordPress.com VIP to power their Live Blog, and our VIP expert Raanan got to attend the awards show.
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By Mat. A very good one my blog opened again for thank you very much for you.
Wordpress.com family of a very to better the places will come , Meanwhile an impressive statistics 😉
realy we love wordpress its very nice
Don’t you just love it? We love it, too! Another stat that would be worth mentioning is how many times the Support Team has provided support — because it has been great to lean on and learn from your expertise. Thank you very much!
Amazing!! Soo much stats!
Awesome!!!
Can we have the stats compared with world population
Sure! The number of new users that joined WordPress.com in January represents something like .00005% of the world’s population (6,706,993,152 people!), as estimated last July. The total number of new users that joined in all of 2008 comprised about 0.0005% of the world’s population as estimated last July.
greetings to all the wold press members and also whole organizing commety.
Keep up! wordpress!
Great! Hope to hit 2mil active blogs soon. Looking forward to more articles submitted ya. ^_^
Wow… it just keeps getting better!!
wow.
that is really good
Great news, but please make wordpress free blogs much more customizable. Please allow changing backgrounds, characters, ecc…
Thank you
WordPress is certainly flying!
Stats for quality, that is.
There are some sites that boast of stats, but mind you, they’re just quantity.
Ask me.
Nice. Impressive stuff to say the least.
Very good everyone! Very good!
Just amazing – wow 😀
new to this blog thing
Great Stats! Loving wordpress so much fun! Thanks. Keep up the good work.
WP is so much better than blogg.no ^^
good wordpress every month wordpress are growing!!!!
Fun information.
Now if you could just publish ideas for us on how to get new readers…..
Thanks WordPress!
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Not suprise! I’m hearing all the time ‘WORDPRESS’
Mind boggling and impressive
I love this wordpress platform.
Me too, will wait for the next Manila Wordcamp.
very cool
Great work guys. I’m loving wordpress and the fact I’m hosting my site with you guys. keep up the awesome work. 🙂
Thats really cool, i started my blog in January to.
WOW!! congratulation for the numbers of blog created 😉
Incredible! Very impressive.
Guess I’m still having my luck around, Vietnam has done nothing with wordpress. I hope it will not go the chinese way.
interesting.. just new to wordpress and still learning…pretty confusing at first but cool 🙂
Interesting. Those are a lot of big numbers.
Awesome stats and great done done! Don’t stop working hard on improvements in 2009 =)
Cool!
Wow, awesome
very good Matt
CONGRULATIONS
I’m one of the January sign ups. Awesome stats! I couldn’t be happier!
Wooww….1,373,108 active blogs and 18,768,022 active posts where “active” means they got a human visitor. !!!
Congratulations!!!
Impressive.
Let’s try doubling that number! 😀
Thanks to wordpress.com. With you I can communicate my idea to others. But my blog is not in English. It is in my own language that is Bahasa Melayu, the national language of Malaysian.
The amazing statistic.
Kudos! holy bell! 553 terabytes! that alot!!!! 1 terabyte is 1,024 gigs, 553×1024=566,272 gigs!!!! good luck in deh future!!!
just say thank’s to WordPress
Sweet stats!
Keep It Real
~Sssaam~
wordpress is the best press !!!
Marveoulus for WP, success …
Amazing stats 🙂
Depending on one’s perspective, it, the stuff you have presented, could be perceived as scary, intimidating or amazing.
But I have to say, that amongst all other things, that it has the potential to be, it sure is interesting as well.
It’s really great!
Thanks for all of this.
Fantastic
Nice WordPress, those are some big numbers!
I’m so happy to be a part of such a wonderful blog site. WordPress is a powerful communication tool!
By Paul. Hey, WordPress friends and people, how’s life ? Anyway, making way through to a more serios question, I ask WordPress managers(admins): When are u going to fix WordPress’s real problem ?
Hi there. What problem are you referring to?
“…where “active” means they got a human visitor.”
heh, made me smile a little
Congrats on breaking the the two-billion mark and will await for the surprises *.*
Saw a nice blog from my friend and found WORDPRESS.
Great work here !!
When will the new themes come out? 🙂
They’re on the way! 😀
I’m happy to be here :))) thank you!
Can you give us an idea as to when new templates are coming? I’m thinking of moving to outside hosting soon and would prefer to stay on .com.
We can’t provide any specific dates, but new themes are on the way!
Wow those are some nice stats! I’m glad I joined!
Wish I could post embedded videos from any site that offers them. Sigh.
Would be nice to be able to modify our themes at least a little. Sigh.
1) You can use VodPod to embed videos from virtually any site. Check out this page for further details and directions. 2) You can modify your themes by purchasing the CSS Upgrade.
Glad to be aboard. Very cool..
its nice too…………
These two quotes caught my attention:
(1) “More themes on the way. ” – Yay!
(2) Here’s to more fun and surprises this year. – I’m looking forward to these. 🙂
Thanks for the wrap up a promises of great stuff yet to come.
Yeah, i’m a new member here too!
I love wordpress’ features!
More Spectacular on Future
nice blog;)
Now we just need some more freedom to code.
hi…………………Thank you…………..Thank you!!!
That is great!
Impressive stats!
What can I say, WordPress RLZ!!