March Wrap-up
It’s that time again! Sorry we skipped the wrap-up in Feburary, but it was a short month and we also found an error in the way we were tracking posts, as you can see by the big drop in this graph, and we wanted a full month of accurate numbers before publishing them again. (We were counting edits in addition to new posts, doh!)
March was a light month feature-wise, partly because we were rocking out at SxSW:
- Global dashboard for non-blogging users.
- Blog switcher for hyper-blogging users.
- OpenID so you can login around the world.
- Slideshows and maps.
What happened behind the scenes was more exciting though. We brought online 40+ new servers at a new datacenter location in San Francisco, and also cleaned up a lot of our code that does cross-datacenter replication and caching. (Which is still ongoing.) We also found some bottlenecks in the code that were adding at least a hundred milliseconds to almost every page load, so things should be generally faster now.
March stats: 105k blogs, 121k users, switched themes 567,119 times, 1.5 million posts, 554k pages, 1.9 million comments, 4,856 support requests, 728k file uploads, and 184 million pageviews. (Not counting admin section, images, CSS, RSS feeds, etc.) For those following along at home, that puts user and pageview growth up 78% since December.
- April 5, 2007
- Wrapup
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WordPress FTW!
May come April, and with it a whole new bunch of features!
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HOLY COW. I am continually FLOORED by the stats. It’s incredible!
Thank y’all SO much for everything you do!
You make blogging a wonderful, easy, and professional experiance!
THANK YOU!!!!
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The slideshow was my favorite new toy here at wordpress- and keep turning out those new themes-
keepin’ it odd an macabre
amm
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w00t!
You guys are simply awesome. Thanks for everything you do for us end users, and I appluad the rapid growth of WP.com. Congrats.
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Looking good!
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wow.. great!!!
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Thanks for all the great work. We have really been enjoying wordpress.
Cheers,
~Adaen of Bridgewater
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Thanks for doing an awesome job! 😀
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Good job!!!
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Thats stats are incredible!!! Is really good be in to the stats for me!!! Thanks for this information.
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We are a busy bunch, aren’t we. 🙂
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WOW!
Nice Status 😉
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Yeah, great job done! I especially love slideshows. Thanks!
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Sweet!
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nice…great job, WP team!
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Thats great! (Except for the stats / code problems.) I have a feeling that the number will continue to rise up more and more in the coming months.
-Mark
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Keep it up, WP! You’re doing great.
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keep up the good work! i’m having a wonderful time blogging in wp.com. 🙂
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W00t! W00t! to all of that /
P.S: Long time since we’ve seen a new theme, wot say?
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Thank you for all these features. I hope that you give more improvements to WordPress.com. I suggested somethings via the feedback tool.
Thank you again.
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I know I’ve said it before but thanks for building such a good application, supporting and enhancing it and generally for all the good stuff that you guys do. Have a virtual beer (or ten) on me.
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Way to go guys – some impressive stats there. Thanks for all the work, and making the platform so easy to use 🙂
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Keep up the great work y’all! Been very happy here for the past six months and don’t plan on going anywhere. I do love the Blog Switcher feature as I suddenly found myself as on those who is “hyper-blogging”.
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Wow, huge jump, and all those theme switchers, tsk tsk, stick to one will ya.
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Utterly brilliant!
Interesting that on more than 860,000 blogs there have been only 3567 theme switches – that makes less than 0,50%. People must be really happy with their aesthetical choices…
Not much bigger percentage for support requests That means that WP is really easy to use even for us computer illiterates!
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Thumbs up!
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That’s cool. Keep up the good work.
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keep up the good work 🙂
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open ID was the greatest thing !!!
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Nice!
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OK
😀
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i loved it WordPress 🙂
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Splendid.
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You guys @ wordpress are good
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Groovy 🙂
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Awesome! I love WordPress!!
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So it was a good month, at least for me 🙂
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Its good to keep bloggers updated on the statistics as a whole giving a macro picture at large. We being a trusted corporate bloggers on WordPress, appreciate the pace at which improvements are taking place at wordpress and the amount of effort being put at the back end by the staff is remarkable. We hope WordPress continue its current efforts in bringing a cleaner, quality, resourceful blogs to the world of digital media adding to the revolutionary transformation of productive use of Internet as a resource tool.
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Still a fan. WP rocks!
I hope to see more plugins for users wordpress.com users and when can we see us changing the font and font colour before we publish without using codes?
Like I said…..WP rocks!
Happy Easter y’all!
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Nice!
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woah…78% growth! I’m glad I started out with wordpress!
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Wow, 78% growth in one quarter is phenomenal. Congratulations!
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great!! cool!
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Awesome. Keep rocking out.
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I must admit I switched themes at least 3,000 of the 3,567.
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Nice improvement in the pageviews and overall growth. I have started blogging on my personal domain and have installed 2.1.2 there. Do those also add to these figures ? IF not then you should. Keep up the great work. waiting for your next release.
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That is surprising that there were only 3567 theme changes. I must have changed 20 times myself. Thanks for all the growth, keep it coming.
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Awesome guys!
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You guys are doing a great job at WordPress. I am glad I picked WordPress to host my blog.
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Damn those 100 milliseconds!, hehehe.
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I think wordpress is the best blogs server 😉
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Keep up the good work and thanks for all the hard work that you put in to such a fantastic product! Blogging would be less fun if it wasn’t for you all putting the time in. and all the cool stuff that you keep on giving us to play with.
Big Thanks
Steve.
http://newpsalms.wordpress.com/
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I love my blogs! You guys keep up the great work. My Photo blog has only been open for 5 or 6 days depending on when you count the end of a day and it’s going on a 1000 hits. Thanks for making it so easy to use. You guys rock!
Oh, and I was blog of the minute, all day on April Fools Day! Gotta love THAT! 😉
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nice, wordpress rocks
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Cool. Thanks.
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I love it here. This is the first time I’ve ever had my own blog and it looks like I came to the right place! Thanks for the support help and keeping us posted on what’s going on at wordpress.
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It always feels so comfy in this “Word Press” living room.
Thanks Matt
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Great new features this month. Just curious… I saw some Adsense ads appear on my blog today, but just for a single page load. On refresh, they disappeared…
…something you are experimenting with?
Adam
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One word…Awesome!
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Don’t be unhappy. You are making a really good job. I assure to you.
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Wow!
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Impressive. Thats alot
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Thanks!!!!! Matt! 🙂
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I am so happy I made the switch from blogger.
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OK, I don’t really know what to say about those numbers, but it sounds impressive. 😉
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Wicked around up.
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Hey, that’s a lot of stats. Sounds good all the time.
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Still April Fool’s day joke or not?
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Keep up the great work!
Everything is running smoothly now…
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great service. thanks
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What a great month =)
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cool!!
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How many of you are there?
Pretty impressive.
al sends
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sweet
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wooah! march has been quite a good month then… haha that’s great 😀
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Wow, fast month..I don’t remember much about it either!!
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wah i so like wordpress.
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two words: stay tuned! 😉
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40 servers? Woaw, that must’ve cost alot.
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you guys really rock thnx for all the work done for us
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Always looking forward to the new stuff, keep it up!
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You desrve that. Definitely a good target.
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I continue to stand amazed! Who doesn’t love WP?!
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Thats indeed hard work. You are #1.
Thanks.
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I hope you guys ate at Threadgills at least once while you were at SXSW…you’re making me jealous 🙂
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Incredible work team! I love WP more and more everyday! I can’t wait what neat features will be released in the coming months.
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Keep up the great work! I specifically chose your blogging platform over the others because I like your features and the look of your site.
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WordPress … ROXXXXXXXXXXXx
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nice
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keep up the good work
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I have been blogging for three months…thanks for making it possible.
Blogging has really helped me work on my writing.
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Excellent job WP.com guys. Keep up the good work!
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Many thanks! The blog-switcher feature is mighty handy. And faster is always dandy. (Crap, I didn’t really mean to rhyme.)
and 184 million pageviews. (Not counting admin section…
I can’t help but wonder…how many counting admin section hits? Or stats? Not that I know anyone who would compulsively check stats…that would be wrong.
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Thanks guys! Keep up the great work! I’m looking forward to getting started and having some fun with this!
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Great work! Thanks much guys! looking forward to getting started and having some fun with this!
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Nice work you guys! I’ve enjoyed using my blogs. I guess now, I should get out there and check out the community.
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WordPress will hit 1.000.000 blogs in April, that’s unbelievable!
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nice work for a light month.
two questions:
1) i am surprised there are more users (121k) than blogs (105k). you sure?
2) it would be good to see a total for RSS feed impressions…and especially to see if it is trending up?
will anyone even see these questions??? 😦
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nice.
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Incredible! When do you sleep, eat and …?
Keep up the good work.
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