August Wrap-up
There were three big features in August:
There was a lot of action going on behind the scenes, but most of that will be revealed later.
How about some stats?
- 154 thousand blogs were created.
- 176 thousand new users joined.
- 1.14 million file uploads.
- 2.2 million posts and 851 thousand new pages.
- 3 million comments.
- 25 million spam comments blocked.
- 2.5 million logins. (That’s about a login a second.)
- 308 million pageviews on WordPress.com, and another 112 million on self-hosted blogs. (420 million pageviews total.)
- 704,855 active blogs in August, where “active” means they got a human pageview. (New stat!)
Just a note that we’ve changed how we’re counting blogs, we’re now retroactively adjusting for blogs that were deleted or removed. (We killed 41 thousand splogs last month.)
Some stats tanked though… we used to do about 24 thousand theme switches a day, and after the theme preview was introduced that dropped to around 11 thousand. However people love theme previewing, they do it about 40 thousand times a day!
For the geeky among you, WordPress.com is now using about 260 megabits per second of bandwidth average, with spikes as high as 820 mbits earlier today from the Apple Gizmodo liveblog. (Which did up to 941 requests per second all by itself during the keynote.) So last month we used about 80 terabytes of bandwidth.
- September 6, 2007
- Wrapup
WordPress.com News 
The numbers are massive! Great work as always Matt and the WordPress Team!
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There was a lot of action going on behind the scenes¿ Yay!
Go WP!
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Wow, some good stuff.
Great work as always, WordPress.
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well done..!
wordpress come to be the market leader of based free-blog service
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Nearly 3 terabytes a day is a serious amount of bandwidth. Congrats.
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Seriously – this is VERY impressive! Great work!
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THUD *jaw hitting the ground about the bandwidth usage*
Thats like something crazy…I’m so glad that the servers are able to keep up with all that ….
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Congrats! I agree that theme preview was really a nice feature. And Apple Gizmodo liveblog getting 941 requests in 1 second is really an interesting news.
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so on the whole the themes are being considered to be changed more 🙂
just people were reluctant to make changes … preview is surely a great feature ..
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80 terabytes of bandwidth.
Wow give those hamsters a extra treat.
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That’s a lot of bandwidth…
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But you got rid of Feedback! And you never said a word!
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Let’s go work for september now ! Cheer ! 🙂
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Hope these stats increase more & more
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uau! very nice stats guys!
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Damn! 80 terabytes???
I would have to see the bill for that if it was my ISP! That’s some impressive stats guys.
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What ever those bytes mean! I understood that I have to use the catagories you have mentioned for tagging to get featured. My blog did feature a few times last month for food.
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I know we users keep saying this but may you continue to grow and shine in the future, like you have over the last few months. Bravo!
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wow !!! great
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Keep up the good work!!!
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It was a great month… Congratulations to us!!
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Wow, the numbers are impressive. WordPress is a fine place to be, and I appreciate all of y’alls hard work at making it so. Bravo!
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I noticed the theme previews, they rock.
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just WOW!!!
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Wow! WordPress is always growing up!
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I switched from blogpost a month back and I have no regrets. I’m totally enjoying it. Gr8 work ppl !!
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420 million page views divided by 705,000 active blogs equals an average of 600 page views per blog per month … and each blogger makes an average three posts per month … and gets four comments a month …
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Another great month gone by…
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Hello Matt,
I want to ask one thing. How many of 308 million pageviews are from Turkey? Do you have statistical data about this?
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Congratulations WordPress.com!!!!!
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we want polls…
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Some high numbers there! The theme previews and stats are great, I’ve been playing using them…
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80 tera… wow.
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Thank you, wordpress team!!!
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:wow:
That’s.. wow.
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Some stats tanked though… we used to do about 24 thousand theme switches a day, and after the theme preview was introduced that dropped to around 11 thousand. However people love theme previewing, they do it about 40 thousand times a day!
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You are really good!!! I got a problem uploading my post and sent you a mail to support – reading the above post in less than 5 minutes you responded my mail and resolved the problem!! You are really good, something more like only a professional!
Thanks for this, I am proud to have my blog in wordpress!
Miches
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Cool! I see. Also, the word count: can you guys get it out for WordPress.org too?
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And besides, I bet everyone wants to see what themes look like, right? Which reminds me… roll out themes more.
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you guys are Awesome!
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Luar biasa, 80 terabytes/s…
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Impressive numbers 🙂
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I’m a preview junkie.
(Alhtough I never commit.)
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“There were three big features in August:
The new News departments.
Theme Previews.
Being able to see stats.”
Loved all three! You folks are awesome, giving us new stuff to play with and make our bloglives easier. Many thanks. We wait with bated blog…
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Wow!
Thats alot of bandwidth!
80 terabytes!
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Thanks for giving us FREE blog at wordpress.com
My blog only two months old, 20.000 visits….
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wow!
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GREAT THINGS FROM THE WP STAFF….Keep it up guys!!!
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We love the stats! Thanks for wrap-up!
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Wow, great work guys!
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Man, and I thought I had a busy month at the office! I have catchup to do. Nice work guys. Thanks for the continuous support and brilliant ideas! 8)
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Sweet i think im ferst post… SWEET!
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Dang, ‘dat sho is a lot o’ stats.
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cool wordpress rox my socks 😆
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Yes, but August was far too hot. Can wordpress do anything about global warming? Or at least can you guys pay so I can run my air conditioning more often?
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ok i know
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just checking this out
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matt the coolest cat
now dont ask me whats that!!
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Awesome stats! Nice to know that I am included as a one of millions of blogger that shape WP. Keep goin’ Man!
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tinh thanks
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Comgrats!!!
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I prefer the previous “Top Blog” and “Top Post” main WordPress.com page. I wish you could incorporate both “Top” and “Subject” categories on your main page.
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I just joined and currently still have a blog over on LJ but I wanted to check this out. So far, so good. Keep up the good work.
“Curiosity Killed the Network Engineer, known as Trudy”
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These are Testing Times.
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That’s amazing 🙂 keep up the great work!
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Thats some stats !! Fondoo !! WordPress rocks !!
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Thats really cool, I love reading about statistics.
Question; pageviews? What does that mean?
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3 million comments… now here’s 1 more 😀
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Thats freaking awesome!! Good job, great to hear your site is having so much success! I joined because I thought it would be a good place for me to just talk and let my words flow. Its hard to do these days because of the speed by which information is being shared. I feel like one day ill just explode. Ohh man that would be interesting.
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You guys are great 🙂 Thanks for everything.
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wonderful info..
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Could your stats go back further. Say a year?
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