September Wrap-Up

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:

Phew!


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  1. applejan

    Wow! That’s impressive. And I have to say that after my 3 weeks of great experiences with WP, your success is definitely justified.

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  2. ddaydina

    wow….
    Congrats for WordPress…
    That was a Huge Amount…
    Good good….. 🙂
    Gud Luck WP… God Bless U…

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  3. freecheese

    cheers !!!

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  4. Ithaca Real Estate Broker

    Amazing! My favorite blog site.

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  5. migli2007

    Bravo, Congratulations!!

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  6. luongo

    Wow….awesome! Congrats.
    I love WordPress.

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  7. timothymillar

    unreal! wish I could get atleast one of them to read my blog

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  8. × ملامح ×

    nice!

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  9. Gerald Ford

    Interesting statistics. How is WordPress keeping up on the increased storage? Sounds like there’s quite a bit to store each month alone.

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  10. Heather

    @Gerald Ford: We’re using S3 and local storage for redundancy.

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  11. hoh

    and the grand total iz
    2,148,230,838
    two billion, one hundred and forty eight million, two hundred and thirty thousand, eight hundred and thirty eight only
    Wordpress generates big numbers innit!
    there must be a point where they become tooooo big!
    so far – brilliant
    it’s a bleeping miracle – how they do it?!
    take a look at the team – they seem to have a few more girls now
    http://wordpress.com/about/
    or click on story @ top of page R [right]

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  12. Sweta Baniya

    Using Word press for blogging I feel I am addicted to it…Thanks Word Press and Congratulation….

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  13. Ria Ria

    don’t turn your back on smaller countries! Hay! We have a lot to say too, so give us our own WordCamp! 🙂

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  14. Firenzi

    WP rules )
    Any plans for East-Europe expansion and WordCamps?..

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  15. Matt

    Damn! Tons a people joined this month!! Great job WP!

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  16. prashanth421

    yes, a big number hope this continues

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  17. pymequitacion

    What about a WordCamp in Buenos Aires, Argentina?

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  18. memmobaleeira

    Greetings from portugal.
    congratulations on you achievments

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  19. Deborah Eklund

    Just started blogging and love Word Press.
    A big thank you.
    Deborah
    heart4haiti2

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  20. josepheulo

    If you add up all those numbers, do you know what you’ll have? The amount of Taxpayer dollars spent on the recent bailout

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  21. davidliew

    Hope things can always become better here in WordPress and not like Yahoo, which is out of control when the place started to grow, those good things become bad THEN it is disappointing…Really not sure the new version is good or not, hope not like Facebook too, which is disaster 😛

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  22. Polarboy9

    Just better and better.

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  23. karakenio [Ze]

    Waiting for the WordCamp in Caracas, Venezuela =D

    Ze

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  24. Trevor D

    Sweet work guys…..keep it up! Ooh….by the way…good to hear about Martha’s show about blogging….will surely be helpful!

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  25. strancp

    I bet there’s 4 million uploads now

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  26. Karthik PK

    WordPress : Way to express..
    It rocks

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  27. square12

    Impressive

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  28. Lilja

    That’s some big numbers – great job!
    Keep up the good work 🙂

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  29. agentblade13

    nice job wordpress

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  30. draabe

    Great – and kudos for passing on the stats.

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  31. Radha Smith, MSW

    Very nice WordPress!!

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  32. kusakabemisao

    glad to have contributed to the 334,004 blogs and 335,693 new users xD

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  33. kris20

    Welcome october

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  34. yorgyb

    You’ve got an awesome stats….

    Wish my blog will show this kind of stats someday…… & Everyday…..

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  35. casper™

    justa amazing.. congrats W.P.

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  36. annekepriskila

    Wow…………… It’s amazing 🙂

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  37. Arno

    I just launched my blog a few days ago and it’s really fantastic.
    I allready see the effect on google searches after a few days, incredible!

    Love to see your growth and wish you all the best.

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  38. rizkivmaster

    I wonder wordcamp in Indonesia. We hope it.

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  39. humairahumaira

    wow those are some big numbers

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  40. madhuraadawadkar

    OMG!! Thats like some cool stats 🙂

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  41. o0oo0ohlala

    Congrats!! I’ve just joined wordpress on sept! and i’m loving it!! ^^

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  42. Jaguar

    Congatulations! You deserve that cause you rull! Thanks also for the supersonic speed response from your traounleshooting team. Hugs!

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  43. catdecenzo

    I am one of your VERY happy new users. I now have a place to dump these voices in my head. WordPress rocks!

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  44. miamibeachcondosandhomes

    I’ve tried many different blog site and WordPress is certainly my favorite.

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  45. cinniaw87

    Wow. That’s enormous!

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  46. mrphotog

    WP is the best, it’s east to use, and it also helped push my photography. Thank you WP.

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  47. alhakim

    I’m proud to be wordpress blogger. Bravo wordpress

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  48. ladymarry

    Thanks for your wonderful Site!! I have searched a long time for something as good as this website and believe me, I am bringing you members and I will always be with you guys!!!! Thanks again! Great job !!!

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  49. zhangsolution

    Great! Congratulations!! 🙂

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  50. Jeff

    Awesome stuff!

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  51. leothelip

    After trying out several other blogs, I’ve made WordPress my home.

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  52. Tomás Augusto Müller

    fantastic numbers ; )
    congratulations!

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  53. nidoking

    *applause* for WP! 😀

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  54. miratus

    Congrats on those incredible statistics!

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  55. mysoresharath

    Great news. Keep growing

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  56. unsignedmasterpiece

    Wow! Very impressive.

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  57. Yellow Crown

    Wordpess rocks all the blog hosters! And THIS proves it! 😀 Thx WP and U ROCK!

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  58. too5too0

    it is good i like it a lot

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  59. too5too0

    love it

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  60. hollywoodhula

    Feels great to be part of the WordPress “family”. Thanks for an awesome platform.

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  61. Lane Luckie

    WordPress is awesome. It’s a great way to express yourself. Keep on truckin’ guys!

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  62. catatandigital

    I love WordPress. 😀 Is there any possibilities for virtual camp? Or is there any possibilites to held WordCamp at Indonesia? 😀 Cheers. Keep up the great work guys.

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  63. wrwmruss27

    Great work!! Glad to be on board!

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  64. udestudio

    Congrats!!! Bravo!!! Congrats!!! Bravo!!! Congrats!!! Bravo!!!

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  65. izzy

    Good job guys! Now when do we get to tryout the Intense Debate comment integration?

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  66. smithsal

    interesante

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  67. wisechange25

    I love wordpress!!

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  68. stampgalaxy

    Wow, Martha’s moved over here. Just shows all the best bloggers use WordPress.com

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  69. tittan

    Congratulations on a job well done, and a bright future! WP has got me hooked…

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  70. cpwoton

    big #s! wow!

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  71. عاشق نغم

    Excellent. This demonstrates the success of the company

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  72. themanwithabigmouth

    WOOW!
    that’s good!
    well, i’m kinda new in this.
    LOL, so i’m the one who contribute the number in that data, right?
    goood job wordpress!
    u persuade me to created my own wordpress:)

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  73. tufanonline

    great work guys……keep up the great work….. 🙂

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  74. selpan

    I Love wordpress, Bravo…!! 🙂

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  75. robertpeek

    Great to hear WP is doing so well. I love it.

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  76. 1000mitzvahs

    I have loved being a blogger for more than two years. I am grateful for your easy format and the ability to blog effortlessly. Thanks Word Press. Linda

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  77. oldtaku

    The ability to pin posts to the front page is something I HUGELY appreciate for a blog like mine that’s primarily informational and not so much ‘here’s what I ate today’. This makes me super happy I chose WordPress last year, (even when this feature wasn’t there).

    The only thing I feel I’m missing now (I have to simulate it by discipline) is a database feature – I’m blogging
    new anime as they arrive, and there’s no way to create just a simple ‘list of x’, so I’m just simulating it per season by just adding lists and links.

    Honestly, it’s a huge amount of work (I understand this, I’m a professional programmer), but if you could support simulating the simplest forms of flat file database it would be amazing.

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  78. Penny0507

    wordpress 4-eva!!!! you rock!

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  79. bvmallu

    wordpress environment is excellent, helpline is so cooperating. Being an old man, I am very happy the way WP is doing its service. Thanks

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  80. magnagavous

    WAHOO

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  81. CPA Commander roman co emperor Edwadu

    kewl my good man

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  82. sydneyloo88rulz

    sweeet

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  83. vanscott

    Wow! Just came back from a trip to Venezuela and I was explaining to a few friends, xpats and fellow travelers about the WordPress blog. They all showed interest and some vowed to start their own blog asap.

    Congratulations to the entire crew you are always ahead of the curve and that ain’t easy to do in this warp-speed world.

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  84. edinburghnapiernews

    Outstanding!
    Totally amazed by wordpress and what it has to offer.

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  85. streetwidgets

    wp is the best.

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  86. 52mark

    cool news!

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  87. portraitxpress

    incredible, I hope my site grows as fast as yours does 🙂

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  88. hayesha

    I loved wordpress coz it provides me all I want, long live wordpress

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  89. usmugs

    that is a heckuva lot of blogs!!!
    wow!

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  90. poolplayerpaul

    woo hoo

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  91. Rush Limblog

    Love the site. Keep it up.

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  92. Md. Habib Ullah Bahar

    As expected…waiting for wp 2.7

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  93. mikeriveraprod

    Drooling numbers.

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  94. 4ldo

    that`s great… increasing in number

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  95. sarojlakra

    Thanks for developing amazing tool……….

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  96. pedro nogueira

    oh my god!, i`m feeling small ..

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  97. shane75

    For a free service this is absolutely fantastic- I can honestly say I would happily pay for this service.

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  98. Coonsey

    I know I appreciate being able to use WordPress for my website. It’s much better then Freewebs and more secure.

    I’d like to make a suggestion however (coming from a programmer that works with users everyday). Having YouTube or your own special tutorial videos on how to work with WordPress would be a great deal of help and user friendly.

    Thanks again and Congrats on doing so well!

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  99. Heather

    @Coonsey: We have some great video tutorials in the FAQ, and lots more to come. Keep an eye out for updates 🙂

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  100. Heather

    @O’Maolchathaigh: Rest assured, scalability has been and will continue to be a top priority. We are constantly changing and growing to accommodate our users. The response times discussed in the 24/7 Support post are still in effect.

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