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:
- 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!
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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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wow….
Congrats for WordPress…
That was a Huge Amount…
Good good….. 🙂
Gud Luck WP… God Bless U…
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cheers !!!
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Amazing! My favorite blog site.
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Bravo, Congratulations!!
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Wow….awesome! Congrats.
I love WordPress.
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unreal! wish I could get atleast one of them to read my blog
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nice!
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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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@Gerald Ford: We’re using S3 and local storage for redundancy.
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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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Using Word press for blogging I feel I am addicted to it…Thanks Word Press and Congratulation….
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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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WP rules )
Any plans for East-Europe expansion and WordCamps?..
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Damn! Tons a people joined this month!! Great job WP!
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yes, a big number hope this continues
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What about a WordCamp in Buenos Aires, Argentina?
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Greetings from portugal.
congratulations on you achievments
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Just started blogging and love Word Press.
A big thank you.
Deborah
heart4haiti2
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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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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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Just better and better.
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Waiting for the WordCamp in Caracas, Venezuela =D
Ze
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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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I bet there’s 4 million uploads now
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WordPress : Way to express..
It rocks
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Impressive
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That’s some big numbers – great job!
Keep up the good work 🙂
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nice job wordpress
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Great – and kudos for passing on the stats.
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Very nice WordPress!!
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glad to have contributed to the 334,004 blogs and 335,693 new users xD
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Welcome october
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You’ve got an awesome stats….
Wish my blog will show this kind of stats someday…… & Everyday…..
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justa amazing.. congrats W.P.
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Wow…………… It’s amazing 🙂
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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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I wonder wordcamp in Indonesia. We hope it.
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wow those are some big numbers
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OMG!! Thats like some cool stats 🙂
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Congrats!! I’ve just joined wordpress on sept! and i’m loving it!! ^^
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Congatulations! You deserve that cause you rull! Thanks also for the supersonic speed response from your traounleshooting team. Hugs!
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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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I’ve tried many different blog site and WordPress is certainly my favorite.
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Wow. That’s enormous!
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WP is the best, it’s east to use, and it also helped push my photography. Thank you WP.
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I’m proud to be wordpress blogger. Bravo wordpress
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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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Great! Congratulations!! 🙂
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Awesome stuff!
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After trying out several other blogs, I’ve made WordPress my home.
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fantastic numbers ; )
congratulations!
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*applause* for WP! 😀
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Congrats on those incredible statistics!
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Great news. Keep growing
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Wow! Very impressive.
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Wordpess rocks all the blog hosters! And THIS proves it! 😀 Thx WP and U ROCK!
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it is good i like it a lot
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love it
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Feels great to be part of the WordPress “family”. Thanks for an awesome platform.
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WordPress is awesome. It’s a great way to express yourself. Keep on truckin’ guys!
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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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Great work!! Glad to be on board!
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Congrats!!! Bravo!!! Congrats!!! Bravo!!! Congrats!!! Bravo!!!
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Good job guys! Now when do we get to tryout the Intense Debate comment integration?
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interesante
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I love wordpress!!
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Wow, Martha’s moved over here. Just shows all the best bloggers use WordPress.com
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Congratulations on a job well done, and a bright future! WP has got me hooked…
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big #s! wow!
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Excellent. This demonstrates the success of the company
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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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great work guys……keep up the great work….. 🙂
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I Love wordpress, Bravo…!! 🙂
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Great to hear WP is doing so well. I love it.
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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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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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wordpress 4-eva!!!! you rock!
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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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WAHOO
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kewl my good man
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sweeet
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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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Outstanding!
Totally amazed by wordpress and what it has to offer.
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wp is the best.
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cool news!
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incredible, I hope my site grows as fast as yours does 🙂
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I loved wordpress coz it provides me all I want, long live wordpress
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that is a heckuva lot of blogs!!!
wow!
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woo hoo
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Love the site. Keep it up.
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As expected…waiting for wp 2.7
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Drooling numbers.
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that`s great… increasing in number
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Thanks for developing amazing tool……….
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oh my god!, i`m feeling small ..
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For a free service this is absolutely fantastic- I can honestly say I would happily pay for this service.
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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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@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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@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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