A Smaller Number
One thing you’ll notice as that the homepage of now shows a much smaller number than it used to:
Before Change
After Change
Can you spot the difference?
Before we used to highlight the total number of blogs on WordPress.com, and then later added the new posts and words numbers. But what was weird that total was blogs across all time, and the other numbers were daily. I felt like it didn’t really give an accurate representation of the true activity happening on WordPress.com.
The new number is a stat we track of active logged-in WordPressers interacting with the site. It’s an average over the last few days so is more of a daily number like the other ones.
Now 163,702 is much less impressive sounding than 5.2 million, but that’s okay.
What’s truly impressive is what you guys are creating every day, not some arbitrarily large or small number on our homepage.
(If you’re curious about any of the public stats for WordPress.com we have a page of them here.)
- January 9, 2009
- Stats, WordPress.com
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That is great! but the accuracy is better with more numbers! 😀
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That’s a much more real number – I like this change 🙂
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Keep up the great work, Matt!
I am new the internet and started my blog in September 2008. WordPress was one of the first internet activities I got involved with and I have fallen in love with it. It is so easy to use, and so fun ! Thank you so much for wordpress. It’s a beautiful way to reach out to the world.
God bless!
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I like the change, one of the few in a long time 😀 I’m getting back to blogging now.
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Nice Research.. Big Ups..
You Saved My Blogging Life..lol.. I think..
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Cool I like the change you made.
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