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 5th, 2007 at 1:52 am
WordPress FTW!
May come April, and with it a whole new bunch of features!
April 5th, 2007 at 1:57 am
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!!!!
April 5th, 2007 at 1:59 am
The slideshow was my favorite new toy here at wordpress- and keep turning out those new themes-
keepin’ it odd an macabre
amm
April 5th, 2007 at 2:13 am
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.
April 5th, 2007 at 2:17 am
Looking good!
April 5th, 2007 at 2:28 am
wow.. great!!!
April 5th, 2007 at 2:58 am
Thanks for all the great work. We have really been enjoying wordpress.
Cheers,
~Adaen of Bridgewater
April 5th, 2007 at 3:46 am
Thanks for doing an awesome job!
April 5th, 2007 at 3:57 am
Good job!!!
April 5th, 2007 at 4:01 am
Thats stats are incredible!!! Is really good be in to the stats for me!!! Thanks for this information.
April 5th, 2007 at 4:54 am
We are a busy bunch, aren’t we.
April 5th, 2007 at 5:00 am
WOW!
Nice Status
April 5th, 2007 at 5:02 am
Yeah, great job done! I especially love slideshows. Thanks!
April 5th, 2007 at 5:03 am
Sweet!
April 5th, 2007 at 5:22 am
nice…great job, WP team!
April 5th, 2007 at 5:23 am
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
April 5th, 2007 at 5:29 am
Keep it up, WP! You’re doing great.
April 5th, 2007 at 6:52 am
keep up the good work! i’m having a wonderful time blogging in wp.com.
April 5th, 2007 at 6:56 am
W00t! W00t! to all of that /
P.S: Long time since we’ve seen a new theme, wot say?
April 5th, 2007 at 7:18 am
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.
April 5th, 2007 at 7:42 am
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.
April 5th, 2007 at 7:52 am
Way to go guys – some impressive stats there. Thanks for all the work, and making the platform so easy to use
April 5th, 2007 at 8:45 am
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”.
April 5th, 2007 at 8:45 am
Wow, huge jump, and all those theme switchers, tsk tsk, stick to one will ya.
April 5th, 2007 at 9:01 am
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!
April 5th, 2007 at 9:34 am
Thumbs up!
April 5th, 2007 at 10:10 am
That’s cool. Keep up the good work.
April 5th, 2007 at 10:19 am
keep up the good work
April 5th, 2007 at 11:27 am
open ID was the greatest thing !!!
April 5th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
Nice!
April 5th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
OK
April 5th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
i loved it WordPress
April 5th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
Splendid.
April 5th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
You guys @ wordpress are good
April 5th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
Groovy
April 5th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Awesome! I love WordPress!!
April 5th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
So it was a good month, at least for me
April 5th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
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.
April 5th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
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!
April 5th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
Nice!
April 5th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
woah…78% growth! I’m glad I started out with wordpress!
April 5th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
Wow, 78% growth in one quarter is phenomenal. Congratulations!
April 5th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
great!! cool!
April 5th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
Awesome. Keep rocking out.
April 5th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
I must admit I switched themes at least 3,000 of the 3,567.
April 5th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
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.
April 5th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
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.
April 5th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
Awesome guys!
April 5th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
You guys are doing a great job at WordPress. I am glad I picked WordPress to host my blog.
April 5th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
Damn those 100 milliseconds!, hehehe.
April 5th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
I think wordpress is the best blogs server
April 5th, 2007 at 11:39 pm
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/
April 6th, 2007 at 12:11 am
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!
April 6th, 2007 at 12:20 am
nice, wordpress rocks
April 6th, 2007 at 4:10 am
Cool. Thanks.
April 6th, 2007 at 4:20 am
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.
April 6th, 2007 at 4:36 am
It always feels so comfy in this “Word Press” living room.
Thanks Matt
April 6th, 2007 at 5:52 am
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
April 6th, 2007 at 6:03 am
One word…Awesome!
April 6th, 2007 at 9:40 am
Don’t be unhappy. You are making a really good job. I assure to you.
April 6th, 2007 at 10:26 am
Wow!
April 6th, 2007 at 11:39 am
Impressive. Thats alot
April 6th, 2007 at 11:43 am
Thanks!!!!! Matt!
April 6th, 2007 at 11:50 am
I am so happy I made the switch from blogger.
April 6th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
OK, I don’t really know what to say about those numbers, but it sounds impressive.
April 6th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
Wicked around up.
April 6th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
Hey, that’s a lot of stats. Sounds good all the time.
April 6th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Still April Fool’s day joke or not?
April 6th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
Keep up the great work!
Everything is running smoothly now…
April 6th, 2007 at 4:06 pm
great service. thanks
April 6th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
What a great month =)
April 6th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
cool!!
April 6th, 2007 at 8:57 pm
How many of you are there?
Pretty impressive.
al sends
April 7th, 2007 at 1:22 am
sweet
April 7th, 2007 at 3:25 am
wooah! march has been quite a good month then… haha that’s great
April 7th, 2007 at 4:28 am
Wow, fast month..I don’t remember much about it either!!
April 7th, 2007 at 9:50 am
wah i so like wordpress.
April 7th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
two words: stay tuned!
April 7th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
40 servers? Woaw, that must’ve cost alot.
April 7th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
you guys really rock thnx for all the work done for us
April 7th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
Always looking forward to the new stuff, keep it up!
April 7th, 2007 at 6:22 pm
You desrve that. Definitely a good target.
April 7th, 2007 at 7:21 pm
I continue to stand amazed! Who doesn’t love WP?!
April 7th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
Thats indeed hard work. You are #1.
Thanks.
April 7th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
I hope you guys ate at Threadgills at least once while you were at SXSW…you’re making me jealous
April 8th, 2007 at 5:24 am
Incredible work team! I love WP more and more everyday! I can’t wait what neat features will be released in the coming months.
April 8th, 2007 at 6:10 am
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.
April 8th, 2007 at 8:12 am
WordPress … ROXXXXXXXXXXXx
April 8th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
nice
April 9th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
keep up the good work
April 10th, 2007 at 9:24 am
I have been blogging for three months…thanks for making it possible.
Blogging has really helped me work on my writing.
April 10th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
Excellent job WP.com guys. Keep up the good work!
April 11th, 2007 at 12:48 am
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.
April 11th, 2007 at 4:15 am
Thanks guys! Keep up the great work! I’m looking forward to getting started and having some fun with this!
April 11th, 2007 at 4:27 am
Great work! Thanks much guys! looking forward to getting started and having some fun with this!
April 11th, 2007 at 4:46 am
Nice work you guys! I’ve enjoyed using my blogs. I guess now, I should get out there and check out the community.
April 11th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
WordPress will hit 1.000.000 blogs in April, that’s unbelievable!
April 11th, 2007 at 9:59 pm
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???
April 12th, 2007 at 7:34 am
nice.
April 12th, 2007 at 11:43 am
Incredible! When do you sleep, eat and …?
Keep up the good work.