August Wrap-Up
This month I had the pleasure of meeting many of you at WordCamp 2008 in San Francisco, WordCamp South Africa, and now WordCamp Philippines. It’s been a blast, and there are many more to come. Check out the schedule to see if there’s a WordCamp near you.
Here are the stats for August:
- 286,860 blogs were created.
- 298,655 new users joined.
- 3,442,638 file uploads.
- About 1,580 gigabytes of new files.
- 439 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters.
- 6,750,960 comments.
- 5,354,732 logins.
- 830,555,442 pageviews on WordPress.com, and another 625,626,770 on self-hosted blogs (1,456,182,212 total across all WordPress blogs we track).
- 1,196,661 active blogs and 14,056,683 active posts where “active” means they got a human visitor.
Some other facts and stats:
Number10.gov.uk, the official site of the UK Prime Minister’s Office, has relaunched their site using WordPress.
There were 450 attendees at WordCamp 2008 in San Francisco.
There were 105 attendees at WordCamp South Africa.
WordPress Charity Scavenger Hunt participants raised $565.77 for 826 Valencia. This was matched by a donation from Automattic and my personal donation, totaling $1,697.31 to go toward writing programs for students.
One Automattician got married and another got engaged (congratulations, both!).

September 5th, 2008 at 1:48 am
Ohhh, I get it! PhotoMatt has figured out how to hang out in places like NYC at company expense. Do these “camps” all over the world…
It really is cool that you are doin’ them all over the place now!
September 5th, 2008 at 2:32 am
awesome. congratulations….
September 5th, 2008 at 2:41 am
Rock on, gang.
Oh, and I hope Om won something at WordCamp…
September 5th, 2008 at 2:48 am
I’ve been on WordPress for about 13 months now, and it’s been nothing but great. Thanks for all of the additions, fixes and design plusses you’ve added this past year.
September 5th, 2008 at 3:14 am
Subhanallah! You are doing good work in bringing together the global family.
September 5th, 2008 at 4:03 am
Number10.gov.uk states it’s “BETA”. One presumes this refers to the cabinet rather than the software.
September 5th, 2008 at 4:21 am
Thanx!
September 5th, 2008 at 4:23 am
Great stats. Nice to see the rest of the world is coming to WP!
September 5th, 2008 at 4:49 am
WordCamp SF was awesome–met some great people and won a beautiful moleskin notepad because of a WordPress tattoo on my leg which Stewtopia put on flicker–the photo went on my blog too of course as well as some notes about WordCamp and you!
Next time i hope you go to the party–we had a blast!
Thanks so much Matt! WordPress is changing my life!
September 5th, 2008 at 5:16 am
I have nothing but praise for the guys-n-gals behind WordPress, without which our site would not be running as smoothly as it does, nor have the traffic it does.
The various FireFox Add-Ons that are available for WordPress are growing, as well as iPod/phone apps that work with WordPress, all of which make working on your WP site much easier.
With the use of a current theme, we have managed to get into the top 20 Video Game site listings on Blogged.com, and were asked to self nominate for the Bloggers Choice Awards for 2008 . . . all due to the fact we’re using WP and the theme we like. Which we can also alter when we go to private servers. Which is just another beauty of WP community.
September 5th, 2008 at 6:12 am
thats a lot!
COOL WORK!
September 5th, 2008 at 6:16 am
There is none of my close, but now I read in these post hos
and I can make a IISL
September 5th, 2008 at 6:29 am
Woah, that’s alot!
September 5th, 2008 at 6:35 am
amazing…. UK Prime Minister using wordpress… good luck…
September 5th, 2008 at 6:42 am
WP rocks! I love WP functions!
September 5th, 2008 at 6:59 am
cool! Gordon Brown! using wordpress! lol!
September 5th, 2008 at 7:00 am
Very cool! Congratulations, and thank you for providing a fabulous service
September 5th, 2008 at 7:32 am
A very fine statistics.
No10.gov.U.K has relaunched the site by using Word press-great news.
Best wishes to the newly wed and congratulations to the newly engaged.
Cheers.
September 5th, 2008 at 7:40 am
i love wp..im new on wp…
so congratulations
so bad I dont see my country on your schedule
thanks XD
September 5th, 2008 at 7:49 am
Hmm. You had one in Birmingham in the UK this year but how about one in London soon? (UK I mean)
September 5th, 2008 at 7:54 am
Firstly, thank you for providing the best blogging platform available!
Secondly, here’s some ‘WordPress love’ http://www.thetechnewsblog.com/2008/08/21/wordpresscom-highly-recommended/
Finally, any chance of a Wordcamp in The UK?
Jim Connolly
September 5th, 2008 at 7:58 am
I hope you will have WordCamp Taiwan soon.
September 5th, 2008 at 9:14 am
I left blogspot and started serious blogging in wordpress last month. It has been awesome. Thanks for the features, fixes, stats and what not. Keep Rollin’
September 5th, 2008 at 9:17 am
Like I said Last Month… WordPress ROCK!!!!
September 5th, 2008 at 9:31 am
Thanks for this great tool.
September 5th, 2008 at 10:49 am
Good luck for tomorrow’s event in Manila.
September 5th, 2008 at 11:02 am
Thank you so much for wordpress – it’s beautifully designed and set out, and I’m really enjoying it.
September 5th, 2008 at 11:07 am
i just hooked up with wordpress, and right now, im mounting hits like crazy. This stats and tag surfing are what made me relocate here. Really superb service. Blogging was never this fun. Thank you guys.
September 5th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Congratulations to Automatticians!
September 5th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
now how about here? in dubai?
September 5th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
The service is fantastic! Thx Matt!!!! Congrts to the wordpress team!
September 5th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Great.
Cheers Matt
September 5th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Amazing stats!
I love wordpress!!!!!!!
September 5th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Great Static, good job
September 5th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Thanks for the great themes!
September 5th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Awesome!!!
Excellent work,Matt
Thanx
September 5th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
Cheers!
How about a ‘Virtual Wordcamp’? On the WWW …. which all netizens and WPians can attend
BTW, isn’t Number10.gov.uk the same site which was at the forefront of a ‘blog theme plagiarism war’ with a freelance theme designer sometime ago??
September 5th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Hi Matt,
just started my 2nd blog here…loving it!!! Still have soo much to learn, never too late:) anyhow , my thanks for a great place to blog!
September 5th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
how about a wordcamp toronto!
September 6th, 2008 at 12:28 am
so bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 6th, 2008 at 2:29 am
Like I said Last Month… WordPress ROCK!!!!
September 6th, 2008 at 2:36 am
WordPress is great. I just started blogging this week and I found this to be the easiest and best site to integrate new and experienced bloggers. It’s such a breeze to use with all the widgets and templates.
September 6th, 2008 at 3:05 am
Congratulations,
WordPress is a revolutionary service in the blogsphere’s community. It’s very easy for newers and it’s very powerful for experts everywhere in world. Very nice.
September 6th, 2008 at 3:44 am
that is cool
September 6th, 2008 at 4:12 am
well done
September 6th, 2008 at 4:39 am
@chittaranjan “Virtual Wordcamp”. Sounds good. ^_^ I’m from Indonesia and it’s so far from San Fransisco.
September 6th, 2008 at 10:22 am
WordPress is great.Congrats,Matt!
September 6th, 2008 at 10:50 am
Excellent Count
September 6th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
i love wordpress…. it’s the best blog platform now…
September 6th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
waw…nice.
September 6th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
yeah, i joined wordpress in august too
and i’m proud of my wordpress blog
September 6th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
wow
September 6th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Cool
September 6th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Thank´s for your support.
I think that you all are great.
Anthony is superb.
Thank´s
September 6th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
This is great news. I love wordpress and this love is getting deeper by the day !
September 6th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Cool Cheers Guys
September 6th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
very nice efforts guyz
September 6th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
I like being a part of wordpress and I appreciate all the assistance, you guys gave me, when I first started.
Thank you,
Carolyn
September 7th, 2008 at 3:32 am
loving wp more and more
great job, guys!
September 7th, 2008 at 4:44 am
wordpress all the way!!
September 7th, 2008 at 5:03 am
WP you give good blog… the more I learn about you WP, the more I love you…. while we’re only coming up on our 1st anniversary together, I have this feeling this love’s gonna last!!!
September 7th, 2008 at 7:59 am
Going from strength to strength!
September 7th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
So Matt…..
When are you going to visit Namiba, the land with the oldest desert and some of the most recent bloggers? It was close enough to South Africa… WordPress is just too good to be for free, but Im not going to complain
Keep up the good work!
September 7th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
keep good job, thank u so much-
September 7th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
You guys have changed my life. Keep up the good work!
September 7th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
cool, congratulations!
September 7th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
That`s just great
September 7th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Congrats Dude….keep up the good work!!!
September 7th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
It would be nice to know how many “Google bots” dedicated for wordpress, i am sure they eats up a lot of bandwidth.
September 8th, 2008 at 3:33 am
great stats. great service as well.. thanks..
September 8th, 2008 at 4:33 am
matt! thanks for coming to wordcamp here in the philippines! you’re so cool and so down to earth! keep up the good work!
September 8th, 2008 at 10:30 am
WHAAAAT?! you were in cape town
oh bugger!
i missed you – i guess it was for wp geeks only?!!
September 8th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Well, Matt and the gank surely have more and more impressive numbers every month. Awesome.. Congrats!
@catatandigital (& other Indonesians).. how ’bout setting-up WordCamp Indonesia then? Feb/March, in Jakarta/Bandung/Surabaya perhaps..?
September 8th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Hi, Matt,
I just started. God, help me to keep up good work !!!
September 9th, 2008 at 3:24 am
Thanks for the freebies.. Blogging with WordPress is more easy than the other
September 9th, 2008 at 5:23 am
Wonderfull stats…
I know, you’re part of me now
WordPress, I love you
September 9th, 2008 at 6:34 am
Great stats!
I started blogging with WordPress and I love it!
Thanks guys
September 9th, 2008 at 7:08 am
hallo every body…
I Joined wordpress.com in Juli 2008
Nice to meet you friends.
martracho
September 9th, 2008 at 9:00 am
it’s very good i liked it
September 9th, 2008 at 10:16 am
wow…great !!
September 9th, 2008 at 10:26 am
I love this program, so many animals have been reunited in Darwin due to WordPress, I could never have worked out my own web site… so many thanks from Sideon and lots of grateful fur bodies
September 9th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Thats great !!! I hope there will be more Creative posts in September!
September 9th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Awesome, Matt!
Thanks and congratulations!
September 9th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
yeah I’m also glad to know that. it’s great!
September 9th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
wordpress = pure awesomeness
September 9th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
Whoohoo for WordPress! Congrats!
September 9th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
Hello Matt,
The stats ARE awesome. Congrats! Could we have a better range of latest tech. themes?
Do you have free website themes also? If “10 Downing” could relaunch their website using WordPress, guys, you have made it, mark my words!!! Come September, hope you grow 12% this month alone…
September 9th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
September 9th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Awesome stats yeah. Go WordPress!
September 10th, 2008 at 3:27 am
I write blog in wp…everyday
thank’s I love it
GBU
September 10th, 2008 at 10:48 am
that’s nice…:)
September 10th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
i scream, you scream, we all scream, for wordpress !
September 10th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Wow, incredible numbers, from these 6,750,960 comments i have now created my first one
September 10th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
wooow super
September 10th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Kool.
September 10th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
Jesus Christ! 1.5 BILLION pageviews. Wow. Sounds great. I like high figures.
September 10th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
I am beginning to love WP, even here in sunny South Africa. mmmm now if only I could learn to write………..
September 10th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
You did it again!…Good job!!!
September 10th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
wordpress has helped turn my career around! Superb service!!
September 11th, 2008 at 1:44 am
excelent greetings for this nice organization wordpress……. we need a best world and for can make it with thinking in open sources is amazing………….