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!).
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September 11th, 2008 at 9:06 am
Super dooper!
September 11th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
I have just read your stats
given me the hope that there are a lot more beginners than me. still try to pluck up courage to post my first comment oh is this it – my first
September 11th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
cheers for wordpress
YOU rock!!!
September 11th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
I Think am in love with WordPress, it makes life easy.Cheeeeeeer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 11th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
it was great to host ma.tt here in the Philippines! Automatticians – you’re invited to come over anytime!
September 11th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Well, I guess you’re doing OK. I mean, easy format, super tech support, fun folks working there and a wonderful community of users. Yeah, not so bad. I guess…
Only request, can you please start paying us to use this GREAT service?
September 12th, 2008 at 3:07 am
Some impressive stats. Hope my new blog was counted
September 12th, 2008 at 3:17 am
Very Nice…
September 12th, 2008 at 7:13 am
very gud dude…
September 12th, 2008 at 9:28 am
I don’t understand these stats:
# 286,860 blogs were created.
# 298,655 new users joined.
How it could be more new users than new blogs? Every user don’t create almost one blog?
:S
September 12th, 2008 at 9:29 am
ntrrgc, most months there are more new users than blogs. People get a WordPress.com account for many reasons – they might want to contribute to an existing blog, comment on a blog that requires login, access a members-only blog, or just get an API key to use stats or Akismet anti-spam on their own WordPress.org blogs.
September 12th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
I want to to introduce Persian mounts which is so natural, it begins at the first of sprig an ends at the end of winter .wow it Is great I will speak about that in my blog soon
September 12th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
OMG .. congratulations wordpress
September 13th, 2008 at 7:58 am
Well done. THanks WoRdPrEsS to give the support to us. Thanks for all the tamil viewers of my site.
I am really enjoying to having my own blog.
Thanking you!
?With regards?
S.Abulkalam asath
September 13th, 2008 at 11:58 am
very good wordpress. i like it
September 13th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
yeah WP is nice 1) it added my language Bangla:-) 2) looks good, great designs for free. But 1) adding photos slower-confusing now, was faster-better earlier.
September 13th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
And are you coming to IndiA too with ur camp
September 13th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
great! great! n great!!!
September 13th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
WordPress is a great posting and blogging engine, I like it a lot for it’s setup and ease of use.
keep up the good work
September 13th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
Well Done…!!!!!!!!!
WordPress is AwEsOmE…
Thanks Matt….:)
September 13th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
that is great!
September 14th, 2008 at 5:39 am
WordPress is awesome! I love this site
September 14th, 2008 at 7:24 am
Really amazing . true work ……. ALLAH ALWAYS BE WITH YOU …
September 14th, 2008 at 9:17 am
What I like about wordpress is the no-bullshit-just-useful-things functionalities. Great, and go on like that.
September 14th, 2008 at 9:50 am
Amazing number !!!
and exactly, amazing worker, blogger, and community.
Congratulations gangs!
September 14th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
we are a number in this matrix….
September 14th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Hi Matt,
You always done great jobs. Keep up all good works.
September 14th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
I am proud (please hand me a tissue, Tito); I am proud to be a wordpress member. You guys ROCK!
September 14th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
tnx!!! very cool
September 15th, 2008 at 6:02 am
I am very happy to be a wordpress blogger. Thank you WordPress. You have put the world at my fingertips.
nrm
September 15th, 2008 at 6:13 am
Nice Stats
September 15th, 2008 at 9:22 am
hello
September 15th, 2008 at 11:41 am
WP rocks my world… Congrats to the married and engaged.
Keep on keeping on for all of us WP.
September 15th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Wow…. Cool job.
What about Indonesia? When you will arrive to Indonesia and held the wordpress camp…
We need you…
Congratulation…
September 15th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Oha, nice stats. Hope some of my projects are crowing in this way
September 15th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
thanks a lot…….
September 16th, 2008 at 6:33 am
great work guys
September 16th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
New to wordpress i used a different blogging site before
really loving it here i cant rant and talk rubbish till im blue in the face or should that be fingers?
Great work guys and gals!
September 16th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Well done and well deserved.
next, world domination