September Wrap-Up
September was a big month for us. We acquired proofreading service After the Deadline, and launched it as a feature on WordPress.com. We implemented RSS Cloud and custom CSS revisions. The Happiness Engineers rolled out two new widgets: the RSS Links widget and the Image Widget, along with other improvements. We also launched a new theme: DePo Square.
Next month the Automattic crew is heading to Québec City for our biannual meetup. This is our time for working on special projects, like comment reply by e-mail, blavatars, and the original Prologue. More surprises are on the way.
On to the stats for September:
- 448,025 blogs were created.
- 6,325,895 posts were published.
- 481,505 new users joined.
- 7,113,257 file uploads.
- 5,384 gigabytes of new files.
- 816 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters.
- 8,845,411 comments.
- 7,827,502 logins.
- 1,317,218,759 pageviews on WordPress.com, and another 1,350,080,907 on self-hosted blogs (2,667,299,666 total across all WordPress blogs we track).
- 2,244,794 active blogs and 23,395,291 active posts, where “active” means they got a human visitor.
- 1,510,819,760 words.
More neat stuff:
300,037 of you made use of After the Deadline.
The Ann Arbor Chronicle and the University of British Columbia are using WordPress.
Student Life relaunched on WordPress MU.
The NASA Glenn Research Center launched a resource guide for WordPress development.
September WordCamps: WordCamp Los Angeles, WordCamp Romania, WordCamp Portland, WordCamp Philippines, WordCamp Seattle, and WordCamp Birmingham.
WordCamps in October: WordCamp Spain, WordCamp Las Vegas, WordCamp Kyoto, and WordCamp Netherlands.

October 1st, 2009 at 6:26 pm
481,505 new joiners? Wow!!!
October 1st, 2009 at 6:26 pm
great numbers!
congratulatios for everyone…
October 1st, 2009 at 6:58 pm
Growing and growing, and growing some more!
October 1st, 2009 at 7:07 pm
YAY! Keep up the great job WP!
October 1st, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Waiting for “more surprises!”
October 1st, 2009 at 7:17 pm
great stats.
Congratulations
“816 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters.” … nearly one petabyte (the next a Terabyte is peta
)
October 1st, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Thank you! keep it up, 463,871 Hits! for my blog.
October 1st, 2009 at 8:51 pm
“The Ann Arbor Chronicle and the University of British Columbia are using WordPress.”
WHOA! One of my best friends lives in Ann Arbor!!
Also, I’d like to say that the stats are ASTOUNDING. Just like they are every month!
October 1st, 2009 at 10:37 pm
feels great to be part of that stats!
October 1st, 2009 at 10:46 pm
Wow, quite the busy month for you guys. Thanks for all the hard work!
October 1st, 2009 at 11:03 pm
yah im happy i found wordpress.
October 2nd, 2009 at 12:28 am
New joiner from September here…It’s understandable why there were so many of us. WordPress blogs are sleek and professional-looking, and the pages feature puts them a step above services like Blogger or LiveJournal. Thanks for providing a great service.
October 2nd, 2009 at 1:37 am
yikes, any more numbers and it’ll be the apocalypse!
October 2nd, 2009 at 2:40 am
great numbers as usual! congratulation, guys and gals!

thank you for making our lives easier with these wonderful features.
i <3 WP!
October 2nd, 2009 at 2:48 am
Congrats! I always tell people about the wonders of WordPress!!
October 2nd, 2009 at 7:16 am
love wordpress to bits!
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:01 am
WordPress has been terrific so far! This techno-peasant would like to thank you for making this blogging stuff painfully easy…
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:02 am
Congratulations to my beloved wordpress. I do believe that wordpress is very good in hosting!
I am sure one day many people visited my http:darwinsumang.wordpress.com
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:29 am
More people should join WordPress. The more the merrier!
October 2nd, 2009 at 1:01 pm
1 among them…
October 2nd, 2009 at 1:07 pm
wordpress is best. I love it
October 2nd, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Hi there,
You guys ever coming to sunny South Africa? Looking forward to a wordcamp near me
.
Keep up the great work.
October 2nd, 2009 at 10:03 pm
Congrats to the team! Very impressive set of figures! Still I am waiting for a button to share each entry with people on Facebook, Twitter and the like. Have a good weekend everyone!
October 2nd, 2009 at 10:07 pm
Also, I am missing the ‘friends’ feature on Yahoo. Would be good if we could add a blogger we like as a friend so that we can stay updated with any new content from their blogs. Is it not what WP wants to have?!
October 2nd, 2009 at 10:51 pm
Great going ! looking forward to more !
October 3rd, 2009 at 1:38 am
*sniff sniff* they grow up so quick!
October 3rd, 2009 at 1:48 am
Welcome to all the newbies!
October 3rd, 2009 at 3:26 am
Congratulations from a September joiner here. My blog looks great thanks to WP. Thanks.
October 3rd, 2009 at 4:21 am
2nd month in and got 9,000 hits.
Thanks to wordpress!
October 3rd, 2009 at 4:40 am
Excellent work of you guys. Thank you very much for great services
October 3rd, 2009 at 4:43 am
Mind blowing stats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Keep going
October 3rd, 2009 at 5:16 am
It’s great to hear that.
October 3rd, 2009 at 8:50 am
Great Stats!
October 3rd, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Congratulations!
October 3rd, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Thanks goes to all of WordPress and their Happy Engineers. You make all this possible.
October 3rd, 2009 at 6:20 pm
fantastic
October 3rd, 2009 at 6:45 pm
Im glad to found to WordPress. <3 it
October 3rd, 2009 at 7:13 pm
Wtg WordPress!
October 3rd, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Congrats! WordPress is getting better!
October 4th, 2009 at 1:31 am
I’m one of the new ones that started in September, and an oldie as well, but love WordPress, so easy to use….
October 4th, 2009 at 3:36 am
Just started today love it!
October 4th, 2009 at 4:36 am
congrats on big numbers
October 4th, 2009 at 4:58 am
Thanks for supporting the writing community!
October 4th, 2009 at 5:11 am
Great WordPress…join us?!
October 4th, 2009 at 5:18 am
I’ll drink to that… SAlud y saludos
October 4th, 2009 at 7:38 am
Great!
October 4th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
Thanks WordPress for hosting my weblog. This is a great service to humanity.
October 4th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
as I am new here in wordpress, I will be very happy to learn from you all. thanks very much to all teams (wp)
October 4th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
WordPress is a great opportunity for people to be creative with their writing and have the opportunity to express themselves. Also the ability to have discussions with people you wouldnt have spoken to otherwise. Great stats to be honest.
October 4th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Great, now I need to start getting with it. I also want some numbers, but it will take years to get to your current numbers. I’m so envious…Magnus
October 4th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
wow these people really have lots ov viewers
October 5th, 2009 at 3:14 am
I’m a new member to this and wow, I have to say I’m really impressed with how things works around here. I love being able to track my stats info and all the neat features of the site, such as being able to have onboard 35 guest users and embedding images and videos and the like. I’m glad I got to find such a great blogging site.
And wow, those stats sure are impressive. Keep up the good work.
October 5th, 2009 at 11:00 am
Proud to be a member of wordpress
October 6th, 2009 at 5:38 am
Wow, that’s a lot of numbers there. I’m finding WordPress a great site and am glad I joined.
October 6th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Matt, when you are saying 2,244,794 active blogs, do you mean wordpress blogs hosted at wordpress.com of does it also include the wordpress downloaded and installed by individuals on their own server.
If this does not include these wordpress installations on external servers, have you a number of installed wordpress CMS or at least an estimation.
I know 2 Mio is aleady a big number, but I’m not sure about the overall number.
October 19th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Active blogs hosted on WordPress.com.
October 6th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
One more thing
Thank you for the After the Deadline tip. This tool would be great for comments too
October 6th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
wordpress is nice. they dont censur things they dont like. keep it that way without dictatorship
October 6th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
Mmm, impressive stats. Lovely.
October 6th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
Just started utilising my account, I love it.
I can also access it from my BlackBerry, this means I can edit my blog on the go,
AWESOME!
Thanks Guys N Gals
October 7th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
I just created this blog only days ago.
Go go go wordpress!
October 7th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
I won best personal blogging competition at my faculty – The best trivia about it —> i’m the one and only nominees using wordpress! thank you very much wordpress! ever regret chose wordpress as my blogging platform! yay!!! :’)
welcome to my blog guys, always appreciate and reply each of your guys comments, etc ^__^
::ANDY::
October 7th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
I am technologically-challenged, so I guess i am supposed to be impressed? OK. WOW!
October 7th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
I am a new account, new blogger, and I published new post. I feel very proud to newly contribute to wordpress life. Thank you for these figures.
Gaelle
October 8th, 2009 at 8:19 am
Nice!
October 8th, 2009 at 10:53 am
great, cool to be part of this huge numbers
October 9th, 2009 at 1:09 am
AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!