October Wrap-Up
October was another busy and productive month. We released Publicize for Yahoo! Updates and Twitter, and upgraded the Theme Viewer for WordPress.com. Coming out of the Automattic team meetup in Québec City, we launched new image templates and mobile themes, and open sourced our After the Deadline proofreader. We also shipped WordPress 2 for iPhone and added support to VideoPress for Ogg, an open video format.
Many of us will be heading out to the Big Apple this month for WordCamp New York, and we hope to see you there!
Here are the stats for October:
- 467,107 blogs were created.
- 6,690,017 posts were published.
- 494,186 new users joined.
- 7,623,730 file uploads.
- 4,986 gigabytes of new files.
- 842 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters.
- 9,281,146 comments.
- 7,856,864 logins.
- 1,405,459,558 pageviews on WordPress.com, and another 1,474,457,685 on self-hosted blogs (2,879,917,243 total across all WordPress blogs we track).
- 2,509,895 active blogs and 25,386,866 active posts, where “active” means they got a human visitor.
- 1,600,608,549 words.
More good stuff:
Almost 100 of you heeded the call to get creative with the WordPress logo.
There were 23,458,553 mobile views last month.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission launched Investor.gov on WordPress.com VIP.
WordPress was cited as one of the leading open source content management systems in the 2009 Open Source CMS Report.
Wired magazine’s digital presence is now run entirely on WordPress.
October WordCamps: WordCamp Spain, WordCamp Las Vegas, WordCamp Kyoto, and WordCamp Netherlands.
WordCamps in November: WordCamp Phoenix, WordCamp Victoria, WordCamp New York, WordCamp Bangkok, WordCamp Mexico, and WordCamp Peru.
Nov 4th at 4:53 pm
Love the “little planet” picture! I’m sure it’s already a poster at the Automattic lounge
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(someone’s hiding his face
Nov 4th at 5:29 pm
wow, i’m proud to be part of these numbers!
Nov 4th at 5:29 pm
Good stuff
what we really need is flash in widgets so there’s a challenge
Nov 4th at 5:30 pm
Coolz!
Nov 4th at 5:40 pm
Great work Matt and the Automattic team.
I have a question, what is the number of active WordPress.com blogs vs. WordPress.org?
Thanks.
Nov 4th at 5:56 pm
Right on! This is all good stuff. And this month, I really enjoyed getting creative with the WordPress logo. Now I like to leave my desk lamp on in the evening with its WP logo as a welcoming light into my work room. There’s something cozy about it. Thank you all for working so hard to make WordPress a good place to be.
Nov 4th at 6:04 pm
Great
Nov 4th at 6:09 pm
WordPress is growing and growing and growing!
Nov 4th at 6:43 pm
Fun Month
Thanks to all for the visits to my blog!
Nov 4th at 6:49 pm
842 terabytes / 31 days = 27,16 terabytes by day. Uffff
Too much for my mind.
Nov 4th at 7:17 pm
I just love it because of its free of cost feature. Plus, we get the feature releases in action as soon as offered, even before self-hosted blogs get. However, I wish adsense would be enabled so that bloggers may earn a little bit.
Nov 4th at 7:55 pm
I’m glad to cooperate to make WP grow… and grow… and grow… ;-p
Nov 4th at 8:01 pm
Makes my head spin! Great work to all!
Nov 4th at 8:35 pm
WordPress is growing and growing and growing
Nov 4th at 8:44 pm
yay!
Nov 4th at 9:50 pm
I’m glad being part of those stats!
Nov 4th at 10:05 pm
The number that surprises me the most is the number of comments. That’s way higher than I’d expect, especially when you consider that a lot of posts don’t get any.
Nov 4th at 10:08 pm
Wired and a government agency in one month. Score!
Nov 5th at 12:08 am
WordPress, I heart you.
Nov 5th at 12:25 am
Fantastic, although publicizing through twitter remains broken for scheduled posts, which is a pretty big deal. WP2 for iPhone looks great though!
Nov 5th at 12:40 am
we are awesome
Nov 5th at 12:50 am
good for you guys! See you in Nueva York !
Nov 5th at 1:43 am
Continue to grow…but my blog isnt lol
Nov 5th at 1:47 am
Great, congratulations!
As for me I bought two upgrades recently.
Nov 5th at 2:13 am
Congrats to the WP team. We appreciate you!
Nov 5th at 2:22 am
WordPress = tiptop…
Nov 5th at 2:24 am
Those are very impressive numbers. Although, it makes me wonder how so many pageviews are even accrued to that high a level.
Nov 5th at 2:39 am
obviously awesome October, eh?
i <3 WP!
Nov 5th at 3:15 am
Wow, this is seriously amazing! I love this site so much!
Nov 5th at 4:27 am
I was one of those 467,107 blogs created in October
Nov 5th at 4:28 am
1.6 billion words. Wow =]
Great job.
Nov 5th at 5:03 am
Growing with super speed, want more exciting features such as to facebook connect, openid, twiiter on comment!
Nov 5th at 6:30 am
… Keep it up:)
Nov 5th at 6:33 am
I can’t believe Anime didn’t get the most votes. She totally outclasses Superman. Too subtle for many, I guess.
Nov 5th at 6:41 am
WordPress’s the Best….
Nov 5th at 7:04 am
Great work.
Nov 5th at 7:38 am
Wow!
Nov 5th at 7:46 am
Cool!
Nov 5th at 8:15 am
WordPress rules
Nov 5th at 10:44 am
Nice!
Nov 5th at 11:19 am
I joined wordpress in October and I can’t complain
Nov 5th at 11:29 am
No, sorry they are not normal Stats Matt, do numbers get that big? I think they are cell phone numbers.
Very impressive anyway, well done to all the WP staff. You lot rock
Nov 5th at 11:56 am
Great
Nov 5th at 12:01 pm
I so love seeing those stats… I’m not reading it I just look at it =)
Thank you guys for a nice set of updates!
Nov 5th at 12:01 pm
A busy month for WordPress, clearly!
It’s exciting to see WordPress constantly evolving and improving. Apart from the WordCamps, what else is on the horizon?
Nov 5th at 12:23 pm
I could not make the picture for WordPress Logo in time.
Nov 5th at 12:58 pm
amazing!
Nov 5th at 1:23 pm
Great job word press! I just joined in Sept 09 as a referral from a web designer, since then it seems every corner I turn I am hearing about successful people that use word press…Congrats!!!
Nov 5th at 1:36 pm
This is so much better than blogspot. How come I only just heard about WordPress?
Nov 5th at 2:00 pm
I like the style
Nov 5th at 2:18 pm
Outstanding. You guys were recommend to us by a few SEO companies because they say you are the best – you ARE the best. Congrats and by all means keep up the good work – we need it
Nov 5th at 4:31 pm
Selamat berjuang kawan semua…
Nov 5th at 4:43 pm
I thought WP was THE top-top content management system – who else is big then? Not that it matters because actually I love wordpress – took me ages to learn how to set it all up and use it but now it’s pretty simple
Nov 5th at 5:00 pm
what a great month for you guys!
Nov 5th at 5:36 pm
I am so immensensly pleased that I found this place from which to express myself.I’ve only been here a short while and my excitment grows daily.It seems I have stumbled blindly into a place I was ment to be in.Impressive stats to say the least and I am greatful to be even a microscopic part of them…This place and the people that make it possible are the BEST…..
Nov 5th at 5:59 pm
# 6,690,017 posts were published.
# 9,281,146 comments.
# 7,856,864 logins.
Slightly less than one post per login and slightly more than one comment. So why do people login?
Nov 5th at 6:56 pm
Vaya que son impresionantes las cifras, hay mucha actividad aquí en wordpress, me da mucho gusto ser parte de esto.
Nov 5th at 10:40 pm
cool
Nov 5th at 11:44 pm
Thanks for the stats.
Job Pursuer.
Nov 6th at 12:14 am
Wonderful!
Nov 6th at 1:13 am
I aLso joined WordPress just this October.. ^_^
And, I’m Loving it!
Nov 6th at 3:53 am
Awesome! Looking forward for more amazing WordPress features!
Nov 6th at 5:35 am
I think the fact that information and ideas can be shared so easily is amazing. Thanks for doing this
Nov 6th at 6:15 am
Thats is Great
Nov 6th at 7:34 am
great matt..many feature’s very useful!!!
Nov 6th at 9:39 am
Wish continuous success of wordpress.
Just wonder, when will you give opportunity to use advertisement on wordpress blogs! I think millions other bloggers also waiting for getting this opportunity to monetize their effort for blogging.
Nov 6th at 11:45 am
Great job, now how do I get my comments back to my e-mail? they stopped being sent there???
Nov 6th at 1:39 pm
WordPress I love u.
Nov 6th at 5:33 pm
Its Really Great to be part of WordPress…..
Nov 7th at 1:55 am
Wow! Great job WordPress.com! Keep growing!
Nov 7th at 3:52 am
Bravo!
Nov 7th at 8:06 am
great, I feel happy to be among that number up. But what could I have them?
Nov 7th at 11:03 am
nice statistic..
i hope, we can grow up this next time..
Nov 7th at 6:18 pm
Heehee! I’m feeling very special being a part of all those numbers! I’ve made so many posts, logged in so many times, and written so many words!
Nov 8th at 1:09 am
fantastic!
Nov 8th at 7:06 am
Wow cool
Nov 8th at 10:03 am
proud to be a part of it!
Nov 8th at 3:26 pm
Just want to say “Thank you” for the opportunity to be part of this wonderful site.
Nov 8th at 5:19 pm
Great! It’s mindblowing.
Nov 8th at 5:48 pm
¡Felicidades! no olviden a los hispanohablantes, parte impoirtante de esta comunidad. Chido
Nov 8th at 11:38 pm
hooray for new bloggers!
Nov 9th at 1:16 am
So how about helping us with a User Viewable alphabetized “Table of Contents” (which would catalog all articles written) sortable by date etc…
ALso how about a real google styple search engine for the site (so that users can search articles”—the one we have is not world calss and up to wordpress world class standards.
How about more statistics on users, TCPIP location and sorting
Nov 9th at 6:06 am
I believe that WordPress is playing a major role in how the Internet changes our society. I am reading the book of Jeff Jarvis at the moment “What Would Google Do”. He talks about giving communities “elegant organisations”. I cannot think of a more elegant organisation that some like-minded (or totally unlike-minded- in fact it doesn’t matter) people working together on a blog to get make their voice to be heard.
You might have done way more for the development of our society and human rights than most politicians. Thanks for giving us a voice.
I am deeply thankful
Martin
Nov 9th at 9:20 am
congratulations! keep up the great work!
Nov 9th at 9:39 am
Yesss!! Good job!
Nov 9th at 4:57 pm
Hello Sir,
I am very happy to say that I got installed the spell and grammercheck soft-ware in my computer! Thank you!!!!!
Nov 10th at 12:40 am
Boah… Good…
Nov 10th at 4:41 am
wow, nice
Nov 10th at 4:56 am
Blogging, its all the rage.
Nov 10th at 5:56 pm
This is all very exciting! I’m still trying to figure this stuff out, but hopefully I’ll catch on eventually…Blogging is a very nice outlet.
Nov 10th at 8:36 pm
Очень хорошо!
Nov 10th at 8:39 pm
Мир,
привет из солнечной Воркуты:)
Nov 11th at 12:28 am
Hey – this here WordPress.com thing has been a great way to jump start a much needed conversation about the need for local government-created jobs programs for the un-sheltered!