October Statistics – WordPress.com

It looks like WordPress released their monthly wrap-up for October yesterday, complete with an announcement of their first billion-impression month!   That is a hard number to wrap your head around if you really think about it, making it a great accomplishment.

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Here are the October statistics for WordPress.com by Matt:

• 323,786 blogs were created.
• 343,832 new users joined.
• 4,085,148 file uploads.
• 1995.86 gigabytes of new files.
• 531 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters.
• 8,862,195 comments.
• 1,309,045 logins.
• 1,088,583,200 page views on WordPress.com, and another 738,282,634 on self-hosted blogs (1,826,865,834 total across all WordPress blogs we track).
• 1,418,933 active blogs and 16,599,550 active posts where active means they got a human visitor.
• 1,179,018,712 words.

Bonus statistic:

* 53,290 PollDaddy polls added this month a 1250% increase from September!

It is good to see WordPress.com continues to grow and expand. I know many users out there that have changed to Wordpress. I would be proud if I was the owner of Wordpress, the stats show it all.

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Article by George Serradinho

I am the proud owner of Serradinho and have made this my second home. I'm into blogging, downloads, WordPress and the internet in general. I also love meeting and helping others and learning new techniques.