WordPress usage and popularity
- WORDPRESS RUNS 4.5% OF THE ENTIRE INTERNET. [12]
- 50-60% is WordPress’ share of the global CMS market – making it the most popular CMS of them all. [8][2][15]
- New York Observer, New York Post, TED, Thought Catalog, Williams, USA Today, CNN, Fortune.com, TIME.com, National Post, Spotify, TechCrunch, CBS Local, NBC all use WordPress. [32]
- 17 posts are published every second on WordPress sites around the world. [4]
- 37 million global Google searches for “WordPress” are made per month. [4]
Around 15,886,000 websites on the entire web use WordPress. [15]
- 8% of the top 100 blogs according to Technorati are managed with WordPress. [7]
- 2,645 of the top 10k websites on the web use WordPress. [15]
- 22,111 of the top 100k websites use WordPress. [15]
- 297,629 of the top 1M websites use WordPress. [15]
In 2014, non-English WordPress downloads surpassed English downloads for the first time. [8]22% of new domains in the US are run with WordPress. [6]WordPress as a CMS (47%) is nearly 12 times more popular than Drupal (4%) in India.
In the US (2014 data), WordPress is preferred by 50% of the users, with Drupal scooping up 17% and Joomla getting 6.44%. [6]
the number of times WordPress was caught guiding missiles. [33]
THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY 76.5 MILLION WORDPRESS.COM BLOGS. [3]
- 50,000 WordPress.com websites are being launched daily. [3]
- 409+ million people view more than 19.6 billion pages on WordPress.com monthly. [20]
- 54.2 million new posts and 49.9 million new comments are added monthly. [20]
- 24.7 million files are uploaded to WordPress.com blogs monthly. [3]
In 2014:
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18 million WordPress.com blogs launched. [21]
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555 million new posts published on WordPress.com blogs. [21]
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670 million – that’s how many comments WordPress.com blogs attracted. [21]
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24.5 trillion bytes of data per hour transferred at WordPress.com. [21]
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3.79 million theme changes took place. [3]
This is how many blog posts on WordPress.com included a:
Twitter embed: 45 million. [17] YouTube embed: 14 million. [17] Flickr embed: 23 million. [17]
120 languages are in use at WordPress.com sites. [20]
71% of WordPress.com blogs are written in English. [20]
5.1% of WordPress.com blogs are written in Spanish. [20]
WordPress.com gets more unique visitors than Amazon (126 million per month vs. 96 million per month). [7]
WordPress freelancing/jobs
$50 per hour is how much WordPress developers usually charge. [7]
- State of the Word address says: 25% of survey participants make their living from WordPress. Over 90% of people build more than one site, and spend less than 200 hours on each. [1]
- $1,000 is what a person usually pays for a full site design. [10]
- In 2014, WordPress was the most requested skill in the world according to Sketch Themes. [6]
- 243,161 WordPress projects have been completed on Freelancer.com as of January 2015. That’s a total value of $60,571,205. [6]
- The most successful Envato Power Elite author has sold over 100,000 copies of one theme alone. [14]
- WordPress.com has only 394 employees. [18]
- Facebook has the same number of monthly unique visitors (US) as WordPress.com, but they employ 25 times more people. [18]
WordPress development
There have been 27 major versions of WordPress released since the platform’s inception. [24]
- Major versions of WordPress get released every 152 days on the average. [12]
- 22% of WordPress sites are running on the latest version of WordPress. [4]
- WordPress 4.3 has been downloaded more than 17 million times. [23]
- WordPress 4.x is used by 81.1% of all WordPress websites, while WordPress 3.x is still used by 18.2%. [5]
- 56 – the number of official translations of WordPress. [27]
- WordPress 4.1 features 394,243 lines of code (96,924 of those lines are comments.). In comparison with the previous major release, 17,599 lines were added. [12]
- Around 21% of the whole WordPress code are comments. [30]
The milestones:
- Version 1.2 – plugins are introduced. [34]
- Version 1.2 – localization is introduced. [34]
- Version 1.5 – the first version of WordPress that allowed us to have multiple themes. [35]
WordPress themes
123,498,018 TOTAL THEME DOWNLOADS FROM WORDPRESS.ORG IN 2014. [8]
A premium WordPress theme has the average price of $40. [10] Among the 10 most popular free themes on WordPress.org, only 3 come from third-party developers (not developed by WordPress.org or Automattic). They are: Swift, Zerif Lite, ColorWay. [29]
ThemeForest:
- 50% of all WordPress themes on ThemeForest have made at least $1,000 in a month, and 5% have made at least 10,000 in a month. [14]
- 25% of all WordPress themes on ThemeForest have made at least $2,500 in a month. [14]
- 15% of all WordPress themes on ThemeForest have made at least $5,000 in a month. [14]
- 7% of all WordPress themes on ThemeForest have made at least $7,500 in a month. [14]
- 93% of overall ThemeForest sales come from responsive themes. [14]
- Over 70% of ThemeForest searches are focused around niche themes. [14]
WordPress plugins
WORDPRESS.ORG PLUGINS RECEIVED 1 BILLION TOTAL DOWNLOADS, AND COUNTING. [26]
40,000+ WordPress plugins in the official directory, and counting. [22]
824,474,872 total plugin downloads happened on WordPress.org in 2014. [8]
- 35+ million total downloads is what makes Akismet the most popular plugin of all time. [25]
- 11 plugins have reached more than 7+ million downloads. They are: WooCommerce, NextGEN Gallery, WordPress Importer, WP Super Cache, Google Analytics by Yoast, Google XML Sitemaps, Jetpack, Contact Form 7, Yoast SEO, All in One SEO Pack, Wordfence Security. [19][28]
- 19 plugins have reached the 1+ million active installs mark. They are: Hello Dolly, W3 Total Cache, Contact Form 7, Really Simple CAPTCHA, All in One SEO Pack, Google Analytics by Yoast, Google XML Sitemaps, WordPress Importer, Regenerate Thumbnails, WooCommerce, WP-PageNavi, WP Super Cache, Jetpack, TinyMCE Advanced, NextGEN Gallery, Wordfence Security, Yoast SEO, Advanced Custom Fields, Akismet. [28]
- On CodeCanyon, 80% of searches are focused on functionality (i.e. sliders, forms, calendars). [14]
WordPress community
- There were 80 official WordCamps held in 29 countries in 2014. [12]
- There are 840+ meetup groups for WordPress all over the world. [16]
- 249,973 active members in WordPress meetup groups all over the world. [16]
- 66 countries and 535 cities is where you can find WordPress meetup groups. [16]
- 2,030,000+ topics on the official WordPress support forum. [31]
References:
[1] http://ma.tt/2014/10/sotw-2014/
[2] http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management/all
[3] http://expandedramblings.com/index.php/wordpress-statistics/
[4] http://torquemag.io/13-surprising-wordpress-statistics/
[5] http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cm-wordpress/all/all
[6] https://www.hostt.com/wordpress-stats-for-2015/
[7] https://managewp.com/14-surprising-statistics-about-wordpress-usage
[8] http://www.wpblogington.com/data/wordpress-2015.php
[10] http://winithemes.com/blog/infographic-the-current-capacity-of-wordpress/
[12] https://www.codeinwp.com/blog/mesmerizing-wordpress-stats/
[14] http://inside.envato.com/pressnomics/
[15] http://trends.builtwith.com/cms
[16] http://wordpress.meetup.com/
[17] http://expandedramblings.com/index.php/wordpress-statistics/2/
[18] https://automattic.com/about/
[19] http://www.woothemes.com/2015/04/woocommerce-7-million-downloads/
[2] http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management/all
[3] http://expandedramblings.com/index.php/wordpress-statistics/
[4] http://torquemag.io/13-surprising-wordpress-statistics/
[5] http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cm-wordpress/all/all
[6] https://www.hostt.com/wordpress-stats-for-2015/
[7] https://managewp.com/14-surprising-statistics-about-wordpress-usage
[8] http://www.wpblogington.com/data/wordpress-2015.php
[10] http://winithemes.com/blog/infographic-the-current-capacity-of-wordpress/
[12] https://www.codeinwp.com/blog/mesmerizing-wordpress-stats/
[14] http://inside.envato.com/pressnomics/
[15] http://trends.builtwith.com/cms
[16] http://wordpress.meetup.com/
[17] http://expandedramblings.com/index.php/wordpress-statistics/2/
[18] https://automattic.com/about/
[19] http://www.woothemes.com/2015/04/woocommerce-7-million-downloads/
[20] https://wordpress.com/activity/
[21] https://en.blog.wordpress.com/2015/01/06/2014-in-review/
[22] https://wordpress.org/plugins/
[23] https://wordpress.org/download/counter/
[24] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress
[25] https://wordpress.org/plugins/akismet/stats/
[26] https://wordpress.org/plugins/
[27] https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/
[28] https://wordpress.org/plugins/browse/popular/
[29] https://wordpress.org/themes/browse/popular/
[30] https://www.codeinwp.com/blog/wordpress-statistics/
[31] https://wordpress.org/support/
[32] https://vip.wordpress.com/clients/
[33] https://dd32.id.au/2010/06/12/wordpress-what-cant-it-do/
[34] http://codex.wordpress.org/Changelog/1.2
[35] http://codex.wordpress.org/Changelog/1.5
[21] https://en.blog.wordpress.com/2015/01/06/2014-in-review/
[22] https://wordpress.org/plugins/
[23] https://wordpress.org/download/counter/
[24] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress
[25] https://wordpress.org/plugins/akismet/stats/
[26] https://wordpress.org/plugins/
[27] https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/teams/
[28] https://wordpress.org/plugins/browse/popular/
[29] https://wordpress.org/themes/browse/popular/
[30] https://www.codeinwp.com/blog/wordpress-statistics/
[31] https://wordpress.org/support/
[32] https://vip.wordpress.com/clients/
[33] https://dd32.id.au/2010/06/12/wordpress-what-cant-it-do/
[34] http://codex.wordpress.org/Changelog/1.2
[35] http://codex.wordpress.org/Changelog/1.5
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