Wordpress says that the one millionth blog will be created on the wordpress.com platform sometime next week, which also happens to be their 4 year launch anniversary.
Last August the site had just 300,000 blogs, 1.6 million daily page views and 14.2 million unique monthly visitors. CEO Toni Schneider says they now have 7.5 million daily page views and 45 million unique monthly visitors. Scobelizer is no longer the largest blog on Wordpress.com, although it is still in the top 5, as is GigaOm’s Web Worker Daily.
U.S. Comscore data shows that Blogger, Six Apart (in aggregate), and Live Spaces are still bigger than Wordpress.com. Comparison chart is below.
Here is an interview with WordPress’ founder Matt Mullenweg
http://www.startupstudio.com/w.....007/04/05/
Deep down inside,….Wouldn’t everyone like to be the one millionth blog….INSTANT PUBLICITY!
Way to go Wordpress, I have had absolutely nothing but success using their software. Yea, it would be great to be that blog.
Steve,
Howtosplitanatom.com
Tim @ Jangl here. Kudos to Wordpress for their growth, but at the end of the day. . .phones and blogs, folks. You have to connect the mobile phone to the blog, with privacy and control for both the blogger and the caller.
That sorta innovation is what will take blogging — no, social networking — no, communicating, period — to the next stage.
That’s why we’ll trumpet Six Apart here, for having the foresight to do it. Anyone online can connect via mobile phone now with Jangl, but Typepad was the first to step up and say, “yes” — and they get some credit for that, in our camp and many other camps. Even our CEO has been blogging in Typepad, long before we were featured there.
There’s some real brilliance going on here with blogging platforms, and I’d expect we’re going to see a lot more — voice, yes, but even more — in coming months.
Congrats again to Wordpress.
Yeah, Scobleizer and WWD are alright and all. But they can’t just can’t keep up with the powerhouse that is http://icanhascheezburger.com/
the first place now belongs to certain cat macros/lolcats blog.. it seems mike dont likes lolcats…:P
@phl:
yeah, it is just too alluring…
does the one millionth blog register get any prizes? like a wordpress tshirt…
maybe matt should give out some freebies
Wordpress.com frontpage says:
‘972,365 blogs on WordPress.com.”
Where are 27 635 blogs?
Alex, they plan on reaching the milestone next week, which is what I wrote. You may have skimmed too quickly.
Oh, I see. Sorry.
4 year launch anniversary of what, WordPress? WordPress hit v1.0 after 4 years ago from next week.
Pretty soon they’ll hit 2 million. Like how the effect of Firefox just snowballed after 1 million downloads.
One thing to remember is that an API key is needed to use Akismet for self-hosted WordPress users. And the only way to get that APi key is to sign up with WordPress.com.
So if we want to analyze signups, we ought to focus on active accounts. Blogger has plenty of traffic, but do most blogs contain spam?
U.S. Comscore data shows that Blogger, Six Apart (in aggregate), and Live Spaces are still bigger than Wordpress.com. Comparison chart is below.
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I recently switched one of my blogs from to Wordpress from TypePad, and I must say you get the same features in WP, so there is no reason to pay for TP… At the beginning WP looked to amateurish to me, but now, i can’t live without it
Thanks for the writeup Mike! About Comscore: I have no idea how they count, but their numbers look US only and very inaccurate in our case. According to our internal stats, we’ve got 12 million monthly US uniques, double what Comscore suggests, and 45 million worldwide. QuantCast tracks us more accurately: http://quantcast.com/wordpress.com.
Also to clarify, we’re hitting 1 million blogs on WordPress.com which is about 18 months old. There are lots of additional self hosted blogs that use WordPress.org open source software, which is about to celebrate it’s 4th anniversary.
I am one of the million.
Congrats to Blogger -
- Hey mike this is wordpress isnt it? -
- I would liek to know the add-ons , and modifications you have made ..
Congrats Wordpress! Of course, having the music widgets on there makes all the difference
Cheers Gerd Leonhard CEO http://www.sonific.com
I am three of the million, which further illustrates how difficult it is to make sense of numbers like this. But a million is an impressive milestone, whatever it means.
One of my three blogs at WP.com is my main blog. It’s lived there for about a hundred days now. I just blogged about my impressions so far at:
http://changingway.org/2007/05.....e-million/
Let’s be fair with our statistics. Speaking as a WP and Six Apart blogger, Six Apart’s Movable Type is licensed software. I don’t think Six Apart can even measure how many blogs are created by their customers who own the software. Add all of those millions of MT blogs into the mix, and Word Press fluffy self-promotion may not seem like such a big deal.
Alex Choo, in the very beginning you had to get a blog to get an API key, but for at least a year now you only have to get an account, which doesn’t count toward our blog number. We also allow people to easily delete their blogs, which we don’t count toward our total blog number either. We publish all of the stats for this. If you count users instead of blogs, we’re actually closer to 1.1 million.
Hey,
I am, Paul
lots of great posts on here
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