Interesting STATS about WordPress

Interesting STATS about WordPress
September 7, 2014 Mike McLeland

 Interesting STATS about WordPressInteresting STATS about WordPress

There’s no disputing the fact that WordPress is by far the most prominent CMS being used across the web today. You might think you already know all you need to know about WordPress – think again.  Please see the following VERY IMPRESSIVE statistics about WordPress.

1. Almost 50% (48%) of Technorati’s Top 100 Blogs Are Managed With WordPress

When you consider that there are is an enormous amount of alternative content manage systems available, this statistic speaks volumes about WordPress popularity. If you decide to go with WordPress, you will definitely be with good company. The New York Times, CNN, Mashable, and eBay all run their blogs on the most popular CMS in the world – WordPress.

2. 74.6 Million Sites Depend on WordPress

Can you believe this statistic?  It’s correct! You read right. That’s almost 75 million websites across the web that use and depend on WordPress. That’s one site per person in Turkey.

Around 50% of this figure (close to 37 million) is hosted on the free WordPress.com. In the realm of self-hosted sites, WordPress accounts for 18.9% of all websites. That’s even more astounding when you consider that over 70% of sites worldwide do not use a CMS.

3. WordPress-Related Keywords Score 37 Million Searches Per Month

The keyword “WordPress” alone receives over 450,000 exact match searches every month. That’s just “WordPress”, not “WordPress help” or “WordPress plugins” or anything of the sort.

When you count the searches of all keywords with WordPress in them, the monthly figure is a whopping 37 million searches. Assuming that this figure remains constant, WordPress will get 444 million searches in 2014. That’s nearly one and a half times the population of the U.S.

More importantly, WordPress is searched five times as much as Joomla and nine times more often than Drupal.

4. 40 Translations of WordPress

While the actual number isn’t half so mind-boggling as the others you’ve just read, it’s no less significant. If English isn’t your first language and you would rather have Croatian, Dutch, Estonian, French or Finnish (see full list of WordPress translations) governing your dashboard, you’re in luck. If you don’t happen to speak one of the forty languages listed and you are more comfortable with something else, hold on tight. The WordPress team is actively updating their list with new language translations all the time.

5. 22% of New U.S. Registered Domains Run on WordPress

What can you say but WOW! Out of every 100 domains registered in the U.S., 22 of them will be run on WordPress. Considering that an average of 120,000 domains are registered worldwide per day, it’s safe to say that WordPress is growing by leaps and bounds.

That “18.9%-of-all-website” figure is increasing all the time.

6. 29,000 WordPress Plugins and Growing Daily

Without doubt, the number one feature that sets WordPress apart from any other CMS is their plugins. Plugins extend and capitalize on the functionality of WordPress — removing access to them would cripple WordPress users (and that’s one of the reasons why WordPress.com falls second to Blogger).

Fortunately, nothing of the sort is happening. On the contrary, WordPress.org’s database of plugins has recently hit 29K and a new one is added nearly every hour. In total, these plugins have been downloaded 286,000,000+ times. Give it a few years and all you’ll be hearing is “there’s a plugin for that”.

7. 46 Million Downloads of WordPress.org

The free WordPress.org platform that supports self-hosted websites has been downloaded 46 million times up till July of 2013, which approximates to 100 downloads every day since 2003. You might not have downloaded WordPress and uploaded it to your FTP manager yourself, but when you installed it using Fantastico or the much loved 1-Click, it was counted as a download.

Since it’s only in the recent years that blogging has suddenly become quite a bit more popular, the downloads per day in 2014 are significantly higher (think tens of thousands) than they were in 2003.

WordPress Is Most Popular With Business Websites

Akismet Spam Protection – of the top 1,000,000 sites in the world, the number of business sites (most popular with WordPress) powered by WordPress is five times the number of WordPress-managed news sites (least popular with WordPress). This statistic is not all that surprising, as online marketing circles will often discuss WordPress more than any other CMS out there. WordPress also ranks high as one of the most blogged topics in the online marketing niche and nearly all its keywords have very high PPC competition.

8. Akismet Is the Most Popular Plugin

Of all the 19,000 free plugins available for download, Akismet has received the most downloads. The main reason for this is that Akismet comes auto-installed with the newer versions of WordPress.

Akismet has been downloaded a total of 18 million times, a truly mind-blowing figure. The spam protection plugin alone has been responsible for close to .06% of all plugin downloads at WordPress.org. The All in One SEO Pack from Michael Tolbert comes in at a very close second, with a total of 17 million downloads. In third place, with 14 million downloads, is Contact Form 7 , another familiar name to most bloggers.

9. Wrapping Up

The statistics that make WordPress the world’s most popular CMS are truly mind-numbing.