The State of WordPress 2008: Awesome Growth

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原文：The State of WordPress 2008: Awesome Growth




Today at WordCamp, a User and Developer 1-day conference for the WordPress blogging platform, Founder Matt Mullenweg announced impressive growth figures and reaffirmed Automattic’sfocus on fixing some of WordPress’s biggest weaknesses. The theme forthe “State of the Word”, Mullenweg’s yearly keynote, was “Strong,” andgrowth from both WordPress.comand WordPress.org(their hosted and self-hosted platforms, respectively) sure show it.  Here are the stats for WordPress.com over the last year:

• Page views grew from 1.5 billion to 6.5 billion/month
• 1/3 of the page views come from VIPs like CNNand LOLCats
• 120-160 million global unique visitors per month
• Two million new blogs created for the year
• 35 million new blog posts (up from 20 million)

This growth is also seems significant versus WordPress.com’s main competitor, Typepad.Comscore numbers put US numbers at 20.9M uniques for WordPress.comagainst 7.2M on Typepad.com, and internationally 97.8M vs. 16.8M.Here’s the Compete graph (which only measures US traffic):





And for WordPress.org (the self-hosted, open-source version), Mullenweg announced today that there are 2.6 million active user-installed WordPress blogs in the wild.  This figure is based on real data (not sampling), similar to Mozilla accumulating browser stats.Downloads from WordPress.org went over 11 million since last summer (upfrom 2.8 million the year before), thanks to over 11 new WP releases.
The focus for 2009? Easier upgrades. Their growth, Mullenweg says,is not dissimilar from other popular products (he mentioned Microsoft,OSX, iPhone, Facebook platform as examples), and believes that goodplatforms need good self-updating systems. Automattic has a three-prongstrategy for better updates: better community awareness, working withwebhosts, and adding automatic upgrades functionality to WordPress.Mullenweg envisions the upgrade process to work just Firefox: one-click, with a list of plugin and theme incompatibilities generated.WordPress.org’s plugin directory (and a recently-launched themedirectory) will help make this possible. Many new features are also inthe pipeline, including the much anticipated BuddyPress, but that a clean update system will remove one of the biggest thorns for WP users.
Also up for 2009 is better security.  Their most recent release  ,2.6.1, was an optional update (no security patches), which is a nicedeparture from their previous, critical ‘dot’ releases. WordPress hasreceived a lot of flack for this recently: they were given a 2008 Pwnie for Mass 0wnage for numerous vulnerabilities that led to mass hacking.

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