There’s no disputing the fact that WordPress is by far the most important CMS. The original idea of Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little has achieved blogospheric fame in the 11 short years since its release. You might think you already know just how popular WordPress is. Think again, because these 13 WordPress usage statistics might just give you something to think about. 1-48% of the blogs in the Technorati top 100 are managed with WordPress.
When you consider that there are a huge number of alternatives available, this statistic speaks volumes about the popularity of WordPress.
If you decide to go with WordPress, you’ll certainly be in good company; the New York Times, CNN, Mashable, TechCrunch and eBay all manage their blogs with the world’s most popular CMS. 2- 74.6 million sites use WordPress.
Yes, you read that right. 74652825 sites up and running thanks to good old WordPress. The equivalent of one site per person in Turkey. Around 50% of these (nearly 37 million) are hosted on the free version of WordPress.com, and 18.9% of all sites are hosted on WordPress.org.
This is even more astonishing when you consider that over 70% of sites worldwide do not use a CMS. 3- Searches for WordPress-related keywords reach 37 million per month.
The keyword “WordPress” alone accounts for over 450,000 searches each month. And that’s just the word “WordPress”; that’s not counting all the searches for “WordPress help” or “WordPress plugins”. When you count searches for all keywords containing “WordPress” or “WP” (a common abbreviation for “WordPress”), the monthly search figure rises to a whopping 37 million. If the trend continues, WordPress will get 444 million searches in 2014. That’s almost one and a half times the population of the United States.
WordPress is searched five times more often than Joomla and nine times more often than Drupal. 4- WordPress is translated into 40 languages.
While this number is nowhere near as staggering as the others you’ve just read, it is by no means less important. If English isn’t your first language and you’d rather have access to your dashboard in Croatian, Dutch, Estonian, French or Finnish, you’re in luck.
If you don’t speak any of the forty languages listed and would be more comfortable with something else, brace yourself. The WordPress team actively updates their list with new translations. 5- 22% of newly registered domains in the U.S. use WordPress.
Out of every 100 domains registered in the U.S., 22 of them run on WordPress.
Considering that an average of 120,000 domains are registered worldwide every day, it goes without saying that WordPress is growing by leaps and bounds.
And that percentage is rising all the time.
6- WordPress.com gets more unique visitors than Amazon (USA).
While WordPress.com registers around 126 million unique visitors per month, Amazon, far behind, only achieves 96 million unique visitors each month.
7- WordPress.com employs just 229 people.
8- There are 6 new WordPress.com entries every second.
Every second there’s a real-time map on the WordPress.com site that lets you see a blogger’s location at the very moment they post. 9- There are 30,000 WordPress plugins, and that number is growing every day.
The main feature that sets WordPress apart from any other CMS platform is, without a doubt, their plugins. Plugins help to extend and capitalize on WordPress’ functionality – removing them would cripple WordPress users.
Fortunately, nothing of the sort happens. On the contrary, the WordPress plugin database recently reached 30,000 and a new one is added almost every hour. In total, these plugins have been downloaded more than 286 million times. Within a few years, all you’ll hear is “there’s a plugin for that”. 10- There are 98 versions of WordPress to date.
Major WordPress updates are released once every few weeks. On top of that, the source code is updated 60 to 80 times a day. 11- WordPress.org downloads total 46 million.
The free WordPress.org platform, which supports self-hosted sites, had been downloaded over 46 million times as of July 2013, which is close to 100 downloads every day since 2003.
With the sudden popularity of blogs in recent years, downloads per day in 2014 are significantly higher (think tens of thousands) than they were in 2003. 12- WordPress is popular with business sites.
Among the top 1,000,000 sites worldwide, the number of business sites (most popular with WordPress) using WordPress is five times the number of news sites managed with WordPress (which are slightly less popular with WordPress).
This statistic is not surprising, with online marketing circles discussing WordPress more than any other CMS. WordPress also ranks as one of the most mentioned topics in online marketing blogs, with almost all its keywords having a very high CPC.
13- Akismet spam protection is the most popular plugin.
Of the 19,000 free plugins available, Akismet is the most downloaded, being automatically installed with new versions of WordPress.
Akismet has been downloaded a staggering 18 million times. Spam protection alone was responsible for almost 0.06% of all WordPress.org plugin downloads. Tolbert Michael’s “All in One SEO Pack” came in second place, with a total of 17 million downloads. In third place, with 14 million downloads, is “Contact Form 7”, another familiar name to most bloggers. SOURCE : http://lacliniquewordpress.com/plusieurs-statistiques-surprenantes-wordpress/
