Important facts and statistics about WordPress untile 2021

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Founding year : 2003

Headquarters : San Francisco, California

Founder(s) : Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little

Current CEO : Matt Mullenweg

Parent company : Automatic

Subsidiary : Woocommerce, Tumblr, Akismet, Gravatar, Simplenote

What is WordPress ?

WordPress started in 2003 has grown into the world’s largest blogging tool, used by millions of websites and viewed by tens of millions of people every day Important facts.

The number of WordPress users :

How many websites use WordPress ?

60 million sites

Last updated 3/1/21

What is the percentage of WordPress sites ?

40%

Last updated 3/1/21

Percentage of the top 10 million websites worldwide that use WordPress :

33.4%

Last updated 3/15/2019

Additional WordPress statistics Important facts :

WordPress Share in Global Content Management Market :

60.2%

Last updated 3/14/2018

Number of posts written using WordPress :

2.5 billion

Last updated 6/26/15

Number of comments left on WordPress sites :

3 billion

Last updated 6/26/15

Number of new WordPress sites added daily :

50,000

Last updated 3/14/15

Number of people who view WordPress blogs per month :

409 million people

Last updated 3/1/21

Number of page views on WordPress blogs per month :

20 billion pages

Last updated 3/1/21

Number of new WordPress blog comments per month with Important facts  :

77 million new comments

Last updated 3/1/21

Number of new posts on WordPress blogs per month :

70 million

Last updated 3/1/21

WordPress powers 2,682 of the top 10,000 websites.

Last updated 10/17/2016

The most popular WordPress theme(s) :

Genesis and Divi each own 10 percent of all WordPress sites :

Last updated 2/23/2017

Number of WordPress employees :

510

Last update 12/12/2016

Number of plugins available for WordPress blogs :

54,775

Last updated 3/24/2019

Number of times WordPress plugins have been downloaded :

1.3 billion times

Last update 6/29/2016 

Number of views for your top five blog posts on WordPress.com :

15.8 million

Number of languages in which WordPress blogs are written :

over 120

Last updated 8/2/18

The best language to write WordPress blogs in :

English (71%)

Last updated 8/2/18

Percentage of WordPress blogs written in Spanish :

4.7%

Last updated 8/2/18

Longest title ever on a WordPress.com post :

19,176 words

Last updated 6/26/15

Longest WordPress.com Post Ever :

10 million words

Last updated 6/20/15

Number of posts made by WordPress.com users in 2016 :

595 million

Number of comments left by WordPress.com users in 2016 :

457 million

Total number downloads :

196 million times

Last update 12/12/2016

Percentage of online stores running WooCommerce :

39%

Last update 12/12/2016

Number of online stores running WooCommerce :

1.5 million active stores

Last update 12/12/2016

Number of sites where Jetpack is installed :

2.1 million

Last update 12/12/2016

Average number of photos provided by Photon per day :

29 million

Last update 12/12/2016

Number of spam comments blocked by Akismet in 2016 in Important facts :

80 billion

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