Wordpress.com Fact Thread

[Spekulatius]

This thread is to funnel all available facts from wordpress that can be found. If you want to express your joy over the recent adoption decision pls go to WordPress.com accepts Bitcoins.
If you contribute data, pls always back it up with links, like below. Thank you.

Global Traffic Rank # 22

People reading wordpress blogs per month: 391M people

Sites powerd by wordpress in 2011: ~35M sites

Sites powerd by wordpress at the moment: ~57M sites

Sites powerd by wordpress in 2012 (est.): ~70M sites

Revenue of Automattic 2012 (est.): 45M US$
Top 10 Languages used in wordpress blogs:
   1. English 66%
   2. Spanish 8.7%
   3. Portuguese 6.5%
   4. Indonesian 3.5%
   5. Italian 2%
   6. German 1.8%
   7. French 1.4%
   8  Russian 1.1%
   9. Vietnamese 1.1%
 10. Swedish 1.0%



http://royal.pingdom.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/top-100-blogs.001.jpg


Links:

http://en.wordpress.com/stats/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress.com
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wordpress.com#
http://allthingsd.com/20120425/automattic-grows-up-the-company-behind-wordpress-com-shares-revenue-numbers-and-hires-execs/
http://royal.pingdom.com/2012/04/11/wordpress-completely-dominates-top-100-blogs/

[Phinnaeus Gage]

WordPress completely dominates top 100 blogs Posted in Main on April 11th, 2012 by Pingdom

http://en.wordpress.com/notable-users/

[World]

If WordPress continues on its current trajectory, there will be 300-500 million WordPress sites by 2015.

via Toni Schneider
http://toni.org/2012/05/03/1-billion-web-sites-in-2013/

[dserrano5]

If WordPress continues on its current trajectory, there will be 300-500 million WordPress sites by 2015.

via Toni Schneider
http://toni.org/2012/05/03/1-billion-web-sites-in-2013/

Not to be a dick but that is not a fact.

[casascius]

One aspect I find exciting is that this will motivate bloggers to post Bitcoin donation addresses since they now have a place to spend them.

WordPress could offer the simple route and allow people to donate directly to people's fee accounts so individual bloggers can accept Bitcoin donations to offset their fees without needing a wallet if they so choose.