2019’s Most Surprising WordPress Statistics
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- WordPress Took Over 112 Years to Build (programming-years)
- WordPress is the Top Content Management System
- 34% of the Internet is Powered by WordPress
- WordPress Sites Make Up 14.7% of the Top 100 Websites in the World
- WordPress 4.7 Has Been Downloaded Over 19,700,000 Times
- WordPress is *Still* Growing
- WordPress is Available in Over 50 Languages
- WordPress Content is Published in Over 120 Different Languages
- WordPress Never Sleeps
- WordPress Gets 175 Million Page Views Per Month
- The record for the most unique page views in a day on a WordPress website in 2016 is 187 million
- Over 39% of All Online Stores Run on WooCommerce
- According to Builtwith, WooCommerce has a 10% share of the ecommerce technology market
- In 2016, WordPress Published 117,939,148,357 Words
- WordPress.com Blogs Have Over 400 Million Monthly Viewers
- WordPress Has Had 4,969 Commits by 70 Contributors
- WordPress is the Fastest Growing Web Publication Software
- WordPress is a Lucrative Career Opportunity
- There Are 3,000+ Free GPL-licensed Themes for WordPress
- There Are 48,500+ Free Plugins for WordPress
- Jetpack Was Installed on Over 2,000,000 New Websites Last Year
- Akismet Blocked 80 Billion Spam Comments
- WordPress.com Only Has 532 employees
- WordPress Denied 40% of DMCA Takedowns
- WordPress Denied 65% of Information Requests