The WordPress march to take over the internet

Home.2019-02-11.draft

2019’s Most Surprising WordPress Statistics

https://www.whoishostingthis.com/compare/wordpress/stats/

      • 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