My Google Analytics plugin recently hit 3 million downloads and my WordPress SEO plugin hit its first million downloads. I thought those stats were cool and I decided to have an infographic made with more WordPress stats and dive in a little bit more and gather some stats that I thought would be interesting.
I asked Experian Hitwise to give me some stats about visits to WordPress.org, Drupal.org and Joomla.org in the UK and US, which they did (thanks!). Upwork (former: oDesk) and Freelancer.com have some great WordPress stats pages and of course there’s a bit of info on WordPress.org itself. So, with all of that and some I’m probably forgetting, Design by Soap made the following infographic for me, I hope you like it, if you do, please share it!
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57 Responses to WordPress Stats Infographic
Corky Swanson • 13 years ago
I tried WordPress SEO but had some strange problems, went back to HeadSpace2, but that plugin has suddenly started blocking basic post editing. Going back to WordPress SEO. Wish me luck.
Rui Pacheco • 13 years ago
Great Infographic Joost, thanks. I am definitively going to share it!!! :) By the way, thank you also for the great WP plugins. I am using both Google Analytics and WordPress SEO, they are quite simply the best WP plugins ever
Deola Kayode • 13 years ago
Yoast,
does activating the WordPress SEO have anything to do with the DNS config? I activated it and changed the permalink to category and postname.
Almost immediately lost my links on Google, and later my DNS config was affected. Is that linked to the plug-in or something else?
thanks,
Deola Kayode
rokko • 13 years ago
Excellent infographic!
Wordpress is more and more popular also thanks to yours great plugins ;)
Diane Bourque • 13 years ago
Thanks so much for this great infographic. Much appreciated!
Nimsrules • 13 years ago
No wonder your SEO plugin is so popular. It serves the best SEO options for the most used CMS in the world. Keep it coming Yoast :)
Social Networking Sites • 13 years ago
Very informative, WordPress now gears up. I am finding that kind of informative post about WordPress. Good post Yoast. Keep it up. :)
Social Networking Sites • 13 years ago
Very informative, WordPress now gears up. Good post Yoast:)
Amit • 13 years ago
Congratulations WordPress and Yoast! :)
LaughterBurn • 13 years ago
These plugins are indeed great! Thanks Joost.
christine • 13 years ago
Thanks for the infographic yoast! Definitely will pin it! Downloaded you google analytics plugin today for wordpress!
kevin redman • 13 years ago
Some serious numbers there and its free as well. Have not got yoast on my site will have to go and have a look at it
Brad D • 13 years ago
Great infographic Yoast! The rate of WordPress is amazing and it is starting to grow in popularity in Australia as well, finally!
Oscar • 13 years ago
Great article. WordPress is really exploding.
It still boggles my mind that there are people who spend thousands of dollars for a website, while WordPress is completely free and beats there website big time!
Congratulations with reaching a million!
Ejaz • 13 years ago
Mind boggling figures, It is amazing that 32 million websites are run from a single WP MS installation (wordpress.com).
Btw great infographic.
Steven • 13 years ago
This again is proof of open source success and that good service can promote itself and you don’t need huge budget to push it forward.
Looks like Yoast plugin is also very popular
Scott Alexander • 13 years ago
What a wonderful representation of the continued domination of WordPress in comparison to it’s competitors. Some of these numbers are truly astounding.
Yousaf • 13 years ago
Great infographic and congratulations for the 3m milestone!
Mahesh Mohan • 13 years ago
Okay. Am gonna install Yoast SEO on a dummy site to check the features… after a quick review I see that Yoast have more features…
^ Post author
Joost de Valk • 13 years ago
Yes, that’s why you need to import.
Mahesh Mohan • 13 years ago
Oops! That sucks! I should have used this plugin from the very beginning now am not sure whether to go for this.. as I see many features….
Dainis Graveris • 13 years ago
Mahesh, that’s what Joost is trying to say, it’s super easy to import your previous All In One settings in his plugin and start using it without any problems! I just made a switch myself, so I can give thumbs up!
Mahesh Mohan • 13 years ago
Okay. But I gave up my plan.. am still using All In One SEO. Because I can’t take the risk.. if there is something wrong then all my meta info will be gone…
Mahesh Mohan • 13 years ago
I am still not sure whether to go for Yoast SEO Plugin or All In One SEO… Have been using All in one seo ever since I launched the blog… you can bring the permalink redirect back as a separate plugin it was useful…
^ Post author
Joost de Valk • 13 years ago
Try WordPress SEO, seriously. It’s so much better, but the proof of the pudding is in the eating :)
Mahesh Mohan • 13 years ago
Any comparison with All In One SEO? I use AIOSEO mainly because I can write custom meta keywords, desc, and title while writing the blogpost.
No actually you can import all your keywords automatically.
it’s a lot to absorb at one time, but once you get it right youyou can export all the settings for your next website
Mahesh Mohan • 13 years ago
Hi,
I have just installed Yoast. But why should I import from All In One SEO? If I disable All IN One SEO then will the keywords and description entered via All In One SEO for individual posts be lost?
Mark Gason • 13 years ago
I think it should say “to date, there have been 98 version releases”
not “here”
Dainis Graveris • 13 years ago
Great infographic Yoast! And congratulations by reaching 3 million downloads, those are very impressive stats!
Btw just yesterday also installed your plugin on 1WD :) Loving it! Very well explained smallest details!
Shivbhadra Gohil • 13 years ago
A very good infographics, can you write a post about how to create this type of Infographics?
Mahesh Mohan • 13 years ago
Where is blogger in the Market Share stats?
Rednights • 13 years ago
Much earned success Yoast. May you continue to have much more success in the future!
Hanan • 13 years ago
Mr. Yoast, can you tell me what is the advantage of providing a free plugin? I am impressed with your good intentions to make the plugin free of charge, although it takes a lot of time.
Sincerely Yours.
Thoriq • 13 years ago
This is awesome, I’m from Indonesia and I didn’t realize that “Indonesians are the most prolific WordPress users the planet”. thank you for the infographic Joost.
Dave Macdonald • 13 years ago
Great infographic, I plan to use this during client meetings when they ask about Joomla :)
Micha • 13 years ago
Nice Infographic. Wow… 20-25% of all Websites were built with WordPress! Great success!
Delphine Zhu • 13 years ago
Nice info. We did our websites and websites for our local clients in WP too. I have to admit that WP is the most SEO friendly and user friendly platform.
Jason Bhatti • 13 years ago
Great infographic. WP is truly the giant here and I definitely love my new blog on WP as there are a load more features from Blogger and the fact that the sites look clean and simple with less distractions from the actually content.
Paul Christian • 13 years ago
This is really great to see… With an install (user) base like this, it isn’t going anywhere soon and it will only get more interesting to create great plugins for it.
Deola • 13 years ago
Great infographic there!fully expresses the strides WordPress has taken as a content management system.
I kinda like the fact that Yoast is blowing his trumpet there (lol!). I have been put up my blog since 2006 and I can undoubtedly say You’ve contributed immensly to the growth of WordPress.
Well done!
Tight Line Productions • 13 years ago
These are some really mind blowing stats, Joost! It reminds me of that Social Media Revolution YouTube video!
As an SEO, I love WordPress, and it’s easy to see why. I love how everything is that graphic is laid out — nice and clean. Did you make it yourself? I’m tempted to use it in my next blog (of course, giving you credit as the source) because it’s some real powerful stuff.
Cheers!
Khaled Hakim • 13 years ago
Great infogaph buddy. You put a lot of work into visualizing the cool wordpress info… keep up the good work ;)
Dan Stramer • 13 years ago
is there a place to get wordpress.org stats in Israel?
By IP or other another method?
Is there a website like “socialbakers” for wordpress?
Thanks
Dan
Ed Harris • 13 years ago
That is a stunning post Yoast.
Most if not all serious website owners who implement WordPress as their platform, should use your brilliant plugins.
What I liked most is the fact that WP is simply crushing Joomla ( close to 6:1 ratio ), which is a horrible and an unfriendly CMS to begin with.
Dan Stramer • 13 years ago
Hi,
Great infographic.
Is there any chance getting the original file of the infographic, I would like to translate it into hebrew and post it on my site.
Of course credit and link will be added.
Thanks,
Dan
Chris Wiegman • 13 years ago
It is very impressive to see where WordPress has been and sounds very positive for the future. I wonder how long it can last before something else comes along.
Imran Hunzai • 13 years ago
There are tons of reasons to love WordPress. You have told us the most. Thanks for the post :)
theWebalyst • 13 years ago
Great post Yoast, really useful summary. Thanks, Mark (in London)
P.S. Can’t believe I’ve only now subscribed to your newsletter! Is it new?
Liz Jamieson • 13 years ago
Congratulations Joost! Those are very impressive stats. Russell Jamieson (my husband) spent some time in a bar with you in 2010 at the WordCamp in Kilkenny and you inspired him to get more into plugin development. He now has 4 plugins and more planned. Hopefully his download stats will one day be like yours ;-) Well done.
ekal • 13 years ago
As an SEO you should know better than to trust those public guessed-at traffic stats ;)
Both Joomla and Drupal have made their traffic stats publicly available. Joomla gets around 7 million visits per month and Drupal about 1.5 million.
So going on an estimate of 15% US traffic, Joomla probably gets 1 million per month from the US and Drupal around 225,000.
very nice infographic, some incredibly insane numbers in that graphic,
Daniel K. • 13 years ago
I think you made a small mistake with one of the stats: it says that over 352M people view more than 2.5 million pages in an average month on WordPress.com; Shouldn’t that be 2.5 BILLION pages?
^ Post author
Joost de Valk • 13 years ago
Heh, I knew we’d make a mistake somewhere, let me get that one fixed :)
Heikki H. • 13 years ago
Cool! First infographic that I just have to post to Pinboard. ;) Thanks!
Heikki H. • 13 years ago
Ah heck. Not Pinboard, but the more popular Pin-thingy. I’m sure this is one of the most relevant corrections ever.
I tried WordPress SEO but had some strange problems, went back to HeadSpace2, but that plugin has suddenly started blocking basic post editing. Going back to WordPress SEO. Wish me luck.
Great Infographic Joost, thanks. I am definitively going to share it!!! :) By the way, thank you also for the great WP plugins. I am using both Google Analytics and WordPress SEO, they are quite simply the best WP plugins ever
Yoast,
does activating the WordPress SEO have anything to do with the DNS config? I activated it and changed the permalink to category and postname.
Almost immediately lost my links on Google, and later my DNS config was affected. Is that linked to the plug-in or something else?
thanks,
Deola Kayode
Excellent infographic!
Wordpress is more and more popular also thanks to yours great plugins ;)
Thanks so much for this great infographic. Much appreciated!
No wonder your SEO plugin is so popular. It serves the best SEO options for the most used CMS in the world. Keep it coming Yoast :)
Very informative, WordPress now gears up. I am finding that kind of informative post about WordPress. Good post Yoast. Keep it up. :)
Very informative, WordPress now gears up. Good post Yoast:)
Congratulations WordPress and Yoast! :)
These plugins are indeed great! Thanks Joost.
Thanks for the infographic yoast! Definitely will pin it! Downloaded you google analytics plugin today for wordpress!
Some serious numbers there and its free as well. Have not got yoast on my site will have to go and have a look at it
Great infographic Yoast! The rate of WordPress is amazing and it is starting to grow in popularity in Australia as well, finally!
Great article. WordPress is really exploding.
It still boggles my mind that there are people who spend thousands of dollars for a website, while WordPress is completely free and beats there website big time!
Congratulations with reaching a million!
Mind boggling figures, It is amazing that 32 million websites are run from a single WP MS installation (wordpress.com).
Btw great infographic.
This again is proof of open source success and that good service can promote itself and you don’t need huge budget to push it forward.
Looks like Yoast plugin is also very popular
What a wonderful representation of the continued domination of WordPress in comparison to it’s competitors. Some of these numbers are truly astounding.
Great infographic and congratulations for the 3m milestone!
Okay. Am gonna install Yoast SEO on a dummy site to check the features… after a quick review I see that Yoast have more features…
Yes, that’s why you need to import.
Oops! That sucks! I should have used this plugin from the very beginning now am not sure whether to go for this.. as I see many features….
Mahesh, that’s what Joost is trying to say, it’s super easy to import your previous All In One settings in his plugin and start using it without any problems! I just made a switch myself, so I can give thumbs up!
Okay. But I gave up my plan.. am still using All In One SEO. Because I can’t take the risk.. if there is something wrong then all my meta info will be gone…
I am still not sure whether to go for Yoast SEO Plugin or All In One SEO… Have been using All in one seo ever since I launched the blog… you can bring the permalink redirect back as a separate plugin it was useful…
Try WordPress SEO, seriously. It’s so much better, but the proof of the pudding is in the eating :)
Any comparison with All In One SEO? I use AIOSEO mainly because I can write custom meta keywords, desc, and title while writing the blogpost.
Go here: https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/ and start reading. Seriously, of course you can do that in my SEO plugin as well, but better.
No actually you can import all your keywords automatically.
it’s a lot to absorb at one time, but once you get it right youyou can export all the settings for your next website
Hi,
I have just installed Yoast. But why should I import from All In One SEO? If I disable All IN One SEO then will the keywords and description entered via All In One SEO for individual posts be lost?
I think it should say “to date, there have been 98 version releases”
not “here”
Great infographic Yoast! And congratulations by reaching 3 million downloads, those are very impressive stats!
Btw just yesterday also installed your plugin on 1WD :) Loving it! Very well explained smallest details!
A very good infographics, can you write a post about how to create this type of Infographics?
Where is blogger in the Market Share stats?
Much earned success Yoast. May you continue to have much more success in the future!
Mr. Yoast, can you tell me what is the advantage of providing a free plugin? I am impressed with your good intentions to make the plugin free of charge, although it takes a lot of time.
Sincerely Yours.
This is awesome, I’m from Indonesia and I didn’t realize that “Indonesians are the most prolific WordPress users the planet”. thank you for the infographic Joost.
Great infographic, I plan to use this during client meetings when they ask about Joomla :)
Nice Infographic. Wow… 20-25% of all Websites were built with WordPress! Great success!
Nice info. We did our websites and websites for our local clients in WP too. I have to admit that WP is the most SEO friendly and user friendly platform.
Great infographic. WP is truly the giant here and I definitely love my new blog on WP as there are a load more features from Blogger and the fact that the sites look clean and simple with less distractions from the actually content.
This is really great to see… With an install (user) base like this, it isn’t going anywhere soon and it will only get more interesting to create great plugins for it.
Great infographic there!fully expresses the strides WordPress has taken as a content management system.
I kinda like the fact that Yoast is blowing his trumpet there (lol!). I have been put up my blog since 2006 and I can undoubtedly say You’ve contributed immensly to the growth of WordPress.
Well done!
These are some really mind blowing stats, Joost! It reminds me of that Social Media Revolution YouTube video!
As an SEO, I love WordPress, and it’s easy to see why. I love how everything is that graphic is laid out — nice and clean. Did you make it yourself? I’m tempted to use it in my next blog (of course, giving you credit as the source) because it’s some real powerful stuff.
Cheers!
Great infogaph buddy. You put a lot of work into visualizing the cool wordpress info… keep up the good work ;)
is there a place to get wordpress.org stats in Israel?
By IP or other another method?
Is there a website like “socialbakers” for wordpress?
Thanks
Dan
That is a stunning post Yoast.
Most if not all serious website owners who implement WordPress as their platform, should use your brilliant plugins.
What I liked most is the fact that WP is simply crushing Joomla ( close to 6:1 ratio ), which is a horrible and an unfriendly CMS to begin with.
Hi,
Great infographic.
Is there any chance getting the original file of the infographic, I would like to translate it into hebrew and post it on my site.
Of course credit and link will be added.
Thanks,
Dan
It is very impressive to see where WordPress has been and sounds very positive for the future. I wonder how long it can last before something else comes along.
There are tons of reasons to love WordPress. You have told us the most. Thanks for the post :)
Great post Yoast, really useful summary. Thanks, Mark (in London)
P.S. Can’t believe I’ve only now subscribed to your newsletter! Is it new?
Congratulations Joost! Those are very impressive stats. Russell Jamieson (my husband) spent some time in a bar with you in 2010 at the WordCamp in Kilkenny and you inspired him to get more into plugin development. He now has 4 plugins and more planned. Hopefully his download stats will one day be like yours ;-) Well done.
As an SEO you should know better than to trust those public guessed-at traffic stats ;)
Both Joomla and Drupal have made their traffic stats publicly available. Joomla gets around 7 million visits per month and Drupal about 1.5 million.
So going on an estimate of 15% US traffic, Joomla probably gets 1 million per month from the US and Drupal around 225,000.
From Joomla (a year old and they claim big growth since then) http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/1324-6-million.html
From Drupal a few weeks ago: http://www.cmswire.com/images/Drupal_growth_2012.jpg
very nice infographic, some incredibly insane numbers in that graphic,
I think you made a small mistake with one of the stats: it says that over 352M people view more than 2.5 million pages in an average month on WordPress.com; Shouldn’t that be 2.5 BILLION pages?
Heh, I knew we’d make a mistake somewhere, let me get that one fixed :)
Cool! First infographic that I just have to post to Pinboard. ;) Thanks!
Ah heck. Not Pinboard, but the more popular Pin-thingy. I’m sure this is one of the most relevant corrections ever.