WordPress.com and the Millions
December 5, 2007
The WordPress.com front page gives the number of blogs hosted at the site. It’s approaching two million. But how many of them are active?
There are over half a million active blogs at WordPress.com, according to Matt’s November wrap-up. But what does “active” mean? It means at least one human pageview.
I’m (even) more impressed with the half-million than with the two million. I’ll look forward to the annual wrap-up: 2007 has been a big year for WordPress.com and for Automattic.
December 8, 2007 at 7:36 pm
Valid points
December 11, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Thanks for writing this. I too question the validity of the definition of “active” (one page view) when it comes to counting wordpress.com blogs.
December 11, 2007 at 1:58 pm
I agree that one page view seems like a rather lenient definition of “active blog.” On the other hand, it’s probably as good a definition as there is. And I say “Good for Matt” for putting the definition right there next to the number of active blogs.
December 12, 2007 at 7:45 pm
“active” is pretty nebulous, a human page view seems like as good a definition as any.
Anyone is welcome to review http://wordpress.com/stats/ and suggest other interpretations