- 240,494 blogs were created.
- 281,729 new users joined.
- 2,533,704 file uploads. (Y’all use the new uploader a lot more.)
- About 740 gigabytes of new files. (Estimated, better number next month.)
- 317 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters. (Compare to last time we published transfer numbers.)
- 3,258,032 posts and 1,330,355 new pages.
- 5,775,721 comments.
- 4,903,485 logins.
- 655,178,604 pageviews on WordPress.com, and another 408,359,440 on self-hosted blogs. (1,063,538,044 pageviews total across blogs using our stats system. We broke a billion!!)
- 63,730,680 pageviews in RSS feeds.
- 884,208 active blogs, where “active” means they got a human visitor.
- 152,005,525 unique people visited WordPress.com-hosted blogs
Keep in mind that’s JUST for WordPress and ONLY for the month of April, 2008. WOAH! One hundred and fifty two million individual people are reading blogs… shit!
Which begs the question as to why I only get about thirty unique visitors a day… 
4 Comments
May 29, 2008 at 12:45 pm
30? You’re a star. I battle to get 10. Must be the real exciting shit I write;-) Love the stats.
June 14, 2008 at 6:52 am
BTW here’s a link from my blog to some Pew research about bloggers. Interesting stuff in addition to what you quote here.
http://peterfletcher.com.au/2007/11/portrait-of-internets-new-storytellers.html
June 27, 2008 at 3:41 am
Hi Peter
Sorry for the delay in replying!
The 30 hits per day is on my other blog. I never look at the stats for this one, but despite the fact I get more comments here, I get a lot less traffic. I think my highest unique visitors per day was 38 or something, on a pretty uninteresting day for blogging, IMHO. I’m up to over 10,000 unique visitors between the former & current incarnations of And This Is What I Think: … but I’m sure most of them are one-time accidental visitors
Thanks for that PEW report, it looks like a good read – just what I need at the moment. You should see my office – I actually look like a speck of dirt in a mountain of books, paper, and coloured index cards (and coffee cups/mugs/take away cups/Diet Cokes).
August 25, 2008 at 10:25 am
that`s crazy