Wordpress Grows 310% this Year

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 by Janet Meiners

Wordpress Grows 310% this Year

Second place isn’t so bad with numbers like these. Here are some numbers about blogging and social networking sites according to Nielsen Online. They just released November’s numbers on the top 10 social networking sites. The biggest gainers are Flixster (where you share movie reviews) and LinkedIn, a social network for professionals.

Quick Facts

MySpace.com is #1 social networking site in the US, with nearly 57.4 million unique visitors last month.
Google’s Blogger rests is #1 for blog site rankings with 33.6 million visitors and 49% more than last year with 33.6 visitors in November.
#2 social networking site, Facebook is keeping double digit growth rates compared to last year. The number of visitors is nearly 22.0 million – 89 percent higher compared to MySpace visitors which rose just 7 percent year over year.
WordPress, the #2 blogging platform grew 310 percent from last year with 12 million visitors, — up from 2.9 million last year. #3 is Type Pad, which grew — 22 percent from last year with 11.0 million visitors in Nov.

Here’s a chart that shows last month’s comparison of the top blog sites. Blogger is far ahead but Wordpress and Thatsfit (a health-oriented blog) are growing very quickly. Judging from this social networking sites are topping out more than blogs. There is positive growth for all but Xanga.

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10 comments on “Wordpress Grows 310% this Year”

Croissance des plateformes de blogging : Wordpress.com pête le feu — SHOOB Says:

December 18th, 2007 at 2:02 pm

[...] Wordpress Grows 310% this Year [...]
Mary Ann Says:

December 18th, 2007 at 5:41 pm

Very useful information. Thanks!

For a business, would you recommend Wordpress or Blogger?
» Live Spaces Grows 8% To 9.5 Million Uniques » InsideMicrosoft-part of the Blog News Channel Says:

December 19th, 2007 at 12:23 am

[...] Nielsen released stats on the top social networking websites, and Microsoft’s Live Spaces moved up one spot over the last year, passing the declining AOL Hometown to take fourth place. Live Spaces’ growth was small, a respectable 8%, more than MySpace’s 7% but far below the 89% of Facebook or 245% of LinkedIn. According to these stats, Live Spaces has 9.5 million unique visitors, up 700,000. [...]
Den Says:

December 19th, 2007 at 4:22 am

GO! Wordpress GO!
It’s a love & hate relationship.
Hate it the first time coz all the codes complexity then fall in love after I slowly understands it.
We can learn more than just using a blogging platform.
Support Wordpress so next year it will be on top spot and stay there.
Pascal Van Hecke Says:

December 19th, 2007 at 3:57 pm

The reason for Wordpress growth: they have a really nice product that uses Adsense in a very smart way: they only show ads to one-time visitors who land on a page after a Google search.
Blends Says:

December 19th, 2007 at 11:24 pm

No wonder wordpress growing. I think wordpress the best cms for blog. Long live wordpress!
Brent Says:

December 26th, 2007 at 11:13 pm

We use WordPress exclusively and it works great for small businesses, beginners and pros. Amazing platform to use to get your message out.
SimpleIT’s Blog » Blog Archive » Is Wordpress cool for developers? Says:

December 28th, 2007 at 11:31 pm

[...] the fact that Wordpress has won hearts of many bloggers and has grown drastically over the past 12 months, it’s actually [...]
jimi redmond Says:

December 29th, 2007 at 6:59 pm

I had no idea that Facebook has that kind of reach. I am going to join facebook as soon as I finish here, thanks for the tip. jimi
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January 14th, 2008 at 4:08 pm

[...] Wordpress Grows 310% this Year Second place isn’t so bad with numbers like these. Here are some numbers about blogging and social networking sites according to Nielsen Online. They just released November’s numbers on the top 10 social networking sites. The biggest gainers are Flixster (where you share movie reviews) and LinkedIn, a social network for professionals. [...]

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