interesting facts about WordPress
Here are some of the Interesting facts about WordPress
- WordPress powers 29% of the internet.
- WordPress was released in 2003, and it’s now 15 years old.
- WordPress has only 673 employees source.
- Over 409 million people view WordPress blogs every month.
- The keyword “WordPress” gets googled around 2.8 million times every month.
- WordPress has its own store known as ‘WordPress Swag’ that sells shirts and hoodies and rotates other products through the lineup on a regular basis.
- As of February 2018, the market share trend for WordPress is 60.1%.
- The number of page views on WordPress every month is 23.1 billion pages.
- org has an official fan page where users submit thousands of media
- The top 10 languages that use WordPress to publish blogs are: –
- English: 71%
- Spanish: 4.7%
- Indonesian: 2.4%
- Portuguese (Brazil): 2.3%
- French: 1.5%
- Russian: 1.3%
- German: 1.2%
- Italian: 1%
- Turkish: 0.7%
- Dutch: 0.6%
- A live look at the activity across WordPress.com
- Users produce about 87.2 million new posts and 48.5 million new comments each month.
- WordPress is used by 29.7% of all the websites.
- WordPress has 54, 253 plugins and the number keeps growing.
- Totally 172 translations are available for WordPress.
- Top celebrities who use WordPress are Katty Perry, Usain Bolt, Snoop Dogg, Felicia Day, Gabriel Iglesias, Channing Tatum, Kim Kardashian, Sylvester Stallone, William Shatner, Wil Wheaton, Beyoncé, Ariana Grande, Jay-Z, Justin Bieber, Russell Brand, and Kylie Minogue.
- WordPress developers’ average salary according to Indeed is $70,425, according to Neuvoo found $63,852, and according to PayScale $50,541.
- WordPress version 4.9 has been downloaded 50,868,682 times.
- WordPress can be used for intranet sites, too.
- 32 major versions of WordPress has been released since the platform’s inception.
- Genesis and Divi are the two most popular WordPress themes.
- WordPress community has 236,350 members with 575 groups and in 87 countries.
- Gutenberg is a new WordPress editor that will ship with WordPress 5.0.
- Akismet, Yoast SEO, Jetpack, and contact form are the most popular plugins.
- The famous ‘’W” logo of WordPress was designed by Jason Santa Maria.
- WordPress Wiggle is the unofficial dance of the WordPress people.
- Wapuu is the official WordPress mascot.
