Interconnect IT - WordPress Consultants, Web Development and Web Design » Alexa http://interconnectit.com Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:43:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Some Interesting Stats on WordPress and WordPress.com http://interconnectit.com/69/some-interesting-stats-on-wordpress-and-wordpresscom/ http://interconnectit.com/69/some-interesting-stats-on-wordpress-and-wordpresscom/#comments Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:03:22 +0000 David Coveney http://liverpoolwebdesigner.com/2008/01/21/some-interesting-stats-on-wordpress-and-wordpresscom/ continue reading ⇢]]> I was doing a little thinking about WordPress and its rival CMS systems. And then I thought… it’s not hard to find comparisons if you know where to look. Sadly it’s hard to find hard numbers – people hold this data dearly.

Still – I had a play with Alexa and Google and the stats were interesting to see. WordPress.com has practically exploded. If Alexa’s 2% reach is correct then that makes WordPress.com and all its blogs into one of the most potent internet nodes.

Looking for traffic to WordPress.org and its rivals (I’ve put in Joomla, Plone and Drupal) is also illuminating. I recommend a good play around with the charts. Also look at different regions if you’re working with Google.

Google’s CMS traffic

Alexa’s CMS traffic

I find these stats sites great fun. You can also see the effects of certain events. For example, searches for the word Botfly shot up and into existance last year – and these correlated with spikes in traffic to my story of my own experience of the little blighters. The reason was a TV show.

You can also get a taste for the desires of certain countries… French Kissing, it seems, generates huge interest in Pakistan. They also like English Girls.

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