WordPress.com To Surpass 1M Registered Blogs Very Soon

WordPress is an impressive creation. Open source to the bone, the software is used by many people around the world and rarely ever gets a bad rap. But its blogging tools – at least those it hosts for users of WordPress.com, not WordPress.org – are not utilized as prevalently as one might assume (in the US).

Comscore, a research firm, states that nearly 4 years 18 months after its introduction, the service has managed to have registered just shy of 1,000,000 blogs. Fortunately, if all goes as expected, WordPress will break that barrier in the next few days.

The open source gem has certainly had its moments of slow growth. Roughly 1 million blogs today is not all that impressive if one is to take a snapshot of the industry as a whole. The number of blogs registered throughout the US and the world every year eclipses that figure – by far.

But WordPress doesn’t seem to mind its fourth place status, situated behind #1 Blogger, #2 Six Apart, and #3 Windows Live Spaces. After all, less than 10 months ago Wordpress.com had counted only 300,000 blogs for itself, bringing in “1.6 million daily page views and 14.2 million unique monthly visitors.” Now Automattic/WordPress CEO Toni Schneider attests to seeing “7.5 million daily page views and 45 million unique monthly visitors.” That looks like solid growth to me.

As if fated to experience synonymous celebrations of two significant milestones, WordPress.com will remember four years of progress its made in the blogging world as well as its one-millionth registered blog next week. We presume the champagne will be flowing while network traffic flows more strongly than ever, and we can only wish WordPress many more years of success. After all, Profy is built on the organization’s software. Some good cheer and kind words are the least we can offer Mullenweg, Schneider, and the rest of ‘em.

Congrats, guys.

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