WordPress.com stats every month

I normally don’t approve of simply doing a copy and paste for my blog, but this time I am going to make an exception.

Do you know that every month WordPress.com lists their stats under the “news” tab? Although the numbers may not affect you directly, they are impressive.

So for August ’09, here they are:

• 426,047 blogs were created.
• 4,560,168 posts were published.
• 455,423 new users joined.
• 6,658,426 file uploads.
• 3990 gigabytes of new files.
• 787 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters.
• 8,379,530 comments.
• 7,498,064 logins.
• 2,153,498 active blogs and 22,855,350 active posts, where “active” means they had a human visitor.
• 1,267,201,336 pageviews on WordPress.com, and another 1,296,959,079 on self-hosted blogs (2,564,160,415 total across all WordPress blogs we track).
• 1,567,468,503 words.

That, my friend, is a heck of a lot of blogging!