Growth Blogging Statistics

 

 

• There are over 600 million blogs spread across platforms such as Tumblr, Wix, WordPress, Medium, and LinkedIn.
• More than 500 new websites are created using WordPress every single day.
• People publish 70 million new posts on WordPress.com every month.
• WordPress powers over 43% of all websites, making WordPress the world’s most popular content management platform.
• People post over 77 million new comments on WordPress.com blogs every month.
• 22% of bloggers post every single week.
• 2% of bloggers post daily, and 1% of bloggers post multiple times a day.
• According to a survey, 21% of users in the United States aged 18 to 29 years spent time reading blogs on a computer in the last 4 weeks.

Blogging is no longer the only way that people can share their thoughts online. Social media, podcasts, and forums have all given internet users more ways to connect with one another.

Despite this, the number of blogs online continues to grow. The blogging industry takes up a third of the web, and WordPress powers over 43% of all websites. This shows that people are still writing posts and that WordPress is still the best blogging platform.

For more information on why WordPress has such a big market share, see our guide on the most important reasons to use WordPress.