WordPress.com is now the number #22 site in the US according to Quantcast, just ahead of craigslist.org. Moving up from there is going to be a lot harder as the US uniques get pretty big. Note that the numbers Quantcast uses for its top-list only includes blogs with “wordpress.com” in the URL. To see our aggregate stats which includes blogs with custom domains you have to look at the WordPress network page, which has us at 87 million global uniques in the past 30 days, up from 70 million just over a month ago.
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Congrats to Automattic, the users and you my [flaming hahaha] friend!
Wow! Thats amazing to see the amount of visitors on WP!
Once you’ve overcome the hurdle of Adult Friend Finder, anything is possible…
mind boggling stats. you must be pretty proud. congratulations on beating Craigslist
Yeah but how many of those are LOL cats?
congrats matt, what a impressive achievement by you
Its hardly any suprise really. Imagine just how many wordpress sites there are that dont use a wordpress url.
Wow! Congratulations, Matt… that’s… well, it’s pretty damn amazing, really.