[wp-forums] Forum Statistics?

[Andrea Rennick]

Yeah that might still count spam users, but there ya go.

With 24 million (at last count that I remember) WP based sites out
there, it's really hard to say we have a small community.

Not sure how much good it will do leaving a comment, I feel the post
was linkbait, poorly researched (if at all) and posted just for SEO
reasons. (think Panda sites).

a.

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Chris Kasten <handy.solo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Careful though -- back in the olden days when I was more involved, that
> registered usage went up every second -- mostly due to bot/spam
> registrations.
>
> Or has that finally been stopped?
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Andrea Rennick <andrea at ronandandrea.com>wrote:
>
>> Over 2.7 million registered forum users. Which is nowhere near everyone.
>>
>> a.
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>
>> wrote:
>> > I apologize if this is off-topic. Feel free to set me straight if it is.
>> :)
>> >
>> > I'm curious if anyone can give me an approximation of the number of
>> posts,
>> > topics, and posters in the WPORG forums? Just based on the front-page
>> > numbers, I get about 2.4MM posts in 588,000 topics, but can find no way
>> to
>> > approximate the total number of posters.
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance!
>> >
>> > Chip
>> >
>> > p.s. in case anyone is wondering: I'm doing a quick audit to challenge a
>> > recent assertion that WordPress has a small community relative to Joomla
>> and
>> > Drupal<
>> http://www.cssreflex.com/2011/09/wordpress-joomla-drupal-comparison-of-all-3-cms.html/
>> >
>> > .
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