WordPress Stats Part 1
Just in time for Christmas…I’ve decided to start a series on Stats!
Aren’t you excited?? 
I actually really like Stats… and I’m hoping to share my love of stats with you all!
What my intent is in this series is to help you learn the types of stats monitoring that is available for your site – the reliability of it and how to read the stats that you receive from your choice of monitoring – or in other words, what do you do with it all.
To start our series, I want to share stats from an article that I just read by the Moove Agency which reinforces why WordPress is the platform to choose.
This article was titled WordPress Infographic 2015 – sharing some stats about WP for this past year.
Did you realize that there are 74.6 Million WordPress websites in the world? That’s a huge number! They must be doing something right! And since they are doing something right, a ton of people are picking up what they are laying down
Holy Cow!
Just over a quarter of the entire internet is using WordPress as their platform. That’s huge!
Let’s talk about the bells and whistles that have been developed for WordPress
WordPress sites need Themes (the code that controls the look and feel of the site) and Plugins (extra bits of code that can be added to a WordPress site to carry out specialized functionality) These numbers are huge also. Imagine there have been over 1 billion downloads of plugins this year – unbelievable! And 118 million themes have been downloaded.
There is a saying – There is no need to re-invent the wheel. In other words, there is no need to spend your valuable time creating something that has already been created. We often look to companies that have huge budgets for tech research to see what they choose. If they’ve done the research – why should we try to re-do the research to get a different response?
I’m sure you recognize most, if not all of these companies. If they have done the research and use WordPress – why would you choose something else?
This will be my last Tech Hints post before Christmas. Back to the subject of my previous post – cookie baking (and eating) The cookies are coming along nicely – the baking, the distributing as well as the eating. At this rate next week’s post should show a tray of crumbs
I hope you all have a great Christmas filled with lots of cookies and other good food. Stay tuned for the start of my series on stats starting up after Christmas and in the meantime, get your site ready by putting Google Analytics in place.
If you have WordPress:
And if you are looking for a little education while the turkey has you sitting on the couch unable to move….
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