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There are currently about 9.8 million WordPress publishers: 4.2 million blogs hosted on WordPress.com plus 5.6 million active installations of the WordPress.org software. Source

"Here’s a chart of total WordPress.com blogs since our launch in late 2005."

Graph Below: WordPress.com hosted blogs only

I started OneUtah in January of 2006. By December, it reached 500 uniques/day. Here's what traffic looks like today.

With about 10k uniques/month and 180k page views and 5 pages per visit.
 

* Technorati now tracks over 35.3 Million blogs
* The blogosphere is doubling in size every 6 months
* It is now over 60 times bigger than it was 3 years ago
* On average, a new weblog is created every second of every day
* 19.4 million bloggers (55%) are still posting 3 months after their blogs are created
* Technorati tracks about 1.2 Million new blog posts each day, about 50,000 per hour 
April 17, 2006 Source.

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* Technorati now tracks over 70 million weblogs
* About 120,000 new weblogs each day, or...
* 1.4 new blogs every second
* 3000-7000 new splogs (fake, or spam blogs) created every day
* Peak of 11,000 splogs per day last December
* 1.5 million posts per day, or...
* 17 posts per second
* Growing from 35 to 75 million blogs took 320 days
* 22 blogs among the top 100 blogs among the top 100 sources linked to in Q4 2006 - up from 12 in the prior quarter
* Japanese the #1 blogging language at 37%
* English second at 33%
* Chinese third at 8%
* Italian fourth at 3%
* Farsi a newcomer in the top 10 at 1%
* English the most even in postings around-the-clock
* Tracking 230 million posts with tags or categories
* 35% of all February 2007 posts used tags
* 2.5 million blogs posted at least one tagged post in February
April 5th 2007 Source.