WordPress, a website publishing platform has celebrated its 10th birthday few days ago. This open source content management system is developed using web technologies PHP and MySQL. Reports show that 14.7% of world’s popular websites make appearance on internet through WordPress.
Here are few interesting statistics about the WordPress, a top-notch content management system.
Out of total websites launched over the internet every day, 22% of them are powered by WordPress.
On the internet, 60 million websites are power-driven by the WordPress.
Every month, on an average visitors view more than 4.1 billion pages.
Every minute on WordPress, 39.3 posts will be generated and 42.7 comments are placed by users across the globe.
Few top brands that are power-driven by the WordPress CMS include eBay, CNN, Forbes, GigaOm, Sony, TechCrunch and Mashable etc.
The average price of a premium WordPress theme is $40.
WordPress will charge around $1000 to offer a full-fletched website design service.
It takes around 5 minutes for you to install the WordPress software or theme on to your website.
Till May 2013, 1700 free themes available at WordPress.org are downloaded 65 million times and 23000 in-built plug-ins were downloaded by various users for 418 million times.
You can find 50 major theme providers over internet that offers WordPress themes.