I like infographics as much as the next guy, but some are just hard to read.

Not because they are badly designed, but because there is so much information packed into them that making sense of it all can be a little overwhelming. And I like to think I understand WordPress pretty well.

This WordPress stats infographic was great. It had a lot of useful information, but I had a hard time reading through it visually, so I decided to pull the information back out and simplify it even more.

Here goes. Tell me if you get it.

WordPress Stats

72,400,000 websites run on WordPress.
20-25% of all websites built in 2011 used WordPress.
98 versions of WordPress had been released.
14.7% of the world’s top 1,000,000 websites run on WordPress.
48% of the top 100 blogs run on WordPress.
WordPress version 3.3 had over 12,000,000 downloads.
Version 3.3 was used on 26.9% of all WordPress-powered sites.
WordPress.com was the 18th most popular website in the UK.
22% of all new domains registered in the US were running on WordPress.
WordPress.com was the 8th most popular website in Indonesia.
There were 40 complete official translations of WordPress.
Over 352,000,000 people viewed pages on WordPress.com in an average month.
Over 2,500,000 pages were viewed on WordPress.com in an average month.
About 500,000 new posts were added to WordPress.com in an average day.
One WordPress Multisite installation was running over 32,000,000 sites.
Over 826,000 videos were embedded in WordPress sites in the first week of March 2012.
Users switched themes over 225,000 times in an average week.
WordPress held 53.8% of the content management systems market.
WordPress.org sites received 1,400,000 visits from the UK in March 2012.
WordPress.org sites received 2,400,000 visits from the US in March 2012.
The average WordPress project cost was around $50 per hour.
Over 36,000 WordPress developers were available at oDesk.com.
Over 86,396 WordPress jobs had been posted on oDesk.com.
WordPress was the 5th most requested skill at oDesk.com.
Over 100,000 WordPress developers were available at Freelancer.com.
Over $3,600,000 in WordPress projects had been completed at Freelancer.com.
Over 19,000 free plugins were available in the WordPress Plugin Directory.
There had been over 285,000,000 downloads of free plugins from the WordPress Plugin Directory.
The Google Analytics for WordPress plugin had over 3,010,000 downloads.
The WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast had over 1,120,000 downloads.

That Is A Lot Of Information

That is a lot of information. Did you comprehend any of it?

It is amazing how one product can make such a huge impact on the world. I have to admit that I was part of those statistics. Starting about three years before this post, almost every new website I built was based on WordPress.

Only about 5% of the sites I worked on were not based on WordPress. Talk about world domination.

Now take a look at all the data in graphical form and enjoy the original eye candy from Yoast.