Here is an interesting infographic with a bunch of WordPress stats.

Fines in Europe over the use of Google Analytics! Last week there was a post from the SEO Slim team on Google Analytics alternatives. These court judgements remind me of the findings not too long ago about Google fonts, which lead many to start self-hosting them.

This is an interesting transparency type of report detailing Katie Keith’s experience being a sponsor of WordCamp Europe. She is the co-founder of Barn2 Plugins.

Joost de Valk looks at how the top 10 CMS options are doing. He found that WordPress is at 43.2% market share, which is .2% more than 11 months ago. There are some comments about how the others are doing also.

Note that this report is based on search volume, which is much different than usage. It says that demand for WordPress is up 11.3%, but for WooCommerce only 1%. It also says that there are a million searches a month for plugins and that expensive and fast hosting remains one of the most valuable parts of the WordPress economy.

It is good to see that attention is being paid to improve performance. The tests were of even very basic installs / configurations. I’m guessing this means that 6.3 will come with another performance boost.

From WordPress.org, the results of the 2022 Annual WordPress Survey are in. Interesting information about the WordPress community.