The WP Engine tracker says that 24,510 websites left from WP Engine since September 21st. They are now showing where they moved to also.

Some stats collected by Joost regarding market share over time.

In case you missed it, Google Analytics version 3 is end of life and beginning July 1st that data will no longer be available. You can download the data before the 1st if you want to keep access to it. Otherwise you should have already migrated the GA for your sites to version 4.

This is an interesting collection of WordPress stats covering a range of topics.

This is Noel Tock’s presentation at WordCamp Asia. Noel works for Human Made, a top tier agency focusing on enterprise solutions. The first half of the presentation is an eye-opener and must watch if you are interested in WordPress market share.

Automattic has changed the JetPack Stats feature from free to paid. It is always unhappy when a freemium product claws back features that were free to add them to the pro version. According to Davinder Singh Kainth’s newsletter, the WP Weekly, users are submitting 1 star reviews on WP org in protest.

I noticed some changes in the w3techs monthly report related to WordPress. I compared February and April’s reports. Here are some changes:

• WordPress market share increased 1/10th of a percent to 43.3%. This was down or stagnate for a long time, so first recent increase.
• Version 6.x adoption is up almost 2%.
• Elementor’s share of WordPress is up 0.8% since February.
• WooCommerce is up 1/10th of a percent.
• WPBakery is down slightly.
• This month they added Bricks and Breakdance to the tracking.

Yesterday I shared the WordPress write up of the 2023 Annual Survey. In this article Roger Montti does a more careful analysis noting some troubling trends.

Imran Siddiq released a video showing a number of ways to optimize your WordPress page loading times. I know he worked hard on this one and there are a plenty of tips, including code snippets. He optimizes an Elementor site, but includes versions for non-Elementor users.