A lot goes into a WordPress release. Md Shahjahan shared a retrospective analysis of the WordPress 6.8 release showing contributor stats. It is an interesting look at what it takes and the fact that it is a world-wide effort involving many people and companies.

AnalyticsWP is a self-hosted analytics plugin that is more accurate than Google Analytics and is very easy to use. In this video I do a walk-through showing the features and then discuss its pros and cons.

This report has interesting statistics derived from Cloudflare’s traffic.

Joost shares what he sees as the drivers of platform adoption and what he would prioritize for the WordPress roadmap. One conclusion of his is that if it wasn’t for Elementor and WooCommerce then WordPress would have been losing market share.

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.