The following statistics aim to show the prevalence of WordPress on the Web which will then hopefully support the need for SteemConnect as a WordPress plugin.

https://steemit.com/wordpress/@mkdouglas/proposal-why-steem-blockchain-needs-steemconnect-as-a-wordpress-plugin

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<h1>WordPress share of all websites</h1>

There are over 1 billion websites on the Web.

>By "Website" we mean unique hostname (a name which can be resolved, using a name server, into an IP Address).
It must be noted that around 75% of websites today are not active, but parked domains or similar.

http://www.internetlivestats.com/total-number-of-websites

Hostnames on the Web appear as domain names or subdomain names. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web

WordPress is used to build over: 
* 5% of the entire Web (over 18 million out of over 370 million global domains)
* 29% of the top million websites (actually just over 800 thousand)
* 22% for the top 100 thousand 
* 25% for the top 10 thousand 

https://trends.builtwith.com/cms/WordPress

WordPress is used by over 28% of the top 10 million websites monitored by w3techs.com.

https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cm-wordpress/all/all

The top 10 million websites are as per popularity rankings provided by Alexa.com using a 3 months average ranking. Subdomains are not considered as separate websites and redirected domains are excluded. 

>Because our definition of "website" differs a bit from Alexa's definition, the "top 10 million" websites are actually less than 10 million. However, this has no statistical significance.

https://w3techs.com/technologies

WordPress.com also has a similar figure but they mistakenly say it is a percentage of the Internet and not the Web. 

>WordPress powers 28% of the internet.

https://wordpress.com

<h1>WordPress share of Content Management System (CMS) websites</h1>

A 30% share of *websites using CMS technologies* is what is stated by builtwith.com, while w3techs.com states the share to be more than 59%. Some CMSs included by builtwith.com are not included by w3techs.com and as such they seem to have different but overlapping definitions for CMS. 

https://trends.builtwith.com/cms
https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management/all

Google Trends indicates that WordPress is significantly more popular than its closest rivals according to w3techs.com.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=wordpress,joomla,drupal

http://cdn.wpbeginner.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/wpvsjoomlavsdrupal.jpg

Google Trends also indicates that the term *WordPress* is even more popular than the term *blockchain*, *steem* or *steemit*, but a spike for the term *bitcoin* in May 2017 resulted in *bitcoin* surpassing *WordPress*.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=wordpress,blockchain,steem,steemit,bitcoin

<h1>WordPress share of all blog posts</h1>

A quick estimate using information from internetlivestats.com indicates that there are about 5 million blog posts per day.

http://www.internetlivestats.com/watch/blog-posts

WordPress.com states that there were more than 83 million WordPress (blog) posts in May 2017 from WordPress sites hosted by WordPress.com and those using their Jetpack plugin. 83 million posts per month comes to over 2.5 million posts per day. That is about half of all 5 million blog posts per day.

Add in the nearly 0.5 million pages per day and the nearly 1.5 million comments (replies) per day, and the result is about 4.5 WordPress posts of any kind per day.

https://wordpress.com/activity/posting
https://wordpress.com/activity

<h1>WordPress share of all Google searches</h1>

According to internetlivestats.com, there are currently about 105 billion global monthly searches.

http://www.internetlivestats.com/google-search-statistics

>2.7 million global monthly searches for WordPress
>WordPress-related terms (including those for “wp,” a common abbreviation for WordPress) receive somewhere between 10 and 100 million global searches every month

WordPress and WordPress-related terms account for about 0.1% of all Google searches.

https://torquemag.io/2016/10/13-surprising-wordpress-statistics-updated-2016

https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/google-search.png

<h1>Translations</h1>

There are over 160 initiated translations for WordPress.

https://wpcentral.io/internationalization

<h1>Plugins</h1>

There are over 50 thousand plugins for WordPress that extend its functionality in over a thousand different ways.

https://wordpress.org/plugins

https://www.greengeeks.com/kb/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/WordPress-Plugins.png

<h1>WordCamps</h1>

>WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress...

https://make.wordpress.org/community/wordcamps

There were 115 different WordCamps across the world in 2016. 2017 has already seen 45 such WordCamps. Compare this to the number of SteemFests.

https://central.wordcamp.org/schedule/past-wordcamps

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7Dwg-NWgAExrM6.jpg

<h1>Proposal: Why STEEM blockchain needs SteemConnect as a WordPress plugin</h1>

https://steemit.com/wordpress/@mkdouglas/proposal-why-steem-blockchain-needs-steemconnect-as-a-wordpress-plugin

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