Comments on: WordPress on the wane?

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:11:45 +0000

For a little while about a year ago, I think WP was starting to loose a little bit of relevance — hastened by the rise of Twitter and Facebook. But with the advent of BuddyPress and P2, I’m pretty confident you’ll see WordPress coming roaring back to the fore. Open source always wins out.

By: James

James — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:06:44 +0000

Maybe we’re rubbish :D

Compete is hugely arbitrary, especially with a small site like this, google search trends are a measure of, well, google searches.

By: Noumes

Noumes — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:48:41 +0000

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/wpmu.org/
And what’s to explain that?

By: James

James — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:37:12 +0000

So people have suddently just decided to stop searching for wordpress and entering it instead… how exactly do you explain that phenomenon?

By: Of Course

Of Course — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:34:12 +0000

This article is a little deceptive.
Why do people need to search for WordPress, when they can easily remember the URL and directly enter it? They don’t need Google to find WordPress, which could easily explain the “drop.”

By: James

James — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:57:22 +0000

Just me using the images, ahem, creatively :)

By: Joe M.

Joe M. — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:50:54 +0000

Ah, I see. Didn’t realize they were the exact same graph.

By: Joe M.

Joe M. — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:47:45 +0000

One more thing. For example in October 2008 there were 70… queries and in october of 2009 nine their are 80. Still shows strong growth.

By: James

James — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:46:44 +0000

@Joe M – I cut off the first graph before the drop to give the post a bit more ‘narrative’ ;)

By: Joe M.

Joe M. — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:45:43 +0000

@James

I know the second graph is for 2009 but you need to compare 2008 vs. 2009 because their are seasonal dips when it comes to queries and traffic. There easily could of been the same dip in 2008 in October.

The first graph shows that queries are still growing very strong. The reason for the dip in October is probably that there are just less queries as a whole on the internet in that month.