A google search for the term “wp-login.php” returns about 90,000 terms. Subtracting the possible number of individuals just talking about the file and not linking to it with a “Login” link, and adding the possible number of individuals blocking the file with robots.txt, I’d say there’s probably 50,000-75,000 users.
When I started typing this, there were 38738 WP blogs that were pinging pingomatic.
As of now, the number is 43,635. But, these are only WP blogs that continually ping either Syndic8 or Ping-o-Matic.
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Here it is, found it myself: http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2004/02/02/blog-statistics/
It also seems like the crawler is no longer active (could someone confirm or deny this?).
I found another source that, unfortunately, looks like it’s been abandoned: http://www.blogcensus.net/?page=tools . Doesn’t even recognize WP… Tsk =] It works by pulling a web page through some regexes, so it’s flexible enough… As long as the software is mentioned in there, which might not always be the case.
Another approach detects the blogfarms like blogspot, typepad and so on by URL. See a nice SVG graph here: http://www.bsentinel.com/ .
Although the graph is nice (make sure you check out the map view too), it’s not what I want as it only checks the blogfarms.
What I was thinking of: what if I were to cook up a spider that went searching for RSS feeds and distill the weblog software from that? Most feeds have this info in some form, so that would give a decent result. Heck, I could try and determine the language and location while I’m at it =]
Dunno if anyone’s interested in those stats; I know I am. If only because it’s possible =] Feedback appreciated!
