In light of the WordPress birthday yesterday, a friend just DM'd me a WooCommerce store that made 18 million dollars this year alone (2024). I looked up some dashboards for Woo stores in our portfolio and found a couple between $3M and $8M to date. 💰 Both have a turnover of $20M to $40M from digital sales as Q4 is compensating heavily. It's not just commerce, though. Our top peak website which DevriX has managed, reached 976,000,000 monthly page views in 2021. We pushed hard for a billion, but hey, compensating 24 million visitors isn't an easy feat when you look into the difference. 📈 We still have several brands generating north of 100M monthly views - all on top of WordPress. I keep seeing conversations on social or Slack by builders or young marketers targeting Wix, Squarespace, Weebly, Webflow, and other site builders for enterprise projects. From a branding standpoint, I'm not surprised - Wix and Squarespace have even sponsored the Super Bowl over the past few years. 🏈 But WordPress still powers 43% of the web. I repeat - FOURTY-THREE PERCENT OF THE WEB. Nearly half of all websites out there are running on WordPress. ✅ Traditional magazines like TechCrunch, Time Magazine, The New York Times ✅ Microsoft's and Skype's blogs (even though MS invented C#, a completely different stack) ✅ Writers, actors, musicians - Mark Manson, Leonardo DiCaprio, the Rolling Stones ✅ Sony Music's website ✅ NASA ✅ The White House We've managed Audi's franchise network in Europe, 3 different banks, a telecom, airline companies, and anything you can think of in the past 14 years, all powered on WordPress. The list is endless, but make no mistake: WordPress does power a good chunk of the web, not just your everyday blog or a 5-page portfolio website. Founded in 2003, here's to the next 21 years in the digital realm. (That's me presenting at a WordCamp circa 2014-2015).

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