Useless graphs (What went before)
Following on from the recent 10000th commit to the WordPress.org Subversion repository I thought I would take a quick look back at some statistics from the past a draw a few interesting graphs to look at how WordPress.org has grown over the past few years. Enjoy!
WordPress release against repository revision number
Time against repository revision number
WordPress release filesize in kilobytes
Now that clearly shows all the great work and dedication behind out beloved WordPress. Congrats and thanks.
I’ve ran v2.7 on my testblog for quite a while now and I find it keeps getting better and better the more I use it. I’m pretty sure most users will be completely blown away by it… In a positive way.
Fredelig
December 5, 2008 at 11:08 pm
wow, really interesting graphs !
thanks for the job, congrats for it
WordPress is great !
dlv
December 5, 2008 at 11:32 pm
Interesting thing to follow the statistics, between 1.5 and 2.6, WordPress almost quadrupled in size, but does anyone remember all the features and tweak introduced since?
On the other hand, I always use the latest beta or RC of WordPress. Never had any problems with WP itself. Only with bad plugins.
Cristian
December 6, 2008 at 1:24 am
What’s that huge dip in the first graph from 6,000 down to about 4,500?
You can go backwards in revision numbers?
Jonathan Dingman
December 6, 2008 at 1:48 am
nice one… if only wallstreet charts would look like that XD
osomarron
December 6, 2008 at 3:40 am
Spiffy graphs! I really love the platform!
Useless graphs? I beg to differ.
Ron
December 6, 2008 at 3:42 am
Let’s see if we can get that last graph to go down.
Matt
December 6, 2008 at 4:24 am
Fun stats!
I don’t get a thing, though: on first graph, how come the number of revisions drops?
Ozh
December 6, 2008 at 9:24 am
Oh yeah, counting twice for the 2.0.x branch?
Ozh
December 6, 2008 at 9:25 am
The filesize graph is very interesting. What happened from 2.5 to 2.5.1? I would have expected such a large step between major releases, say 2.3.x to 2.5, but not in a “minor” step like 2.5 to 2.5.1…
Anyway, thanks for the great work
Webrocker
December 6, 2008 at 9:47 am
Thanks for the comments.
The huge dip in revisions that happens on the first graph is because it is ordered by version number and releases where made to the Legacy 2.0.x branch after 2.1 and 2.2 had been released.
@matt: It would be great to get the filesize down but I’m not sure the filesize is that big an issue.
@Webrocker: The big filesize jump is 2.3 to 2.5 not 2.5 to 2.5.1
Peter Westwood
December 6, 2008 at 10:05 am
I’ve never gotten why people had problems with filesizes going up. Was WordPress 2.3 somehow better than WordPress 2.5 just because it had a smaller download?
Viper007Bond
December 6, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Well, I was missing the good news.
Lucas
December 6, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Graphs are good!
Paula Kirsch
December 7, 2008 at 3:44 am
Viper — I think people tend to see a (sometimes accurate) correlation between size of software and efficiency of software. Thus, smaller size ~= smaller load on server.
Stephen R
December 7, 2008 at 3:59 pm
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December 8, 2008 at 12:04 am
The last graph is interesting: There are always large jumps between minor releases (2.0 → 2.1, etc.) but only very small jumps between bugfix releases (2.0.1 → 2.0.2, etc.).
The amount is nearly constant between the releases mentioned above
icewind
December 8, 2008 at 9:21 am
Ozh: The first graph could probably be made linear by not using incremental version number in the X axis, but each versions release date. Indeed, 2.1 was released between WP 2.0.8 and 2.0.9 (remember that 2.0.x line, to be supported until 2010? – even though we’ve been waiting for 2.0.12’s security fixes for quite some time now), and therefore the bump is not a clear indicator of numer of revision changes
Xavier
December 8, 2008 at 10:08 am
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