14 DAY TRIAL // Tumblr, the relatively young simple blogging platform, is growing like there's no tomorrow. The site just announced that it's now getting 250 million page views per day, according to directly measured data from Quantcast. To put this in perspective, Tumblr got this kind of traffic in a month in 2009.
Every number related to Tumblr is impressive, not only the amount of people it attracts each month, but also the huge number of blogs now hosted on it, Tumblr is fast approaching the much better known and also fast growing WordPress.com.
Yesterday, the entire Tumblr network got over 250 million page views. That's a lot of traffic, but it's coming from about 9 million people and slightly over 10 million visits.
As TechCrunch notes, Tumblr was getting 250 million page views in July 2009, for the entire month, from 50 million people. Now it's getting very close to 80 million unique visitors each month and 6.8 billion monthly page views.
It's not just that people are coming to Tumblr more than before, more people are setting up shop here as well. Tumblr is getting about 30 million new posts every day, compared to 4.5 million a year ago.
And the number of blogs created on Tumblr is impressive, there are 18.865 million blogs on the site. There were 18.416 million just a week ago, 400,000 were created in the last seven days. There are over 5.5 billion blog posts on Tumblr at this point, up from just 1 billion a year ago.
A comparison to WordPress, not the largest but one of the most popular blogging platform, is to be expected, but at the rate Tumblr is growing, it's not much of a competition. There are slightly over 20 million blogs on WordPress.com right now, creating 420,000 posts each day.