[wp-hackers] Are WordPress stats up to date?

[skretch at gmail.com]

Thanks J.D.

On Jan 10, 2014, at 5:12 AM, J.D. Grimes <jdg at codesymphony.co> wrote:

> Hey Yani,
> 
> This came up on the list a while back (http://lists.automattic.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2013-November/047235.html):
> 
> "The data used for the graphs on the stats page are built daily, using a
> random(ish) sampling of the API requests from the previous day.
> 
> What you see on that page is current and up-to-date. It's not counting
> every install in the world, or months-old installs, or inactive installs
> that nobody is visiting. It's built from just the API requests from the day
> before.” -Otto
> -J.D.
> On Jan 9, 2014, at 4:33 PM, skretch at gmail.com wrote:
> 
>> Hey everyone,
>> 
>> I am looking at the http://wordpress.org/about/stats/ page.
>> According to that page, 52.7% of all WordPress installations are using PHP v5.2
>> 
>> How reliable are these stats?
>> Are they up to date?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> Yani
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