WordPress is no doubt a very popular web publishing platform for blogs and other types of websites. But just how popular is it? We just completed a study and found that WordPress is in use by 48% of the top 100 blogs in the world. This is an increase from the 32% we recorded three years ago.

Pingdom has become a LIR or Local Internet Registry, something pretty special. In fact, there are only 469 Local Internet Registries offering service in Sweden, where we at Pingdom operate from.

Today, Fredrik Berglund’s has joined Pingdom as a developer in the marketing team (hence the “marketdev” title), focusing on traffic generation and analysis, conversion rate optimization, SEO, and end-user experience improvements.