Matt Mullenweg presented his State of the Word address at WordCamp San Francisco 2011 last weekend. He spoke to an enthusiastic crowd of about 1,000 people.

He shared some key stats about a survey that was conducted some months prior. Here are the key takeaways;

• The survey of 18,000 WP users revealed some interesting data, like a median hourly rate of $50 and that 6,800 of the self-employed respondents were responsible for over 170,000 sites personally.
• WordPress 3.2 had 500,000 downloads in the first two days, representing the fastest upgrade velocity ever.
• WordPress now has 15,000 plugins and 200 million plugin downloads, and we’re doing a lot of work to make the plugin experience more seamless.
• 14.7 percent of the top million websites in the world use WordPress.
• 22 of every 100 active domains created in the U.S. are running WordPress.