#WCEU WordCamp Europe 2016 by the Numbers

It’s been a week since WordCamp Europe concluded, but it’s probably going to take a while longer before this WCEUmania comes to an end. We did publish our takeaways post a couple of days ago, but there’s still a lot of interesting stuff to talk about. Particularly, stats!

So here’s our post-WCEU roundup – WordCamp Europe 2016 by the numbers:

This year’s WordCamp Europe had 2131 attendees, from 68 countries

… which officially turned it into the largest WordCamp ever!

Among those 2131 attendees, there were 130 volunteers, from 33 countries. Including nearly the whole Themeisle team. 🙂

We had 20 awesome organizers

There were 39 sponsors

… and 152 microsponsors, all categorized according to the main user roles in WordPress: Super Admin, Administrator, Editor, Author, Subscriber + Small Business and After Party.

73 – was the number of speakers and on-stage appearances

There are 1,300 official photos from the event

… all posted on the official WordCamp Flickr account. The photos were taken by 14 volunteer photographers.

The number of unofficial galleries? We can only guess … a zillion? 🙂

WCEU on social media

We were curious about the impact that WordCamp Europe had on social media, so we tracked people’s activity related to the event. Twitter was the main social channel used by the organizers to communicate with everyone, so this is where we put most of our tracking efforts too.

(Thanks, Hashtracking and Keyhole for helping us discover these interesting stats.)

There have been 17,589 tweets so far with the #WCEU hashtag mentioned in the past 30 days

Just to get a better idea of how often people actually mention WCEU in their tweets right now, I fired up the real-time tracker, and after only 1 hour, 11 new #WCEU tweets came through: