The WordPress project achieved a milestone earlier today as the official WordPress plugin directory crossed one billion total downloads.

According to Scott Reilly who helps maintain WordPress.org, we’ll never know which plugin generated the one billionth download. That’s because WordPress.org doesn’t log information that matches downloads to plugins.

“A download counter exists for each plugin for each day and the total amount is the summation of all those daily download counts,” Reilly said.

The following numbers are the total amount of downloads from March 2006 to August 2015. This year, the directory is on pace to serve more than 300 million downloads.

• March 2006  191,567
• 2007  2,845,802
• 2008  15,130,856
• 2009  49,822,116
• 2010  72,342,598
• 2011  108,501,907
• 2012  141,609,682
• 2013  182,236,517
• 2014  241,142,505
• January 2015 to August 2015  186,243,700

It took nine years for the plugin directory to reach one billion downloads, when do you think it will reach two billion?