WordPress now powers 30% of web sites, regardless of whether they use a content management system (CMS) or not. This is a 5% increase over the last few years.
The Next Web summarizes:
That's according to W3Techs, a service run by Austrian consulting firm Q-Success that surveys the top 10 million sites ranked on Alexa. Its numbers are updated daily, and today it sees WordPress accounting for 60 percent of the CMS market.
WordPress has been in the lead for a good while now, with rival systems like Joomla, Drupal, Magento, Shopify, Google's Blogger, and Squarespace trailing by a huge margin (Joomla takes the #2 spot with 3 percent of sites). Of course, it's worth noting that 50 percent of all sites are either built from scratch or utilize CMSes presently not monitored by W3Techs.
So WordPress has a wide lead over similar tools like Joomla, Drupal, and several others. WordPress started about fourteen years ago back in 2003 and is built from PHP. It would have been interesting to see a break down of the mixed 50% in regards to how much has returned to static pages.
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(Score: 2) by RS3 on Tuesday March 06 2018, @12:22AM (3 children)
Perspective is an interesting thing. You're forgetting: time. WordPress is now heavily used as CMS, but it started out as, and can still function well as a simple blog. Default new install is pretty simple blog.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday March 06 2018, @08:08AM (2 children)
Oh, and "blogging" is just putting your diary on a computer, and making it readable by others.
Oh, and "web 2.0" is just the "guestbook" perl CGI script which was in every book published in 1993.
Artificial distinction do little but obfuscate, and make people think that something new and exciting is being done when really there's very little innovation at all, simply a change of curtains, so should be avoided.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Tuesday March 06 2018, @03:36PM (1 child)
100% agreed on all points.
You mean, "if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull@#$%"??
I've noticed for years that people like to develop lingo, and use it to protect their fragile little world. I do wiring, for example, and if you ever read the rules book (NEC) you'll find they like to use non-standard language. Some people adapt well to it; it boggs me down. Who do you know that calls a light fixture: luminaire? If I could get their literature in digital form, I could search and replace and make something readable and useful to the average Joe.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Tuesday March 06 2018, @03:39PM
I just saw today's too-funny Dilbert: http://assets.amuniversal.com/4a849610f94b013519e9005056a9545d [amuniversal.com]