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posted by janrinok on Monday March 05 2018, @10:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the yeah,-sure-they-do dept.

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.

Sources : WordPress now powers 30% of websites VentureBeat
30% of all sites now run on WordPress The Next Web


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  • (Score: 2, Disagree) by meustrus on Tuesday March 06 2018, @03:57PM

    by meustrus (4961) on Tuesday March 06 2018, @03:57PM (#648535)

    No. As someone who has worked with Wordpress, I can confidently say that it is mere blogging software, but that doesn't stop everyone from bolting a CMS onto its side.

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