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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WordPress, the most common content management system (CMS) on the Web, has about 60% market share. It is even found on nearly a third of all web sites, not just those running a CMS. Given this enormous presence, WordPress has changed the Web quite a bit through its existence. Here are seventeen trivia about WordPress.
If one person were to work on WordPress by themselves, it would take [them] 151 years of work to complete the project. Of course, there were many more people helping to build WordPress, but it's fun to think about how much went into the development of this software so many people use today. And to think they did it for free!
[...] It's hard to find a piece of software that is more influential than WordPress. It's used by millions of people all around the world, and because it's so good, and also because it's free, it will likely continue to be the CMS of choice for years to come. But no matter what happens, we can always be grateful for WordPress for making it easier for us to build websites, connect with one another, and turn the internet into what it was always meant to be: a safe space for free speech and uncensored self-expression.
Previously:
(2020-02-21) Hackers Exploit Critical Vulnerability Found in ~100,000 WordPress Sites
(2018-12-07) WordPress 5.0 Release Brings Brand New Editor for Easier Page Design
(2018-03-05) About a Third of All Web Sites Run on WordPress
(2015-12-28) Web Design Tools for Moderate Users
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday March 05 2018, @11:00PM (5 children)
WordPress is a CMS masquerading as blogging software. Beats me where I first read that but I believe it.
This sig for rent.
(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]
(Score: 2, Disagree) by meustrus on Tuesday March 06 2018, @03:57PM
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.
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 05 2018, @11:12PM (5 children)
I was so glad to finally get out of the Apache + mod_php paradigm, over 8 years ago. The amount of caching bullshit you had to layer on top in a futile attempt to make it performant.
Then you'd get slashdotted and your hosting suspended.
Oh god, wordpress had a web-facing admin panel, my PTSD is returning!
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 05 2018, @11:16PM (4 children)
So what do you have now? Client and server side javascript? Python? Or did you go full 90s and revert to HTML only?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 05 2018, @11:30PM (1 child)
Probably a proprietary CMS built with Java 5, that hasn't had a security update in 9 years.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 05 2018, @11:34PM
That's redundant.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 05 2018, @11:34PM
I use text format created using ed(1), with ASCII (none of that UTF-8 garbage!) content coded in hexadecimal.
0x54 0x68 0x69 0x73 0x20 0x69 0x73 0x20 0x74 0x68 0x65 0x20 0x62 0x65 0x73 0x74 0x20 0x77 0x61 0x79 0x20 0x74 0x6f 0x20 0x77 0x72 0x69 0x74 0x65 0x20 0x61 0x20 0x62 0x6c 0x6f 0x67 0x21 0x20 0x20 0x48 0x6f 0x6f 0x72 0x61 0x79 0x21 0x2e
0x42 0x6f 0x6f 0x79 0x61 0x68 0x21
(Score: 4, Interesting) by RS3 on Tuesday March 06 2018, @12:41AM
He's running Webserv on DOS and .bat backend. http://www.instructables.com/id/Retro-dos-web-server/ [instructables.com]
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday March 05 2018, @11:30PM (1 child)
I heard soylentnews ran on Jizzma.! :)
Or, Jewsma, according to some here. :0
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 5, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday March 06 2018, @03:03AM
Naw, it runs on the distilled suffering of Editors. Same as my car.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by bzipitidoo on Tuesday March 06 2018, @02:22AM (2 children)
Maybe basic WordPress is okay. I wouldn't know. But the one time I tried to admin it, the owners had thrown on a "free" skin that couldn't be worked with, and had little documentation explaining what the heck they'd done.
If you wanted to be able to make some changes just above the basics, like changing fonts or enlarging some text, it was a total pain to figure out how, and often wasn't possible. Sure, you could change the content on a basic level, like modify the text of a web page or pictures, through their web interface. But for the rest, no. Had several layers of indirection, with unused original copies of the pages littering the directory tree. Change what seems to be the correct page, and nothing would happen. After reading what little there was in the way of docs, you'd find the new location, change that, and still nothing would happen. Then you'd discover that the setting had been moved to another CSS file, in which the settings had all been made irrelevant by a link to yet another CSS file that would overwrite every setting in the first one. And you couldn't access it through the crappy web interface they allowed for "admin lite" work.
I'm sure all that was deliberate, to push you into paying to upgrade from their free package to the premium one, in which you could monkey with the fonts and anything else you wished. So I was in the embarrassing position of having to tell the owners that I couldn't help with their web site.
(Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Tuesday March 06 2018, @05:56AM (1 child)
That pretty much matches my experience trying to customize a basic WordPress blog a few years ago. Though to be fair, my attempt with Drupal didn't go much more smoothly.
The only CMS that I've ever really felt comfortable working with was the old free versions of Movable Type. It was obviously very primitive, but that meant that it was also easy to make it do things that I'm pretty sure its creators didn't have in mind, like customizing the template so it'd produce static HTML instead of CSS.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 06 2018, @11:07AM
I was comfortable with wolf cms, it seems I will switch to web2py though. I suggest exploring micro frameworks in general.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 06 2018, @04:48AM (2 children)
Kinda like how you win the lottery 100 % of 0.000000000000000001%...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 06 2018, @04:53AM
Fuck I forgot the space before the last %. Oh well, now that one corresponds to the Chicago manual of style...
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday March 06 2018, @08:23AM
You're being spoonfed, and you're still getting it everywhere apart from your insides.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 3, Funny) by VLM on Tuesday March 06 2018, @01:59PM
Is this like the old days when you could tell a site had nothing interesting if it was flash-based? (unless obvious exceptions like it was a flash based game, etc)