The continuing survey of content management system (CMS) usage by survey site W3Techs shows that, as of October 2015, WordPress powers 25% of all the websites in the world, up from 20% two years ago.
The company monitors over 300 different CMS’s and of those, WordPress has a 58.7% market share. The closest competitor – Joomla – has a 6.6% share.
Now it’s tempting to say that the hosted version of WordPress has millions of tiny sites that add to this statistic, but in fact:
we count the hosted sites only if they are reachable via their own domain (not only as subdomain of wordpress.com), and they must qualify like all other sites in our surveys by getting enough visitors on that separate domain to make it into the top 10 million Alexa sites. As a result, the vast majority of the millions of blogs at WordPress.com are not counted. Only 1.25% of the WordPress sites in our surveys are hosted by Automattic at WordPress.com. That makes the WordPress CMS market share even more remarkable.
W3Tech also pointed out that in October 2015, the percentage of new websites using WordPress was a staggering 29.5%, so its popularity is still growing.
Another interesting stat from W3Tech:
WordPress is not only the most popular CMS, it is also the fastest growing system: every 74 seconds a site within the top 10 million starts using WordPress. Compare this with Shopify, the second-fastest growing CMS, which is gaining a new site every 22 minutes.
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