WordPress dominates as world’s most popular blogging platform

WordPress is an excellent publishing platform for blogs and websites and in the last few years it has really sky-rocketed in popularity!

The Pingdom team just completed a survey and found that WordPress is in use by 48% of the top 100 blogs in the world. This is a huge increase from the last survey conducted just over three years ago, with 32% of the top 100 blogs using WordPress.

WordPress is clearly the dominating blogging platform and it’s also growing in popularity as a website Content Management System (CMS). Here at Web Chameleon we’ve had experience with many online technologies and many websites, and our publishing platform of choice for websites as well as for blogs is WordPress. Once you learn how to use it well it is very powerful and has almost endless possibilities.

It’s interesting to note that Pingdom’s findings are very similar to what Technorati found in their State of the Blogosphere 2011 report. They found that 51% of the world’s blogs use WordPress.

When Pingdom asked the founding developer of WordPress, Matt Mullenweg, whether there is still room for more growth, Mullenweg said he expected even higher adoption rates among the largest sites and blogs over the next year.

The 5 most popular of the top 100 blogs (based on their Technorati rank) are:

  1. The Huffington Post
  2. Mashable
  3. Buzzfeed
  4. The Daily Beast
  5. The Verge

Click here for the complete list of the top 100 blogs and their blog platforms.

If you’d like to learn more about how easy it is to create and manage your own blog (or even your own website) in WordPress, click here to find out about our brand new program Website Mastery.

 

Article Source:
http://royal.pingdom.com/2012/04/11/wordpress-completely-dominates-top-100-blogs/

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