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WordPress Market Share Sets It on a Path of World Dominance
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We recommend WordPress to all our clients, and its global dominance over all other CMS systems continues for good reason. Here are some facts about WordPress market share:

• 33.5% of all active websites are powered by WordPress
• More than 75,000,000 active websites used it in 2018
• WordPress has 60% of the global CMS market share
• 50,000+ websites are being made daily using WordPress
• Writers publish 70 million posts on WordPress monthly
• WordPress has 32 versions released
• People google the brand “WordPress” 37 million times per month
• There are 3 official WordPress hosting providers: SiteGround, DreamHost, and Bluehost

The first official version of WordPress as we know it launched in 2003. It was developed by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little. Now, 13 years later, it is the most popular website management system. It is offered by practically all hosting companies and quite a few have devised dedicated WordPress hosting platforms with remarkable functionality and security.

WordPress Market Share in 2020

1. 35% of the internet is powered by WordPress as of January 2020. This easily makes WordPress the biggest content management system in the world. T

2. 60.4% of the global CMS market share belongs to WordPress. Of course, WordPress is not the only CMS in the world. It would be boring without competition. Other major names include Joomla and Drupal. How do they rank?

The honorary second place goes to Joomla, but their numbers don’t even come close to WordPress. This particular platform powers 2.9% of all websites currently, which gives Joomla 5.3% of the CMS market share. Third comes Drupal where these figures are at 1.9% and 3.4% respectively.

If it’s so popular, who exactly is using WordPress?

3. There are more than a hundred popular websites that use WordPress. Time magazine. TED’s blog. Vogue. Sony Music. Harvard’s blogs. MTV News. Reader’s Digest. Thought Catalogue. CNN. Even Beyonce and Jay Z’s websites are powered by WordPress. In Beyonce we trust.

4. The most popular CMS in 2020 is… you guessed it – WordPress.

And it’s the platform’s 9th year in a row to hold that distinction.

This is logical. WordPress is so easy to use. Its installation is quick. There are hundreds of themes you can choose from. There’s also a wealth of plugins you can use and also countless tips, tricks, and tutorials out there.

Its biggest advantage would be that it’s free to use. It operates under the GNU GPL license, which, to put it simply, means anyone could download and use it. Anyone can modify the study code freely too.

5. 50,000+ websites are being made daily using WordPress.

That’s a huge number, people. As mentioned before, WordPress powers 30% of all active websites. Those are global numbers, not just the United States. That number is expected to grow, as more and more people turn to WordPress for their sites. This means millions of people are using WordPress.

6. 70 million posts are being published monthly. To add on, 77 million comments are made monthly. WordPress users sure seem like a chatty bunch that has a lot to say.

7. WordPress platform users write in over 120 languages.71% of users speak English. Spanish comes second, with 4.7% of speakers. Indonesian is third, with 2.4%. Portuguese and French round up the Top 5 with 2.3% and 1.5% respectively.

Russian, German, Italian, Turkish and Dutch also make it in the top 10 most popular languages on WordPress. And to help all those WordPress enthusiasts around the world meet and share their experiences, there are

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