WordPress is a MUST for your CMS
If you haven’t figured it out by now, WordPress is dominating the Content Management Systems (aka CMS) throughout the world. If you check out their WordPress Statistics Central Page, you’ll see in real time. Update: Here’s a great article talking about the numbers behind WordPress & it’s future.
Some major sites who use it include the following:
And the rest of the data is in the page that I don’t need to repeat here. It’s pretty obvious. I’m not even a WordPress rep and unable to get any reimbursement for my time touting them as the best. It’s simply just a fact. Check out data from other sites.
Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere identifies some great facts about the top CMS’es used:
- average salary for a regular blogger is $24,086/year; avg salary for a corporate one is $33,577/yr
- top blogs including netflix (#1), blogspot analytics (#2) and the loop (#3)
- top posts of 2011 incl: Netflix’s screwup post, Google acquiring Motorola’s Mobility, Google’s warning before applying Panda to their Algo
- top 3 tags (topics): news, business, politics
- who’s your main provider? wordpress (#1), google (#2), typepad (#3)
WordPress Completely Dominates Top 100 Blogs
- 48% of the top blogs use wordpress
- 14% (#2) is custom blog solutions
- 7% (#3) is Moveable Type
- despite the press Tumblr gets, it’s down towards the bottom with only 1% usage
- but the #1 blog “Huffington Post” does use Moveable Type, if that does sort of throw a little confusion to the mix (it’s only one site & that could also be based off the bias of the developers behind it or the CTO)
- of the 30% of the sites that use a CMS, WordPress represents 53.9% of them
- #2 is Joomla @ 9.2% and #3 is Drupal at 6.7%
- 2.24 million global searches/mo for “wordpress” exactly
- only 450,000 global searches/mo for the topic “cms” exactly
- 1.0 million global searches/mo for “joomla” exactly
- 368,000/mo globally for “drupal”
Why does this matter for you as a potential website owner or one that current uses another system? If this continues and I suspect it will, your CMS platform will probably have some of the best:
- support
- plugins available
- themes/templates to choose from
- among many other potential options and additions to the CMS that can make it much easier for someone to have a little more control or ability to do their own SEO directly as well
I’ve seen a number of small groups of people turn ideas into VERY large businesses due to their ability to use WordPress to their own benefit. Just a thought folks…