ByDan Knauss
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Squarespace, which has over 1,200 employees, recently raised $300 million at a $10 billion valuation. While the market share of WordPress is many times larger, commercial closed-source platforms are gaining investment and a little bit of growth.
Bet Hannon, Eric Karkovack, Maciek Palmowski, and Rae Morey join David to share their reactions to the State of the Word 2021.
Sally Simms says the barrier to building things on the web is getting lower, which explains the popularity of the no-coding movement. 🚫👨💻 Sally is excited by the trends she describes, but she is quick to point out that no-code is not about taking work and market share “away from developers.” However, Sally anticipates, “there…
WordPress’s CMS market share may have dropped a little — for the first time. We had a great conversation about that this morning.
WordPress Market Grow Continues to Surge Joost de Valk has updated his CMS market share analysis for June 2021 based on numbers provided by W3Techs. Joost notes that “a lot has changed again this year, in large part attributable to COVID-19.” 😷 WordPress overtook “None” (no detectable CMS) as the most used CMS on the…
The Creator Economy owes a lot to WordPress, but that doesn’t mean WordPress is valued or even understood by Creators as an open source project and community. Are the stories we tell and the words we use compelling to newcomers and the younger generations we need to succeed us? Is the story and language that got WordPress where it is adequate to take it where it wants to go?
I ran across domainnamestat.com recently — and it has some interesting statistics about domain names: GoDaddy holds a WordPress-like market share (~33%) on registered .com domains! 😮 Automattic is nearing a million registered domain names itself.
