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The $500 Website

Dan Knauss

September 1, 2022

A decade ago, Chris Butler's survey and report for Newfangled provided other agencies with the numbers that meaningfully define their market. WordPress agencies and freelancers could use something similar today.

Joost’s 7th WordPress Market Share Report

Cory Miller

July 22, 2022

BusinessNotes

Joost de Valk, founder of Yoast SEO, posted his 7th CMS Market Share Analysis, based on data from W3Techs and BuiltWith. Here are some key points from Joost’s post: WordPress is the #1 CMS with a 43% market share, roughly…

BuiltWith is a super handy tool…

October 13, 2015

BuiltWith is a super handy tool (check out the CMS stats, but it does loads of stuff... for instance, you can see what Post Status is made with, and it's pretty accurate), and it turns out it is run by one person…

The most popular WordPress plugins

Brian Krogsgard

February 27, 2015

BusinessPlanet

WordPress plugin popularity has always been pretty tough to figure out. We only had download counts or independent, third party website scrapers to tell us anything. Now, WordPress.org itself has more data that's being tested and launched to give us real insight into the popularity of WordPress plugins.

How Wix, Weebly, and Squarespace square up against WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

February 18, 2015

Over on the OSTraining blog, Steve Burge does an analysis of public data to try and determine the number of websites that Wix, Weebly, and Squarespace actually have, and questions whether they are legitimate threats against WordPress. Steve's process is…

WooThemes releases Bookings for WooCommerce

Brian Krogsgard

May 8, 2014

WordPress News

WooThemes has been working on their Bookings extension for quite a while. They had the idea for Bookings before WooCommerce was WooCommerce, and had some form of the product even in December 2011. They wanted to make sure they did…

WooCommerce now powers over 10% of all eCommerce websites

Brian Krogsgard

February 5, 2014

WordPress News

WooCommerce has had explosive growth. That's not new to anyone. But you may not realize just how much WooCommerce has grown compared to the eCommerce space in general. The WooThemes folks wanted to know who was using their product and…