Market Share

Eric Karkovack thinks WordPress’s 40% market…

Dan Knauss

February 25, 2021

Eric Karkovack thinks WordPress's 40% market share may have been achieved because it has been stable and extensible so long people trust it and stick with it. The key to staying on top is innovation, lower barriers for new developers,…

🏗️ Steve Benjamins from SiteBuilderReport shares…

Dan Knauss

January 28, 2021

Hosting

🏗️ Steve Benjamins from SiteBuilderReport shares some trends and market share data from 2020 for web builders. Market Share: Wix and Squarespace continue to be the market leaders, although their share of the market fell to 53% from 56% in…

The State of the Word in…

Dan Knauss

December 23, 2020

Design

The State of the Word in 2020 On Thursday, December 17th, Matt Mullenweg

Joost de Valk has released his…

Dan Knauss

November 24, 2020

Joost de Valk has released his fourth biannual analysis of the CMS market share numbers provided by W3Techs. There are two winners: "WordPress (and WooCommerce “within” it) and Shopify." 🏆🏆 WordPress is the #1 CMS with a 39.0% market share,…

Antonio Villegas ponders whether WordPress has…

Dan Knauss

September 10, 2020

Antonio Villegas ponders whether WordPress has a "bright future." While the WordPress market share is currently on the rise, "the future of blogging (and its platforms) is today more threatened than ever." ⌛ Antonio points to two areas we should…

WordPress celebrated the 17th anniversary of…

Dan Knauss

June 5, 2020

WordPress celebrated the 17th anniversary of its first release on May 27th. 🎉 Matt Mullenweg recalls, "The main feedback we got at the time was that the blogging software market was saturated and there wasn’t room or need for anything…

Envato is embracing this shift from…

Dan Knauss

May 3, 2020

Envato is embracing this shift from theme to block / page builder with its brand new template kits category. Don't underestimate this! Envato throwing their weight behind Elementor for an entire marketplace category helps cement Elementor as a top-tier participant…

Joost de Valk took another look…

Dan Knauss

February 10, 2020

Joost de Valk took another look at CMS market share via W3Techs. He notes that WordPress and WooCommerce are growing, but Joomla and Drupal are losing market share. Currently, "Shopify is set to overtake Joomla as the #2 CMS in…

I ran across domainnamestat.com recently —…

Dan Knauss

December 27, 2019

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.

Joost de Valk has an analysis…

Dan Knauss

November 26, 2019

Business

Joost de Valk has an analysis of CMS market share numbers from W3Techs. Joost's key findings are: WooCommerce's market share is three times as big as Shopify, but Shopify is growing. If current trends continue, Shopify, Joomla, SquareSpace, and Wix…

Sally Simms says the barrier to…

Dan Knauss

October 21, 2019

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…

One theme to rule them all?

Dan Knauss

October 15, 2019

BusinessDesign

What does the future hold for WordPress themes, for theme developers and end users? Are we ready for a single master parent theme?

Joost de Valk, who recently took…

Dan Knauss

February 2, 2019

Joost de Valk, who recently took up the new role of Marketing Lead for WordPress, breaks down some of W3Techs' market share data and shares some important trends he's spotted. 📊 A key takeaway: "On the whole, Open Source market share is growing,…

Edge and the state of browsers

Brian Krogsgard

December 17, 2018

While WordPress 5.0 and WordCamp US were consuming the majority of the community's attention, some significant events were unfolding that will have profound and lasting effects on the web. One of these events was a rumor that Microsoft decided to…

Notes from WordCamp Europe, 2018

David Bisset

June 25, 2018

Design

Another successful WordCamp Europe 2018 just wrapped up a few days ago. The event had 54 organizers, 170 volunteers, 65 speakers (from 17 countries), and 37 sponsors (with 44 micro-sponsors). Out of 2,368 tickets sold, 2,085 attendees (from 76 countries)…