wordpress now powers 30% of websites

Connect with top gaming leaders Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23.   WordPress now powers 30 percent of the web, according to data from technology survey firm W3Techs..   This represents 5 percentage point increase in nearly two and half years, after WordPress hit the 25 percent mark November 2015...   It's worth noting here that this figure relates to the Web, regardless of whether website uses management system or not.   WordPress claims 60.2 percent, up from 58.7 percent November 2015.   By comparison, its CMS, Joomla, has seen its usage jump from 2.8 percent to 3.1 percent, while Drupal is up from 2.1 percent to 2.2 percent..   It's also worth pointing out that for the purposes of this study, WordPress refers to both the non-hosted open source blogging software that you download and WordPress com platform..   In terms of methodology, W3Techs scans the million websites, and then takes three-month average.   From this fairly sizable sample, the firm determined that nearly one-third are now running on WordPress..   VentureBeat's mission is to be town square for technical decision-makers to gain knowledge about technology and transact.   Read more