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I was skeptical of that 40% too so I went looking for the basis for it. It's not totally unfounded: https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_managemen
by dougb5 3y ago
I was skeptical of that 40% too so I went looking for the basis for it.
It's not totally unfounded: https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management estimates that WordPress is used by 63% of all websites that use content management systems, and they estimate 31% use no content management system at all, so it concludes that WordPress is used by 43% of all websites.
The thing is, though, this is not weighted by page views or time spent or any meaningful measure of usage. None of the top 20 websites use WordPress (https://www.statista.com/statistics/1201901/most-visited-websites-worldwide-time-visit/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1201901/most-visited-web...) "WordPress powers over 40% of the web" misleads people into thinking it's 40% of everything people view, but I doubt that is true.
- iainctduncan 3y agoLies, damned lies, and statistics! What a perfect example. :-)
- gtirloni 3y agoWordPress is an open source project that anyone can host. That 40% number is probably true for WordPress installations. Not all WordPress installations are hosted at Automattic (the company). Thus it's hard to understand how 40% of all websites using WP will give a huge payout to Automattic for sharing their customers' data (which is minor subset of all WP installations out there that make up that 40% number).