WordPress adds 1,150,000 new sites to reach 48% market share

Jul 14, 2015 13:41 GMT  ·  By

WordPress, the popular open source platform that's been dominating the CMS market for some years now, seems poised to break the 50% threshold by the end of the year.

In a recent statistic released by the BuiltWith website profiling and analytics service, Automattic's WordPress has now reached a 48% market share amongst all other CMSs.

Additionally, the CMS also added over 1,150,000 new domains to its headcount, increasing its previous numbers by 7%.

Counting down the days till WordPress reaches 50% market share

When it came to what version of WordPress webmasters used, the recent 4.2 and 4.1 branches dominated with a total of around 5.8 million domains, but the most interesting fact was that 1,748 sites still used version 2.1, which came out in 2007.

On the other hand, Ghost, an open source blogging platform created in Node.js by one of WordPress' former UI designers, has also added new domains, 2,184 to be more exact, growing 17%.

The platform features a smaller userbase, but many industry experts are looking at it as the next best thing outside the big three CMS platforms of Drupal, Joomla, and WordPress.

When it comes to site builders, the battle between Wix and Squarespace raged on, Wix adding 154,000 new domains for a growth of 14%, while Squarespace added 151,000 new domains for a growth of 33%.  

Mobile-friendly websites are seeing a dramatic increase

In a different report by the same BuiltWith, the team also presented a summary of how the mobile market evolved across the first half of 2015, pointing out how 1,180,000 new domains added support for Mobile Web Clips Icon, small images used to bind Web apps to iPhone and iPad screens.

Declared by coders by adding a rel="apple-touch-icon" to their page's head tag, they can open a website on Apple's touch devices using an icon on the user's screen.

This means more and more developers are adding mobile support for their websites, allowing users to navigate them using mobile-friendly interfaces.

Since mobile-friendly websites can also be implemented by viewport meta tags and non-scaleable content declarations, these were also analyzed by the BuiltWith team.

Over 1,465,000 new domains were added with non-scaleable content, for a rise of 30% compared to the previous period, and over 6,430,000 new domains were added with viewport meta tags, for a rise of 25%.

More and more websites are becoming mobile friendly
More and more websites are becoming mobile friendly

State of the Internet 2015, according to BuiltWith (3 Images)

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