WordPress the Emerging Monopoly in CMS

WordPress The Emerging Monopoly in CMS As of March 2012, Wordpress is on 72.4 M Different websites around the globe making Wordpress the most widely used and popular CMS in existence. Around 50% Hosted on By the end of the 2011, it was estimated that around 20-25% of all new websites published were built using wordpress platform Wordpress.com 98 To Date, here have been version releases of wordpress 1 In 2011 , Wordpress was responsible for 14.7% of the top 1,000,000 Websites in the entire world. (Including Davis, Stitt, Mingus,Strayhorn, Getz, Gordon, Tyner, Coltrane, Baker, Monk, Reinhardt & others) Examples of Sites using wordpress include Honda, The NFL, New York Times, Ford, Cnn, Nasa, Tech Crunch 48% of the top 100 blogs, as ranked by Technorati, Currently use Wordpress as their CMS Technorati Top More than 12 Million Blogs Downloads WordPress.org reports only 15% of users have upgraded to the latest version (3.4) 26.9% Wordpress sites using 3.3 Wordpress 3.3 Released WordPress Global Usage 22 of every 100 new domains created in the US are running wordpress Wordpress is the 18th most popular website in the United Kingdom An average day on wordpress.com WordPress boasts more than 37 million global searches every month. sees around 500,000 new posts Indonesians are the most profilic Wordpress users on the planet - Wordpress.com is the 8th most popular site in Indonesia. Over 352 million people view more than 2.5 million pages in an average month on wordpress.com Wordpress.com is run using the multisite version and over 32 Million sites are active on In an average week, users of the site themes In the first of March 2012, in excess of 826,000 Youtube Videos embedded in WP Sites. over 225,000 times, with more than 100 different themes to pick from that one installation of Wordpress MS Market Share Wordpress boasts the biggest market share when it comes to content management systems. Wordpress : 53.8% Joomla : 9.2% Drupal: 6.7% Others: 30.3% Many Social Networking and multimedia publishing platforms are tightly integrated with wordpress.com In the UK, Wordpress is ten times as big as Drupal and Joomla In the US, Wordpress is even more dominant than Drupal & Joomla Working With Wordpress WordPress Plugins Wordpress Odesk Freelancer.com ODesk reports over 36,000 Wordpress developers and in 2012 found that the median 86,396 WP Jobs posted, an average of 6,725 per month. It also lists wordpress as the 5th most requested skill. Freelancer lists over 100,000 Wordpress developers around the world, and reports over $3.6m in Wordpress projects completed. There are 19,000+ plugins freely avilablein the WordPress plugin directory.Altogether, these plugins have been downloaded more than 285,000,000 times, or nearly one download for every person in the United States of America. A survey of over 18,000 users by the wordpress foundation rate of a wordpress project is $50 p/h Most Popular Wordpress Plugins Based on the Top 100 most downloaded Wordpress plugins from the wordpress.org directory 3% 6% 6% 11% 20% 33% Designed by: WPTemplate.com