WordPress penetrates 48% of the CMS market’s domains

WordPress, the content management system (CMS) used by many web sites around the world, broke new records recently.

According to statistics released by BuiltWith, WordPress installations gained 7% among all CMS installations, increasing the market share of WordPress to 48%.

This translates to an additional 1,149,956 domains running web sites on WordPress, in the first 6 months of 2015.

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WordPress runs on 48% of all CMS installations.

Other notable CMS systems that increased their market shares include:

  • SquareSpace – Increased by 33% and 151,867 domains
  • Ghost – Increased by 17% and 2,184 domains
  • WIX – Increased by 14% and 154,783 domains

More web sites are opting to utilize an established content management system, as opposed to a custom-made one; the existing market, particularly for WordPress, provides numerous add-ons, plugins and tools that are easily added on top of the CMS of choice.

The current trends are showing that WordPress will break through the 50% share sometime by the end of the year.

For charts and graphs, check out the report at BuiltWith.

 

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