{"id":4681,"date":"2012-04-12T14:22:56","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T18:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shareaholic.com\/?p=4681"},"modified":"2014-04-07T18:26:33","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T22:26:33","slug":"wordpress-dominates-top-100-blogs-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wordpress-dominates-top-100-blogs-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Dominates Top 100 Blogs in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/wordpress-logo.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4683\" title=\"wordpress logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/wordpress-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"55\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/wordpress-logo.png 320w, https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/wordpress-logo-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 55px) 100vw, 55px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Develop sites for WordPress or have a WordPress blog of your own? Use the most functional and compatible social media buttons &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/publishers\/sharing?utm_campaign=Shareaholic_Blog&amp;utm_source=Blog_CTA&amp;utm_medium=Top_CTA&amp;utm_content=Wordpress_Top_100_Blogs_In_World\">Get Shareaholic for WordPress<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/royal.pingdom.com\/2012\/04\/11\/wordpress-completely-dominates-top-100-blogs\/\">new study released by Pingdom<\/a>, 48% of the top 100 blogs in the world are powered by WordPress. This is an increase from 32% just three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Pingdom&#8217;s study looked at the blogging platforms used by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/blogs\/top100\/\">Technorati\u2019s top 100 blogs<\/a>, and discovered the following breakdown:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/top-100-blogs-wordpress-pingdom-study.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-4682\" title=\"top 100 blogs wordpress pingdom study\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/top-100-blogs-wordpress-pingdom-study.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"522\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/top-100-blogs-wordpress-pingdom-study.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/top-100-blogs-wordpress-pingdom-study-533x400.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/top-100-blogs-wordpress-pingdom-study-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/top-100-blogs-wordpress-pingdom-study-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s an intriguing breakdown, and important to note that many major publishers such as <a href=\"http:\/\/buzzfeed.com\">Buzzfeed<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/theverge.com\">The Verge<\/a> use a custom CMS. It&#8217;s also worth nothing that Tumblr recently announced it hosts <a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/socialmedia\/2012\/03\/28\/tumblr-hits-20-billion-posts-nears-50-billion-hosted-blogs\/\">50 million blogs<\/a>, but it owns just a small percentage of the top 100 &#8211; indicating it dominates in the longtail.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You can read <a href=\"http:\/\/royal.pingdom.com\/2012\/04\/11\/wordpress-completely-dominates-top-100-blogs\/\">Pingdom&#8217;s full breakdown of the study here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What&#8217;s your take on the study? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Develop sites for WordPress or have a WordPress blog of your own? Use the most functional and compatible social media buttons &#8211; Get Shareaholic for&hellip;&nbsp;<br \/><a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wordpress-dominates-top-100-blogs-in-the-world\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[525],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shareaholic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}