Breaking news! WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg broke some pretty big news on 9th November this year – WordPress now manages 25 percent of the Internet. That means a quarter of all websites built are made using WordPress – that’s a LOT!
The guys at W3Techs (responsible for the most reliable and extensive web technology surveys) crunched the numbers and broke down the Internet by popular content management systems, and WordPress far exceeded number two on the list, Joomla, at 2.8 percent.
W3Tech also shows that WordPress has been the fastest growing CMS, in fact useage grew 1.7 percent since January to now (November 2015), which is a huge increase compared to the competition.
Mullenweg mentioned that these numbers usually change with every month, but that it’s pretty exciting WordPress supports one in four of all websites.
It’s not gone to the co-founder’s head though, as Mullenweg remarked “The big opportunity is still the 57% of websites that don’t use any identifiable CMS yet, and that’s where I think there is still a ton of growth for us (and I’m also rooting for all the other open source CMSes)”.
The future definitely seems bright for WordPress!