Tag Archives: Technorati

WordPress Use Declines Among Top 100 Bloggers

by Austin Matzko on January 17, 2009 at 1:32 pm

…but just barely. Last year, 34 of the top 100 bloggers used some version of WordPress. This year it’s 32. Movable Type / TypePad use has increased—again, barely—from 23 to 28 of the top blogs.
Most of the changes seem to be a result of blogs coming and going from the ranks [...]

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Who’s Using WordPress 5 Years Later

by Austin Matzko on May 27, 2008 at 11:35 am

In honor of WordPress’s fifth birthday, I’ve surveyed about 6000 blogs to see how many are running WordPress. This is the same group that I queried back in January, when I created a spider that harvested the blogs from all of Technorati’s main blogging categories.

CMS
Count
Percentage

WordPress
2178
34.3

Unknown
1523
23.98

Blogger
1207
19.01

Typepad
340
5.35

Movable Type
338
5.32

WordPress.com
136
2.14

As you can see, WordPress dominates the known [...]

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How Many Bloggers Use Each Version of WordPress

by Austin Matzko on January 26, 2008 at 3:54 pm

Yesterday I mentioned that WordPress was the most-used content management system among Technorati’s top 100 bloggers, and I wondered what versions of WordPress they were using.
As it happens, discovering the WordPress version is fairly simple most of the time, so I wrote a Perl robot to gather that information from the top 100 Technorati bloggers. [...]

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WordPress: Most-Used Blogging Application For the Most Popular Blogs

by Austin Matzko on January 25, 2008 at 10:19 am

According to Technorati, more of the top one hundred linked-to blogs use WordPress than any other CMS. Specifically, 34% of those most popular blogs use WordPress, compared to Movable Type’s 16%.
Most WordPress themes announce their version number in the page’s meta tags. Since I’m sure Technorati has the data, it would be really [...]

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