WordPress usage worldwide

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Post by andros » Sat, Nov 02, 2019, 3:18 PM UTC

WordPress usage worldwide
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Re: WordPress usage worldwide

#2

Post by audessuscest » Sat, Nov 02, 2019, 5:38 PM UTC

Only ? Looks like a big number for worldwide usage, no ?

Re: WordPress usage worldwide

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Post by rbritton » Sat, Nov 02, 2019, 5:43 PM UTC

By only profiling the top 1M sites, I wonder if this may be sampling from a set not normally distributed? I suspect the frequency of use of WordPress might go up the further down the list you go — some random blog is less likely to be on the top 1M list yet be more likely to use WordPress.

Re: WordPress usage worldwide

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Post by buboard » Sat, Nov 02, 2019, 5:43 PM UTC

> the list of the first million domains with the most visits

How is that a random sample?

Re: WordPress usage worldwide

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Post by rbritton » Sat, Nov 02, 2019, 5:43 PM UTC

audessuscest wrote: post #2

Only ? Looks like a big number for worldwide usage, no ?

WP itself usually puts the estimate at 25-30%.

Re: WordPress usage worldwide

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Post by ludamad » Sat, Nov 02, 2019, 5:43 PM UTC

audessuscest wrote: post #2

Only ? Looks like a big number for worldwide usage, no ?

Right, originally I read 1% and was surprised, but that's massive usage

Re: WordPress usage worldwide

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Post by mxpxrocks10 » Sat, Nov 02, 2019, 5:45 PM UTC

you have to use a larger sample. There are 300M+ domains. The longer tail will surely have more wordpress in it.

Re: WordPress usage worldwide

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Post by benbristow » Sat, Nov 02, 2019, 5:46 PM UTC

The way this works seems to check if there's the "generator" meta tag in the .

Custom themes etc. might choose to omit that so it's not a 100% reliable check

Re: WordPress usage worldwide

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Post by mxpxrocks10 » Sat, Nov 02, 2019, 5:47 PM UTC

mxpxrocks10 wrote: post #7

you have to use a larger sample. There are 300M+ domains. The longer tail will surely have more wordpress in it.

Some other notes: 1) you're not checking subdomains like blog.company.com or paths like company.com/blog 2) if you use something like zgrab you can do 1M site crawl in a couple of hours. Consider checking it out.

Re: WordPress usage worldwide

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Post by mxpxrocks10 » Sat, Nov 02, 2019, 5:47 PM UTC

benbristow wrote: post #8

The way this works seems to check if there's the "generator" meta tag in the . Custom themes etc. might choose to omit that so it's not a 100% reliable check

you can compare it to this: https://www.isitwp.com/