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Re: WordPress usage worldwide

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post #17

This is a pretty amazing feat. The top 1 million sites includes many who have the money to afford custom sites and yet Wordpress is still almost 1/5 of sites.

I can afford to have all of my clothes professionally cleaned, yet I have a washer and dryer.

Re: WordPress usage worldwide

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post #20
post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suspect this is so. The top million (specifically a subset of that) is where the sites fall whose owners can afford to hire people to build their own custom stuff. Small independent sites seem more likely to rely on something like WordPress.

That is definitely not true. I think that statement is correct roughly for the top 50,000. The fall off in economic viability is fairly abrupt. There are some websites in certain markets where the earn a disproportionately high amount of revenue per visitor, and these are the exception. But, given the nature of web and the difficulty in how the user actually found that site, a good chunk of their margins may have acc…

I said "a subset of that." The top 50,000 is absolutely a subset of the top million. But you don't need to conjecture about that number 50,000. Again I'm saying the top million most-visited sites is where all the profitable sites likely fall. (Not that they're all profitable.)

Re: WordPress usage worldwide

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post #31

The Readme says "Warning that it can take a long time: between 20 to 30 days." How in the world can it take so long time? The csv file seems to be 24mb in size and the computation performed can't be that advanced. Did the author do something seriously wrong?

> To run it you'll need either 2Gb of RAM What? I guess this is a toy program used to learn clojure or sth - it even uses sed for line parsing. A 10-line php script could do the same with a few MB of RAM

What is sth?

I do have to agree this sounds relatively inefficient, especially considering you could just immediately flush the result out to disk.

Re: WordPress usage worldwide

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post #31

The Readme says "Warning that it can take a long time: between 20 to 30 days." How in the world can it take so long time? The csv file seems to be 24mb in size and the computation performed can't be that advanced. Did the author do something seriously wrong?

> To run it you'll need either 2Gb of RAM What? I guess this is a toy program used to learn clojure or sth - it even uses sed for line parsing. A 10-line php script could do the same with a few MB of RAM

I agree, even a Bash script would be more efficient. Everything was born as an exercise to learn Clojure. I can tell you that it actually uses 1.1Gb, but for safety I recommend twice as much. Why does it use so much RAM? Ask Java :) (I am the author of the script)

Re: WordPress usage worldwide

#46

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

I don't think there's an unquestionable way to know if a site is made in WordPress, although you can intuit by some clues: header, meta tag, robots.txt, cookie login, sitemap ...

Re: WordPress usage worldwide

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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/

It doesn't work, I introduced the url of my page (programadorwebvalencia.com) made in Jekyll (a static site) and it tells me that it is WordPress.
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