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.
WordPress usage worldwide
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Re: WordPress usage worldwide
#42Earlier 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…
Re: WordPress usage worldwide
#43The 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 do have to agree this sounds relatively inefficient, especially considering you could just immediately flush the result out to disk.
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#45The 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
Re: WordPress usage worldwide
#46The 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
#47The 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/
Re: WordPress usage worldwide
#48so they studied the top 1M websites and found 19% is using wordpress? man, that's a good chunk if you ask me.