In what is probably one of the most unique guest posts I’ve ever published here, today I bring you an Infographic. It contains several interesting statistics, and will compare some of the leading blog platforms out there. Behold…
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Dona Collins is an infographic artist, blogger and financial writer at CreditLoan.com. When she is free you can find her on twitter and other times you can find her writing articles for creditloan blog.
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Nice InfoGraphic, I find it interesting that last week Tumblr passed WordPress in the amount of blogs it hosts, but if you notice int he top 100 blogs, WordPress has 27, and Tumblr has less than 11 (being part of the other category).
Also it says WordPress doesn’t have a preview feature for posts, but it does.
Good point on WordPress.
Yeah, Tumblr is doing really well, but I think Dona was limiting that info to the top 100 blogs.
Yeah definitely, I think Tumblr has a long road ahead to get the credibility that WordPress has to get the big names.
Tumblr is doing well but they are mainly used for photo blogging.
But do note here that tumblr has got many spam blogs and blogs created by seo professionals for link wheels which don’t get deleted by tumblr or gets caught into the filter. I have one running from many months now. Whereas wordpress team takes it responsibly to catch spam blogs and blogs created just for the sake of link building. So that’s why the figures are so great for tumblr according to me.
BTW, nice infographic david.
Yeah I agree, plus Tumblr doesn’t let you host your own like WordPress does, that is key for me.
Thanks, Dave. I am surprised that wordpress or other platforms does not capture a higher percentage of the top 100. One wonders also if new platforms will arise in the future to capture market share, or if one or more of the existing platforms will emerge to win a big share of mobile phone use–a different duck when it comes to internet use (when the little devices are not used for games, video, or voice). Of course desktop use will continue even after mobile phone access surpasses desktop, and blogging in the main may remain particularly amenable to desktop rather than mobile access. Or blogging and micro-blogging will emerge as separate disciplines not unlike the Twitter-type/ typical blog divide today.
“I am surprised that wordpress or other platforms does not capture a higher percentage of the top 100.”
That’s not to say WordPress is shrinking–it’s not. WP is growing incredibly fast. The reason is, many of these sites have been around forever, before WordPress existed. Older sites have a tremendous advantage in the search engines, plus they have first-mover advantage, plus over time they have garnered huge followings (word of mouth, RSS subscribers, etc.) and they can afford to buy smaller blogs, pay writers more than smaller blogs, and they can afford the web development work to make older platforms do just about anything.
I’m not as surprised about WordPress’s market share. As someone who is easily overwhelmed with Tech stuff, WordPress is daunting to anyone who comes at it with zero experience. Many of these other platforms skid the wheels where that is concerned. Of course, you love the flexibility and all the things that make WordPress, well, WordPress. But for many people today, they’re just wanting to get their stuff “out there” right away.
Wow that’s interesting. I, too, was surprised that WordPress didn’t have a bigger chunk in the top 100 blogs. What a diverse showing of platforms used.
Hi David,
I have been using wordpress for years. It is easy to with lots of plugins and themes. Never tried any of the others. WordPress works great.
WordPress gets spammed so much though – I’m seeking another platform
This certainly makes me think. David – will do you an analysis on what this blog means to you at some stage as otherwise it is just data that I am not experienced enough to incorporate into my blogging experience
WordPress does have a preview button – other than that, this is an AMAZING post. Off to share all over
Yeah, I know. Guess I didn’t catch that before it went live. :-/
You should correct it and repost. I noticed this too. Otherwise, nice work.
Guess ya should have previewed your post. (in wordpress?) (grin)
Yeah, I know. Guess I didn’t catch that before it went live. :-/
Interesting graphic. Nice work! Would be nice to see something on “most popular plugins used” (WordPress), or average number of plugins used.
Thanks for putting this together.
-Travis
Blogger DOES have premade templates & traffic stats, so the graphic is not corrrect.
+1, I’ve revisited Blogspot and I’m not sure where you can find Social Networking options for it. Unless you wanna count Disqus added to Blogspot, then it might be true.
@drisley:disqus What did you mean by Social Networking Options?
I’ve been using Blogspot since 2008 and now moved to Joomla. Basing on this Infographic, you’ve missed something about Blogspot. It does have Traffic Stats available and plenty of premade templates for bloggers to use. I havn’t used other platforms (including WordPress) but I’d rather stick to my Joomla site. Thanks for sharing this info, David.
Nice infographic and killer visuals Dona ! The graphic really punches in a lot of information within an infographic ….
Though, a small glitch I found – it claims that WP does not have the post preview feature , which I am certain it does. Apart from that the data is spot on !
@drisley:disqus Thanks for sharing this guest post with us !
I have used most of these platforms and have stopped using most of them eventually. The longest blog I kept was a WordPress, so maybe that says something… But I’m currently on Tumblr and really enjoying that.
As per me it’s very difficult to judge someone’s professional work without doing that. So comparing you with a School bus driver is not fair.
Which blogging platform is best to fight automated spam?
Interesting.
Interesting. In my opinion WordPress is one of the best platforms can’t compare with Tumblr!
Nice and helpful information about blogging platform and grate differentiation.
I’m always so intrigued by these infographics, I want to make one badly! Great post with lots of info, I’m definitely promoting this!
Nice article David, really like the graphics! I’ve used a mixture of Blogger, WP and Tumblr in the past. WP is much easier to control; mix this in with a large community releasing new templates and widgets on a daily basis and you can pretty much have a decent blog up and running in a matter of minutes.