It has been over a decade since Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little came up with the brainstorming idea of a CMS called WordPress, which became the base of millions of websites. By far, it is one of the most prominent CMS out in the market that has risen into stardom in the virtual world in shortest time.
Known as “blogger’s first love”, WordPress is clearly making a mark in enhancing the content of websites leaving behind other CMS like Drupal, Blogger or Joomla. So, let us peek at some of the amazing facts about WordPress that few very know about. (Click to Tweet)
#Fact 1
As per the reports of World Wide Web technology surveys, WordPress is powering nearly one-fourth of the top 10 million websites in the world featuring some of the biggest brands like Coca-Cola, eBay, Sony, McDonald’s etc.
#Fact 2
Over 76 million websites currently use WordPress. With such mind-numbing sites using it, WordPress is surely ruling. A half of this number of users are hosted on the free WordPress.com and in terms of self-hosted sites, it makes up approximately 20% of all websites.
#Fact 3
WordPress related keywords score the highest in a month. If you only type WordPress only, there will be over 4.5 million match searches every month. But if you type any WordPress related, the results returned are much higher, and it may reach above 37 million searches.
#Fact 4
WordPress have nearly integrated 51 language translations. Even if you cannot find your language in their list, no need to worry as WordPress consistently updates new languages.
#Fact 5
WordPress is also available for the major mobile operating systems i.e. Android and iOS.
#Fact 6
You can avail from about 30,000 absolutely free themes from WordPress. Once you install it, free to choose any theme to make your site look the way you want.
#Fact 7
Akismet is the best and most popular WordPress plugin that filters all the junk comments and keeps your website secured from spams. To surprise you more, Akismet has an average downloading rate of 18,000 per day.
#Fact 8
With booming social media marketing, many social media platforms are joining hands with WordPress for integrating, which includes Photobucket, Twitter, Slideshare, Daily Motion, etc.
#Fact 9
WordPress blog has massive traffic and the average monthly page view rate has reached over 14.7 billion. This surely depicts the success of WordPress blogs in the online industry.
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#Fact 10
Surveys depict that WordPress is the 5th most required and demanding skill in the blogging world and there is no doubt that it will top the list soon.
This was all about WordPress, and it’s thrilling journey so far over 13 years. These facts are the proof that WordPress is the just the best platform for your content management. We at PHPProgrammers, sincerely believe that WordPress simply outperforms others as a CMS. So, if you need an expert WordPress developer for your functional new or existing website, get in touch with us.
Have a look at our latest blog : “5 Smart Tips to Improve Speed of Your WordPress-built Website”
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