B
Evidence Grade B
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35%
35% -- website market share for WordPress (2019)
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Value
35%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2019
Entity
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
35
Freshness
95
Source
micrographix.co.uk
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Tier C
https://www.micrographix.co.uk/blog/craft-cms-vs-wordpress ↗
Source Article
Craft CMS vs WordPress
Craft CMS vs WordPress
The five reasons why we prefer Craft CMS to WordPress
1. Speed
WordPress has become an entangled mess of open source code, and the amount of trash that is created with WordPress has exponentially increased over the years. Junk plugins, junk themes, junky hacked websites, junky…
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micrographix.co.uk
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Methodology
Estimate cited by agency blog; original source not named
Methodology documented
Trend Over Time
| Period | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 39% | |
| 2016 | 25% | -35.9% |
| 2016 | 23.8% | -4.8% |
| 2017 | 30% | +26.1% |
| 2018 | 29% | -3.3% |
| 2019 (current) | 35% | +20.7% |
| 2020 | 39% | +11.4% |
| 2021-02 | 40% | +2.6% |
| 2022 | 40% | 0% |
| 2023 | 40% | 0% |
| 2023 | 37% | -7.5% |
| 2023 | 43% | +16.2% |
| 2024 | 43% | 0% |
| 2024 | 43.1% | +0.2% |
| 2024 | 43.6% | +1.2% |
| 2024 | 34% | -22.0% |
| 2025 | 33% | -2.9% |
| 2026 | 41% | +24.2% |
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Industrymarketing
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