Report: 78.8% Of Site Owners Use WordPress For Content Management

CodeGuard's "State of the Web Report" found a large majority of its 250,000 SMB sites use WordPress over Joomla, Drupal and others.

Amy Gesenhues on May 12, 2015 at 6:00 am

According to a new report from the website back-up and monitoring service CodeGuard, WordPress is the leading content management system for site owners, by far.

Evaluating 250,000 SMB sites, the Q1 2015 State of the Web Report found 78.8 percent used WordPress, followed by Joomla, Drupal, Concrete 5 and ExpressionEngine.

Of the sites using WordPress, Askimet was the top installed plugin, and Avada was the most often used theme. The study revealed 51 percent of the sites were not optimized for mobile.

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