WordPress is one of the best and popular blogging platform and content management application widely used on the internet. Most of the popular sites are powered by WordPress either it is a tech site like Techcrunch or a blogging site like Shoutmeloud. WordPress provides huge numbers of plug-in and tools that helps a webmaster to obtain higher ranking in the web world and has less complications in most of the subject than any other platforms. Today, I am going to share you 7 amazing facts about WordPress which you may have not known before.
Amazing Fact 1: The first fact deals about the number of websites which is running on WordPress platform. Do you have any guesses about it? No? Okay then it is reported that WordPress runs about 66 million websites including some very famous sites like TED,Techcrunch, Labnol, Forbes and many others besides.
Amazing Fact 2: There are millions of people who currently learning WordPress. It is estimated that about 45millions users installed their site of WordPress from WordPress.org in the previous year.
Amazing Fact 3: As it is said that “Lion is the King of the Jungle”, similarly we can consider that in the blogosphere “WordPress is the King of the CMS”. Currently, WordPress has the highest market share nearly about 53.8%, while Drupla has about 6.7%, Joomla has got 9.2% and rest CMS has 30.3%.
Amazing Fact 4: Every blogger these days use plugins to bring positive changes to their site regarding design, speed or SEO. There are over 14,629 free plugins available on WordPress plug-in directory whereas 7,609 in Joomla and about 8,039 in Drupal.
Amazing Fact 5: WordPress is used by about 14% of the most famous sites, i.e. Roughly 1 million biggest sites which thanks none other than “WordPress” from making their site to deliver their content in a robust manner.
Amazing Fact 6: WordPress provides unlimited amount of free theme designs that any other platform. There are around 1,392 free themes designs on WordPress Themes Directory whereas Drupal provide about 885 free theme designs.
Amazing Fact 7: Right now many social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+, YouTube and many more are booming. In case of Twitter, WordPress has 104,400 twitter followers, Joomla has 21,460 followers and Drupal has about 20,951 followers.
I am currently using Blogger but I still believe that WordPress far better than Blogger in most of the important subjects like SEO, Designs and others. Besides, I suggest that newbie bloggers should always start with Blogger platform and gain knowledge of web basics and only jump to WordPress.
Well, this is all about WordPress, I hope you enjoyed reading this post. If you know any more facts about WordPress let me know in the comments.
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