State of the Word(Press) 2013

In his State of the Word 2013 address, WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg reveals WordPress is now powering 18.9 per cent of the web, up 2.2 per cent points since last year. That and more data from a survey conducted to help focus future development of the WordPress core.

To inform their development decisions the team at Automattic (the developers behind WordPress) conducted a survey of more than 30,000 people from 178 countries, which showed people enjoy WordPress for its ease of use and the community around it.

In 2013, WordPress was powering almost 20% of every website on the Internet.

A total of 98% of people said they used WordPress on the web, with 31 per cent using the software on their iPad or iPhone, 30% on an Android phone, 18% on an Android tablet and 12% on a desktop app.

People are still primarily using WordPress as a CMS at 69%, compared to 68% last year. However, WordPress use as just a blog has dropped to 6 per cent, compared to 7% last year. A total of 20% of respondents said they used WordPress as both a blog and CMS, down from 25% last year. 7% of respondents use WordPress as an application platform.

From State of the Word 2013

We’re still waiting on the State of the Word 2014 address.  We’ll post highlights from the address here.