Recent statistics by W3Techs show that WordPress has, yet again, achieved another milestone in the history of the Internet.
The "little open source blogging engine that could" now has a humongous market share of 58.7% amongst all CMS platforms, easily beating out Joomla by 6.6%, Drupal by 5%, and Magento by 2%.
We expected the CMS to reach this number, as we reported back in June, when a different statistics provider, BuiltWith, was estimating WP's market share at 48%, and foreseeing that WordPress would go above 50% by the end of the year.
But while the dominance over other CMS platforms was a well-known fact for years, WordPress has now reached the mythical 25% market share when it comes to the entire Internet.
This means that one in four sites is running on the WordPress suite, either the commercial WordPress.com platform or the self-hosted open source version from WordPress.org.
"Sometimes it goes up and down through the course of a month," said Matt Mullenweg, WordPress' creator, "but it’s still a pretty fun milestone that we can now say about one in four websites are now powered by the scrappy open source underdog with its roots stretching all the way back to a single person in Corsica, France."
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