Entire Internet CMS Usage January-July 2015

We update our Entire Internet coverage quarterly and provide an update on what has changed on a bi-annual basis via blog posts. We’ve broken these ones down into bite sized chunks as there’s just so much interesting information to digest.

328,852,063 Domains were indexed this quarter. In the past we’ve shown the increase in usage by numbers, this is interesting but doesn’t show much of a change. WordPress has been found on an additional 1.1 million domains since January but only accounts for a 7% increase in customer base. Where as Ghost was added to 2,184 domain home pages and accounts for a 17% increase in their customer base.

Freemium offerings like Squarespace and Wix also increased their customer base by around 150k new websites but with a 33% increase in usage of Squarespace and a 14% increase in Wix as their initial custom bases are very different.
CMS Market Share Increases by Install Base

CMS Growth June 2015

More and more websites appear to be using a known CMS (rather than being custom built from the ground up) – this makes total sense now, the existing tools have matured so much and with a huge market of supported extensions and plugins that look after things like design, SEO, caching it doesn’t make sense not to use one.

WordPress is a clear CMS leader, 48% of all sites that we detect that are using a known CMS system are using WordPress (so almost 1 in 2 CMS powered sites).