Good stuff, thanks for posting this.

We don’t publish stats about it officially but the numbers skew even more strongly towards WordPress as you expand down the long tail. Not a diss on WordPress but I suspect the number of hosting services that support WordPress (and in general support PHP+MySQL) accounts for much of the popularity; folks will opt for whatever is easiest on their ISP arrangement.
-Ian
Technorati

To clarify, the Gawker Media blog platform is not based on Movable Type at all. It is a platform built and hosted by Gawker Media.

- Tom
Gawker Media

Great article Pingdom, there’s more information about blog trends at BuiltWith Trends -

http://trends.builtwith.com/?tag=blog

For the long-tail it seems that Blogspot is still more popular than Wordpress. Wordpress is more popular among the SEO and blogging-about-blogging type blogs, of course, but that’s because they know the pros cf, Blogspot’s cons.

Interesting post but I’d also be interested in what the most popular/most frequently used platform is for corporate blogs. At Dell, we’re using Telligent Community Server but use Wordpress for our http://www.digitalnomads.com blog, which is less about Dell and more about the digitally nomadic lifestyle.

bruceericatdell

Nice write-up although you really should spell ExpressionEngine without it being two words

Best wishes,

Mark

Amazing list.

Wordpress, anytime for me!!! Interesting to see that there are no Joomla powered blogs.

“An interesting side note is that very few Wordpress blogs in the top 100 have updated to WP 2.7 so far”
Isn’t this the pot calling the kettle black?

It would be interesting to compare this with data from other blog ranking sites. But most, including Technorati, require you to register your blog with them. So you loose all those that don’t bother registering. (Of course they are probably unlikely to make it to the top 100.)

I am along with mass !! proud to be wordpress user.

Wordpress rules!

Maybe I missed something… but is this data reflecting unique visitors, page views or some combination of both? Or is this list compiled from the rank on Technorati? Almost feels like an AP or USA Today poll: fair in their bias.

yes Wordpress rules

TextPattern isn’t even there!

Thanks for the resource…was wondering if I could stick with Blogger and still move up the ranks! Hmmm….

Drupal is a great Cms but difficult for some people.

Thanks for this post! I have a good idea now of where I should spend my time commenting !

Nice job, I seem to be in the majority as usual

Thank you, wordpress rulez !

Wow! I think the stats would get even higher in the next months and years. I thought about using Blogger but it seems that WP always keeps me at bay.

wordpress is leading….

what are the other scripts like wordpress ?

For more detail on this – check out my blog… “To blog or not to blog… That’s not the question” @ jamespoulter.wordpress.com

Interest list. Personally when it comes to setting up blogs for my clients we almost always recommend blogger What I like more about Blogger then Wordpress for someone who just wants a simple blogs is 1) Open Source is very susceptible to being hacked and 2) Posts can start driving traffic in less then 5 minutes of being posted, when Google owns the blog engine they know when they need to visit your blog and cache new content.

wordpress forever

Wordpress is the best..

It’s wordpress or nothing for me.

wordpress make me feel great

Hi there,

You’re rigth, there is a lot of good blog plateforms. My favorite is Iblogyou, a very nice french blog plateform. Let’s try it !

I’m a wordpress user myself! It’s great.

I’ve been trying to learn more about blogging software and self hosting and understanding how exactly that differs from using wordpress.com. Have you addressed that on Royal Pingdom? Any suggestions would be much appreciated!

I’m thinking now of trying out Moveable Type…is it as search engine friendly as WP?

Wired has switched their blogs from Typepad to WordPress.

I think that moves your number for WordPress from 27 up to 36 (and Typepad from 16 down to 7)

Personally I believe that Wordpress is the best blogging software just due to sheer number of users, forum support, many developers and freelancers to provide free plugins and themese!

I really like wordpress and it seems to be the one that has the most content, tools and plugins available.

It’s wordpress or nothing for me.

Really pleased to see that Wordpress seems to be leading the way – I only discovered Wordpress fairly recently – I couldn’t believe there was such a great platform which was so easy and quick to use.

It’s good to find that I stumbled across what seems to be the best Blogging platform around.

wordpress is the best

It is emerging more and more blog platforms nowadays. Some of them bring an outstanding flexibility. As for me, I prefer Pligg.

Ive used most platforms in the past – Wordpress is by far the best, and improving all the time to stay ahead of the competition.

I think that it’s important to know exactly which long-term benefits each platform has. I still use blogger and probably always will(because my blog is already established) but WordPress is probably the way to go.

Well I’m not surprised since its free and can be self hosted unlike blogger. The admin panel is also easy to use, though I hate the version 2.8 editor. It introduces a bunch of empty lines when you try to copy and paste code when in the theme -> editor

Wordpress is still on top. Very interesting post. Amazing results with a simple, intuitive and free platform. Wordpress deserve this place.

What’s happened to blogsmith? i can’t open it here, it just show a “blogsmith”logo on the loading page

Wow.. Thanks for the list

Nice work, But there is nothing about award winning joomla content managment system.

Nice post but drupal is the best cms

thanks for useful post.

The CMS of the future is for sure Joomla! Best administration ( Drupal to but that’s hard to understand for the average person ), loads of extensions for free,regularly new version, good for blog as well as a normal website…

Wordpress rocks! It is the most used blogging platform with lots of features, making it easy to use and to manage. Google’s blogger is not that great.

Wordpress is the best blogging tool. It’s very useful. Really nice job. Thanks you so much.

Very nice list.
Waiting for 2010 ranking of the best blog. Thanks.

I am building my blog with Joomla at the moment. It is much more time consuming than wordpress, but I need some other functionality later on the road. Other than that, I would stick with Wordpress!

Wow.. Thanks for the list

Great list, thank you. We use and recommend WordPress as it really is the simplest of all to install and maintain; especially with the click button installs on most modern hosts. I recently built a Drupal website for Blogging purposes, but really with the amount of effort and constant updates it requires, I advise WordPress rather – save yourself hours of frustration.

Thanks again for the list, very informative.

Drupal is a great Cms but difficult for some people.

I ask the same question as Omega, what has happened to Blogsmith, clearly they’re up there, but you click on all the links and search for them on search engines and it’s very odd, just a homepage with a logo, and no apparent explanation anywhere other than maybe they got bought by AOL at some point – ? Would love to know how all the bloggers behind those Top Weblogs which are using Blogsmith found them.

Before committing yourself to Blogger I’d advise anyone to read this thread here…

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?tid=0e07b50a0cd483f6#all

Their search engine has been broken for over 6 months, which is pretty cute considering Blogger is run by Google, supposedly the search engine maestros.

Interesting post but I’d also be interested in what the most popular/most frequently used platform is for corporate blogs

For the long-tail it seems that Blogspot is still more popular than Wordpress. Wordpress is more popular among the SEO and blogging-about-blogging type blogs, of course, but that’s because they know the pros cf, Blogspot’s cons.

This is great information and a lot of effort has gone into producing this. Most people feel safer and more in control if they host their own blogging platform such as Wordpress.

I always wonder though whether using Google’s own blogger will help in our web site ranking once we have built a following. Google would be foolish not to prioritise their own prodcts over and above all others and although it might be a cynical view, but I believe, it is a strong possibility that this is the case.

As always, customer loyalty is what Google is about and all content based productions hosted with a Google product might be an advantage.

Google reward good content driven web sites and blogs with a higher page ranking. If you couple this with one of Google’s own products we might just have an edge. Again, this is my view, but there are many things to think about.

If you were an advertiser with the Yellow Pages; would they prefer you to supply your own artwork for insertion or use their own examples which they knw produce results. After all, if you fail to create good business you might not be willing to spend again.

Yes, this is only an example, and blogger is “free”, but it would make sense for Google to provide you wit the very best results they can. This company will be looking to “up-sell” you later wit adwords or similar products. they want you to do well.

Food for thought.

Thanks – great info..
Mike Forty

I insist to use wordpress. Though many other cmses. It’s my favorite. Nice Post.