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A quarter of all websites includes a LOT of tiny websites nobody visits.

How many users/hits/bandwidth of the web does WP get?

It's worth looking at what the stat actually is: http://w3techs.com/technologies

tl;dr: It's 25% of the top 10 million websites according to Alexa over the last 3 months, and only includes top-level domains (So skips counting the millions of WordPress.com subdomains).

If it were all websites, it'd surely include tens of millions of low-traffic WordPress sites - but none of those are used in this calculation.

> tl;dr: It's 25% of the top 10 million websites according to Alexa over the last 3 months, and only includes top-level domains (So skips counting the millions of WordPress.com subdomains).

Nit, from someone in this industry: A top-level domain is .com, .net, .org, etc. The Alexa statistics only include second-level domains, which is what fully qualified domain names without hostnames are called.

Quite a lot, considering that some of these brands use (or used to use) WordPress:

http://www.wpbeginner.com/showcase/40-most-notable-big-name-...

It's fairly common among large media publications.

That's something that gets overlooked in these discussions of wordpress. Wordpress has the unique ability to use a single install and backend to manage hundreds of sites. If you need content cross posted across multiple sites, wordpress can do that. If you want to pull an entire column of articles from one site to another, wordpress can do that.

Wordpress has spent a ton of time on multisite features and (as far as I know) there's no other CMS in existence that handles this stuff out of the box. That's why large media companies love it and, I suspect, why a quarter of the internet runs it still when there are faster and more secure alternatives out there.

I've never used it professionally, but dotCMS is a Java- and Elasticsearch-based CMS that has very impressive multisite features [1]. From what I can tell, a lot of its capabilities stem from a design that treats absolutely everything (data, content, static assets, "themes") as a node in a virtual filesystem, or rather a filesystem-per-site, so everyday filesystem operations cover a lot of use cases. I believe you can even manipulate your site(s) via WebDAV to some extent, e.g. to develop a theme in your IDE of choice while saving directly to the site or, more realistically, saving to a private staging copy of the site that lives on the same server, which you can then copy into production from within the dotCMS admin.

I gave some consideration recently to adopting dotCMS for client work to replace an in-house PHP CMS, but although Java-the-language isn't particularly intimidating and dotCMS itself looks fairly self-contained and straightforward to deploy -- Elasticsearch is embedded rather than requiring separate setup, for example -- it's still tied up in the Java ecosystem (OSGi, maven, XML configuration) so there's a lot to get used to for someone approaching it from outside that realm.

[1] http://dotcms.com/#anchor1

Google and Ask.com used to have a "Blog search" feature. Nowadays minor sites are hard to find, and many seatch results on the first page are ads (that look almost like real search results on a non-IPS screens aka low price TFT/LCD screens on consumer notebooks/PCs).

This.

While impressive, the headline is misleading.

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