WordPress Listed As ‘CMS of the Year 2016’ for 7th Consecutive Year
W3Techs today released its list of ‘Web Technologies of the Year 2016,’ and once again, for the seventh consecutive year, WordPress earned the spot as the CMS of the year. WordPress is accompanied by other leading web technologies, like Google Analytics, Ubuntu, Amazon, and CloudFlare, on the list of web technologies of the year. The list is determined by the largest increase in usage in the last year, in which W3Techs “compared the number of sites using a technology on January 1st, 2016 with the corresponding number on January 1st, 2017.” WordPress has more than doubled since it first won CMS of the year in 2010, demonstrating its unstoppable growth and dynamic ability to power digital experiences as a full-service application.
At the start of 2016, WordPress was used by 25.6 percent of all websites and by the end was used by 27.3 percent — experiencing a 1.7 percent growth. For perspective, this is more than eight times the increase of the second place CMS, Shopify, which experienced a .2 percent increase over the year.
WordPress’s user-friendliness and extensibility make it the leading choice for small and enterprise sites alike. In fact, a whopping
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