Powered by . . .

July 26, 2008 -- filed under Statistics

How many web pages are powered by our favorite blog platform or CMS? The following table shows how many pages contain the statement “Powered by” followed by the CMS name.

Since not every CMS adopts the same credits statement, a different search string has been used where applicable. A Yahoo! web search today gives the following results (in thousands of pages found):

Search string KPages
1st Powered by WordPress 296000
2nd Powered by Joomla! 38000
3rd Powered by Movable Type 35400
4th Powered by Xoops 27050
5th Powered by Drupal 20100
6th Powered by Plone 16700
7th Powered by PHP-Fusion 11800
8th Propulse par DotClear 9670
9th Powered by ExpressionEngine 7730
10th Powered by Pligg 6730
11th Powered by Geeklog 6660
12th Powered by eZ publish 5800
13th Powered by Xoops Cube 5650
14th Realise avec SPIP 5160
15th Powered by Mambo 5010
16th Powered by Nucleus 4340
17th Powered by e107 4090
18th Powered by CMSimple 3150
19th Powered by LifeType 2980
20th Powered by PHP-Nuke 2910
21st Powered by MDPro 2080
22nd Powered by phpWebSite 2030
23rd Powered by Typo3 1730
24th Powered by dBlog 1570
25th Powered by CMS Made Simple 1220

Of course pages powered by a CMS but without the “Powered by” statement are not counted, so the real numbers should be even higher, and the ranking could be different.

Please note that our CMS statistics don’t make any claim of scientific accuracy, they are just intended to entertain our readers. Only blog platforms and general content management systems are considered here; more specialized systems, e.g. those building forums, wikis, image galleries and e-commerce sites are not included.