I think for quite awhile now the self-hosted version of WordPress has been considered by most to be the dominant blogging platform, but up until recently it was purely speculation.
Last Friday, Royal Pingdom did some research and published the top blogging platforms based upon the Technorati Top 100 list. As you’d expect, WordPress took first place with 27 of the Top 100 blogs (5 more were hosted on WordPress.com). Of the self-hosted blogs, Movable Type is in second place with 12 blogs.
For your reference, here are the 27 WordPress blogs (links are included on the original post):
- Perez Hilton
- Problogger
- Chris Brogan
- Zen Habits
- Copyblogger
- Think Progress
- VentureBeat
- SlashFilm
- Global Voices Online
- The Caucus Blog – NYTimes
- Bits Blog – NYTimes
- Freakonomics – NYTimes
- Pajamas Media
- Just Jared
- Smitten Kitchen
- Hot Air
- Neatorama
- TechCrunch
- Smashing Magazine
- Washington Wire – WSJ
- Michelle Malkin
- Daily Blog Tips
- Yanko Design
- Mashable
- Roy Tanck’s weblog
- CrunchGear
- Delicious:days
It is nice to see the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and New York Times (NY Times) both listed here. It would be interesting if this study is done every year to see trends. I would imagine WordPress will be over 50% of the Technorati Top 100 list within a few years as some of those blogs switch away from Typepad, move their WordPress.com blog to self-hosted, etc.
Kyle Eslick
Kyle Eslick is WordPress enthusiast who took his passion for WordPress to the next level back in 2007 by launching WPHacks.com as a place to share hacks and review WordPress-related products.
Thanks a lot, this made things much clearer for me :) 
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The only other blogging software I have experience with is Blogger but the flexibility and popularity of WordPress is obvious and I’m not surprised to see it take first place. Although I would have guessed that it would be over 50% already. You just don’t see too many of the others when visiting other blogs.
Everyone knows it. And, this one adds to the authority !
WORDPRESS FTW for ever.
You have to remember how valuable it is to Six Apart for some of the top blogs to be using Movable Type or Typepad.
It a promotion tool for them. It could even be argued that it would be worth their while to pay companies / people who own the top blogs to used Movable Type or Typepad. At the very least give them the top package and support for for free.
I agree that this list will only grow in the years to come but I think we should also look at who is using WP for “regular sites” as well.
I mean WordPress is being used for so much more than just a blog these days and I bet there are some other influential sites that are using WordPress but wouldn’t fall under the “blog” category.
It would be interesting to see that list as well
Anyway, thanks for a great article and all the best.
Stu
It depends on what you’re referring to. Blogger may have more registered users/blogs on their hosted blogs than WordPress does. But, as far as self-hosted goes, I’m sure that WordPress has won that one, hands down.
i think that wordpress make a good progress in blogging , so i agree with you that much websites will use it. but if google interested in self hosted websites ” blogpot” i think it can move wordpress .
WordPress is the best!
Though my blog is hosted on WP but I will support blogspot because of the Google love for Blogspot.
When I was on blogspot getting organic traffic was not an issue for me. Every single posts got crawled as fast as you can Imagine.
I think wordpress is great! Not sure if it`s the best one, but for my use it`s perfect. I think this is the main reason why so many use it as well, it`s so user friendly. Hardly any coding, fast, a lot of opportunities.
Yeah, it’s pretty easy to use. I’ve always been dealing with Joomla only though, but for my blog I decided to go with WordPress, as Joomla is for articles not for blogs.