Which Blogging Platform Should You Use? (Infographic)
When starting a blog, this question comes to the mind of every blogger. Which blogging platform is the best? Which one should they use? If you are on WPBeginner, you will see us recommending everyone to use Self Hosted WordPress.org platform. But many users think that our views are biased, therefore we asked Darren Rowse from Problogger for his permission to use the data from the poll he ran on his site.
We took the results from Darren’s Poll about What Blog Platform Do You Use? and displayed it in our infographic to present a more convincing argument. As of now, there are a total of 3476 bloggers who participated in this poll, and you can see the results in our Infograph.
WordPress.org got the majority of the votes and WordPress.com was on third place in user choice. If you need help distinguishing between the two platforms see our infograph about Self Hosted WordPress vs. Free WordPress.com.
Our pick in the Best Platform is ofcourse WordPress.org, and we have mentioned a few reasons why you should use WordPress. But if the reasons in the infographic is not enough for you, then you should check out our fully detailed post about Why You Should Use WordPress.
Feel free to post a comment below about which platform do you use, and why you use it.
Once again, all thanks goes to Darren Rowse of Problogger for letting us use his data to create this interactive graphic for our users.
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yeah..!! wordpress is the best..!! we use wordpress for any website.. Portfolio,E-commerce,company profile,photo-blog…
For me, wordpress is the best
yeah, go WP.
must be the script thing that puts blogger in second place over wordpress.com
I choose WordPress and Tumblr
yeah! me too! I use hosted wordpress for my main blog and tumblr for anything short or just not match with the whole theme of my main blog.
I started out with WordPress and never felt the need of trying another platform.
Now I’m so familiar with it (also code-wise), that I can’t imagine using another one.
WordPress does rock! It’s super simple to set up and it’s highly scalable and easy to modify. The number of quality plug-ins is certainly enough reason to go with it; pile on all the other benefits and it’s an easy decision!
I’m surprised that both Tumblr and Posterous were not in this list but expected WordPress to be as high as it is.
I’m currently using both WordPress.com and .org for sites and they’re both so easy to use!
I would like to see statistics for Tumblr as well.
cool…..ill use that one as my first “blog” place. Thanks digg i wound have not found this anywhere else.
WordPress is the God.
Since I started using it on everything my life has became so much easier. SEO is a breeze
Cheers,
Lee.
Though its real, is it not bit surprising why more people are using blogger than wordpress.com? Is it because it is owned by Google or it is far more better than wordpress.com? Surprising.
Blogger is some what easier as some people say. Also they have more control.
Thats a lot of vote for WP. Can’t see blogsome anywhere. It provides a lot more easier way to start mastering wordpress. Blogsome actually runs on WordPress Cognotent (Cognotent being the name of the company which manages Blogsome).
I have recently started considering Drupal (after 2006). Great and easy installation and customization if you are building a small site.
Whilst I am a huge fan of WordPress and use it for most of my sites, I still think Blogger has the advantage for people or organisations with little or no coding knowledge that need a blog, don’t want to host it themselves but still want to use custom URLs (this applies to many non-profit groups with whom I work).
It’s strange how squarespace didn’t make the list… much easier to set up than wordpress, fully customizable and inexpensive.
As it happens I use Squarespace for my main blog and have been with them for over six years. It’s a hosted service and costs but it is rock solid and very easy to manage. I also use wp.com and wp.org as well as Tumblr and Blogger for other purposes.
funny how wordpress received the most votes on a wordpress website… i would never guess that people who come here only use/know word press.
These polls were not taken on this site. It was on problogger, where bloggers from all different platforms visit.
Surely it depends on what type of blog/website you are planning. A straightforward blog doesn’t need Drupal, Joomla, Movabletype etc. If you don’t have the facility to host your own blog then WP.org is of no use. If you aren’t looking to monetize your blog or don’t need tons of widgets this in turn will affect your decision. And, of course, cost also comes into it. Some are free, some charge, some involve your own hosting which in turn costs you sometning.
What the infographic (we used to call it a bar chart!) does is to illustrate popularity, which actually means little or nothing to someone trying to decide on a blog platform.
I use blogger mostly because it was what I was first introduced to.
I don’t like Blogspot, at least once you’ve used WordPress it really seems to suck.
I use Blogger for more than 3 years, now I moved to WordPress and loving it!