WordPress market share drops to 41.9% amid Automattic-WP Engine legal disputes
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Summary
WordPress, the dominant CMS powering over two-fifths of the web, has experienced its first sustained market share decline in years, dropping from 43.2% to 41.9% over six months. The decline follows months of legal disputes, plugin conflicts, and public feuding between Automattic (WordPress's parent company) and WP Engine. While the drop is not catastrophic, it marks the end of an era of uninterrupted growth for the platform.
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· 3 pulledWordPress is showing its first sustained market share decline in years.
New data from web technology tracker W3Techs puts WordPress at 41.9 percent of all websites, down from 43.2 percent six months earlier.
The numbers are hardly catastrophic for software that still powers more than two-fifths of the web.
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