Results: Most Popular CMS in Technorati's Top 100

It was a gray winter morning in CMSland and here's how we decided to spend it: we packed down a block of fresh soda bread and headed over to Chez Technorati to have a gander at their 100 most linked-to (popular) blogs. With that list in hand we skipped about through viewed source, many emails and some kindly conversation. In the end we had ourselves a nifty little list consisting of website name and the blogging technology or Web CMS platform said site ran on.

Simply put, we found that WordPress dominates the list, that Movable Type comes in with a respectable second, and the rest are either custom jobbies or a smattering of other platforms which are, relatively speaking, eating dust. We enclose the full list here for your consideration, but first a couple of notes on the results.

Notes from the Field

• WordPress wins — it is used by a whopping 34 percent of the 100 blogs on Technorati's Top 100 linked-to.
• Movable Type is used by 16 percent. So WP and MT between them provide the platform for half the surveyed blog sites.
• This proportion would be higher, but for the amount of platforms which started out as either Movable Type or WordPress (usually MT, near as we can judge), only to be hacked beyond all recognition. These we classify as 'Custom'.
• The “Big 2” blogging networks are neck and neck in terms of representation. Gawker has 8 blogs on the list, each using Gawker's own custom publishing platform (with a hacked Movable Type UI). The Weblogs network, also with 8 sites on the list, uses Blogsmith.
• I'm not certain that Metafilter, Little Green Footballs, Crave|cnet and Daring Fireball are all categorized correctly. There could possibly be other gremlins lurking within this opus. Scornfully fill me in, if you know better.
• Wider scope Web CMS technologies are not used much by the top blogs. Drupal scores 5 sites, with Plone used by 1. Other popular Web CMS platforms are conspicuous only by their absence.
• Most of the custom systems built are legacy jobs used by websites for years (e.g., Drudge Report). No-one is crazy enough to build their own blogging platform these days…except maybe Gawker Media.
• Judging by the list, the blogosphere is still at an immature stage. The list is dominated by gadgets, Web news, SEO, and general geekiness. Is that really all people want from a blog?

The Raw Numbers

Technorati Top 100 'Most Linked to' Blogs as of Jan, 2008 by publishing platform.

CMS/Platform	Count
WordPress	34
Movable Type	16
Custom CMS	11
Blogsmith/Weblogs	8
Gawker CMS	8
TypePad	7
Blogger/Blogspot	6
Drupal	5
Plone	1
Scoop	1
Expression Engine	1
Community Server	1
City Desk (Fog Creek)	1

And here's the full list of Technorati Top 100 Most Linked-to Blogs, as of 17 Jan 2008.

1)	Engadget	Blogsmith
2)	Gizmodo	Gawker
3)	Techcrunch	Wordpress
4)	Huffington post	Movable Type
5)	Boing Boing	Movable Type
6)	Lifehacker	Gawker
7)	Ars Technica	Custom
8)	Mashable	Wordpress
9)	Blog di Beppe Grillo	Movable Type
10)	icanhascheezburger	Wordpress
11)	Daily Kos	Scoop
12)	TMZ Entertainment	BlogSmith
13)	perez Hilton	Wordpress
14)	postSecret	Hosted: BlogSpot
15)	Seth Godin	Hosted: Typepad
16)	ReadWriteWeb	Movable Type
17)	proBlogger	Wordpress
18)	Official Google Blog	Hosted: BlogSpot
19)	treeHugger	Movable Type
20)	Smashing Magazine	Wordpress
21)	Kotaku, Gamers Guide	Gawker [MT]*
22)	Gigazine	Expression Engine
23)	Dosh Dosh	Wordpress [Thanks Maki]
24)	CopyBlogger	Wordpress
25)	Think progress	Wordpress
26)	The Consumerist	Gawker
27)	Valleywag	Gawker
28)	GigaOM	Wordpress
29)	ShoeMoney	Wordpress
30)	Crooks and Liars	Wordpress
31)	Scobleizer	Wordpress
32)	at0mica	Wordpress
33)	TUaW - Unofficial apple Blog	Blogsmith
34)	uthink	plone
35)	Gawker	Gawker*
36)	Search Engine Land	Movable Type
37)	Joystiq	Blogsmith
38)	a List apart	Custom (Happy Cog)
39)	Drudge Report	Custom
40)	Talking points Memo	MovableType [with 'limited customization' -thanks Josh Marshall]
41)	Neatorama	Wordpress
42)	O'Reilly Radar	Movable Type
43)	Threat Level- Wired	Typepad
44)	How to Change the World	Typepad
45)	Microsiervos	Movable Type [thanks Nacho]
46)	Lifehack.org	Wordpress
47)	dooce	Drupal
48)	Engadget Japanese	Blogsmith
49)	Zen Habits	Wordpress
50)	Blogoscoped (unofficial Google)	Custom [Thanks philip and Haochi]
51)	autoblog	Blogsmith
52)	NewsBusters.org	Drupal
53)	Xiaxue	Blogspot
54)	“43 Folders”	Drupal
55)	Download Squad	Blogsmith
56)	The Daily Dish/andrew Sullivan	Typepad
57)	ancora Imparo	CommunityServer
58)	Secret Diary of Steve Jobs	BlogSpot
59)	TheWrongadvices.com	Wordpress
60)	Jauhari	Wordpress
61)	Google Operating System blog	BlogSpot
62)	Noscope	Wordpress
63)	Matt Cutts	Wordpress
64)	The Superficial	Custom
65)	The Corner/National Review	Custom
66)	The Sartorialist	BlogSpot
67)	Deadspin	Gawker*
68)	antbag.com	Wordpress
69)	Hot air	Wordpress
70)	kottke.org	Movable Type
71)	SEOBook	Drupal
72)	Crunchgear	Wordpress
73)	Freakonomics NYTimes	Custom
74)	Vacuous Virtuoso	Wordpress
75)	SlashFilm	Wordpress
76)	stereogum	Movable Type
77)	Gothamist	Movable Type
78)	Fanhouse aOL Sports	Blogsmith
79)	TorrentFreak	Wordpress
80)	Joel on Software	CityDesk (Fog Creek)
81)	Dlisted	Drupal
82)	Instapundit	Movable Type
83)	Make: Blog	Movable Type
84)	podbean Faq	Wordpress (podbean runs off Joomla!)
85)	Coding Horror	(“..an ancient form of..”)Movable Type
86	incorporated suberversion	Wordpress
87)	podbean News	Wordpress (podBean runs off Joomla!)
88)	Jalopnik	Gawker *
89)	Global Voices Online	Wordpress
90)	Yanko Design	Wordpress
91)	Go Fug Yourself	Typepad
92)	Mac Rumours	Custom (Thanks Dr. Q)
93)	Techdirt	MovableType
94)	Gadget Lab	Typepad
95)	Meta Filter	Custom
96)	Bad Behavior	Wordpress
97)	Little Green Footballs	Movable Type (I think)
98)	Dilbert Blog	Typepad
99)	Crave |Cnet	Wordpress
100)	Daring Fireball	Custom

A Few Thank You's

We do owe some thanks to everyone who tolerated our persistent pestering: people like Dennis at Techdirt and Maki at DoshDosh, in addition to the many names mentioned above. We have a particularly big thank you for Haochi of Googlefied, who had a list compiled of the top 75 popular blogs by platform, and was good enough to give us access to it. This saved me and my hamsters a nice block of time — though not as much as it would have done had we stumbled into this man's lair a day earlier!

Results: Most Popular CMS in Technorati's Top 100

It was a gray winter morning in CMSland and here's how we decided to spend it: we packed down a block of fresh soda bread and headed over to Chez Technorati to have a gander at their 100 most linked-to (popular) blogs. With that list in hand we skipped about through viewed source, many emails and some kindly conversation. In the end we had ourselves a nifty little list consisting of website name and the blogging technology or Web CMS platform said site ran on.\n\nSimply put, we found that WordPress dominates the list, that Movable Type comes in with a respectable second, and the rest are either custom jobbies or a smattering of other platforms which are, relatively speaking, eating dust. We enclose the full list here for your consideration, but first a couple of notes on the results.\n\n\n

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