Top blogging tools
Blogging moved over the past year from being the pastime of Internet-savvy youth to being an increasingly respected part of the online news mix.
And, as blogging grows in popularity, so too do the tools to produce blogs, and the tools have become easier to use. Unlike the past where producing a sophisticated website required a wide range of skills today’s platforms such as WordPress, Blogger and TypePad are both more powerful than previous-generation tools while being more powerful.
There are essentially two types of blogs: Those that are provided fully-hosted by a developer such as WordPress and Blogger; and those that are self-hosted by organisations or individuals.
When it comes to hosted blogs, reports suggest that Blogger.com is the most popular platform. Analyst ComScore released a study of UK-based blogs earlier this year which offers insight into which the most popular hosted blog platform is.
The study of blogs in August, which tracked a total of 14.5 million blog visitors, found that the top blog platforms were:
Blogger.com – 9 million visitors
WordPress.com – 4.8 million visitors
Six Apart Sites – 2.7 million visitors
When it comes to self-hosted blogs, however, the numbers are a little different. In an earlier study by CMS Wire of the most popular blogging platforms on Technorati, WordPress trumped the lot with a healthy lead over second-place Movable Type. The review of the top 100 sites on Technorati showed that the top ten blogging tools were:
WordPress – 34 sites
Movable Type- 16
Custom CMS- 11
Blogsmith/Weblogs- 8
Gawker CMS – 8
TypePad- 7
Blogger/Blogspot – 6
Drupal- 5
Plone – 1
Scoop – 1
Many of the technorati top 100 sites are relatively professional operations which is probably why the majority are self-hosted operations. Further down the list the trend is likely to change but as blogging become more mainstream the growth in self-hosted blogs is likely to grow.
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