⚡ Blogging Platforms

Blogging platforms are web-based services that allow users to create, publish, and manage blog posts, often combining content creation, hosting, and audience interaction.

They typically support rich text editing, media embedding, themes and layout customization, tagging and categorization, commenting, post scheduling, subscriptions, and analytics.

According to our data, blogging platforms are used on 1.5% of all websites.
93.5% of these sites use only one blogging platform, 6.3% use two, and 0.2% use three or more of them.

Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the leading blogging platforms in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is WordPress.com with a share of 25%, followed by Tumblr with 20.8% and Blogger with 18.2%.

WordPress.com 25%
Tumblr 20.8%
Blogger 18.2%
Substack 13.8%
Naver Blog 11.4%
Medium 10.2%
Substack (Hosted) 1.5%
Hatena Blog 1.5%
Tumblr (Hosted) 1.3%
Livedoor Blog 0.8%
Tistory 0.7%
Movable Type 0.4%
FC2 0.3%
Tistory (Hosted) 0.3%
Medium (Hosted) 0.2%

You can also drill down by country:

🚀 Country Highlights

Here is a list of platforms that are especially popular in certain countries.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

Naver Blog is #1 in Korea ^(-4)
Tumblr is #1 in the United States ^(-1)
Hatena Blog is #1 in Japan ^(-7)
Blogger is #1 in Indonesia ^(-2)
Medium is #2 in Vietnam ^(-4)
Substack is #3 in the United Kingdom ^(-1)

✨ Best Blogging Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of 20 blogging platforms we detect, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	WordPress.com San Francisco, California, United States A managed WordPress platform that handles hosting, performance, security, and maintenance so site owners can focus on content. $4+/month	25%
2	Tumblr San Francisco, California, United States A blogging and social networking platform that allows users to publish multimedia posts, interact with others, and host blogs on custom domains. Free$6.99/month	20.8%
3	Blogger Mountain View, California, United States A free online blogging platform owned by Google that hosts user blogs on blogspot.com subdomains. Free	18.2%
4	Substack San Francisco, California, United States An online publishing and social platform that enables writers and journalists to create subscription-based newsletters, podcasts, and multimedia content delivered directly to subscribers. Free$$$	13.8%
5	Naver Blog Seongnam, Korea A free blogging platform operated by the South Korean company Naver. Free	11.4%
6	Medium San Francisco, California, United States An online publishing platform that allows writers to share articles, stories, and ideas with a built-in audience and content discovery system. $5+/month	10.2%
7	Substack (Hosted) San Francisco, California, United States A newsletter publishing platform that also provides hosted blogs with support for custom domains. Free$50	1.5%
8	Hatena Blog Kyoto, Japan A Japanese blog hosting platform that allows users to publish and manage personal or professional blogs with customizable domains and themes. Free¥1,008/month	1.5%
9	Tumblr (Hosted) San Francisco, California, United States A blogging platform that lets users connect custom domains to their blogs. Free$6.99/month	1.3%
10	Livedoor Blog Tokyo, Japan A Japanese blog hosting platform that allows users to create and manage blogs with customizable designs. Free	0.8%
11	Tistory Jeju-si, Jeju-do, Korea A South Korean blogging platform and social networking service. Free	0.7%
12	Movable Type Tokyo, Japan A weblog publishing system written in Perl. FreeOpen source	0.4%
13	FC2 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States A Japanese blog hosting service. Free	0.3%
14	Tistory (Hosted) Jeju-si, Jeju-do, Korea A Korean blog hosting platform that allows users to publish personal and team blogs on custom domains. Free	0.3%
15	Medium (Hosted) San Francisco, California, United States An online publishing platform that allows users to run blogs on custom domains using its hosting and publishing infrastructure. $5+/month	0.2%
16	Blot United States An open-source publishing platform that turns a folder into a website. FreeOpen source$6/month	0.1%
17	LiveJournal Moscow, Russia A blogging and social networking platform currently owned by a Russian company. Free199 RUB/month	0.08%
18	Teletype Lewes, Delaware, United States A web blogging platform with content monetization and Russian roots.	0.01%
19	Ninja Blog Tokyo, Japan A Japanese blogging platform. Free¥480/month	0.01%
20	Pixnet Blog Taipei, Taiwan A Taiwanese mobile photo sharing, blogging, and social networking service.	0.007%

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 3,816,370 websites.
We currently track the presence of 20 blogging platforms across the web.
Statistics were last calculated on September 10, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.