⚡ Blogging Platforms in the United Kingdom

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

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) is a Western European country with a population of over 67 million people.

According to our data, blogging platforms are used on 1.2% of websites from the United Kingdom.

Statistics based on 169K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top blogging platforms in the United Kingdom in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is WordPress.com with an impressive share of 35.1%, followed by Tumblr with 23.5% and Substack with 17.8%.

WordPress.com 35.1%
Tumblr 23.5%
Substack 17.8%
Blogger 13%
Medium 12%
Substack (Hosted) 1%
Tumblr (Hosted) 0.4%
Medium (Hosted) 0.4%
Naver Blog 0.3%
Blot 0.2%
Movable Type 0.1%
Livedoor Blog 0.05%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top platforms that are more popular in the United Kingdom than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

3. Substack ^(-2)
5. Medium ^(-1)
6. Substack (Hosted) ^(-2)
8. Medium (Hosted) ^(-5)
10. Blot ^(-6)
11. Movable Type ^(-1)

✨ Best Blogging Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of 12 blogging platforms used on sites from the United Kingdom, 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	35.1%
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	23.5%
3	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$$$	17.8%
4	Blogger Mountain View, California, United States A free online blogging platform owned by Google that hosts user blogs on blogspot.com subdomains. Free	13%
5	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	12%
6	Substack (Hosted) San Francisco, California, United States A newsletter publishing platform that also provides hosted blogs with support for custom domains. Free$50	1%
7	Tumblr (Hosted) San Francisco, California, United States A blogging platform that lets users connect custom domains to their blogs. Free$6.99/month	0.4%
8	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	0.4%
9	Naver Blog Seongnam, Korea A free blogging platform operated by the South Korean company Naver. Free	0.3%
10	Blot United States An open-source publishing platform that turns a folder into a website. FreeOpen source$6/month	0.2%
11	Movable Type Tokyo, Japan A weblog publishing system written in Perl. FreeOpen source	0.1%
12	Livedoor Blog Tokyo, Japan A Japanese blog hosting platform that allows users to create and manage blogs with customizable designs. Free	0.05%

👉 See Also

🌎 Blogging Platforms in other countries

🗃️ 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 169,969 websites from the United Kingdom.
We currently track the presence of 20 blogging platforms across the web.
Of these, 12 were detected on websites from the United Kingdom.
Statistics were last calculated on August 13, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.