⚡ 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 0.6% of websites from the United Kingdom.

Statistics based on 165K+ 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, which dominates the market with a substantial 69.4% share.
It is followed by Blogger with 26.3% and Substack with 1.9%.

WordPress.com 69.4%
Blogger 26.3%
Substack 1.9%
Tumblr 0.9%
Medium 0.8%
Movable Type 0.3%
Blot 0.3%
Other 0.1%

🚀 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 ^(-1)
5. Medium ^(-3)
6. Movable Type ^(-1)
7. Blot ^(-4)

✨ Best Blogging Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of 7 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	69.4%
2	Blogger Mountain View, California, United States A free online blogging platform owned by Google that hosts user blogs on blogspot.com subdomains. Free	26.3%
3	Substack San Francisco, California, United States A newsletter and blogging platform that allows you to connect your own domain. Free$$$	1.9%
4	Tumblr San Francisco, California, United States A blogging and social publishing platform that lets users connect a custom domain to their blogs. Free$6.99/month	0.9%
5	Medium San Francisco, California, United States An online publishing platform that allows users to run blogs under a custom domain while leveraging its built-in hosting and distribution system. $5+/month	0.8%
6	Movable Type Tokyo, Japan A weblog publishing system written in Perl. FreeOpen source	0.3%
7	Blot An open-source publishing platform. $5/month	0.3%

👉 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 165,521 websites from the United Kingdom.
We currently track the presence of 15 blogging platforms across the web.
Of these, 7 were detected on websites from the United Kingdom.
Statistics were last calculated on May 15, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.