⚡ Blogging Platforms in the United States

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 States of America (USA) is a North American country with a population of over 341 million people.

According to our data, blogging platforms are used on 1.6% of websites from the United States.

Statistics based on 606K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Tumblr with an impressive share of 31.7%, followed by WordPress.com with 19.6% and Blogger with 19.5%.

Tumblr 31.7%
WordPress.com 19.6%
Blogger 19.5%
Substack 18.8%
Medium 12%
Tumblr (Hosted) 3.7%
Substack (Hosted) 0.7%
FC2 0.4%
Naver Blog 0.4%
Movable Type 0.3%
Medium (Hosted) 0.2%
Tistory 0.09%
Blot 0.07%
Hatena Blog 0.03%
Teletype 0.03%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. Tumblr ^(-1)
5. Medium ^(-1)
6. Tumblr (Hosted) ^(-1)
7. Substack (Hosted) ^(-1)
8. FC2 ^(-6)
10. Movable Type ^(-2)
11. Medium (Hosted) ^(-2)
13. Blot ^(-3)
15. Teletype ^(-4)

✨ Best Blogging Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of 17 blogging platforms used on sites from the United States, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	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	31.7%
2	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	19.6%
3	Blogger Mountain View, California, United States A free online blogging platform owned by Google that hosts user blogs on blogspot.com subdomains. Free	19.5%
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$$$	18.8%
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	Tumblr (Hosted) San Francisco, California, United States A blogging platform that lets users connect custom domains to their blogs. Free$6.99/month	3.7%
7	Substack (Hosted) San Francisco, California, United States A newsletter publishing platform that also provides hosted blogs with support for custom domains. Free$50	0.7%
8	FC2 Las Vegas, Nevada, United States A Japanese blog hosting service. Free	0.4%
9	Naver Blog Seongnam, Korea A free blogging platform operated by the South Korean company Naver. Free	0.4%
10	Movable Type Tokyo, Japan A weblog publishing system written in Perl. FreeOpen source	0.3%
11	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%
12	Tistory Jeju-si, Jeju-do, Korea A South Korean blogging platform and social networking service. Free	0.09%
13	Blot United States An open-source publishing platform that turns a folder into a website. FreeOpen source$6/month	0.07%
14	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	0.03%
15	Teletype Lewes, Delaware, United States A web blogging platform with content monetization.	0.03%
16	Livedoor Blog Tokyo, Japan A Japanese blog hosting platform that allows users to create and manage blogs with customizable designs. Free	0.02%
17	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	0.01%

👉 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 606,249 websites from the United States.
We currently track the presence of 20 blogging platforms across the web.
Of these, 17 were detected on websites from the United States.
Statistics were last calculated on August 14, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.