🆚 Hatena Blog vs. Medium

📈 Medium is much more popular than Hatena Blog.
🌎 Medium is more popular in the United States, Vietnam, and the United Kingdom.
🌍 Hatena Blog is more popular in Japan.

Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Hatena Blog

Medium

Type

Blogging platform

Social media platform

About

Hatena Blog is a Japanese blog hosting platform that allows users to publish and manage personal or professional blogs with customizable domains and themes.

It provides a visual and Markdown editor, supports embedding media such as images, videos, and external content directly in posts, offers smartphone-optimized publishing with mobile apps and offline drafts, and includes free and paid plans with features like custom domains and ad removal.

Medium is an online publishing platform that allows writers to share articles, stories, and ideas with a built-in audience and content discovery system.

It provides a minimalist editor for long-form writing, supports publications for multi-author content, newsletters, and distributes content through algorithmic and editorial recommendations.

Headquarters

Kyoto, Japan

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

hatena.blog #508

medium.com #41

Pricing

Free version ✔️

Hatena Blog Pro ¥1,008/month

Free version ❌

Member $5/month

Friend of Medium $15/month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Medium social media platform is 14 times more popular than Hatena Blog.

Total websites

Market share

Blogging Platforms

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Medium is more popular in the United States, Vietnam, and the United Kingdom, while Hatena Blog is more popular in Japan.

United States

Japan

Vietnam

United Kingdom

India

Germany

France

Canada

Turkey

Australia

Awards

🥉 Third most popular in Japan in the Blogging Platforms category.

🥈 Second most popular in Vietnam in the Blogging Platforms category.
🥈 Second most popular in Turkey in the Blogging Platforms category.
🥉 Third most popular in India in the Blogging Platforms category.
🥉 Third most popular in Germany in the Blogging Platforms category.
🥉 Third most popular in France in the Blogging Platforms category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Medium is more popular than Hatena Blog in all market segments.

Business

Blogs/Wiki

Internet Services

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Online Shopping

Software/Hardware

Finance/Banking

Entertainment

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#508

#53,467

#108,496

#117,388

#137,134

Name

Rank

#651

#1,391

#1,469

#3,502