🆚 Mastodon CMS vs. WordPress
- 📈 WordPress is much more popular than Mastodon CMS.
- 🌍 WordPress is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ Mastodon CMS is particularly popular in Germany.
Mastodon CMS
WordPressType
About
Mastodon is free, open-source software for running self-hosted, federated social networking services based on the 
ActivityPub protocol.
It allows users to host independent “instances” that communicate across the global “Fediverse,” supports up to 500-character posts (toots), images, video, audio, polls, local and federated timelines, chronological feeds with no ads or algorithms, and community-based moderation.
WordPress is a widely used open-source content management system built on 
PHP and MySQL.
It offers a plugin ecosystem with over 60,000 extensions, thousands of themes, a block-based editor for content creation, REST API support, multisite capabilities, and a large community for support and development.
Headquarters
Pricing
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Portugal in the CMS category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in France in the CMS category.
- ⬆️ 31st most popular in Germany in the CMS category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the CMS category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the CMS category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the CMS category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the CMS category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the CMS category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- 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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.