🆚 Medium (Hosted) vs. WordPress.com
- 📈 WordPress.com is much more popular than Medium (Hosted).
- 🌍 WordPress.com is more popular in all countries.
WordPress.comType
About
Medium is an online publishing platform that allows users to run blogs on custom domains using its hosting and publishing infrastructure.
It provides a minimalist editor for long-form content, supports publications for multi-author blogs, includes built-in SEO tools, and offers content distribution through recommendations and topic-based feeds.
WordPress.com is a managed 
WordPress platform that handles hosting, performance, security, and maintenance so site owners can focus on content.
It provides 1,000+ customizable templates, unmetered bandwidth and traffic, the site accelerator CDN for images and static files, automatic backups with one-click restore, malware scanning, and DDoS protection.
Headquarters
Pricing
(6 GB storage) $48/year
(13 GB storage) $96/year
(50+ GB storage) $300+/year
(50+ GB storage) $540+/year
Categories
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
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Blogging Platforms category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Blogging Platforms category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the Blogging Platforms category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Taiwan in the Blogging Platforms category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Mexico in the Blogging Platforms 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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Technologies with similar characteristics.
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Livedoor Blog🗃️ 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 3,603,958 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.