🆚 Medium vs. Medium (Hosted)
- 📈 Medium is much more popular than Medium (Hosted).
- 🌍 Medium is more popular in all countries.
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About
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.
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.
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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
- 🥈 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.
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.