🆚 Movable Type vs. Serendipity
- 📈 Movable Type is much more popular than Serendipity.
- 🌎 Movable Type is more popular in Japan, the United States, and Canada.
- 🌍 Serendipity is more popular in Germany and Switzerland.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Content management system
Content management system
About
Movable Type is a weblog publishing system written in Perl.
Serendipity is a 
PHP-powered weblog engine which gives the user an easy way to maintain a blog.
Headquarters
Tokyo, Japan
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Movable Type CMS is 7 times more popular than Serendipity.
Total websites
Market share
CMS
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Movable Type is more popular in Japan, the United States, and Canada, while Serendipity is more popular in Germany and Switzerland.
Japan
Germany
United States
Canada
United Kingdom
China
Hong Kong
Italy
Switzerland
Russia
Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in Japan in the Blogging Platforms category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Japan in the CMS category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in the United States in the Blogging Platforms category.
- ⬆️ 58th most popular in Germany in the CMS category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Movable Type is more popular than Serendipity in all market segments.
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Business
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Health
Travel
Personal Pages
Alcohol
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Z-BlogPHP🗃️ 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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.