🆚 Movable Type vs. Tumblr Blogs

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Content management system
Blogging platform

About

Movable Type is a weblog publishing system written in Perl.

Tumblr is a blogging and social publishing platform that lets users connect a custom domain to their blogs.

It supports multiple formats including text, images, video, and audio, theme customization with HTML editing, reblogging, tagging, scheduling, follower feeds, and long posts with up to 1,000 content blocks, each limited to 4,096 characters.

Headquarters

Tokyo, Japan
San Francisco, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free version ✔️
Premium$6.99/month

Categories

CMS › Rank #79
Blogging Platforms › Rank #6
Blogging Platforms › Rank #3

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Tumblr blogging platform is 2.5 times more popular than Movable Type.
Total websites

Market share

Blogging Platforms

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Tumblr Blogs is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Movable Type is more popular in Japan, Canada, and Hong Kong.
United States
Japan
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Canada
Australia
Bulgaria
Italy
Netherlands

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Tumblr Blogs is more popular among sites focused on blogs and wiki, Internet services, and games, while Movable Type is more commonly used on entertainment, travel, and education and reference sites.
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Personal Pages
Online Shopping
Travel
Internet Services
Games
Education/Reference
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Health

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#72,270
#102,864
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Name
Rank
#351,049
#373,884
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See also

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