🆚 Movable Type vs. Tumblr Blogs
- 📈 Tumblr Blogs is three times more popular than Movable Type.
- 🌎 Tumblr Blogs is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Movable Type is more popular in Japan, Canada, and China.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Tumblr BlogsType
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
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free version ✔️
Premium$6.99/month
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Tumblr blogging platform is 2.8 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 China.
United States
Japan
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Canada
Australia
Russia
Italy
Netherlands
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.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United States in the Blogging Platforms category.
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.
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Medium Blogs🗃️ 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.