🆚 Movable Type vs. WordPress
- 📈 WordPress is much more popular than Movable Type.
- 🌍 WordPress is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ Movable Type is particularly popular in Japan.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
WordPressType
Content management system
Content management system
About
Movable Type is a weblog publishing system written in Perl.
WordPress is a widely used open-source content management system built on 
PHP and MySQL.
It offers a plugin ecosystem with over 60,000 extensions, thousands of themes, a block-based editor for content creation, REST API support, multisite capabilities, and a large community for support and development.
Headquarters
Tokyo, Japan
San Francisco, California, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The WordPress CMS is 4,911 times more popular than Movable Type.
Total websites
Market share
CMS
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
WordPress is more popular than Movable Type in all countries.
United States
Japan
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Spain
Italy
Netherlands
Australia
Brazil
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.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the CMS category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the CMS category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the CMS category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the CMS category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the CMS category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
WordPress is more popular than Movable Type in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Entertainment
Online Shopping
Travel
Health
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
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Joomla
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WordPress VIP🗃️ 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.