Overview
With so many website technologies and platforms available to create a website, it can be hard to choose between WordPress, Wix, Godaddy, Shopify, Weebly, Magento, Joomla, Drupal. How do you decide?
We analyzed over 1000 websites from PR Distribution customers. These are from businesses and organizations doing things and contributing to the world with news to share.
Our goal with this study is to help you make an informed decision when choosing your next platform for your website development.
Website Technology Market Research
Most popular website building technologies come with built-in “footprints” or “signatures” that allow tech-savvy users to identify the technology used simply by inspecting the code.
For example, a website built with WordPress will typically include references to “wp-content” in the code.
We’ve researched the most popular website building platforms, compiled a dataset of its footprints. We have analyzed 2,071 websites and 1,123 websites were detected as one of our dataset’s platforms. The remaining websites are either unknown, broken links or social media profiles used as their website.
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Ryan Huang is the CEO of PR Distribution™ or PRDistribution.com, Inc. He is an expert in digital marketing and public relations with nearly two decades of experience, and having helped thousands of businesses and overseeing tens of thousands of press releases through PR Distribution™.