“48% of Technorati’s Top 100 Blogs Are Managed With WordPress
When you consider that there are is an enormous amount of alternative content manage systems available, this statistic speaks volumes about WordPress popularity.
If you decide to go with WordPress, you will definitely be with good company. The New York Times, CNN, Mashable, and eBay all run their blogs on the most popular CMS in the world – WordPress.
74.6 Million Sites Depend on WordPress
Yep, you read that right. 74,652,825 sites out there are depending on good ol’ WordPress. That’s one site per person in Turkey.
Around 50% of this figure (close to 37 million) is hosted on the free WordPress.com. In the realm of self-hosted sites, WordPress accounts for 18.9% of all websites. That’s even more astounding when you consider that over 70% of sites worldwide do not use a CMS.”
Statistics found on https://managewp.com/14-surprising-statistics-about-wordpress-usage.