Blogger Still Leading Blogging Platform
By Anna Johnson on June 30th, 2009Based on comScore data, Blogger – started in August 1999 by Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone and sold to Google in February 2003 – is still the most popular hosted blogging platform.
In May 2009, Blogger attracted 52 million unique visitors from the U.S., compared with WordPress.com with 28 million uniques, and Six Apart’s properties including Typepad.com with 14 million.
Nevertheless, WordPress.com (the hosted platform, not the software which people can download from wordpress.org and implement on their own servers) is attracting visitors faster than is Blogger.com.
In terms of visitors, WordPress.com is growing at a rate of 40 percent p.a., compared with Blogger.com which is growing at a rate of 14 percent.
