Google Trends is an easy way to see how often certain topics have been searched on Google over time. I thought it might be interesting to see how searches for ‘wordpress’ from Australia have trended over time (and compare this to other CMS alternatives Joomla and Drupal).
Searches for ‘wordpress’ have been steadily increasing over the last 4 years and over the last few months appear to have exceeded searches for ‘joomla’. I expect that this trend will continue as awareness of and interest in wordpress as a CMS grows.
Interesting to see that Tassie is the top ranking state for searches for ‘wordpress’ (this is based on the ratio of searches for ‘wordpress’ coming from the state divided by total Google searches coming from the same state, rather than total search volume).
Posted May 18, 2009 at 9:48 am | Permalink
Google trends is an easy way to rank websites. It quite clearly shows that WordPress out ranks other CMS alternatives Joomla and Drupal
Posted June 5, 2009 at 1:30 pm | Permalink
Interesting that Aussies put WordPress in the top spot in late 2008, but according to global Google Trends, WordPress just recently surpassed Joomla (early '09). Just as interestingly, WordPress has been tops (in terms of search volume) in the US since 2004.
Posted July 8, 2009 at 11:11 pm | Permalink
Thanks for the info, makes me feel more confident in focusing my efforts into WordPress as a CMS, and I have found it easy and friendly both for admin back end and for customization/theme development