It is a full-fledged content management system ( CMS ) capable of being used for everything from large corporate sites to high-traffic magazine publications. WordPress is now used by over 43.3% of all websites (up from 32% in 2017) and shows no signs of slowing down. There will most likely be a day when it crosses the 50% mark.
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Today, we are going to share with you some examples that might surprise you among the best examples of WordPress sites and brands on the web in 2022.
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The best WordPress site examples below have been categorized into different categories based on their content and purpose. Obviously, we can’t include all WordPress sites, so we wanted to share examples of top brands and higher quality sites with you.
We have found that in general, sites with high domain authority and rankings are the ones that showcase WordPress and its power to the fullest ! There are of course thousands of smaller sites that could do a good job, but we would be here all day. 😉 We therefore used three different factors to decide whether a site should be included or not:
The Alexa ranking (among the top 1 million sites in the world)
This article is frequently updated as new sites emerge and others migrate to other platforms. Lists within each category are ranked in order of supreme authority using the factors above. The highest weights are placed on Domain Authority and Domain Rating because a lot of Alexa data comes from their toolbar which in certain categories and/or niches can skew the data.
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 next major driver of WordPress’ continued expansion. The platform is built on a series of exemplary recent releases and a growing number of satisfied enterprise users using both commercial and community versions of the software. Specialized enterprise WordPress hosting is also available now.
Below are some great companies that are powered by WordPress.
Dyn – dyn.com
Dyn is a cloud-based Internet performance management company that helps businesses monitor, control and optimize online infrastructure using a premium anycast DNS network.
dyn wordpress sites
Quantcast Corporation is a digital marketing company that provides free audience demographic metrics and provides real-time advertising.
NGINX – nginx.com
It accelerates the delivery of content and applications, improves security, facilitates the availability and scalability of the most active sites on the web. We use NGINX for all of our clients at Kinsta, so we’re big fans!
nginx wordpress sites
