On occasion we may quote statistics or interesting facts on our site. As part of our commitment to be transparent and clear, we will try to keep this page updated with any information we quote and its source so you can check it out.

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WordPress

Statistic/Fact Source
31.8% Sites powered by WordPress w3Techs analyze the web and concluded that WordPress is used by 31.8% of all websites.
You can read more about their methodology here: https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management/all
56,364 Plugins Available This statistic is published on WordPress.org and is accurate as of 12th September 2018.
https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/
6,339 Free Themes This statistic is published on WordPress.org and is accurate as of 12th September 2018.
https://en-gb.wordpress.org/themes/browse/new/
412,860 Lines of Code This refers to the number of lines of code in WordPress, we downloaded a copy of WordPress (as of August 2018) and used CLOC to count the number of lines of code.

cPanel

Statistic/Fact Source
Over 1 Million websites powered by cPanel BuiltWith® collects data on software usage and as of 21st October 2018 has identified 1,025,287 live websites using cPanel.
You can read more about the data here: https://trends.builtwith.com/cms/CPanel

SSL

Statistic/Fact Source
"Google is now ranking SSL protected websites higher" https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2014/08/https-as-ranking-signal.html
"Google - the world’s most used search engine" http://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share
Last updated: 23rd October 2018