A Pingdom post recently demonstrated how popular WordPress has become as a web publishing platform for blogs and other types of websites. The follow up study of one done three years earlier, found that WordPress was in use by 48% of the top 100 blogs in the world. This was an increase from the 32% Pingdom had recorded in the initial study..

Other finding concluded that custom blog publishing platforms are more common now, TypePad had all but disappeared from the top 100, Tumblr made an entrance, and some companies really chose to keep quiet on which content management system (CMS) they used.

While likely a foregone conclusion that the daily traffic necessary to be included in this elitist list would almost certainly require dedicated server(s), HostJury decided that it would be interesting to explore which networks the worlds top 100 blogs were employing to deliver their offerings.

As expected, many of the blogs used content delivery networks or data center networks. Still there does appear to be a significant number that focus on doing what they do best (being a top 100 blog), while using hosting companies to deliver the content!  

Web Hosts used by the World's 100 Top Blogs