Excellent points you have here, and I agree that WordPress is “tops” over the other too — we develop with it exclusively. That said, I’m not sure I agree with your conclusion that Website Trends proves more “popularity” than the general search trends do. Probably both trend analysis methods lack a key metric — installations. It’s one thing to search for a CMS, another to visit the home site, but the truest gauge of popularity is usage. And of course when you throw in WordPress.com, the result is skewed in favor of WordPress — but neither Joomla nor Drupal offer a hosted platform option.

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- Scott