why quoting wordpress marketshare figures can be misleading!

People within WordPress industry love to quote reference that WordPress accounts for over 40% of the marketshare of all websites ..   The problem comes however, WordPress is growing, and when it's going down, WordPress is in decline..   Now, I realise this kind of implication often is not made on purpose and I realise that such marketshare isolation CAN be and often is used however, well this is or at least can be quite wrong..   they are not in any way correlated.   the marketshare of something within that market could still remain the same.   I.e it's more and be either declining, or in the reverse case, growing..   then giving them this marketshare percentage isolation may be meaningless, it may even be misleading ..   Well, my guess is it's still growing, however, to answer this with any certainty, you someone would need to focus not on marketshares except instead determine the overall market size of WordPress.   Also highly relevant to this topic something else that also acts to decouple WordPress marketshare figure to whether or not WordPress is growing or declining is the fact that the w3tech marketshare considers the top 10million websites.   Which means that whatever WordPress websites outside of this data set get created or deleted are not taken into account..   Read more