Seventy-Five to Go ![rw-book-cover](https://ma.tt/wp-json/social-image-generator/v1/image/45568) ## Metadata - Author: [[Matt Mullenweg]] - Full Title: Seventy-Five to Go - Category: #articles - Summary: People are abuzz because it looks like the W3Techs survey of the web now has WordPress at 25% market share. - URL: https://ma.tt/2015/11/seventy-five-to-go/ People are abuzz because it looks like the [W3Techs survey](http://w3techs.com/) of the web [now has WordPress at 25% market share](http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/content_management/all/y). [![Screen Shot](https://i0.wp.com/cldup.com/jX4J6C_emK-900x900.png?resize=580%2C192&ssl=1)](https://cloudup.com/cys3qUJxyRT) Sometimes it goes up and down through the course of a month, but it’s still a pretty fun milestone that we can now say about one in four websites are now powered by the [scrappy open source underdog](https://wordpress.org/) with its roots stretching all the way back to a single person in Corsica, France. We should be comfortably past 25% by the end of the year. The big opportunity is still the 57% of websites that don’t use *any* identifiable CMS yet, and that’s where I think there is still a ton of growth for us (and I’m also rooting for all the other open source CMSes). If you want to celebrate with us [come to the first-ever WordCamp US event next month in Philadelphia](https://2015.us.wordcamp.org/) (tickets still available) — it’s shaping up to be an amazing event. We just [published the schedule and there are some amazing speakers and sessions](https://2015.us.wordcamp.org/schedule/). [![](https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2009/05/MCM_0235.JPG?resize=350%2C200)](https://ma.tt/2015/09/remembering-alex-king/)[Remembering Alex King](https://ma.tt/2015/09/remembering-alex-king/) Eleven months before the U.S. declared war on Japan, President Franklin D. Roosevelt said "As men do not live by bread alone, they do not fight by armaments alone." He articulated four fundamental freedoms that everyone in the world ought to enjoy: Freedom of speech. Freedom of worship. Freedom from… Ten years ago the first official Automattician was Donncha O Caoimh, and he had no idea what he was in for. Neither did I, honestly. And it’s been amazing. I’ll remember the days before I knew everything. -- The Automattic Creed When you think about it, Donncha was incredibly brave.…, Seventy-Five to Go, Matt Mullenweg, 01gnmcyjnk95n05d8p54p6dasq.