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Joost de Valk

@jdevalk

4 months

*You can make popup modals with 2 lines of HTML* Yesterday, @firefox 125 came out. This means all major browsers now support all the fantastic features of popover, which means an entire class of JavaScript libraries (and I suspect about 10% of @GitHub ) is now fully obsolete.

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Can we all agree that this is nonsense? I have nothing against Elementor, but it’s not a CMS. It’s a page builder, or whatever we call those things these days. It doesn’t store the content, doesn’t deal with users, doesn’t do authentication, etc. Etc. The CMS is called

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Elementor is the content management system of the year #Elementor @elemntor

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10 years ago I started a company, from home, with the support of my lovely wife, not knowing what it would turn into. Now, with 100+ employees and 11 million+ websites using our software, Marieke runs the show and we’re looking back a bit :-)

The history of Yoast

Yoast is celebrating its 10-year anniversary and a lot has happened in those 10 years. This is our story: how it all started, and how we grew to be the compa...

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3 months

I’m amazed by the negative backlash against Slack. I agree with it, don’t get me wrong. But do you all understand that OpenAI, Microsoft, Google and others trained their AIs on all *your* website content and *your* public code? Why are you not as mad about that?

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5 years

(Why) I'm stepping down from my WordPress marketing role:

(Why) I’m stepping down from my WordPress marketing role

I’m going to step away from my role as Marketing Lead. I consider this mostly a personal failure, both in correctly setting and getting expectations and in fitting into another type of organization....

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@jdevalk

2 years

The moment I've been fearing would come, has come: #WordPress market share is shrinking. See what's happening, and why I think it's happening, in my blog post:

WordPress' market share is shrinking

For the first time in a very long time, WordPress' market share is shrinking. This post explores the numbers, and why that is happening.

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1 year

I have an idea. Remember when we used to blog? How about we start doing that again a bit more frequently? Comment on each other’s blogs (time to re-enable those comments people!) and use pingbacks and trackbacks. Let’s not exchange Twitter for yet another platform we don’t own.

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5 years

I've been working incredibly hard with @jonoalderson and other colleagues to get Schema to a whole new level. @Yoast SEO 11.0, out today, in my not so humble opinion, changes the game on what Schema implementations should look like:

Schema.org is hard, Yoast SEO makes it easy for you

Getting a Schema.org implementation right on a website was enormously painful. Yoast SEO helps you get your Schema.org implementation right.

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6 years

I find myself agreeing with a lot of this. I don't post hardly as much on Facebook anymore, nor does my circle. Even groups are slowly fading away. What if we went back to personal blogs, RSS feeds and discussions in *comment sections*?

We Should Replace Facebook With Personal Websites

Personal websites and email can replace most of what people like about Facebook—namely the urge to post about their lives online.

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@jdevalk

6 years

Turns out there's a reason why WordPress sites without fancy JavaScript are outranking your shiny JS based site. This shouldn't be news but it keeps being news to developers.

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@zachleat

6 years

Turns out Google does a two-pass indexing and the first pass doesn’t run JavaScript. That’s kind of a big deal.

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6 years

I've been analyzing crawling by the major search engines and link research tools on @yoast together with @jonoalderson . We store all our logs in Elastic, through Logstash, and analyze them in Kibana. We have to talk about this. Some of these results are shocking.

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6 years

WordPress is paving the cowpaths for the web with projects like Gutenberg, I'm looking forward to leading marketing & comms for WordPress and working with everybody to tell the story of this awesome project and community.

Expanding WordPress Leadership

Today I want to announce two new roles in the WordPress project, and the people who will be filling them. Both of these roles will help me lead the project more efficiently while also making better…

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10 months

This stuff makes me so sad. Even if this works in the short term, this is going to create so. much. %^&$. on the internet. I'm all for automating tasks with AI. It can truly help make your life easier. But these agents that create content & throw it on the web without

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@johnrushx

10 months

SEO is hard. We thought it'd be easy. We've built the world's most autonomous SEO agent. It does these things for you: → Checks your website → Finds the best keywords using Google Planner → Writes articles automatically → Links the articles together → Adds CTAs and promos

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2 years

Today is an exciting day @yoast as we’ve released Yoast SEO 20.0, which brings a new Yoast SEO admin interface to 13million+ people. I’m super proud of what the team did here. I have other thoughts on why this was necessary that I’ll share later this week.

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3 years

Super excited about this: we're proposing a #WordPress performance team.

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@jdevalk

6 years

We're getting close to 1 million downloads a DAY now after we update @yoast SEO... Talking about humbling numbers.

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@jdevalk

6 years

On my new position as Marketing & Communications Lead for @WordPress , what it means and some first plans:

Leading marketing & communication for WordPress

Last week I was appointed Marketing & Communications Lead of WordPress. I think WordPress is one of the most essential platforms on the web and I’m really proud to be able to do my part for it. I...

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4 years

Remember when we were proud #WordPress was 1/3 of the web? Well, it's September 1st and we're now at 38.3%! Which is 0.5% over August 1st, the growth remains phenomenal.

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6 years

I'm SUPER excited about the version of Yoast SEO we're going to release tomorrow. All of team @yoast has been crazy hard at work preparing for this and Yoast SEO 9.0, due tomorrow, is going to be EPIC.

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1 year

As @MariekeRakt is saying goodbye to @yoast and @NewfoldDigital ( ), it’s also time for me to move on and say goodbye to Newfold. After we sold Yoast to Newfold in 2021, I've enjoyed working with many of the talented people at both Yoast and Newfold. Most

Saying goodbye to Marieke

It is with mixed emotions that we say goodbye to Marieke van de Rakt, who has decided to leave Yoast.

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@jdevalk

7 years

So @DeFries joined @Yoast full time :-) Happy to have you on board pal!!!

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7 years

"The employer who was most responsible for WordPress commits this year was Yoast with 24.67%." So Bloody Proud. Let's make 2018 count even more :-)

WordPress Core Committer Stats: 2017 - Aaron Jorbin

2017 is coming to a close, and unless someone commits something very soon, WordPress Core development is at rest (since we have an API to do that now). This is the third year I've compiled these...

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3 months

The more server logs and crawl patterns I see, the more I’m sure the world needs more SEOs. Of the good kind. You see, part of good tech SEO is fixing spiders traps, optimizing crawling, speeding up sites. 1/6

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@jdevalk

5 years

I love having @randfish present here at #YoastCon . He, unknowingly, was very important in creating the brand name by asking me, 10 years ago, "so, how do I pronounce your name?" "Oh, toast with a Y"

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5 months

Ok. Who would be with me if I proposed a change to WordPress core where we default to blocking all the SEO tools (semrush, Majestic, Moz, ahrefs, etc) from crawling? I see no benefit to site owners from their crawls and it’s costing tons of energy.

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@jdevalk

2 years

WordPress’ admin UI needs to be better & WordPress needs a design system: Follow up to the new @Yoast UI design that came out yesterday & the discussion that arises around plugins building their own UI.

WordPress' admin UI needs to be better

The WordPress’ admin UI needs to be drastically improved. It should be improved not just for WordPress core itself, but it should implement a simple and clearly defined open design system, so that...

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5 years

Just realized that software we've built with @yoast has been downloaded 200 million+ times. Truly and absolutely mind blowing numbers: Thanks to everyone who has been using and promoting it over the years.

Yoast SEO

Improve your WordPress SEO: Write better content and have a fully optimized WordPress site using the Yoast SEO plugin.

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5 months

This is what #WordPress is up against. Not a better product, but a better marketing machine. A machine that can afford to buy influencers by the dozen. 1% market share is worth a ton of money; in WordPress, because of how it works, there’s not a portion of that money that flows

Jamie Marsland - Speaking at #WCEU ❤️

@pootlepress

5 months

Wix marketing 👀👇

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@jdevalk

6 years

So... Today we've announced my lovely @MariekeRakt is the new CEO at @yoast :) Congrats!!!

Meet our leadership team

Meet the leadership team at Yoast! A group of individuals who combine their diverse expertise and experiences to drive the company forward.

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@jdevalk

3 years

WordPress just reached 40% marketshare in @W3Techs ; 40% of the websites they monitor runs on #WordPress , up from 35.7% a year ago. That's incredible growth at that size. It's amazing to have been part of this ecosystem for 15 years now and see it grow like this. 💜 to you all!

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2 years

So, #WordPress 6.1 has been released. The change log doesn’t mention (but should) that it’s now compatible with PHP 8.2, and that compatibility with 8.0 and 8.1 has improved. All of that due to the incredible work of @jrf_nl , @SergeyBiryukov and others!

WordPress 6.1 “Misha”

Say hello to “Misha,” the WordPress 6.1 release, inspired by Mikhail “Misha” Alperin acclaimed jazz ensemblist and composer. At least 800 contributors made this release possible. Download 6.1 today…

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@jdevalk

3 years

Earlier today, I tweeted about WordPress reaching 40% marketshare. Even closer to my 💜: @Yoast SEO just crossed 300 million downloads on #WordPress . org. That's... so much... I feel like this right now:

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@jdevalk

4 years

We’re going to be hiring two full time contributors to work on #WordPress / Gutenberg at @yoast . Know someone? Point them at this!

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@jdevalk

6 years

I’ve written down my thoughts about the WordPress 5.0 timeline:

WordPress 5.0 needs a different timeline

I think WordPress 5.0 should be delayed to January. In this post I explain why.

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@jdevalk

5 years

WordPress now powers 1/3th of the web: That's a mind-blowing number. Congrats to @photomatt , @mikelittlezed1 and everyone else involved 🎉

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2 years

Google Calendar introduces appointment schedules and suddenly 90% of the raison d’être for Calendly is gone. Just created two schedules for myself (for 25 and 55 minute meetings) and it’s actually got quite decent UX already. Since Calendly was overpriced, I’m happy to drop it.

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2 years

Due to the unexpected departure of @Yoast 's head of Technology, which leaves a gap that the company can't immediately fill, I've offered to come back as interim CTO until we find a new CTO. While it wasn't what I planned to do, I do look forward to working with the team again!

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3 months

Thinking about the Google coupon debacle more. It's a bit like this: Google said: "You can't use the reputation you created in news to make money off of coupons." The irony: Google got a reputation with search, and then monetized it with ads. This is abuse of their monopoly.

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@jdevalk

8 years

Wix's blog runs on WordPress & uses Yoast SEO, in a version that hasn't been updated in a year. What does that say about them?

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@jdevalk

4 years

10 years ago to the day, today, I founded @yoast , to be joined in the years ahead by @michielheijmans , @tdevalk , @MariekeRakt (my awesome wife and now our superb CEO), @OmarReiss and SO many others. Many great memories have been made. Here’s to many more!

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@jdevalk

6 years

Tonight's the night of our annual holiday season tradition: (manually) writing Christmas cards with personal messages for all our @yoast employees in Wijchen. That's 80+ cards we each have to write tonight. Wish my arm luck 🤣

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@jdevalk

7 months

In the interest of transparency, it's probably good to note I've recently started consulting for Automattic for 1 day a week, helping with the SEO of .

Tumblr – Fandom, Art, Chaos

Explore trending topics on Tumblr. See all of the GIFs, fan art, and general conversation about the internet’s favorite things.

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@jdevalk

3 months

This is a real problem for WordPress core. Ari works for @emiliacapital and I consider him a *very* good developer. How this can happen to people like him is beyond me.

Ari Stathopoulos

@aristath

3 months

I give up. I can no longer contribute to Gutenberg… I can’t understand our code anymore, at this stage it’s alien to me and it keeps getting more and more complex instead of simpler. I’m wasting too much time trying to understand what we do.

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7 years

So Bing just announced support for AMP, and that they're developing their own CDN for AMP too.

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@jdevalk

2 months

At #WCEU , talking search with this guy called @dannysullivan that’s been in search for ages at the Google booth 😀 People in WordPress don’t get how awesome it is that they get access to people like this at WordCamp.

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@jdevalk

6 years

Officially still on holiday... But, testing our @yoast SEO Gutenberg integration as the first real integration piece is due next week, this is making me happy (and extremely proud of our team): #gutenberg #wordpress #yoast

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@jdevalk

3 years

Yoasyt has joined Newfold Digital :) Much excitement alla round, blog posts to read: and my personal take:

Yoast joins Newfold

Today we announced that Yoast will join Newfold Digital. Marieke and myself, as well as Omar, Chaya and Thijs have sold our shares. We will, however, all remain in our current roles, as will all of...

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@jdevalk

1 year

I think it’s time for some people in the WordPress plugin ecosystem to take note…

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@RobertFreundLaw

1 year

Udemy has agreed to pay $4,000,000 to settle a case alleging it advertised fake discounts for its courses. Remember: using fake reference prices to run sales is illegal under the FTC Act and California's laws. 1/

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3 months

I was on the verge of tweeting something like this myself so am glad to see Lily say this. Newspapers have long had these relationships. Just like they had classifieds in the past. This + large advertisements were how newspapers made money to pay for the people they have

Lily Ray 😏

@lilyraynyc

3 months

So, newspapers have been working with coupon providers since the early 1900s, but Google apparently just determined those legitimate business partnerships are on par with other types of parasite SEO (an affiliate marketer submitting a “best casinos” or “best CBD gummy” article in

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@jdevalk

3 years

We want to thank our friends at @LEGO_Group for creating a Yoasie set. As incredible fans of LEGO as we are @yoast , it’s great to see our love goes two ways 😘

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@jdevalk

5 years

WordPress' market share is now 34.5%. Since January 2019, it has grown with 1.8%, which is staggering, considering that that's the same as the *entire* market share of Drupal, the #3 most used CMS on the web... Source:

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@jdevalk

1 year

So @WordPress is turning 20 years old today! #WP20 Happy birthday to WordPress and its entire community! from me and @MariekeRakt

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@jdevalk

11 months

15 years ago I married this amazing woman. Best decision ever.

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@MariekeRakt

11 months

15 years ago today… I married my @jdevalk ! Thank you for 15 amazing years! ❤️❤️❤️

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1 year

I wrote a guide on how to deal with #WordPress plugin security issues as a plugin developer, a first of more guides, if people like these:

How to deal with plugin security issues

Dealing with security issues for your WordPress plugin can be hard and even a bit scary, certainly when it’s happening to you for the first time. In this post I try to outline all the steps you...

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10 months

After this tweet, I got a few responses saying Google is crawling less and less in their industry. And that makes a ton of sense. If your content is not better than what Google's Search Generative Experience (SGE) can generate on its own, based on the web it knows already, ask

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@jdevalk

10 months

This. All of this is the direct result of people throwing too much (AI) 💩 at the wall and Google having to wash it off.

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2 months

I think we’re reaching the point in time where a board is supposed to step in, fire the CEO, and have major “abort mission” signs up everywhere.

Lily Ray 😏

@lilyraynyc

2 months

That’s really bad. Now Google doesn’t even know that cm = centimeter? And the calculator appears automatically with a wrong answer? Yikes. (I was able to replicate)

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6 years

And, as this is fairly personal, also a post on my personal blog:

Stepping "down" at Yoast

Today we’ve announced that Marieke is the new CEO at Yoast, and I’m stepping down. With me recently stepping up as Marketing & Communications Lead for WordPress, this made a lot of sense. In many...

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4 months

Once again, @Cloudflare is on fire, releasing feature after feature that makes me want to code all day long. Now I'm just waiting for PHP support in workers :P

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@jdevalk

3 years

So... According to @W3Techs , @WordPress is now 42% of the web. And this number feels oddly correct.

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1 year

I want to show you *exactly* why WordPress core needs to disable its default enabling of attachment pages. cc @photomatt I just Googled [acf query loop]. I clicked on the #1 result. It's a page on the @wp_acf site and I thought "boom". Turns out: it's an attachment page! It

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7 years

Ask not what WordPress can do for you, but what you can do for WordPress. That's basically what @mor10 's talk boils down to. #WCUS

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5 months

For like forever, I've been playing with an idea in my head on how to optimize the (stray/no longer needed) options in a #WordPress database. I've now turned the basic idea into a plugin that you all can use. Would love to hear your thoughts! #WordPress

Cleaning up WordPress option clutter

If you run a WordPress site for a while, it’ll become cluttered. You’ve installed and uninstalled dozens of plugins over the course of your site being alive, and many of those plugins have left their...

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6 months

The number of attacks on xmlrpc.php endpoints on #WordPress sites is absolutely ludicrous. If you're not using it, block it in @cloudflare (which you ought to be using for your site!!) Look at this site which I recently moved hosting for, 70,000 requests in just 24 hours.

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6 years

For those "SEOs" that claim Yoast SEO has a "bug" that causes attachment pages to exist and be indexed: no, no, no. That's WordPress core, it has literally ALWAYS done that. We introduced a setting in 7.0 to deal with that better than before.

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8 months

#stateoftheWord #SOTWMadrid #SOTW Meeting with lots of #WordPress friends & business partners, soon to hear from @photomatt about next years roadmap.

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@jdevalk

1 year

On our way to Athens! #WCEU

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@jdevalk

5 years

Machu Picchu was awesome. Just, awesome. Need to share some more pics.

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1 year

One of the biggest things that went wrong on the web, is that we failed to make a proper distinction between which URLs are for humans, and which URLs are for systems. As a result, Google (and many others) crawl URLs like this wlwmanifest.xml file, and give errors about it. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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@jdevalk

5 years

With all of Google's news about nofollow, rel="nofollow", meta robots nofollow, I have opinions. Google should not be allowed to make unilateral decisions like that. Read my argumentation:

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@jdevalk

1 year

My CMS Market Share analysis for June 2023: @WordPress is still the leading CMS. Most of the top 10 is stable. Shopify shows a small decline, but great $$ numbers. @PrestaShop is the fastest grower & in my opinion shows real promise. Read the specifics:

CMS market share

Check out which CMSs are doing well, and which ones are declining. Also tracks other key WordPress related technologies like page builders and SEO plugins.

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@jdevalk

5 years

The #yoastcon hashtag has some shocking images on it right now. There's no taking them back, and I'm ashamed I behaved that way. It was wrong. 10-years-ago-Joost should have known better, and I've learned a lot since then.

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1 month

Today I'm introducing my new - automatically updating - CMS Market Share reports! I've got a couple of different things for you to read if you're interested: First, a post about my choices:

CMS Market share measured "right"

Today, I’m introducing a new CMS market share report on this site based on the HTTP Archive’s dataset. This report will be updated – automatically – every month. It doesn’t just contain CMSes; it...

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25 days

I see this all the time “yeah I’ll build a startup/website/project/company combining API X, Y and Z”. Of course these times it’s sprinkled with a sauce of AI. Sometimes it’s drowned in it. That’s not how this has ever worked. You have to add meaningful value, and often times,

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What I notice from the new generation of developers: People ask me a lot which API do you use for e.g. Nomad List or Airline List data And the answer is usually there is no API, you just manually collect shitloads of data for years It seems people nowadays just assume

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If you have a product website and your about page doesn't tell me about you as a person/people/team, I'm not very likely to buy from you, or reach out, ever.

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@jdevalk

2 years

Ok, I love @Cloudflare even more with this change: is now hosted on Cloudflare pages. is still on our own infrastructure. All this took was 1 simple origin rule. No more hard reverse proxies, just simple:

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@jdevalk

6 years

The @yoast campus is shaping up nicely in #Wijchen center :-) Buildings #2 and #3 looking good :-)

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@jdevalk

6 years

Very proud to be able to introduce the @yoast Diversity Fund: We hope this can be another help for WordCamp organizers worldwide to create inclusive conferences, with a diverse set of speakers.

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10 months

One of the dev notes for #WordPress I've enjoyed writing the most. Not because it's such a great a dev note, but because I really like this change in WordPress 6.4: New sites will no longer have attachment pages by default!

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@jdevalk

3 years

It's that time of the year: I've updated my CMS market share analysis. Some interesting trends in there, as WordPress' growth seems to slow down, while Shopify continue to gain.

CMS market share

Check out which CMSs are doing well, and which ones are declining. Also tracks other key WordPress related technologies like page builders and SEO plugins.

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@jdevalk

5 years

I opened a ticket yesterday to improve how WordPress plugins you already have should be shown when you're searching for functionality: @timhengeveld just added design mockups to that ticket:

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WordCamp US was: - inspiring; lots of new ideas through conversations and presentations; - positive: Gutenberg is heading in the right direction and lots of people are doing awesome work; - social: lots of great conversations with friends old and new. Thanks #WCUS !!

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@jdevalk

6 years

Was just browsing through tickets sold and so far, people coming to @YoastCon are coming not just from the Netherlands, but also from f.i. Belgium, Germany, Poland, Finland, Italy, Sweden, Bulgaria, Israel and as far away as Brazil, the US, Senegal and the UAE. Super awesome :)

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@jdevalk

5 years

This is one of Google's most annoying ways of making money, forcing brands to buy ads on their own brand. We have similar problems at @yoast and I hate it just as much as Jason:

Jason Fried

@jasonfried

5 years

When Google puts 4 paid ads ahead of the first organic result for your own brand name, you’re forced to pay up if you want to be found. It’s a shakedown. It’s ransom. But at least we can have fun with it. Search for Basecamp and you may see this attached ad.

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@jdevalk

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@iiiiiRooK @lludwig She’s literally one of the best SEOs in the world. You should wish to be in the same room.

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@jdevalk

3 years

This has been in the works quite some time, super happy to have it live!

Yoast

@yoast

3 years

#YoastSEO is coming to #Shopify ! 🎉 To celebrate, we’ll be hosting #YoastCon2022 - Shopify edition! Come see the BIGGEST NAMES in the SEO world lined up for you, and did we mention this event is free and you can attend from anywhere?! Sign up now! 👇🏼

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@jdevalk

3 years

After the discussions last week about my CMS market share post, we had some nice followup discussions about Elementor that made me dive into the data. What I found was that Elementor might well drive a large part of WordPress’ growth:

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@jdevalk

4 years

So... CMS market share update using @W3Techs data. @shopify is growing fast, so I checked @WooCommerce too. Over the last 12 months, Woo has grown by at least 0.1% overall marketshare every single month. As a result it's still 3x bigger than Shopify:

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@jdevalk

7 years

I first met @randfish 10 years ago at SMX Stockholm, he came up with the term "toast with a y", which I turned into Yoast com. #thankful

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@jdevalk

6 years

15 years of #WordPress , the platform that has given me so much. Thanks @photomatt , @mikelittlezed1 and EVERYONE else involved. Tomorrow, @yoast (the company) turns 8. Short vid on my WP story: Mind-blowing to see what we as a WP community have done.

Congratulations WordPress! | Happy 15th anniversary WordPress! We’re...

Happy 15th anniversary WordPress! We’re all so thankful and proud to contribute to the best Open Source project ever. Have a great one from Team Yoast...

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@jdevalk

5 years

I've been looking *deeply* at W3Techs market share numbers for CMSs, looking beyond just #WordPress . See WooCommerce's astonishing growth, analysis on open source vs closed source CMSs and more!

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@jdevalk

4 years

Very happy that we worked together with @semrush on this new feature and excited about what’s to come:

Yoast and Semrush working together

Yoast partners up with SEMrush to bring you keyword suggestions and relevant data from SEMrush right within your Yoast SEO sidebar.

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@jdevalk

7 years

Team @yoast has been working on the JavaScript documentation of #WordPress for months. Today our @atimmer10 launched this initiative to get more people involved and get ALL JavaScript in core properly documented:

JS docs initiative: Add inline-docs for JavaScript!

There is a new post which you can comment on to claim files. We are pleased to announce the JS docs initiative! It’s an ongoing effort to get all JavaScript files in WordPress well-documented…

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@jdevalk

4 years

Ok so I absolutely love @Cloudflare and think it's only fair to share the ❤️. Their new Cache Analytics is pretty darn cool and helped us find a few things we weren't caching right yet. After fixing that it now caches 91% of our responses:

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@jdevalk

4 years

Since June 1st, #WordPress market share has grown by 1.7%. This is more than Drupal has in *total* market share. I'm curious what this year will end up with.

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@jdevalk

8 months

WordPress .org's plugin repository's new playground feature is so incredibly nice. Can't wait for this to be live for all users. A very simple blueprint ( ) makes for a much better demo experience than reading a readme ever could:

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@jdevalk

3 years

It's that time of the year! I've updated my bi-annual CMS marketshare analysis. In the June 2021 version you'll see tremendous growth for @WordPress and @WooCommerce and significant growth for @shopify :

CMS market share

Check out which CMSs are doing well, and which ones are declining. Also tracks other key WordPress related technologies like page builders and SEO plugins.

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@jdevalk

6 years

Where were you when WordPress 5.0 was being released? On a ✈️, on my way to #WCUS . With WiFi. Following along on Slack. Right this moment!

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@jdevalk

6 years

Awesome to see @Google so involved with and dedicated to #WordPress . Shows how important WP is to the wider web. Ilya and the rest of the team at Google are awesome peeps. Work on WP with them & you'll have a chance to make the web better for all of us and WITH all of us @yoast .

Ilya Grigorik

@igrigorik

6 years

Want to help make the internet faster... by making WordPress better & faster? We're looking for WP experts to join our team @ Google: - go go WordPress!

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@jdevalk

6 years

The last few days at #WCUS were tough, but also cool. WordPress 5.0 is a *major* stepping stone and some of the changes @photomatt proposed yesterday will, I think, lead to a much better WordPress environment. A big thank you to everyone who I got to hung out with, y'all rock!

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@jdevalk

11 months

“Open Source Software is not Free. There is a *HUGE* cost.” @jrf_nl very clearly stating at #WCNL that the massive amount of work going into WPCS, and many other projects, needs more (& better) funding. This is one of the deepest problems in open source. We need to get better

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