# Why the market share % is so low for Ghost?

**URL:** <https://forum.ghost.org/t/why-the-market-share-is-so-low-for-ghost/48705>\
**Category:** Marketing & promotion\
**Created:** [July 9, 2024, 6:07pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/why-the-market-share-is-so-low-for-ghost/48705 "2024-07-09T18:07:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![muratcorlu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/muratcorlu/32/38509_2.png) [@muratcorlu](https://forum.ghost.org/u/muratcorlu)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 1:46pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/why-the-market-share-is-so-low-for-ghost/48705/47 "2026-03-05T13:46:52Z")

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I checked the report for Ghost but couldn’t feel confident about its reliability. We need to know the methodology they use to understand how reliable it is. But as Jannis already mentioned, the total number of sites it mentions is way lower than the actual numbers. We know, at least around 29,000 websites are running on Ghost Pro, according to their [public page](https://ghost.org/about/).

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**Author:** ![satonotdead](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/satonotdead/32/33666_2.png) [@satonotdead](https://forum.ghost.org/u/satonotdead)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 1:47pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/why-the-market-share-is-so-low-for-ghost/48705/48 "2026-03-05T13:47:59Z")

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> [@emreelbeyoglu](#):
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> Ghost isn’t chasing the mass market. It stays focused on serious publishing, newsletters and memberships

I don’t know how to interpret this because it’s built primarily for indie marketers, and that’s good!

BUT with almost no open-source support. Discourse is the opposite; how much market share do they have?

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