Infographic: What is Powering the Internet?

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You don’t get to $90 million in website and domain sales without learning a few things along the way. We see hundreds of new listings every week, and keep a close eye on the trends. What’s most in demand? Which types of sites are no longer popular with buyers?

We took data from the last year of website and domain sales (that’s $26 million in total) and found some interesting take-aways on what buyers are looking for compared to what’s currently on the market. The highlights of all this data are in our most recent infographic, first published last week on The Next Web.

Notably, demand for the most popular ecommerce platforms changed dramatically, with 35% more demand for Shopify and a 31% drop in demand for Magento (ouch!). And while WordPress is still the dominant CMS for Flippa listings (and, indeed, for the Internet as a whole), it’s outpaced by both Drupal and Joomla when it comes to average selling price.

 

Flippa Infographic on ecommerce supply and demand

 

 

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  • https://flippa.com/users/192852 AlfredKo

    I am starting a new webstore and I’m surprised by Shopify popularity.
    Anyone can point me some decisive advantages before I proceed with BigCommerce? :D

  • http://www.teachmetogame.com Bryan

    The results for the forums are the most surprising for me. Because of VBulletin and IPB being the more “professional” type, I expected them to top the lists. While VB did (and by a significantly higher portion than I thought it would), IPB isn’t even near it.

    I’d love to see these types of listings every year if possible, if for no other reason than out of curiosity. And thanks for it!

  • http://www.imamsujono.com Imam Sujono

    I like wordpress, they have been made simply and quickly for blogger to manage their blog..

  • https://flippa.com/users/352666 Kim_De_Beau

    Thanks.

  • http://imediabuying.com/ Hans Peter Jeschke

    I like Shopify but I did not know that it is that popular.

  • http://www.zoranlien.com Zoran

    Interesting infograph. Definitely something to consider for my next site.

  • http://www.parttimenightjob.com Penny – Teen Career Center

    Flippa listings are a great source of information. Thanks for analyzing supply and demand. If I decide to go into ecommerce, I am going to consider Shopify.

  • https://flippa.com/users/108601 TheException

    Thanks for the info guys, always nice to get a brake down of what’s been going on. I wasn’t surprised by much of it, except the average vbulletin site sale price. I thought the demand for forums based sites would have been going down more with all the social media these days, since social sites since days one before the Internet even went public, were always forums.

  • https://flippa.com/users/418177 DavidTaylor

    How did you come up with figures for demand, please?

    • http://Flippa.com Ophelie at Flippa

      Hi David! Our demand figures are based on search volume within Flippa.

  • http://craig.clark.name Craig Clark

    You need a “Tweet” button on your posts.

    • Ophelie at Flippa

      So we do! We recently migrated our blog and our tweet button got lost in the shuffle. Thanks for letting us know!

  • http://www.glutensolutions.com Rob

    Q. Is that average sale per year? Per website? That seems low like what is the point of a site and only make $10k in sales?
    The Supply Demand section is confusing, please help clarify what that definition is, thx.

    • Ophelie at Flippa

      Hi Rob,
      This infographic gives average sale prices per website.
      The supply and demand section compares the amount of searches for a particular implementation method to the number of sites listed on Flippa that match this criteria.

  • http://www.sonetseo.com/ Adam

    Somehow I cannot imagine that Joomla is still in demand. Following many job boards, trends, and statistics Joomla is barely being mentioned any longer. My impression is that Drupal is the CMS to have in the skills portfolio for the next year.