.com doesn't claim it hosts 30% of the sites on the internet, and never has, the claim is that WordPress powers 30% of the net, based on stats by a 3rd party. all .com sites count collectively as a single site in those stats because of the way .com works

@JackJohansson are you talking about pixels or logical points. E.g. an iPhones physical pixel layout is not the same as its screen resolution, and the same is true of most mobile phones

logical pixels vs actual pixels

aka phones with higher pixel density

otherwise buttons would get super tiny as the screen resolutions went up

The question of whether a site called wordpress.com making claims which apply to wordpress the software and not to it is doing it as a honest mistake, or is just a cynical marketing, is better to not be discussed further as neither of us is likely to know the answer. OTOH the fact that people are confused by it, even tech journalists is well known.

This kind of thing is avoided by other open source software by applying trademark law against anyone which misrepresents the project.

But since matt holds both sides this will never happen.

@TomJNowell There should be some kind of cheatsheet to know the breakpoints based on the DPI and resolution, but I can't find some good details about it. Right now the way media queries are represented looks like it affects the actual size of the display by pixels.

also css-tricks.com/snippets/css/retina-display-media-query

@MarkKaplun IIRC I don't believe .com was the first to make the claim, it's W3Techs claim

specifically w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management/all

according to which we have 32.6% of the net, and 59.6% of the CMS market

in all likelihood it's higher, by their own admission they don't count subdomains, so blogger and wordpress.com count as 1 site, and they don't count redirects either

as an aside, their stats puts godaddy ahead of AWS at 6.8% vs 5.8% in the hosting market

@TomJNowell Thanks for the link!

The difference between .com and .org actually IS confusing. They use the same trademark, name, domain (not TLD), owned by automattic, similar website design, etc... Why would someone think they are different.