19 Top Best Sites to Start a Blog | Blogging Websites 2023

1 WordPress.org   Alexa rank = 166  | Site URL = https://wordpress.org

WordPress.org is a web software you can use to create a beautiful site or blog. In other word WordPress is a open source blogging tool & a CMS (Content Management System) based on MySQL and PHP. This website was used by more than 22.8% of the top 10.1 million sites as of May 2015. Benefits - It's free and super easy to use. You can upload custom themes and plugins. You can make money from it by using your own ads. Full control of your content.

• Type - Content Management System, Content Management Framework, Blog software.
• Operating system - Cross platform  |  Platform - PHP  |  License - GNU GPLv2.
• Pros - You can control each and every aspect of your blog, FTP access to your server, Stable Plugin API Architecture, Strong ecommerce options.
• Cons - Open Source, Security Flaws & Attacks.

Note - We always recommend everyone to use WordPress.org, so you are in full control of your site.

2 WordPress.com   Alexa rank = 45  | Site URL = https://wordpress.com

WordPress.com is a free blog hosting site with roughly half the features of wordpress.org. All original features of the website are free to use. However, some features (including domain registration, domain mapping, css editor, storage upgrades, video upload, removal of ads, and website redirection) are available as paid options. There are more than 61 Million wordpress.com websites, which receive more than 101 million hits per day. Every day over 40 million new comments and over 20 million new articles are published. WordPress is a great choice for doctors, artists, bloggers, plumbers, photographers, restaurateurs almost anyone. WordPress powers 23% of the internet.

• Type of site - Blog hosting | Registration - Optional | Written in - PHP
• WordPress.com Benefits - They make regular backups of your website. WordPress free for upto 3 GB of space. After that you will have to pay for space($19/per year for 5GB) or ($289/per year for 100GB).
• Pros - 1 Easy to use without coding knowledge, 2 Extremely flexible and feature rich.

3 Tumblr   Alexa rank = 47  | Site URL = https://www.tumblr.com

Tumblr is a social networking and microblogging platform, which was founded by David Karp in 2007. Tumblr allows users to post text, images, links, quotes, videos/audios, and music to a short form blog. The company has raised funding from Krum Capital, Union Square Ventures, Fred Seibert, Spark Capital, Sequoia Capital, John Borthwick, and Martin Varsavsky. In 2014 the site received more than 13.5 billion global page views.

• Industry - Microblogging, social networking service.
• Pros :- It is an extremely simple platform, and so it is super easy to use. It is the most popular blog hosting service in the world, with 234 million blogs under its belt.
• Cons :- Design Limitations, Lack of Monetization.

4 Blogger   Alexa rank = 61  | Site URL = https://blogger.com

Blogger.com was founded by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google.com in 2003. Blogger is a free blog hosting site that allows multi user blogs with time stamped entries. Blogger.com has been blocked for various periods of time in the following countries like India, Cuba, China, Iran, Myanmar, Pakistan, Turkey, Yemen, Vietnam. This website has the following limitations on bandwidth and content storage, per user account:-

• Number of blogs - 101 blogs per account. | Favicon - Any square image less than 100 KB.
• Number of posts - There is no limit on the number of posts.
• Type of site - Blog Host | Registration - Optional, Free | Written in Python
• Owner - Google | Launched August 23, 1999 | Total Users - NA.
• Pros - Free, Reliable, Easy to use for beginners, Decent selection of templates. You can monetize the blog with ads (google adsense).
• Cons - you don't get FTP access, No premium frameworks, Limited features.

5 Weebly   Alexa rank = 234  | Site URL = https://www.weebly.com

Weebly is a San Francisco, California based best blogging platform that was developed by college friends Dan, David and Chris. Weebly is available in 11 languages French, Italian, English, Chinese, Dutch, Japanese, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish and Russian. This company is privately funded by Y Combinator, Ron Conway, Baseline Ventures and Sequoia Capital. Weebly.com gives everyone the freedom to start a blog, online store or website that works brilliantly across mobiles, tablets and computers.

• Operating system - Cross-platform | Total Unique Visitors - 136 Million.
• Awards and recognition - TIME M listed Weebly.com amongst the 51 top sites of 2007, Weebly has been featured in Newsweek, EM and The Wall Street Journal.
• Pros - Broad range of templates, Best free builder, One of the easiest and user friendly drag & drop website builder in the market.
• Cons - Not designed for complex e-commerce needs, Page restrictions for Free and Starter plans (premium plans starting at $4/month), Limited number of designer-caliber templates.

6 Wix   Alexa rank = 353  | Site URL = http://www.wix.com

Wix.com was developed by Nadav Abrahami, Avishai Abrahami and Giora Kaplan in 2006. It is a cloud based free web development platform that allows users to create Mobile/HTML5 Websites, through the use of their drag and drop tools. Small business owners, Artists, Musicians, Designers, Entrepreneurs choose wix.com to create a beautiful, professional web presence. My Friend this website gives you everything you need to create a stunning free site. Users can add functionalities such as email marketing, eCommerce, social plug-ins and forums to their sites using a variety of third party applications. Wix offers - 100s of stunning HTML5 Templates, Simple Drag and Drop Website Builder, Secure and Reliable Free Hosting, Make your website Google friendly.

• Type of Website - Website Publishing | Founded - 2006 | Headquarters - Tel Aviv, Israel.
• Number of employees - 850 | Total Users - 60 Million | Total assets - $118.44 million
• Pros - Great WYSWIG Drag and Drop Visual Editor, Professional Looking Templates, App Market.
• Cons - Lack of customization, Limited space for smaller priced websites.

7 Squarespace   Alexa rank = 659  | Site URL = https://www.squarespace.com

Squarespace.com is a Saas Based blogging platform and hosting service. Squarespace.com allows businesses & individuals to create and maintain blogs and sites. Squarespace was founded by Anthony Casalena in 2003. later Squarespace is funded by Index Ventures and Accel Partners.

• Industry - Web content management system, Website builder, Web hosting service.
• Company Type - Private | Company Headquarters - New York, NY (SoHo).
• Pros - Squarespace offers responsive templates, Squarespace gives you extensive styling options that the majority of other website builders do not provide.
• Cons - Dragging, Dropping and Adding Blocks in Squarespace were slightly buggy in our tests, Squarespace.com separates the editing screen and the live preview screen, making it challenging for you to format your website layout.

8 Webs   Alexa rank = 2,436  | Site URL = http://www.webs.com

Webs.com Webs was developed by Haroon and Zeki Mokhtarzada with one goal in mind:- to help people get online without technical skills or a big budget. Webs provide a 'drag & drop' interface and business looking themes for users creating a new site. Over 50 million sites has been built with webs.com at the time of our review.

• Type of site - Web hosting | Available in - English | Parent - Vistaprint.
• Headquarters - Silver Spring, Maryland, USA | Employees - 50 | Launched - 2001.
• Pros - Webs.com allow you to build membership websites directly on their websites. Webs has an "App Store" that allows you to integrate more features and third party tools directly into your Webs website.
• Cons - Loading time between changing of pages was fairly slow.

9 LiveJournal   Alexa rank = 216  | Site URL = http://www.livejournal.com

LiveJournal.com is a free blogging service, online community and social networking website where many fans post their meta, works, leave feedback, fanfiction, and have personal interaction. On this awesome service you can make any kind of blog like audio/video blog, weblog, photo blog. LiveJournal was founded in 1999 by US Programmer Brad Fitzpatrick, sold first to Six Apart in 2005, then to SUP in 2007.

LiveJournal Common Features - Each LiveJournal entry has its own webpage, which includes the 'comments' left by other users. Each user has a user info page, which contains a variety of data including lists of friends, images, a biography, interests, contact information. LiveJournal Paid account features - Voice Post, Extra storage space, Sending Text Messages, To-do list feature

• Pros - Free for Users, LiveJournal support 32 languages.
• Cons - Not for business and professional blogs, No professional templates.

10 medium.com   Alexa rank = 314  | Site URL = https://medium.com

Medium.com was founded by Twitter co founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams in 2012. It is a best place on the internet where people share stories and ideas that are longer than 140 characters. This Website specially designed for little stories that make your day better. It is beautiful, collaborative, and Medium can help you find your audience.

11 HubPages   Alexa rank = 2,513  | Site URL = http://hubpages.com

HubPages is your online space to share your useful tips, reviews, opinions, advice and insights with thousands of other authors. HubPages is a revenue sharing site. This awesome website was founded by Paul Deeds, Paul Edmonson and Jay Reitz in August, 2006. Over 30 million users explore HubPages every month. According Quantcast.com hubpages has become one of the 45 most visited U.S. websites on the web. As fo May 7th, 2015, there are 871,325 Published Hubs, 65,970 Published Users, 184,968 Questions, 768,626 Answers, 2,721,577 Forum Posts and 23 staff members.

• Pros - Hubpages is an awesome place to develop yourself as a writer, It's stable.
• Cons - Hubpages is best for beginners, not a good choice for professionals.

12 Typepad   Alexa rank = 1,357  | Site URL = http://www.typepad.com

Typepad.com most popular in the world, that is available in several languages and countries around the world. This awesome website is currently used by many media companies to host their weblogs such as Sky News, the CBC, the BBC, ABC and MSNBC

13 Joomla   Alexa rank = 2,126  | Site URL = https://www.joomla.org

Joomla is a free award winning open source content management system (CMS), which enables you to build professional blogs and dynamic websites. As of May 2015, joomla has been downloaded over 51 millions times. Advantages of using joomla 1 Free and open source, 2 SEO friendly with SEF plug-in, 3 Deep level navigation, sections in sections, categories etc.

• Operating system - Cross-platform  |  Written in PHP  |  Size - 10.4 MB (compressed)
• Type - Content management system (CMS), Content management framework.
• Pros - Easy to install (not as easy as WordPress), Easy to administer (not as easy as WP).
• Cons - Lacks SEO capabilities, Limited ACL support.

14 Drupal   Alexa rank = 1,357  | Site URL = https://www.drupal.org

Drupal is a free content management framework written in PHP. Technology and business leaders use drupal.org to create real world enterprise solutions that empower web innovation. Drupal features - Scalability, Security, Flexible Content Architecture, Tools for Business with No Limitations.

15 Blog.com   Alexa rank = 17,438  | Site URL = http://support.blog.com

Blog.com was founded in 2004. Blog.com is a best service for blogger because this website offers more than one features such as (support multi-author blogs, Service integration, offers Smashing beautiful themes, Multimedia support, Search engine friendly). Premium Features - 1 Upgrade the storage limit of your blog ($20/per year), Custom Design upgrade allows you to use your own CSS code to customize the appearance of your blog and change your blog Favicon icon, backgrounds, fonts colors.

16 Penzu   Alexa rank = 31,572  | Site URL = https://penzu.com

Penzu was developed by Alexander Mimran and Michael Lawlor. It is an online diary and personal journal that is focused on privacy. This service offers a secure place to store your thoughts and best ideas in the cloud. Penzu allows you to journal from any pc and offers several great features including storage, upload images. Penzu most popular in US, UK, Canada, Australia.