{"id":44063,"date":"2023-10-20T15:33:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/envatos-themeforest-cracks-the-worlds-top-100-sites-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:33:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:33:11","slug":"envatos-themeforest-cracks-the-worlds-top-100-sites-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/envatos-themeforest-cracks-the-worlds-top-100-sites-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Envato\u2019s ThemeForest cracks the world\u2019s top 100 sites &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"445\" height=\"352\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/l_l_envato-445.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"l_l_envato-445\"><\/div>\n<p>ThemeForest, owned by Melbourne-based tech company Envato, is now among the top 100 websites in the world in terms of traffic, according to the latest Alexa rankings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>According to the rankings, compiled by the Amazon-owned analytics firm, ThemeForest is currently the 93<sup>rd<\/sup> most popular website on the planet, as well as the most popular Australian-owned website.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The website also appeals to an international audience, with 17% of its visitors from the United States and 13.9% from India, with significant audiences in Brazil (3.9%), the UK (3.8%) and Germany (3.8%), according to Alexa.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Envato\u2019s director of strategy and business development, Ben Chan, told <i>Private Media<\/i> getting the website onto the top 100 list was not the product of any particular deliberate SEO or social media strategy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re pretty excited about that \u2013 it really crept up on us. Our mission is to help our community to earn and learn, rather than to be in the top 100 listings,\u201d Chan says.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>ThemeForest is one of eight marketplaces owned by Envato, spanning both media templates and what it terms \u201ccomplex content\u201d, including themes and HTML templates.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Launched in 2008, ThemeForest primarily focuses on WordPress themes, and sits among the company\u2019s \u201ccomplex content\u201d marketplaces.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnvato started out in 2006, and since then we\u2019ve paid our community of designers, authors, freelancers, affiliates and instructors more than $180 million in earnings,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Looking to the future, Chan identifies expanding Envato\u2019s lead in complex content marketplace, as well as further expanding its multimedia portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;\">Follow StartupSmart on&nbsp;Facebook,&nbsp;Twitter, and&nbsp;LinkedIn<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ThemeForest, owned by Melbourne-based tech company Envato, is now among the top 100 websites in the world in terms of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}