“WordPress Dominates Web: Shocking Market Share Stats Unveiled!”
- WordPress is the most popular software for building websites, powering over 43% of the internet.
- It commands a 61.4% market share among content management system-based websites (also known as CMSs), more than all other platforms combined.
- WordPress’ market share has more than doubled in the last decade.
- To date, WordPress has had 52 major releases and more than 760 releases in total.
- There are tens of thousands of WordPress themes and over 65,000 plugins.
- 1/3 of all online shops run on WordPress-powered WooCommerce.
Over 43% of all websites use WordPress
As of April 17, 2025, 43.4% of the websites on the internet run on WordPress, according to W3Techs. That means almost every other website runs on WordPress, and it makes WordPress the most widely used website builder in the world.
