“WordPress Dominates Web: Shocking Market Share Stats Unveiled!”
At just 21%, WordPress’ market share was only half of what it is today. In addition, at that time, hand-coding websites was still popular—64.8% of sites didn’t use a CMS at all. But in the last 20+ years, those numbers have steadily approached each other until they changed positions in 2021.
During that time, the share of CMS-based websites increased from 35.2% to 70.8%, and it’s safe to say that WordPress played a major role in this transformation.
In that timeframe, the nearest competitors, Shopify, Wix, and Squarespace, grew as well, though not in the same way. They all started at 0.1% market share in 2014 and increased their numbers to 4.8%, 3.7%, and 2.3%, respectively.
