WordPress Statistics In 2025 (Usage, Market Share & More)

With over 810 million websites, WordPress is the most popular CMS platform around the globe with thousands of themes and plugins. 

Initially started as a blogging platform in 2003, WordPress later significantly evolved as a most preferred CMS and eCommerce platform with a market share of around 61.6%.

According to W3Techs, around 43.5% of all websites on the web use WordPress.

So to help you gain insights into crucial facts about WordPress, this article provides a detailed analysis of WordPress and its current trends. 

Let’s get straight into it!

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WordPress Usage Statistics For 2025

In 2011, only 13.1% of the websites were built with WordPress. Since then, this number has increased 12% each year. 

Let’s take a look at some crucial WordPress statistics. 

How Many Websites Use WordPress?

As of May 2025, more than 810 million websites use WordPress. 

• There are around 1.98 billion websites on the web And among these 43.53% of all the websites use WordPress. This means every two out of five websites use WordPress to build the site. 

• Among the top 1 million websites out there, 36% are powered by WordPress.

• 61.6% of the sites with Content Management systems prefer WordPress.

• W3techs reports state that every two minutes, the top 10 million sites use WordPress. 

Source: w3techs.com, WordPress Stats, Searchlogistics. com

How Many WordPress Websites Are Created Every Day?

Each day over 500 to 1000 websites are created using WordPress. 

Moreover, WordPress is also a great blogging platform. Within every second, 17 new blog posts are published on WordPress. 

That’s not it, more than 409 million users view around 20 billion pages that are created with WordPress each day.

Source: WordPress

How Many Websites Use WordPress in the USA?

According to the BuiltWith study report, the United States is the top country with WordPress websites. 

To put that into numbers, over 3,682,121 websites use WordPress in the USA.

Source: BuiltWith

WordPress Versions Usage Statistics

Well, there have been a total of 43 major versions of WordPress since its release in 2003. 

The version 6.7 is the most used version of WordPress. It has been used by 72.3% of all WordPress websites. WordPress version 2 introduced plugins, enhancing the platform’s flexibility.

As of now, the 6.X versions are used by over 72% of all the sites using WordPress. Less than 1% of WordPress sites use 3.X versions.

Let’s take a look at WordPress versions and its usage.

Version	Usage %
6.7	72.3%
6.5	5.1%
6.4	4.7%
6.2	2.80%
6.1	2.1%
6.0	1.9%
5.9	1.56%
5.8	1.86%
5.7	1.39%
5.6	0.94%
5.5	1.31%
5.4	1.51%
5.3	1.14%
5.2	1.11%
5.1	0.68%
5.0	0.42%
4.9	2.08%
4.8	0.54%
4.7	0.69%
4.6	0.27%
4.5	0.27%
4.4	0.28%
4.3	0.16%
4.2	0.16%
4.1	0.14%
4.0	0.10%
<3.9	<0.10%

Source: w3techs.com

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WordPress Market Share Statistics 2025

WordPress has grown rapidly each year since 2011, and since then, it has been the most dominant Content Management System in the market. 

When talking about the market share, WordPress has a 61.6% market share in the CMS industry.

WordPress efficiently dominates many other CMS sites like Shopify, Wix, Squarespace, etc. 

Shopify competes with WordPress with a 6.7% market share. Wix comes next due to its excellent drag-and-drop feature with 3.9% of CMS market share.

The following data represents the total market share of different Content Management Systems. 

Content Management System (CMS)	CMS Market Share	% of All Websites
WordPress	61.6%	43.5%
Shopify	6.7%	4.7%
Wix	5.1%	3.6%
Squarespace	3.2%	2.3%
Joomla	2.1%	1.5%
Drupal	1.2%	0.8%
Adobe Systems	1.1%	0.8%
None	–	30.9%

Source: w3techs.com

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WordPress Subcategories Statistics

The reason why WordPress is so reliable is due to its different subcategories that you can use with the CMS platform. 

This makes it a simple and drag and drop platform with customizable features. 

As of now, Elementor is the most popular subcategory in WordPress. It is used by around 24.2% of all WordPress websites. 

WooCommerce comes next, with 27.7% of all WordPress sites using it. 

Here are WordPress subcategories and the percentage of websites that use it. 

WordPress Subcategory	% of the share of WordPress sites
Elementor	27.7%
WooCommerce	20.9%
WPBakery	9.5%
Beaver Builder	1%
10Web Photo Gallery	0.7%
NextGEN Gallary	0.5%
Oxygen	0.4%
bbPress	0.3%
FooGallery	0.2%
LearnPress	0.2%
BuddyPress	0.2%
Divi Builder	0.2%
Robo Gallery	0.1%
Modula Albums	0.1%
Visual Composer	0.1%
Bricks	0.1%
wpForo	0.1%
Brizy	0.1%
Other	36.9%

Source: w3techs.Com

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WordPress Plugins and Themes Statistics

Here comes the most crucial part. Without Plugins and Themes, WordPress would not be as popular as it is today. 

Let’s take a deeper look at facts about WordPress Themes and Plugings. 

How Many WordPress Plugins Are There?

There are over 59,000 free plugins available on WordPress. 

The most popular WordPress plugin is Yoast, with over 787+ million total downloads. 

Here are top 5 most popular WordPress plugins with the most downloads and active installations. 

WordPress Plugin	Total Downloads	Current Active Installations
Yoast SEO	787 million	10+ million
Classic Editor	79 million	10+ million
Contact Form 7	374 million	10+ million
Elementor	617 million	10+ million
WooCommerce	370 million	8+ million

Currently, there are more than 53 million websites that are using at least 1 WordPress plugin. 

Moreover, from 2016 to 2019, WordPress developed and published over 18,200 new plugins. 

Here are key facts about all the plugins available on WordPress.

Plugins that have never been updated	3%
Plugins that never received a review	57%
Plugins that have a homepage link to the plugin owner’s site	76%
Plugins that have a donate button	47%

Source: w3techs.Com, HubSpot, WordPress. org

Plugin Usage Insights

3 out of the top 5 plugins with most downloads are Security Plugins.

The following data suggests the most used plugins in each category that have more than 800,000 installations.

Category	Most used plugins
SEO Plugin	Yoast SEO, All-in-One SEO Pack, RankMath
Speed Plugins	JetPack, WP-optimize, NitroPack
Page Builders	Elementor, SiteOrigin Builder, Beaver Builder
Contact Form Plugins	Contact Form 7, WP Forms, Ninja Forms
Security Plugins	Wordfence Security, iThemes Security, Sucuri Security
Backup Plugins	Updraft Plus, BackWPup, VaultPress

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How Many WordPress Themes Are There?

Currently, WordPress has over 13,000 free themes available to download. 

There are a total of 31,000 free and paid WordPress themes available in the theme directory. 

On average, a paid WordPress theme costs $77.57. Most of these themes have lifetime access.

Hello Elementor is the used theme within the top 1 million sites, as it is used by 9% of WordPress websites. For a long time, Elementor has been the go-to theme on WordPress. Its seamless integration with the Elementor site builder helps in creating stunning, custom websites with ease.

These are the themes that are most popular within the top 1 million websites. 

Theme Name	Websites using these themes
Hello Elementor	17,159
Astra	12,487
Divi	11,439
GeneratePress	9043
Newspaper	5324
Avada	4792
Genesis Framework	3914
Flatsome	3549
Kadence Theme	3305
Twenty Seventeen	3095

Source: BuiltWith, WordPress.org

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WordPress eCommerce Statistics

As we know WordPress is significantly dominating the eCommerce sector. Many small businesses are preferring WordPress for establishing a strong online presence. 

Let’s take a look at some of the major stats on the WordPress eCommerce market. 

WooCommerce Usage

At present, there are 4,601,351 live stores running on the WooCommerce platform.

WooCommerce is used by 9.1% of all the eCommerce stores on the internet. 

WordPress is used by 94.5% of WooCommerce stores.

As of 2025, the Astra theme is used by 11.3% of WooCommerce stores and is the most popular theme with 520,466 stores using it.

The Home & Garden category leads in popularity on WooCommerce, with over 241,000 stores selling related products, which is around 5.3% of total stores.

Here are the top WooCommerce categories used by various industries;

Here is data on how WooCommerce is dominating the eCommerce platform market share.

Platform	% Market Share
WooCommerce	38.74%
WooThemes	14.95%
Squarespace	14.67%
Shopify	10.32%
Wix	8.09%
Others	13.22%

Source: Hostinger.com, WordPress.org, Storeleads

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WordPress Security Statistics

Each day, around 13,000 WordPress sites are hacked. This means 9 websites are under attack each minute. 

This makes 47 million WordPress sites that get hacked each year! 

When talking about Cybersecurity, almost 41% of WordPress site attacks happen due to security vulnerabilities on the WordPress hosting platform.

Here are the top reasons for security attacks on WordPress sites:

Reason For Security Attack	Percentage
WordPress Hosting Platform	41%
WordPress Core	37%
Theme	11%
Other	11%

Explore web hosting stats and trends to learn more about the hosting industry. But thankfully, WordPress provides us with many integrations and plugins to secure the site from attacks and spam. 

Let’s take a look at key statistics on WordPress security vulnerabilities.

WordPress Security Vulnerabilities

• In the past 30 days, Wordfence has actively defended websites by blocklisting 78,000 malicious IP addresses
• As of 2025, Wordfence prevented 5.5 billion security attacks.
• Wordfence has 5383 malware signatures in their real-time malware signature set
• 39% of hacked WordPress websites were found to be using an outdated version of the WordPress software. 
• Almost 8% of the attacks are reported due to sites having very weak passwords. 

These hackings are done with different hacking methods. Among these, Malware attacks are the most common in WordPress website hacking. 

Here are the top hacking methods used to hack WordPress sites.

Type of Hacking Methods	Percentage
Malware	77.72%
Backdoors	69.63%
SEO Spam	46.76%
Hack Tools	23.63%
Phishing	8.12%
Defacement	6.71%
Mailers	5.95%
Droppers	1.04%

When talking about the plugin vulnerabilities, over 52% of these are due to cross-site scripting (XSS).

Take a look at some of the top vulnerabilities on WordPress.

Vulnerability Type	Percentage Of Vulnerability
XSS	52%
File upload	7%
Access Controls	12%
SQL Injection	13%
CSRF	16%

Source: Hostinger.com

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WordPress User Behavior Statistics And Facts

Other than the above crucial statistics, some other key facts about WordPress are worth noticing. Let’s take a look at these.

• The keyword “WordPress” is typically searched 2.3 million times in a month worldwide. 
• As it is a popular CMS, it is widely used and preferred by 97% of bloggers. 
• On average, WordPress bloggers publish six posts each second.
• Each month, over 70 million new posts are created on WordPress.
• 77 million new comments are made every month on WordPress. 
• On average, 2 million new websites are created with WordPress each year.
• In every six months, WordPress gets 1.1 million new domain registrations. 
• Approximately, 661 new sites are created each day. 
• WordPress is translated to over 200 different languages, with English being the most used language on WordPress. 

Here is a quick look at the top languages used by WordPress users. 

Languages	Percentage Of Users Using It On WordPress
English	44.5%
Spanish	6.1%
German	5.7%
Japanese	5.7%
French	4.2%
Italian	3.2%
Russian	2.8%
Portuguese	2.8%
Polish	1.9%

When talking about WordPress usage around the globe, WordPress is used in more than 178 countries as of 2025.  Top websites like BBC, TechCrunch, CNN, UPS, TED, Spotify, and more use WordPress.

Most WordPress sites are built in the United States with around 3,325,051 sites run on WordPress. Germany and the United Kingdom come next with a significant share of WordPress sites.

Of the top 1 million websites, 24.13% are built on WordPress.

Here is the list of top countries with the most WordPress-powered websites. 

Country	WordPress Websites
United States	33 Million
Germany	1.4 Million
United Kingdom	1.08 Million
Brazil	858,293
France	847,213
Netherlands	704,326
Italy	673,168
India	600,162
Russia	553,137
Japan	546,005

Source: Built With, WordPress

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WordPress Trends for 2025

In the last year, WordPress has seen various trends in website designs, themes, and user-friendly interfaces. This has created more opportunities for 2025 to have robust changes and updates for a more user-friendly experience.

• It is estimated that there will be 50% of all websites that are going to be powered by WordPress in 2030. 
• According to the market trends, in 2025, WordPress will mostly used as an e-commerce tool by a huge number of small businesses. 
• WooCommerce is going to play a crucial role in simplifying the integration of payment gateways and streamlining e-commerce management for website owners. 
• There is going to be a more mobile-friendly interface across all niches in 2025. 
• WordPress will continue expanding its Gutenberg and Full Site Editing (FSE) features in the coming years. 

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WordPress Community 

No doubt, WordPress has a huge community worldwide. This community allows us to participate in projects and contribute to them. Let’s have a quick overview of the WordPress community. 

• There are dozens of WordPress groups on Facebook, some of which have more than thousands of group members. 
• The software has been entirely translated into 56 languages by the WordPress translation community, and it is partially translated into several more. 
• In 2017 alone, WordPress communities organized 128 WordCamp events in 48 countries around the globe. These events brought together WordPress users, developers, and enthusiasts, selling around 40,000 tickets in total. 

Pretty interesting, right?

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Conclusion: As of 2025, There Are 810 Million WordPress Websites are Active

If you ask me, WordPress has significantly evolved in the last two decades. It has emerged from a blogging platform to a highly preferable Content Management System. 

By 2030, it is predicted that WordPress will see exponential growth with a 50% total market share. 

I hope the above statistics helped to understand WordPress’s significant impact on the tech industry. What do you think about WordPress and its growth?

Share your thoughts in the comments section below. 

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