WordPress market position

A compact readout of whether WordPress is still widely chosen: installed share, current newly found-site proxy, traffic-tier presence, demand proxies, plugin reach, and enterprise signal.

All-site share

41.5%

W3Techs, -2.1 pts since Jan 2025

CMS share

59.3%

W3Techs, -2.7 pts since Jan 2025

90-day new-site proxy

67.4%

BuiltWith tracked pipeline, 2.4M WordPress sites

HTTP tracked share

78.9%

-10.8 pts since 2020-01-01

Top 1M tracked share

77.3%

BuiltWith current traffic-tier snapshot

Long-tail tracked share

60.6%

BuiltWith current outside-Top-1M snapshot

WooCommerce ecommerce share

47.4%

BuiltWith Shopify + WooCommerce live-site set

Major plugin installs

90.0M

Fixed major-plugin WordPress.org API sample

Enterprise cases

44

Current WordPress VIP case-study snapshot

Latest core release

7.0

2026-05-20

PHP 8.1+

70.3%

WordPress.org active install stats

Decision lanes

These lanes separate measured installed share from current new-site and demand proxies.

Installed share W3Techs has WordPress at 41.5% of all sites and 59.3% of CMS sites.
Still first
Recent direction All-site share moved -2.1 pts and CMS share moved -2.7 pts since Jan 2025.
Softer
Current new-site proxy BuiltWith 90-day tracked pipeline: WordPress to Shopify ratio is 3.34x.
67.4%
Recurring crawl share HTTP Archive tracked share latest month; peer set is WordPress, Shopify, Wix, Squarespace, and Webflow.
78.9%
Traffic tier BuiltWith current Top 1M and long-tail tracked shares bracket where WordPress appears across site sizes.
77.3% / 60.6%
WooCommerce ecommerce BuiltWith live-site history shows WooCommerce within a tracked Shopify plus WooCommerce ecommerce set.
47.4%
Attention and demand All available public/developer/hiring proxy summaries are lower than their baselines.
Lower

Installed-share trend

W3Techs all-site share 0.0% 24.0% 48.0% 2015 2026 now 41.5% W3Techs CMS share 0.0% 35.9% 71.7% 2015 2026 now 59.3% HTTP Archive tracked share 0.0% 45.8% 91.6% 2023-06 2026-05 78.3%

Current new-site proxy

BuiltWith public Net New Pipeline counts for the last 90 days where available.

WordPress2.4M
Shopify726.1k
Wix403.9k
Webflow43.7k

Traffic-tier presence

BuiltWith current tracked share among WordPress, Shopify, Wix, Squarespace, and Webflow.

Top 1k70.6%
Top 10k77.7%
Top 100k80.8%
Top 1M77.3%
Long tail60.6%

WooCommerce ecommerce share

BuiltWith ecommerce history grouped quarterly. Share is within the fetched Shopify plus WooCommerce live-site set, not the whole ecommerce market.

WooCommerce live-site share 0.0% 48.4% 96.7% 2014-Q2 2026-Q2 47.4%

WooCommerce Top 1M share

Traffic-tier share inside the same Shopify plus WooCommerce tracked set.

WooCommerce Top 1M share 0.0% 39.6% 79.2% 2014-Q2 2026-Q2 41.3%
47.4%WooCommerce latest live-site share
52.6%Shopify latest live-site share
2026-Q2latest WooCommerce quarter in SQLite

Installed-base platform context

Current WordPress.org active-install stats. This is not a growth trend, but it shows the deployment context behind the installed base.

WordPress 7.052.4%
WordPress 6.919.6%
WordPress 6.88.0%
WordPress 6.73.3%
WordPress 6.61.7%
WordPress 6.51.4%
PHP 8.225.4%
PHP 8.323.0%
PHP 7.418.7%
PHP 8.112.6%
PHP 8.47.5%
PHP 8.04.6%

Database and release cadence

Database-family share from WordPress.org stats, plus major-release spacing from the WordPress release archive.

MariaDB59.3%
MySQL40.7%
Days between major releases 0.0d 127.0d 254.1d 5.9 7.0 169.0d
756props on WordPress 7.0
34committers in the latest release compare range
147 daysmedian spacing across the latest release intervals

Attention and demand proxy direction

These are directional public proxies, not Google Trends or a broad labor-market export.

HN WP/Woo hiring mention rate 2025-Q3 to 2026-Q2 vs 2012-Q1 to 2023-Q4 (mentions per 100 comments)
-77.4%
Stack Overflow WordPress questions 2026-Q2 vs 2023-Q4 (questions per quarter)
-96.3%
Wikipedia WordPress pageviews 2026-Q2 vs 2023-Q4 (views per quarter)
-17.1%
WordPress Jobs development listings 2026-06-14 vs 2023-01-01 (open listings)
-50.0%
WordPress Jobs open listings 2026-06-14 vs 2023-01-01 (open listings)
-55.2%

How to read this

Still widely chosen.Installed-share evidence remains much stronger than any peer CMS or builder signal.
Recent share is softer.W3Techs and HTTP Archive show WordPress still leading while its share is lower than recent baselines.
New-site history is partial.BuiltWith and HTTP Archive are useful current proxies; the source gap plan covers the ideal cohort source.

Rows come from existing SQLite tables including market_share, new_site_choice_summary, http_archive_tracked_share_monthly, builtwith_tier_share_snapshot, builtwith_new_site_snapshot, ecommerce_platform_share_quarterly, wporg_ecosystem_stats_snapshot, core_releases, core_release_credits, core_release_committers, and attention_demand_summary. Integrity check: ok.