WordPress

WordPress Foundation, San Francisco, California, United States

WordPress is a widely used open-source content management system built on PHP and MySQL.

It offers a plugin ecosystem with over 60,000 extensions, thousands of themes, a block-based editor for content creation, REST API support, multisite capabilities, and a large community for support and development.

According to our data, WordPress is the most popular content management system on the web.
It has 85.2% of the CMS market share and powers 40.2% of all websites.

💸 Pricing

WordPress is available for free.

Free ✔️Open source

📊 Rankings and Market Share

🏆 WordPress Awards

⚡ Sites Powered by WordPress

We have data on 1,052,164 websites that use the WordPress CMS. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.

The highest rated site using WordPress is bitly.com.

#WebsiteRankCountryLanguage
1 bitly.com #18 American English
2 nypost.com #131 United States American English
3 patria.org.ve #184 Venezuela Spanish
4 librus.pl #192 Poland Polish
5 indianexpress.com #200 India English
6 magnite.com #218 American English
7 india.com #308 India English
8 clever.com #329 American English
9 news.com.au #412 Australia English
10 code.jquery.com United States American English
11 sportradar.com #530 Switzerland British English
12 animanch.com #546 Japan Japanese
13 ijavhd.com #645 American English
14 tiktokio.com #719 American English
15 p**nocarioca.com #814 Brazil Brazilian Portuguese
16 taktube.net #851 France Persian
17 desitales2.com #866 American English
18 kamababa.desi #891 American English
19 luticlip.com #893 France Persian
20 momon-ga.com #916 Japan Japanese

📈 Usage Statistics

Most of the sites that use WordPress:

Most of the sites using WordPress are from the United States, Germany, and Japan.

  • United States 27.8%
  • Germany 6%
  • Japan 5.9%
  • United Kingdom 5.6%
  • France 4%
  • Italy 3.7%
  • Spain 3.6%
  • Australia 3.4%
  • Netherlands 3.4%
  • Other 36.6%

Most WordPress users speak English, German, or Spanish.

  • English 52%
  • German 6.2%
  • Spanish 5.7%
  • Japanese 5.4%
  • French 4.2%
  • Italian 3.3%
  • Dutch 2.7%
  • Portuguese 2.7%
  • Russian 1.9%
  • Other 15.9%

The WordPress CMS is especially popular on .com and .org top-level domains.

  • .com 45.1%
  • .org 7%
  • .de 4%
  • .net 3.3%
  • .it 2.3%
  • .com.au 2.2%
  • .co.uk 2.2%
  • .com.br 1.5%
  • .fr 1.5%
  • Other 30.9%

The primary market segments for websites utilizing WordPress include business, marketing and merchandising, and blogs and wiki.

  • Business 18.6%
  • Marketing/Merchandising 11.7%
  • Blogs/Wiki 11%
  • Education/Reference 5.9%
  • Internet Services 5.6%
  • Entertainment 4.6%
  • Online Shopping 4.2%
  • Travel 4.1%
  • Health 3.6%
  • Other 30.7%

🔢 WordPress Versions

The most widespread version of WordPress is 6.7, used by 21.9% of sites where versions were detected. In addition, 17.4% of sites use WordPress 6.8, and 15.2% use WordPress 6.4.

  • 6.7 21.9%
  • 6.8 17.4%
  • 6.4 15.2%
  • 6.6 11%
  • 6.5 7.5%
  • 6.2 3.3%
  • 6.1 2.7%
  • 6.3 2.6%
  • 6.0 2.1%
  • Other 16.3%

🕵️ Similar Technologies

These are some of the best WordPress alternatives.

RankName
2
Joomla
New York, United States

An open-source content management system written in PHP.

FreeOpen source
3
Drupal
Portland, Oregon, United States

A modular open-source content management platform written in PHP.

FreeOpen source
4
TYPO3
Düsseldorf, Germany

An open-source enterprise content management system written in PHP that supports multisite and multilingual installations and has a large extension repository.

FreeOpen source
9
Contao
Lyss, Switzerland

An open-source content management system built with PHP, Symfony, and MySQL.

FreeOpen source
24
WordPress VIP
San Francisco, California, United States

A fully hosted enterprise solution based on WordPress, designed to support high-traffic websites with enhanced performance, security, and scalability.

$25,000+/year

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💬 Frequently Asked Questions

What is the company behind WordPress?

WordPress is owned by the WordPress Foundation, headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Can I use WordPress for free?

Yes, it is a free content management system.
It is also an open source solution, and its code is available on wordpress.org.

Which country uses WordPress the most?

The majority of WordPress users are from the United States.

Who uses WordPress?

According to our data, WordPress is used on millions of sites, including such established ones as bitly.com, nypost.com, and patria.org.ve.

Is WordPress used on government websites?

Overall, we found WordPress on 324 government sites in the United States.

Do academic institutions use WordPress?

Yes, quite a few! In total, we know of 1,352 academic websites in the United States that use WordPress.

How does WordPress compare to the competition?

WordPress is the most popular content management system on the market, surpassing all others.

What are the alternatives to WordPress?

Alternatives and possible competitors to WordPress may include Joomla, Drupal, and WordPress VIP.

👉 See Also

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