⚡ WordPress Plugins

WordPress plugins extend the functionality of WordPress websites by adding modular software components that integrate with the core system and enable customization without direct code modifications.

They cover a wide range of capabilities, including analytics, page building, search engine optimization, caching and performance optimization, security protection, backups, multilingual content management, e-commerce functionality, and API integrations.

According to our data, WordPress plugins are used on 33.6% of all websites.
18.9% of these sites use only one WordPress plugin, 22.7% use two, and 58.4% use three or more of them.

Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the leading WordPress plugins in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Yoast SEO with an impressive share of 45.9%, followed by Contact Form 7 with 29.5% and Elementor with 27.5%.

Yoast SEO 45.9%
Contact Form 7 29.5%
Elementor 27.5%
Site Kit 16.6%
WooCommerce 14.3%
Really Simple Security 13.7%
GlotPress 12.3%
WP Rocket 11.1%
Slider Revolution 10.9%
WPBakery 9.9%
Rank Math 9.2%
All in One SEO 7.6%
WPML 5.6%
MonsterInsights 4.5%
Gravity Forms 4.4%

You can also drill down by country:

🚀 Country Highlights

Here is a list of plugins that are especially popular in certain countries.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

Contact Form 7 is #1 in Japan ^(-1)
Elementor is #1 in Brazil ^(-2)
WooCommerce is #2 in Iran ^(-3)
Rank Math is #3 in Vietnam ^(-8)
Really Simple Security is #3 in Denmark ^(-3)
Site Kit is #3 in Indonesia ^(-1)
WPML is #3 in Estonia ^(-10)
Borlabs Cookie is #4 in Germany ^(-33)
GlotPress is #4 in Spain ^(-3)
Slider Revolution is #4 in Turkey ^(-5)

✨ Best WordPress Plugins

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 185 WordPress plugins we track, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Yoast SEO Wijchen, Netherlands A WordPress search engine optimization plugin that helps optimize website content, metadata, and technical SEO settings to improve visibility in search engines. Free$99/year	45.9%
2	Contact Form 7 Fukuoka, Japan A free WordPress plugin that allows users to create and customize contact forms and other types of forms for their websites. FreeOpen source	29.5%
3	Elementor Ramat Gan, Israel A visual drag-and-drop page builder for WordPress that enables users to create websites, landing pages, and e-commerce stores through a front-end editor without coding. Free$5+/month	27.5%
4	Site Kit Mountain View, California, United States Google's official WordPress plugin that connects websites to Google services and displays their data directly in the WordPress dashboard. FreeOpen source	16.6%
5	WooCommerce San Francisco, California, United States A customizable, open-source e-commerce platform built on WordPress that lets businesses sell online and retain full ownership of their site, data, and code. FreeOpen source	14.3%
6	Really Simple Security Groningen, Netherlands A security plugin for WordPress that can generate an SSL certificate, enforce https redirection, scan for possible vulnerabilities, enable 2FA, and implement WordPress hardening. Free$49+/year	13.7%
7	GlotPress An open-source WordPress plugin that lets you set up your own collaborative, web-based software translation tool. FreeOpen source	12.3%
8	WP Rocket Lyon, France A caching and performance optimization plugin that improves the loading speed of WordPress websites. $59/year	11.1%
9	Slider Revolution Cologne, Germany A commercial WordPress plugin that allows users to create responsive sliders, carousels, and animated content modules without coding. $39/year	10.9%
10	WPBakery Nicosia, Cyprus A commercial drag-and-drop page builder plugin for WordPress that lets users visually create and edit page layouts without writing code. $69+	9.9%
11	Rank Math New Delhi, India A search engine optimization plugin for WordPress that makes it easy to optimize content with built-in suggestions based on widely accepted best practices. Free$7.99+/month	9.2%
12	All in One SEO West Palm Beach, Florida, United States A WordPress SEO plugin that helps optimize websites for search engines by managing metadata, sitemaps, and structured data. Free$49.60+/year	7.6%
13	WPML Hong Kong A multilingual plugin that helps users translate websites and WooCommerce stores into multiple languages from a single dashboard. €39+/year	5.6%
14	MonsterInsights West Palm Beach, Florida, United States A WordPress plugin that integrates Google Analytics into WordPress and displays key website performance metrics directly in the WordPress dashboard. Free$99.50+/year	4.5%
15	Gravity Forms Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States A WordPress plugin that enables site owners to create and manage online forms for collecting data directly within WordPress websites. $59+/year	4.4%
16	Jetpack San Francisco, California, United States A collection of security, performance, and audience growth tools for WordPress sites. Free$19.95+/month	4.2%
17	The Events Calendar Lansing, Michigan, United States A WordPress plugin that enables users to create, manage, and display in-person and virtual events through customizable calendar views and event listings. FreeOpen source$149	4.1%
18	W3 Total Cache Los Angeles, California, United States A feature-rich WordPress caching plugin to speed up websites and rank higher on Google. FreeOpen source$99+/year	3.8%
19	Autoptimize Lokeren, Belgium A WordPress plugin that aggregates, minifies and caches scripts and styles, and defers CSS and scripts. FreeOpen source$12.99/month	3.6%
20	WP Super Cache San Francisco, California, United States An open-source, fast caching engine for WordPress that produces static HTML files. FreeOpen source	3.6%
21	WP Fastest Cache Ankara, Turkey A caching plugin that speeds up WordPress sites and improves the PageSpeed Insights score. FreeOpen source$49	3.3%
22	WPForms West Palm Beach, Florida, United States A WordPress form builder plugin with a drag-and-drop editor that lets users create contact, payment, survey, registration, and other custom forms without coding. FreeOpen source$49.50+/year	3.1%
23	LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, United States An open-source site acceleration plugin that provides optimization tools and server-level caching for WordPress sites. FreeOpen source	3%
24	GTM4WP Budapest, Hungary A WordPress plugin that simplifies integration of Google Tag Manager into sites. FreeOpen source	2.5%
25	Redux Framework Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States A simple, extensible framework for WordPress themes and plugins. FreeOpen source	2.4%

👉 See Also

✨ Related technologies
- WordPress
⚡WordPress themes

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 3,655,631 websites.
We currently track the presence of 185 WordPress plugins across the web.
Statistics were last calculated on August 20, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.