⚡ WordPress Plugins in the United Kingdom

WordPress plugins extend the functionality of WordPress websites by adding various features such as design customizations, contact forms, SEO improvements, security enhancements, and e-commerce capabilities with no coding required.

According to our data, WordPress plugins are used on 44.1% of websites from the United Kingdom.

⭐ Most Popular in 2025

The following chart shows the top WordPress plugins in the United Kingdom in 2025, based on market share.

The most popular is Yoast SEO with an impressive share of 50%, followed by Contact Form 7 with 30% and Elementor with 20.3%.

Yoast SEO 50%
Contact Form 7 30%
Elementor 20.3%
WooCommerce 16.9%
Site Kit 13.5%
Really Simple Security 12.6%
Slider Revolution 10.4%
WP Rocket 9.1%
GlotPress 8.5%
Rank Math 7.1%
All in One SEO 6.3%
MonsterInsights 5.8%
Jetpack 5.4%
W3 Total Cache 4.5%
Gravity Forms 4.5%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top plugins that are more popular in the United Kingdom than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

4. WooCommerce ^(-1)
5. Site Kit ^(-1)
10. Rank Math ^(-1)
12. MonsterInsights ^(-2)
14. W3 Total Cache ^(-3)
15. Gravity Forms ^(-5)
16. The Events Calendar ^(-2)
19. Wordfence ^(-5)
20. WPBakery ^(-3)
21. Complianz ^(-1)

✨ Best WordPress Plugins

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 173 WordPress plugins used on sites from the United Kingdom, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Yoast SEOWijchen, Netherlands A popular search engine optimization WordPress plugin that optimizes meta tags, adds canonical URLs, generates XML sitemaps, provides detailed SEO analysis and many other SEO improvements.	50%
2	Contact Form 7Fukuoka, Japan A popular free WordPress plugin to create contact forms.	30%
3	ElementorRamat Gan, Israel A visual drag-and-drop page builder for WordPress.	20.3%
4	WooCommerceSan Francisco, California, United States A customizable, open-source e-commerce platform built on WordPress.	16.9%
5	Site KitMountain View, California, United States The official WordPress plugin from Google for integrating and managing multiple Google services like Tag Manager, Search Console, Analytics, AdSense, PageSpeed Insights directly from the WordPress dashboard.	13.5%
6	Really Simple SecurityGroningen, 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.	12.6%
7	Slider RevolutionCologne, Germany A commercial WordPress slider plugin.	10.4%
8	WP RocketLyon, France A caching and performance optimization plugin to improve the loading speed of WordPress websites.	9.1%
9	GlotPress An open source WordPress plugin that lets you set up your own collaborative, web-based software translation tool.	8.5%
10	Rank MathNew 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.	7.1%
11	All in One SEOWest Palm Beach, Florida, United States A WordPress SEO plugin that includes an SEO audit checklist, AI title and description generator, rich snippets schema, sitemap generator, and robots.txt editor.	6.3%
12	MonsterInsightsWest Palm Beach, Florida, United States A Google Analytics integration and dashboard plugin for WordPress.	5.8%
13	JetpackSan Francisco, California, United States A collection of security, performance, and growth tools that make WordPress sites safer, faster, and increase traffic.	5.4%
14	W3 Total CacheLos Angeles, California, United States A feature-rich WordPress caching plugin to speed up websites and rank higher on Google.	4.5%
15	Gravity FormsVirginia Beach, Virginia, United States A WordPress plugin that allows site owners to create simple and complex forms to collect information on their WordPress sites.	4.5%
16	The Events CalendarLansing, Michigan, United States A WordPress plugin designed to organize and display events on your website.	3.8%
17	WPFormsWest Palm Beach, Florida, United States A visual WordPress form builder with a drag-and-drop interface, over 2,000 form templates, conditional logic, payments and workflow automation.	3.8%
18	AutoptimizeLokeren, Belgium A WordPress plugin that aggregates, minifies and caches scripts and styles, and defers CSS and scripts.	3.8%
19	WordfenceSeattle, Washington, United States A popular firewall and security scanner for WordPress.	3.7%
20	WPBakeryNicosia, Cyprus A commercial page builder plugin for WordPress.	3.2%
21	ComplianzGroningen, Netherlands An automated and fully customizable cookie consent plugin for WordPress.	3%
22	SmushMelbourne, Australia An image optimization plugin for WordPress that allows you to optimize and resize images, enable lazy loading, and compress media files in background mode.	2.6%
23	LiteSpeed Cache for WordPressNewtown Square, Pennsylvania, United States An all-in-one open source site acceleration plugin that provides server-level caching and a collection of optimization features.	2.6%
24	WP Fastest CacheAnkara, Turkey A caching plugin that speeds up WordPress sites and improves the PageSpeed Insights score.	2.6%
25	WP Super CacheSan Francisco, California, United States An open source, fast caching engine for WordPress that produces static HTML files.	2.5%

Data updated September 8, 2025

When interpreting and using the results, please read our methodology and disclaimer.