⚡ WordPress Plugins in Japan

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.

Japan is an East Asian country with a population of around 125 million people.

According to our data, WordPress plugins are used on 33.1% of websites from Japan.

Statistics based on 201K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Contact Form 7 with a substantial share of 53.7%, followed by GlotPress with 32.6% and All in One SEO with 31.6%.

Contact Form 7 53.7%
GlotPress 32.6%
All in One SEO 31.6%
Site Kit 16.3%
Yoast SEO 14.3%
Really Simple Security 10.6%
Autoptimize 7%
EWWW Image Optimizer 6%
Elementor 5.7%
Jetpack 4.7%
WP Fastest Cache 3.8%
MonsterInsights 3.5%
WP Super Cache 3.3%
Smart Slider 2.4%
W3 Total Cache 1.9%

🚀 Highlights

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

1. Contact Form 7 ^(-1)
2. GlotPress ^(-4)
3. All in One SEO ^(-9)
6. Really Simple Security ^(-1)
7. Autoptimize ^(-13)
8. EWWW Image Optimizer ^(-30)
10. Jetpack ^(-7)
11. WP Fastest Cache ^(-10)
12. MonsterInsights ^(-3)
13. WP Super Cache ^(-6)

✨ Best WordPress Plugins

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 169 WordPress plugins used on sites from Japan, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	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	53.7%
2	GlotPress An open-source WordPress plugin that lets you set up your own collaborative, web-based software translation tool. FreeOpen source	32.6%
3	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	31.6%
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	16.3%
5	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	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	10.6%
7	Autoptimize Lokeren, Belgium A WordPress plugin that aggregates, minifies and caches scripts and styles, and defers CSS and scripts. FreeOpen source$12.99/month	7%
8	EWWW Image Optimizer Glendive, Montana, United States A WordPress plugin that compresses and optimizes JPG, PNG, GIF, and SVG images, converts them to WebP, and automatically optimizes new uploads. FreeOpen source$8+/month	6%
9	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	5.7%
10	Jetpack San Francisco, California, United States A collection of security, performance, and audience growth tools for WordPress sites. Free$19.95+/month	4.7%
11	WP Fastest Cache Ankara, Turkey A caching plugin that speeds up WordPress sites and improves the PageSpeed Insights score. FreeOpen source$49	3.8%
12	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	3.5%
13	WP Super Cache San Francisco, California, United States An open-source, fast caching engine for WordPress that produces static HTML files. FreeOpen source	3.3%
14	Smart Slider Győr, Hungary A responsive visual slider plugin for WordPress and Joomla that allows users to create sliders, carousels, and dynamic content presentations without coding. Free$49	2.4%
15	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	1.9%
16	SlimStat Tallinn, Estonia A WordPress plugin for tracking website analytics in real time. Free$29/year	1.8%
17	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	1.5%
18	ProfilePress Sheridan, Wyoming, United States A membership and e-commerce WordPress plugin that allows users to build paid membership sites and sell digital downloads and subscriptions. Free$129+/year	1.3%
19	WP-Members Washington, Georgia, United States A free WordPress membership plugin with content restriction, user login, custom registration fields, user profiles. FreeOpen source$59/year	1.1%
20	WordPress Download Manager Chittagong, Bangladesh A document management plugin designed to manage downloads, control file access with passwords and member roles, and sell digital products on WordPress sites. FreeOpen source$99	1.1%
21	SiteOrigin Page Builder Beaverton, Oregon, United States A WordPress page builder plugin for creating responsive, column-based page layouts with drag-and-drop editing. FreeOpen source$29+/year	1.1%
22	Slider Revolution Cologne, Germany A commercial WordPress plugin that allows users to create responsive sliders, carousels, and animated content modules without coding. $3.75+/month	1%
23	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+	1%
24	Welcart Fukui, Japan A Japanese e-commerce plugin for WordPress that adds online store, checkout, and order management functionality to WordPress websites. Free$$$	1%
25	Rank Math New Delhi, India A search engine optimization plugin for WordPress that provides real-time content analysis, schema markup generation, and keyword optimization to improve search rankings. Free$7.99+/month	1%

👉 See Also

🌎 WordPress Plugins in other countries

🗃️ 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 201,262 websites from Japan.
We currently track the presence of 185 WordPress plugins across the web.
Of these, 169 were detected on websites from Japan.
Statistics were last calculated on September 27, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.