⚡ 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 32.4% of websites from Japan.

Statistics based on 170K+ 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 53.6%, followed by All in One SEO with 30.6% and GlotPress with 23.2%.

Contact Form 7 53.6%
All in One SEO 30.6%
GlotPress 23.2%
Site Kit 14.3%
Yoast SEO 13.8%
Really Simple Security 11.1%
Autoptimize 7.2%
Jetpack 6.2%
EWWW Image Optimizer 5.6%
Elementor 5.6%
MonsterInsights 3.7%
WP Fastest Cache 3.6%
WP Super Cache 3.3%
W3 Total Cache 2.3%
Smart Slider 2.2%

🚀 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. All in One SEO ^(-10)
3. GlotPress ^(-6)
7. Autoptimize ^(-12)
8. Jetpack ^(-7)
9. EWWW Image Optimizer ^(-30)
11. MonsterInsights ^(-3)
12. WP Fastest Cache ^(-10)
13. WP Super Cache ^(-7)
14. W3 Total Cache ^(-4)

✨ Best WordPress Plugins

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 167 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	53.6%
2	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	30.6%
3	GlotPress An open-source WordPress plugin that lets you set up your own collaborative, web-based software translation tool. FreeOpen source	23.2%
4	Site Kit Mountain 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. FreeOpen source	14.3%
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	13.8%
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	11.1%
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	7.2%
8	Jetpack San Francisco, California, United States A collection of security, performance, and growth tools that make WordPress sites safer, faster, and increase traffic. Free$19.95+/month	6.2%
9	EWWW Image Optimizer Glendive, Montana, United States A WordPress plugin that compresses and optimizes JPG, PNG, GIF, and SVG images. FreeOpen source$8+/month	5.6%
10	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	5.6%
11	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	3.7%
12	WP Fastest Cache Ankara, Turkey A caching plugin that speeds up WordPress sites and improves the PageSpeed Insights score. FreeOpen source$49	3.6%
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	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	2.3%
15	Smart Slider Győr, Hungary A responsive slider for WordPress and Joomla. Free$49	2.2%
16	SlimStat Tallinn, Estonia A WordPress plugin for tracking website analytics in real time. Free$29/year	1.9%
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	1.4%
19	SiteOrigin Page Builder Beaverton, Oregon, United States A WordPress plugin that makes it easy to create responsive column-based content using the widgets. FreeOpen source$29+	1.2%
20	Slider Revolution Cologne, Germany A commercial WordPress plugin that allows users to create responsive sliders, carousels, and animated content modules without coding. $39/year	1.1%
21	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%
22	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%
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+	1.1%
24	Welcart Fukui, Japan A Japanese e-commerce plugin for WordPress. Free	1%
25	WP Rocket Lyon, France A caching and performance optimization plugin that improves the loading speed of WordPress websites. $59/year	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 170,082 websites from Japan.
We currently track the presence of 185 WordPress plugins across the web.
Of these, 167 were detected on websites from Japan.
Statistics were last calculated on May 14, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.