⚡ WordPress Plugins

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 34.6% of all websites.
21% of these sites use only one WordPress plugin, 23.9% use two, and 55.1% use three or more of them.

⭐ Most Popular in 2025

The following chart shows the leading WordPress plugins in 2025, based on market share.

The most popular is Yoast SEO with an impressive share of 45%, followed by Contact Form 7 with 31% and Elementor with 25.9%.

Yoast SEO 45%
Contact Form 7 31%
Elementor 25.9%
Really Simple Security 15.2%
Site Kit 14.2%
WooCommerce 13.6%
Slider Revolution 11.6%
WP Rocket 10.8%
GlotPress 9.7%
WPBakery 9%
Rank Math 8.2%
All in One SEO 7.8%
WPML 5.1%
Jetpack 4.5%
MonsterInsights 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 ^(-4)
Really Simple Security is #3 in Denmark ^(-1)
Slider Revolution is #3 in Kenya ^(-4)
Rank Math is #3 in Korea ^(-8)
WPML is #3 in Estonia ^(-10)
Site Kit is #4 in the United States ^(-1)
WP Rocket is #4 in France ^(-4)
WPBakery is #6 in Greece ^(-4)

✨ Best WordPress Plugins

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 178 WordPress plugins we track, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Yoast SEO Wijchen, 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. Free$99/year	45%
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	31%
3	Elementor Ramat Gan, Israel A visual drag-and-drop page builder for WordPress. Free$4.92+/month	25.9%
4	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	15.2%
5	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	14.2%
6	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	13.6%
7	Slider Revolution Cologne, Germany A commercial WordPress plugin that allows users to create responsive sliders, carousels, and animated content modules without coding. $39/year	11.6%
8	WP Rocket Lyon, France A caching and performance optimization plugin that improves the loading speed of WordPress websites. $59/year	10.8%
9	GlotPress An open source WordPress plugin that lets you set up your own collaborative, web-based software translation tool. FreeOpen source	9.7%
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%
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	8.2%
12	All in One SEO West 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. Free$49.60+/year	7.8%
13	WPML Hong Kong A multilingual WordPress plugin that helps users translate websites and WooCommerce stores into multiple languages from a single dashboard. €39+/year	5.1%
14	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	4.5%
15	MonsterInsights West Palm Beach, Florida, United States A Google Analytics integration and dashboard plugin for WordPress. Free$99.60+/year	4.4%
16	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%
17	Autoptimize Lokeren, Belgium A WordPress plugin that aggregates, minifies and caches scripts and styles, and defers CSS and scripts. FreeOpen source$12.99/month	3.7%
18	Gravity Forms Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States A WordPress plugin that allows site owners to create simple and complex forms to collect information on their WordPress sites. $59+/year	3.7%
19	WPForms West 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. FreeOpen source$49.50+/year	3.6%
20	The Events Calendar Lansing, Michigan, United States A WordPress plugin designed to organize and display events on your website. FreeOpen source$149	3.6%
21	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%
22	WP Fastest Cache Ankara, Turkey A caching plugin that speeds up WordPress sites and improves the PageSpeed Insights score. FreeOpen source$49	3.2%
23	LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, United States An all-in-one open source site acceleration plugin that provides server-level caching and a collection of optimization features. FreeOpen source	2.7%
24	Wordfence Seattle, Washington, United States A popular firewall and security scanner for WordPress. Free$119+/year	2.5%
25	Redux Framework Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States A simple, extensible framework for WordPress themes and plugins.	2.3%

Data is based on the analysis of 2,764,714 websites.
Statistics were last calculated on December 28, 2025.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.