WordPress

WordPress Foundation, San Francisco, California, United States

WordPress is a widely used open-source content management system built on PHP and MySQL.

It offers a plugin ecosystem with over 60,000 extensions, thousands of themes, a block-based editor for content creation, REST API support, multisite capabilities, and a large community for support and development.

According to our data, WordPress is the most popular content management system on the web.
It has 85.6% of the CMS market share and powers 41.4% of all websites.

💸 Pricing

WordPress is available for free.

Free ✔️Open source

📊 Rankings and Market Share

🏆 WordPress Awards

⚡ Sites Powered by WordPress

We have data on 1,053,810 websites that use the WordPress CMS. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.

The highest rated site using WordPress is bitly.com.

#WebsiteRankCountryLanguage
1 bitly.com #18 United States American English
2 nypost.com #131 United States American English
3 wordpress.com #147 United States English
4 patria.org.ve #184 Venezuela Spanish
5 librus.pl #192 Poland Polish
6 indianexpress.com #200 India English
7 magnite.com #218 United States American English
8 gizmodo.com #226 Switzerland American English
9 india.com #308 English
10 clever.com #329 United States American English
11 news.com.au #412 Australia English
12 code.jquery.com United States American English
13 sportradar.com #530 Switzerland British English
14 animanch.com #546 Japan Japanese
15 actu.fr #578 France French
16 metropoles.com #581 Brazil Brazilian Portuguese
17 equativ.com #587 France American English
18 grapee.jp #663 Japan Japanese
19 conectate.com.do #714 Dominican Republic Spanish
20 liteapks.com #778 United States American English

📈 Usage Statistics

Most of the sites that use WordPress:

Most of the sites using WordPress are from the United States, Germany, and Japan.

  • United States 30.4%
  • Germany 5.8%
  • Japan 5.7%
  • United Kingdom 5.5%
  • France 3.8%
  • Italy 3.6%
  • Spain 3.5%
  • Australia 3.3%
  • Netherlands 3.3%
  • Other 35.1%

Most WordPress users speak English, German, or Spanish.

  • English 52.9%
  • German 6.1%
  • Spanish 5.5%
  • Japanese 5.4%
  • French 4.1%
  • Italian 3.3%
  • Dutch 2.7%
  • Portuguese 2.6%
  • Russian 1.9%
  • Other 15.5%

The WordPress CMS is especially popular on .com and .org top-level domains.

  • .com 45.8%
  • .org 7%
  • .de 3.9%
  • .net 3.3%
  • .com.au 2.3%
  • .it 2.3%
  • .co.uk 2.2%
  • .nl 2.1%
  • .com.br 1.5%
  • Other 29.6%

The primary market segments for websites utilizing WordPress include business, marketing and merchandising, and blogs and wiki.

  • Business 18.5%
  • Marketing/Merchandising 11.8%
  • Blogs/Wiki 11.3%
  • Internet Services 5.6%
  • Education/Reference 5.5%
  • Entertainment 4.7%
  • Online Shopping 4.3%
  • Travel 4.2%
  • Health 3.6%
  • Other 30.5%

🔢 WordPress Versions

The most widespread version of WordPress is 6.7, used by 20.9% of sites where versions were detected. In addition, 18.8% of sites use WordPress 6.4, and 10.7% use WordPress 6.6.

  • 6.7 20.9%
  • 6.4 18.8%
  • 6.6 10.7%
  • 6.8 7.6%
  • 6.5 7.2%
  • 6.3 5.5%
  • 6.1 5.3%
  • 6.2 4.6%
  • 6.0 2.8%
  • Other 16.6%

🕵️ Similar Technologies

These are some of the best WordPress alternatives.

RankNameCompare
2 JoomlaNew York, United States

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3 DrupalPortland, Oregon, United States

A modular open-source content management platform written in PHP.

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4 TYPO3Düsseldorf, Germany

An open-source enterprise content management system written in PHP that supports multisite and multilingual installations and has a large extension repository.

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9 ContaoLyss, Switzerland

An open-source content management system built with PHP, Symfony, and MySQL.

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22 WordPress VIPSan Francisco, California, United States

A fully hosted enterprise solution based on WordPress, designed to support high-traffic websites with enhanced performance, security, and scalability.

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💬 Frequently Asked Questions

What is the company behind WordPress?

WordPress is owned by the WordPress Foundation, headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Can I use WordPress for free?

Yes, it is a free content management system.
It is also an open source solution, and its code is available on wordpress.org.

Which country uses WordPress the most?

The majority of WordPress users are from the United States.

Who uses WordPress?

According to our data, WordPress is used on millions of sites, including such established ones as bitly.com, nypost.com, and wordpress.com.

Is WordPress used on government websites?

Overall, we found WordPress on 304 government sites in the United States.

Do academic institutions use WordPress?

Yes, quite a few! In total, we know of 1,211 academic websites in the United States that use WordPress.

How does WordPress stack up against the competition?

WordPress is the most popular content management system on the market, surpassing all others.

What are the alternatives to WordPress?

Alternatives and possible competitors to WordPress may include Joomla, Drupal, and WordPress VIP.

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