WordPress Market Share Statistics (2011-2024)
When you’re looking to create a website, you’re likely to encounter lots of talk about several content management systems, including WordPress. This may leave you wondering—just how much of the market share does WordPress dominate? And how does it compare to its various competitors?
And to show you where those conclusions came from, we’ve collected some mind-boggling statistics about WordPress’ market share, as well as the market share of two of the most popular ecommerce plugins for WordPress – WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads.
According to W3Techs, WordPress powers 43.5% of all the websites on the Internet, including those without a content management system (CMS) or with a custom-coded CMS. Or, to put it another way, WordPress powers over one-third of the web! And if you limit the data set to only websites with a known CMS, WordPress’ market share becomes even more dominant.
In that case, WordPress holds a 62.7% market share for content management systems on websites with a known CMS. How does that compare to the market share of other popular content management systems? Let’s take a peek:
