WordPress is an open-source content management system (CMS) that was first released in May 2003. It happens to be one of the oldest website platforms out there and also the most popular one.
It is the only CMS that fits perfectly to all kinds of web development requirements. Whether you need to build a simple website a business blog or a fully-fledged online shopping store, WordPress is right for the job.
Without further ado, we will now take a look at some interesting WordPress statistics & facts that show just how powerful this content management system actually is.
Statistic
Value
Percentage of websites using WordPress CMS
43.30%
Number of websites built on WordPress
472 million
WordPress market share among CMS
62.80%
Number of WordPress themes available
Over 30,000
Number of WordPress plugins available
More than 70,000
WooCommerce market share (e-commerce platform)
35.96%
The Most Important & Latest WordPress Statistics
1. WordPress commands 43.30% of the internet in 2024, it was 43.20% in 2023. Thus the growth of nearly 0.10%, which is also 0.25% better than the previous year.
Almost two years before now, WordPress had become officially the most favored CMS and now it is stretching the gap from its competitors.
Yes, you heard it right, it is now officially the most favoured content management system out there.
2. If you count only CMS-build sites, 62.8% of them are powered by WordPress – a 4% increase from 2022 (60%)
3. WordPress is used by many top websites, including TED, Sony Music, The New Yorker, TechCrunch, Variety, Microsoft News Center, Bata, and more.
4. Over 60 million websites are hosted on the Custom WordPress Development Services platform.
5. WordPress, launched in 2003, is older than YouTube, Facebook & Twitter.
6. According to KWFinder data, the term ‘WordPress’ was searched nearly 2,740,000 times per month in 2024.
7. The website base of WordPress increased by nearly 0.25% between 2023 and 2024.
8. As per statistics of March 2024, More than 500 new WordPress sites start their journey daily.
9. WordPress monthly visits are 272 million according to Similarweb.
10. Some of the popular WordPress plugins such as WooCommerce get as many as a million installations per week.
11.WordPress also top the list of CMS companies with a global Alexa website ranking of 60.
12. Over 15% of the top 100 websites on the internet are powered by WordPress.
13. As of 2024, WordPress.org has more than 70,000 plugins and over 30,000 themes.
14. It is used by businesses in over 120+ languages, with English being the most popular language for WordPress users.
15. WordPress 6.5 has so far been downloaded 20,497,329 times and counting.
16. WordPress sites around the globe on average receive 17 new posts every second.
17. Over 4.7% of all WordPress-hosted blogs are in Spanish, the second most popular language for WordPress users.
18. Over 13% of all WordPress websites use the WooCommerce plugin. The plugin has been downloaded over 60 million times and installed by 3 million websites worldwide.
19. Over 70.5 million new posts are written on WordPress websites every month.
20. WordPress websites & blogs receive more than 52 million comments each month.
21. “WordPress” is searched more than 37 million times by global users every month, including long-tail keywords.
22. More than 25% of newly registered domains are run with WordPress.
23. With over 75 million active users, This is the most-used content management system in the world.
24. WordPress reportedly receives more monthly visitors than some of the popular sites like Amazon and Twitter.
25. It is the only CMS that has ever reached 100 (in July 2014) in Google Trends’ interest score.
26. This CMS is nearly 12 times more popular than Drupal and 10 times more popular than Joomla.
27. WordPress Theme Directory was launched in 2008 and had 2,500 themes at the time.
28. WordPress v6.0, which was launched in May 2022, is reportedly the most downloaded software in the world, with 78.4% of all websites using it.
29. It is available in two variants – WordPress.com(fully-hosted) and WordPress.org(self-hosted)
30. WordPress plugins have been downloaded over 1.5 billion times already.
31. With only 800+ employees worldwide, WordPress is smaller than most of the popular tech companies in size yet more powerful than many of them.
32. On average, WordPress gets a new major version every 152 days.
33. So far, over 550 different versions of WordPress have been announced.
34. Genesis Framework (15,839 websites), followed by Divi (10,397 websites) and Avada (7,308 websites), is the most popular premium (paid) WordPress theme.
35. ThemeForest is the most famous marketplace for premium themes and plugins. As of 2022, the website had 31,000+ WordPress themes.
36. Akismet, one of the most popular WordPress plugins, has reportedly caught 500 billion spam comments to date.
37. Wednesday happens to be a lucky day for WordPress, as the CMS is said to receive most of its downloads on this day of the week.
38. Over 400 million people visit WordPress sites each month. As per previous statistics, there were 309 million people who visit nearly 21 billion pages every month.
39. It gets a minimum of 1.2 million new domain registrations every 6 months.
40. Yoast SEO, which is a popular plugin for WordPress, boasts 130,801,289 downloads so far, followed by Akismet, which has been downloaded 117 million times.
41. Over 21% of the WordPress code is comments. Out of 394,243 lines of code in WordPress 4.1, 96,924 lines were comments.
42. WordPress has been the most popular CMS for the last 9 consecutive years.
43. Automattic, the company behind WordPress, has an estimated annual revenue of $220.2 million in 2024.
44. Popular WordPress plugins, including Yoast SEO, Contact Form 7, Akismet, Jetpack, etc. each have 5+ million active installations.
45. WordPress plugins were introduced with Version 1.2, while themes were introduced with Version 1.5, both released in 2007.
46. Avada, one of the most popular WordPress themes, has 865,000 sales as of December 2023 and made a revenue of $177,583,220 for the creators.
47. 93% of the most selling themes on ThemeForest are mobile responsive.
48. 600+ new websites are built on the WordPress platform every day.
49. WordPress v4.9, which is arguably the most successful WordPress version of all time, was developed by 443 people, of which 185 were freshers having no previous experience in WordPress development.
51. WordPress.org has witnessed a total of 1,250,000,000+ plugin downloads so far.
52. More than 25% of WordPress users (bloggers, businessmen, entrepreneurs, etc.) make a full-time income from the platform.
53. WordPress is free to use. Hosting a professional WordPress website, along with a domain name, will cost you not more than $70 a year.
54. Of the top 1 million online stores, over 36% are powered by WooCommerce.
55. WordPress websites with outdated versions are more likely to get hacked. Of all the WordPress sites that were hacked in 2023, almost 60% were outdated.
56. Being popular has its own drawbacks. Of all the websites that are hacked, over 70% are based on WordPress.
57. The average annual salary of a WordPress developer ranges from $44,000 to $87,000, depending on the experience of the developer.
58. It also holds the record for most files uploaded in a single month. In December 2023, over 100 million files were uploaded by different WordPress website owners.
59. As of 2024, over 90% of WordPress websites have HTTPS enabled, which is higher than the previous years.
60. WordCamps are the unofficial conferences organized by the WordPress community to discuss everything related to the CMS.
61. WordCamps are held all over the world. In 2018, nearly 139 WordCamps were organized in different parts of the globe.
62. Freelance WordPress developers usually earn in the range of $10 to $300 per hour.
63. WordPress has nearly 76.5 million websites, with 50,000 new sites being created daily.
64. It has been built with PHP and MySQL databases. It took over 70+ developers to build the WordPress core.
65. Employees at WordPress get an average salary of $66,775, according to data by SimplyHired.
66. $1,000 is the average cost paid by people for a fully functioning WordPress website.
67. The cost of developing a custom website in WordPress may range between $1,000 – $100,000.
68. WordPress (a fully-hosted platform) has blogs in more than 120 languages, of which 71% are in English.
69. “Kubrick” and “Classic” are two of the oldest and most popular WordPress themes.
70. WordPress is one of the easiest-to-use platforms. It roughly takes 5 minutes to install.
71. There are over 2 million topics on the official WordPress support forum.
72. WordPress was launched in 2005 as a free blogging platform on the WordPress.org software. It continues to offer free hosting to websites and blogs worldwide.
73. According to CodeInWP, in 2023, the average price of a premium WordPress theme is $57.54.
74. It supports almost every web host out there, which means you can install and use it with any hosting provider.
75. WordPress is platform-independent. In addition to offering most of its themes in the responsive format, it also has native apps for almost all major platforms, including iOS and Android.
76. Each of the top 30 plugins in the WordPress official directory has been installed more than 1 million times.
77. The Jetpack WordPress plugin has been downloaded 93 million times and counting.
78. WordPress is preferred even by Google. The website ranks higher than most of its competitors for all related search engine queries.
79. 62.26% of the top 1 million websites in the world use a content management system, of which 51% use WordPress.
80. WordPress is preferred and recommended by over 50% of CMS users and web designers.
81. WordPress has been translated into 180 different languages so far, including many local languages.
82. Each of its versions is named after a popular Jazz musician. The very first WordPress version – 1.0 aptly – was named after jazz singer Miles Dewey Davis III.
83. Out of all WordPress offerings, plugins are the most prone to vulnerabilities such as hacking, especially outdated plugins.
84. Gravity Forms, Timthumbs, and Revslider are the top 3 most hacked WordPress plugins.
85. It is open-source and freely available for download and use for any personal/professional purpose.
86. By the end of 2023, WordPress is expected to occupy a 64.2% share of the web.
Some more Interesting Facts and Statistics about WordPress
87. In 2024, Automattic had to shut down its San Francisco office because most of its 550 employees were working remotely.
88. With WordPress, you have multiple options to make money even if you don’t want to work with clients. These include blogging, theme and plugin development & sales, advertising, etc.
89. The name WordPress was reportedly suggested by Christine Selleck Tremoulet, a friend of Matt Mullenweg (co-founder of WordPress).
90. Wappu, the official mascot of WordPress, was created by Japanese community members.
91. WordPress is owned by Automatic and managed by the WordPress Foundation, a non-profit organization.
92. WordPress was used by a popular TV show to create a mockup of a missile guidance system.
93. WordPress doesn’t have a CEO. Matt Mullenweg is the CEO of Automattic, the company behind it.
94. Despite it being completely free to update WordPress, most of the site owners (over 60%) still run an older version.
95. WordPress-based products and services make a multi-billion dollar economy.
96. The new Gutenberg editor introduced with WordPress version 5.0 has been named after Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press in the 15th century.
97. In 2016, WordPress plugin downloads surpassed 1.48 billion, a 48% growth since 2015.
98. The official watermark logo of WordPress was introduced in 2005, two years after the launch of the CMS.
99. WordPress is used by government websites as well as the websites of many reputed colleges & universities all around the world.
100. Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress, was only 19 years old when he launched the CMS.
101. 20% of the WordPress core code is written in JavaScript.
102. Gutenberg, the new editor which replaced the classic editor is named after Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of a printing press with movable type more than 500 years ago.
103. As per statistics of Jan-2021, 281 new WooCommerce-powered online shops start on average each day.
104. WordPress.org hosts more than 50,000 plugins and over 3,500 GPL-licensed themes.
105. From WordPress version 5.8 onwards, you can upload and use WebP images just as you would a JPEG or PNG image today
Conclusion
From all the things you have read so far in this article, one thing is clear – WordPress is the best of all the content management systems out there.
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