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WordPress is a free and open-source content management system written in PHP and paired with a MySQL or MariaDB database. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system.

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Every WordPress website we detected in the United States.

Only sites where a personal, company-hosted email was found.

Sites with at least one personnel LinkedIn profile.

Start with the highest-traffic end of the dataset.

Limit results to WordPress websites on .com domains.

Only sites where an organisation phone number was found.

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Versions

Which WordPress versions are most used?

We could read a version number on 72% of WordPress sites. Of those, the most common are WordPress 7, on 5,930,101 sites, WordPress 6, on 4,455,013 sites and WordPress 5, on 802,716 sites.

51% on v7
Versions detected
7
Sites with a version
11,593,376
Share of sites by version
v7 51% v6 38% v5 7% v4 3% v3 <1% v2 <1% v1 <1%

How many websites use WordPress?

We found WordPress on 16,057,311 websites in our September 2026 crawl, across 236 countries.

Which countries use WordPress the most?

By number of websites, the top countries are United States (15%, 2,469,858 sites), Germany (11%, 1,689,235 sites), Japan (8%, 1,224,637 sites), France (6%, 967,217 sites) and United Kingdom (4%, 670,856 sites). Together they account for 44% of the 16,057,311 WordPress sites we track. 39% of the sites are in English, and .com is the most used domain ending, on 43% of them.

Where are WordPress websites hosted?

The networks carrying the most WordPress sites are Cloudflare, Inc. (1,707,039 sites), Hostinger International Limited (1,422,223 sites) and IONOS SE (764,448 sites).

What technologies are used with WordPress?

Across the 16,057,311 WordPress sites we track, the technologies most often found alongside it are PHP (over 99%, 16,039,462 sites), MySQL (over 99%, 16,034,321 sites), jQuery (87%, 13,908,298 sites), jQuery Migrate (74%, 11,834,286 sites) and HTTP/3 (37%, 5,923,209 sites).

Deep Dive

Breakdown of WordPress websites

What else they run, plus their language, hosting network, domain extension and country.

TechnologySites
PHP16,039,462
MySQL16,034,321
jQuery13,908,298
jQuery Migrate11,834,286
HTTP/35,923,209
Yoast SEO5,308,686
Apache HTTP Server5,044,753
Elementor4,767,874
Google Analytics4,579,627
Contact Form 74,334,264
Nginx3,907,217
WordPress Block Editor3,841,114
LiteSpeed3,699,805
Cloudflare3,077,933
imagesLoaded2,821,868
Bootstrap2,714,102
Site Kit2,453,984
reCAPTCHA2,302,136
LiteSpeed Cache2,300,878
WooCommerce2,143,966
HSTS2,137,175
Swiper2,074,286
Google Tag Manager2,053,168
Underscore.js1,765,273
Slider Revolution1,583,122

FAQ

Answers drawn from our latest crawl of WordPress websites. Anything else, email us and we will look it up.

Through our own crawl, which checks each site's HTML, scripts and headers rather than relying on self-reported data.