How Many Websites Use WordPress (2025 Stats)

As of 2025, WordPress dominates and powers over 43.5% of all websites and maintains a 61.4% market share among CMS platforms.

Whether you’re tracking the number of new WordPress sites created daily or examining its global distribution, WordPress remains a central pillar in the digital world.

Based on the most relevant and latest data, here are some key facts about WordPress usage to keep in mind.

Websites Using WordPress (Top Picks)

WordPress powers 43.5% of all websites worldwide, making it the most widely used CMS.

As of 2025, 61.4% of all websites using a content management system (CMS) are powered by WordPress, reinforcing its leading market share.

Approximately 35,000 new WordPress websites are created daily, meaning over 1 million new sites are built monthly.

68.5% of WordPress websites are inactive, with over 66 million sites falling into this category, which includes redirected or non-functioning sites.

The United States leads the world with 10% of all WordPress websites, followed by Germany (4.4%) and the United Kingdom (3.15%).

WordPress Version 6 is used by 87.5% of all WordPress sites, with Version 6.7 being the most popular subversion, powering 73.5% of these sites.

Elementor is the most popular WordPress page builder, used by 27.7% of all WordPress sites, with WooCommerce being the most popular e-commerce plugin, powering 20.9% of sites.

Percentage Of WordPress Sites

As of 2025, the total number of live WordPress websites is 30,462,105 (approximately 30.46 million).
This means that 31.5% of the total WordPress sites are active.
There are an additional 2,764,872 redirected websites that are not functioning actively.
The number of inactive websites (which includes redirected or inactive sites) is 66,524,301.
As of 2025, 68.5% of the WordPress sites, amounting to 66.52 million, are inactive.

(Source: BuiltWith, 2025)

As of 2025, WordPress powers 61.4% of all websites that use a known content management system (CMS).
WordPress powers 43.5% of all websites.
WordPress Version 6 runs on 38.1% of all websites globally.

Here’s a breakdown of the current WordPress version distribution:

Metric	Value	Version (Percent)
WordPress Sites Using Version 6	434.3 million	87.5%
WordPress Sites Using Version 5	44.1 million	8.9%
WordPress Sites Using Version 4	16.4 million	3.3%
WordPress Sites Using Version 3	1.49 million	0.3%

The most used WordPress subversion is Version 6.7, powering 73.5% of WP 6 sites (about 319.2 million websites).

WordPress 6 Subversion	Percentage of WP 6 Sites	Estimated Websites
Version 6.7	73.5%	319.2 million
Version 6.6	8.1%	35.2 million
Version 6.5	4.9%	21.3 million
Version 6.4	4.5%	19.5 million
Version 6.2	2.8%	12.2 million
Version 6.1	2.4%	10.4 million
Version 6.3	2.0%	8.7 million
Version 6.0	1.9%	8.3 million
Versions 6.8, 6.9, 6.05441413	<0.1%	Less than 434,000

(Source: W3Techs, 2025)

How Many Websites Per Day Are Built With WordPress?

As of 2025, around 35,000 new WordPress websites are being created daily.
This adds up to over 1 million new WordPress sites per month.

Here’s the breakdown of new WordPress websites built per time unit:

Per Hour: Approximately 1,458 new WordPress websites.
Per Minute: Approximately 24 new WordPress websites
Per Second: Approximately 0.41 new WordPress websites (just over 1 website every 2 seconds).

(Source: W3Techs, 2025)

How Many WordPress Websites Are There? (Country Wise Breakdown)

As of 2025, the United States is the leader by a wide margin, contributing 10% of the total WordPress websites.

Germany and the United Kingdom have substantial WordPress adoption, making up around 4% and 3% of the total, respectively.

Here’s a breakdown of the top 10 countries by the number of WordPress sites and their respective percentage share of the total WordPress websites:

Country	Number of WordPress Sites	Percentage of Total WordPress Websites
United States	3,044,641	10.00%
Germany	1,340,734	4.40%
United Kingdom	959,115	3.15%
France	784,767	2.58%
Brazil	761,066	2.49%
Netherlands	611,592	2.01%
Italy	585,780	1.92%
India	543,319	1.79%
Spain	479,757	1.57%
Japan	477,851	1.56%

(Source: BuiltWith, 2025)

WordPress Market Share

As of 2025, WordPress maintains its stronghold in the global content management system (CMS) market, with a consistent market share of 61.4%.
Shopify, which has steadily increased its presence, now holds 6.7% of the CMS market, up from just 0.3% in 2014, reflecting its rapid adoption, particularly in e-commerce.
Wix and Squarespace have also experienced notable growth, reaching 4.6% and 3.2% of the market, respectively.

Here’s a breakdown of the top 10 content management systems by market share in 2025:

CMS	Market Share (%)	Website Usage Percentage
WordPress	61.4%	43.5%
Shopify	6.7%	4.8%
Wix	4.6%	3.6%
Squarespace	3.2%	2.3%
Joomla	2.2%	1.5%
Drupal	1.3%	0.9%
Webflow	1.0%	0.8%
PrestaShop	1.0%	0.8%
Adobe Systems	1.1%	0.7%
Tilda	0.9%	0.6%

(Source: BuiltWith Market Share, BuiltWith Usage, 2025)

Additional Statistics For WordPress

As of 2025, Elementor is the most popular WordPress page builder, used by 27.7% of WP sites (137.3 million websites).
WooCommerce powers 20.9% of all WordPress sites (103.6 million websites), making it the most widely used eCommerce plugin.

Plugin / Tool	Percentage of WordPress Sites	Estimated Websites
Elementor	27.7%	137.3 million
WooCommerce	20.9%	103.6 million
WPBakery	9.5%	47.1 million
Beaver Builder	1.0%	5 million
NextGEN Gallery	0.5%	2.4 million
Divi Builder	0.1%	496,000
Other tools and plugins	36.8%	182.6 million

(Source: W3Techs, 2025)

Google Analytics dominates, being used by 83.1% of WordPress websites for traffic analysis.
0.60% of websites have recently switched away from WordPress to other CMS options.

Here is a breakdown of Websites switching to WordPress: