Kadence on new websites
WordPress theme and Gutenberg block plugin suite for building sites.
- Sites using Kadence
- 20,958
- since May 2026
- Last 30 days
- 0.3%
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of new sites, to Oct 18
-0.1 pts on the 30 days before - Last 7 days
- 0.4%
- of new sites, 7-day average
+0.1 pts on the week before
| First seen | May 26, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Last seen | Oct 19, 2026 |
| Website | kadencewp.com |
What we found
- About 1 in 290 websites that went live in the last 30 days use Kadence (0.3%).[1]
- It is unusually common on .fr domains: 4.2% of the domains running it, against 1.9% of domains across new sites.
Share of new sites using Kadence
The line is the 7-day average share of new sites that use Kadence, since 10 September.
What Kadence runs on
WordPress
PHP
Who uses Kadence
| Type | Sites | Share | Bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| E-commerce | 1,046 | 21.8% | |
| Health | 934 | 19.5% | |
| Education | 507 | 10.6% | |
| Content | 406 | 8.5% | |
| Finance | 364 | 7.6% | |
| Marketing | 298 | 6.2% | |
| Games | 297 | 6.2% | |
| Productivity | 245 | 5.1% | |
| Social | 183 | 3.8% | |
| Developer Tools | 145 | 3.0% | |
| Design | 135 | 2.8% | |
| AI | 71 | 1.5% |
| Country | Sites | Share | Bar |
|---|---|---|---|
 France |
1,052 | 28.1% | |
 UK |
617 | 16.5% | |
 US |
367 | 9.8% | |
 India |
310 | 8.3% | |
 Canada |
189 | 5.1% | |
 Australia |
120 | 3.2% | |
 Germany |
101 | 2.7% | |
 Sweden |
98 | 2.6% | |
 Poland |
92 | 2.5% | |
 Switzerland |
82 | 2.2% | |
 Japan |
75 | 2.0% | |
 South Korea |
69 | 1.8% |
| Ending | Sites | Share | Bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| .com | 14,600 | 69.7% | |
| .fr | 1,057 | 5.1% | |
| .org | 685 | 3.3% | |
| .uk | 669 | 3.2% | |
| .in | 498 | 2.4% | |
| .net | 441 | 2.1% | |
| .online | 389 | 1.9% | |
| .ca | 312 | 1.5% | |
| .co | 254 | 1.2% | |
| .site | 204 | 1.0% | |
| .us | 154 | 0.7% | |
| .ch | 124 | 0.6% |
| Sites | Green | Bar |
|---|---|---|
| Kadence | 89% | |
| All new sites | 47% |
Wordpress Plugin on new sites
| # | Movement | Tool | Share of category[4] | Bar | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | – |
Elementor
|
51.8% | ||
| 2 | ▲1 |
Contact Form 7
|
19.3% | ||
| 3 | ▼1 |
Elementor Pro
|
19.3% | ||
| 4 | ▲1 |
Yoast
|
17.1% | ||
| 5 | ▼1 |
Site Kit by Google
|
15.1% | ||
| … | |||||
| 14 | ▲3 |
Kadence
|
3.6% | ||
All-time shares across the new sites we track: of all of them, and of the sites using any Wordpress Plugin tool. Among September launches it ranked #12 in Wordpress Plugin, up from #15 in August. All 1993 in Wordpress Plugin
Often used with Kadence
| Tool | Sites with both | vs all new sites |
|---|---|---|
Rank Math
|
6,362 | 22x |
LiteSpeed Web Server
|
6,306 | 4.5x |
Hostinger
|
7,498 | 4.2x |
jQuery
|
9,148 | 3.1x |
Tools that turn up far more often on Kadence sites than on new sites in general, and how many times as common each one is there.
Recently launched products built on Kadence
595 of the 20,958 sites using Kadence are product launches we list individually. The other 20,363 are new business and personal sites: they count towards the figures above but are not listed here. A watch sends them to you.
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Contexta
softenius.com
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CineHD APP
icinehd.com
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Insta Pro APK
proinstaapk.com
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MT SPORTS
mt-sports.co.uk
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PCSX2 BIOS
pcsx2bios.online
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The Non-Tech AI
thenontechai.com
Showing the most recent 12 of 595.
Watches, exports and the API give you all 20,958 sites using Kadence, from £15 a month.
Notes
- These figures cover websites that went live since April 2026, not the web as a whole.
- Country comes from what each site says about itself, such as a company registration, legal terms or a phone number, not just its domain ending. Too few sites state their country plainly for the usual count, so this one also counts single signals: a country domain ending, a phone number (for North America, its area code), a location the site declares in its own page metadata, or a country-specific vendor stack and the page language where they agree and nothing contradicts them. Read these as likely rather than certain.
- Green hosting is the share whose web host The Green Web Foundation lists as running on green energy, among sites checked since 1 April 2026, against the same share for every new site we checked over that time. Data from The Green Web Foundation.
- Some products people expect to see here are filed under a related category: Wordpress Theme.
How this page is made
FirstSited looks at each new website near the day it goes live and records what it was built with. We do not go back later, so these figures describe what sites launch with, not what they run today. A site counts towards Kadence when we detect Kadence on it at that look.
Every share on this page is a proportion of the new sites we were tracking at the time. Sites we found across the wider web count towards the figures, but only product launches are listed by name. How we detect technologies · How we find new sites