WordPress on new websites
Open-source PHP and MySQL CMS that powers a large portion of the public web.
- Sites using WordPress
- 740,591
- since Apr 2026
- Last 30 days
- 11.6%
-
of new sites, to Oct 18
-2.5 pts on the 30 days before - Last 7 days
- 11.5%
- of new sites, 7-day average
+0.4 pts on the week before
| In our data since | Apr 2026 |
|---|---|
| Last seen | Oct 19, 2026 |
| Website | wordpress.org |
What we found
- About 1 in 9 websites that went live in the last 30 days were built with WordPress (11.6%).[1]
- It is the most common CMS on new sites, about 70 times as common as the next, Blogger.
- Seven in ten new WordPress sites also use jQuery.
Share of new sites using WordPress
The line is the 7-day average share of new sites that use WordPress, since 10 September.
What WordPress runs on, and what runs on it
PHP
Elementor
41%
WooCommerce
22%
Contact Form 7
15%
Site Kit by Google
12%
Astra
12%
and 3,501 more
Rank Math
11%
Jetpack
6.5%
WordPress.com
4.4%
WP Rocket
3.9%
All in One SEO
3.2%
MonsterInsights
2.9%
Kadence
2.8%
Fluent Forms
2.5%
GeneratePress
2.4%
Blocksy
2.4%
WoodMart
2.3%
Cookie Law Info
2.2%
Redux Framework
2.0%
Flatsome
1.9%
WPForms
1.8%
WPBakery Page Builder
1.4%
Click to Chat
1.4%
Complianz
1.3%
SureCookie
1.3%
Breeze
1.1%
Cocoon
1.0%
Join.chat
1.0%
Batcache
1.0%
OceanWP
0.9%
GTM4WP
0.8%
Gravity Forms
0.7%
Reddit for WooCommerce
0.7%
PixelYourSite
0.7%
Snapchat for WooCommerce
0.7%
LatePoint
0.6%
Kirki
0.6%
EWWW Image Optimizer
0.6%
Mailchimp for WordPress
0.6%
SureForms
0.6%
WP Statistics
0.6%
The Events Calendar
0.6%
Beaver Builder
0.5%
Avada
0.5%
WPML
0.5%
Nextend Social Login
0.4%
WP-Optimize
0.4%
Pagelayer
0.4%
Pojo Accessibility
0.4%
Crocoblock
0.4%
Autoptimize
0.4%
Neve
0.4%
Popup Maker
0.4%
Essential Blocks
0.4%
Qode Interactive
0.4%
WP Smush
0.4%
Showing the next 50 by sites.
Percentages are the all-time share of WordPress sites that also use each one.
Who uses WordPress
| Type | Sites | Share | Bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| E-commerce | 38,969 | 24.0% | |
| Health | 30,934 | 19.1% | |
| Education | 14,673 | 9.1% | |
| Marketing | 13,111 | 8.1% | |
| Content | 12,945 | 8.0% | |
| Finance | 12,162 | 7.5% | |
| Productivity | 8,033 | 5.0% | |
| Games | 7,706 | 4.8% | |
| Social | 6,176 | 3.8% | |
| Developer Tools | 5,718 | 3.5% | |
| Design | 4,424 | 2.7% | |
| Hiring & HR | 2,844 | 1.8% |
| Country | Sites | Share | Bar |
|---|---|---|---|
 UK |
22,649 | 14.7% | |
 France |
22,509 | 14.6% | |
 India |
21,220 | 13.7% | |
 Japan |
18,951 | 12.3% | |
 US |
13,545 | 8.8% | |
 Canada |
7,444 | 4.8% | |
 Australia |
4,835 | 3.1% | |
 Germany |
4,125 | 2.7% | |
 Brazil |
3,666 | 2.4% | |
 Sweden |
3,560 | 2.3% | |
 Italy |
3,078 | 2.0% | |
 Poland |
3,076 | 2.0% |
| Ending | Sites | Share | Bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| .com | 462,817 | 62.7% | |
| .in | 33,518 | 4.5% | |
| .online | 30,011 | 4.1% | |
| .org | 28,769 | 3.9% | |
| .uk | 25,522 | 3.5% | |
| .fr | 22,741 | 3.1% | |
| .site | 14,980 | 2.0% | |
| .net | 14,376 | 2.0% | |
| .ca | 11,185 | 1.5% | |
| .co | 8,349 | 1.1% | |
| .store | 7,868 | 1.1% | |
| .blog | 4,835 | 0.7% |
| Sites | Green | Bar |
|---|---|---|
| WordPress | 68% | |
| All new sites | 47% |
CMS on new sites
Often used with WordPress
| Tool | Sites with both | vs all new sites |
|---|---|---|
jQuery
|
507,611 | 4.9x |
Font Awesome
|
204,508 | 4.2x |
LiteSpeed Web Server
|
180,289 | 3.7x |
Hostinger
|
209,799 | 3.3x |
Tools that turn up far more often on WordPress sites than on new sites in general, and how many times as common each one is there.
Recently launched products built on WordPress
12,205 of the 740,591 sites using WordPress are product launches we list individually. The other 728,386 are new business and personal sites: they count towards the figures above but are not listed here. A watch sends them to you.
Pakistan
Showing the most recent 12 of 12,205.
Watches, exports and the API give you all 740,591 sites using WordPress, 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: Site Builder, Ecommerce.
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 WordPress when we detect WordPress 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