{
    "question": "What percentage of websites use WordPress?",
    "answer": "39.6% of all websites use WordPress, according to W3Techs' crawl of the top 10 million sites on 22 Oct 2026. Among sites where W3Techs can detect a content management system, WordPress has a 58.3% share. The AI app builder Lovable runs 0.3% of all websites, slightly more than Astro or GitHub Pages (0.2% each).",
    "period": "22 Oct 2026",
    "key_numbers": [
        {
            "value": "39.6%",
            "label": "Of all websites use WordPress",
            "note": "W3Techs, 22 Oct 2026",
            "stat": "web-development/websites-using-wordpress"
        },
        {
            "value": "58.3%",
            "label": "WordPress share of sites with a known CMS",
            "note": "W3Techs, 22 Oct 2026",
            "stat": "web-development/websites-using-wordpress"
        },
        {
            "value": "0.3%",
            "label": "Of all websites run on Lovable, an AI app builder",
            "note": "W3Techs, 22 Oct 2026",
            "stat": "web-development/websites-built-with-lovable"
        },
        {
            "value": "69.3%",
            "label": "Of sites with a known server-side language use PHP",
            "note": "W3Techs, 22 Oct 2026",
            "stat": "web-development/websites-using-php"
        }
    ],
    "tables": [
        {
            "id": "cms-share",
            "title": "Website platforms, share of websites on 22 Oct 2026",
            "columns": [
                "Platform",
                "Share of all websites",
                "Share of sites with a known CMS"
            ],
            "rows": [
                [
                    "WordPress",
                    "39.6%",
                    "58.3%"
                ],
                [
                    "Lovable",
                    "0.3%",
                    "0.4%"
                ],
                [
                    "Astro",
                    "0.2%",
                    "not recorded on 22 Oct"
                ],
                [
                    "GitHub Pages",
                    "0.2%",
                    "not recorded on 22 Oct"
                ]
            ],
            "row_ids": [
                "wordpress",
                "lovable",
                "astro",
                "github-pages"
            ],
            "note": "W3Techs crawls the top 10 million websites and updates daily. \"All websites\" includes sites with no detectable CMS; \"known CMS\" counts only sites where W3Techs detects one. For other platforms, see the 30 Oct 2026 table below.",
            "source": "w3techs"
        },
        {
            "id": "platforms-30-oct",
            "title": "Top website platforms, share of websites on 30 Oct 2026",
            "columns": [
                "Platform",
                "Share of all websites",
                "Share of sites with a known CMS"
            ],
            "rows": [
                [
                    "WordPress",
                    "39.5%",
                    "58.2%"
                ],
                [
                    "Shopify",
                    "5.3%",
                    "7.9%"
                ],
                [
                    "Wix",
                    "4.2%",
                    "6.1%"
                ],
                [
                    "Squarespace",
                    "2.4%",
                    "3.6%"
                ],
                [
                    "Joomla",
                    "1.1%",
                    "1.6%"
                ],
                [
                    "Tilda",
                    "0.8%",
                    "1.2%"
                ],
                [
                    "Webflow",
                    "0.8%",
                    "1.2%"
                ],
                [
                    "Duda",
                    "0.7%",
                    "1.1%"
                ],
                [
                    "Drupal",
                    "0.6%",
                    "0.9%"
                ],
                [
                    "GoDaddy Website Builder",
                    "0.6%",
                    "0.9%"
                ],
                [
                    "Lovable",
                    "0.3%",
                    "0.5%"
                ],
                [
                    "Astro",
                    "0.2%",
                    "0.3%"
                ],
                [
                    "GitHub Pages",
                    "0.2%",
                    "0.3%"
                ],
                [
                    "No CMS detected",
                    "32.1%",
                    "not applicable"
                ]
            ],
            "row_ids": [
                "oct30-wordpress",
                "oct30-shopify",
                "oct30-wix",
                "oct30-squarespace",
                "oct30-joomla",
                "oct30-tilda",
                "oct30-webflow",
                "oct30-duda",
                "oct30-drupal",
                "oct30-godaddy",
                "oct30-lovable",
                "oct30-astro",
                "oct30-github-pages",
                "oct30-none"
            ],
            "note": "Read on the W3Techs content management overview on 30 Oct 2026, eight days after the reading used in the answer, so WordPress shows 39.5% and 58.2% here. W3Techs also lists Adobe Systems (0.6%) and Google Systems (0.5%), which are vendor groups rather than single products; they are left out.",
            "source": "w3techs"
        },
        {
            "id": "server-language",
            "title": "Server-side languages, share of sites with a known language, 22 Oct 2026",
            "columns": [
                "Language",
                "Share of sites with a known server-side language"
            ],
            "rows": [
                [
                    "PHP",
                    "69.3%"
                ],
                [
                    "JavaScript",
                    "8.1%"
                ]
            ],
            "row_ids": [
                "php",
                "javascript"
            ],
            "note": "WordPress is written in PHP, so WordPress sites count toward the PHP share. The base is only sites whose server-side language W3Techs knows.",
            "source": "w3techs"
        },
        {
            "id": "history",
            "title": "Share of all websites using each platform, W3Techs, 1 January each year",
            "columns": [
                "Date",
                "WordPress",
                "Shopify",
                "Wix",
                "No CMS detected"
            ],
            "rows": [
                [
                    "1 Jan 2015",
                    "23.3%",
                    "0.3%",
                    "0.1%",
                    "61.7%"
                ],
                [
                    "1 Jan 2016",
                    "25.6%",
                    "0.4%",
                    "0.2%",
                    "56.6%"
                ],
                [
                    "1 Jan 2017",
                    "27.3%",
                    "0.6%",
                    "0.3%",
                    "53.3%"
                ],
                [
                    "1 Jan 2018",
                    "29.2%",
                    "0.9%",
                    "0.4%",
                    "51.3%"
                ],
                [
                    "1 Jan 2019",
                    "32.7%",
                    "1.4%",
                    "1.0%",
                    "45.3%"
                ],
                [
                    "1 Jan 2020",
                    "35.4%",
                    "1.9%",
                    "1.3%",
                    "43.1%"
                ],
                [
                    "1 Jan 2021",
                    "39.5%",
                    "3.2%",
                    "1.5%",
                    "38.3%"
                ],
                [
                    "1 Jan 2022",
                    "43.2%",
                    "4.4%",
                    "1.9%",
                    "33.8%"
                ],
                [
                    "1 Jan 2023",
                    "43.1%",
                    "3.8%",
                    "2.4%",
                    "32.3%"
                ],
                [
                    "1 Jan 2024",
                    "43.1%",
                    "4.1%",
                    "2.6%",
                    "31.4%"
                ],
                [
                    "1 Jan 2025",
                    "43.6%",
                    "4.7%",
                    "3.3%",
                    "29.6%"
                ],
                [
                    "1 Jan 2026",
                    "43.0%",
                    "5.0%",
                    "4.2%",
                    "28.6%"
                ],
                [
                    "30 Oct 2026",
                    "39.5%",
                    "5.3%",
                    "4.2%",
                    "32.1%"
                ]
            ],
            "row_ids": [
                "y2015",
                "y2016",
                "y2017",
                "y2018",
                "y2019",
                "y2020",
                "y2021",
                "y2022",
                "y2023",
                "y2024",
                "y2025",
                "y2026",
                "oct-2026"
            ],
            "note": "W3Techs yearly trends report, read on 30 Oct 2026. Shares of all websites in the crawl, not of sites with a known CMS. W3Techs does not say why the share with no detectable CMS rose in 2026.",
            "source": "w3techs"
        }
    ],
    "sources": [
        {
            "name": "Web Technology Surveys",
            "publisher": "W3Techs (Q-Success)",
            "type": "research",
            "url": "https://w3techs.com/"
        },
        {
            "name": "The State of Small Business Websites in 2025",
            "publisher": "Clutch",
            "type": "vendor",
            "url": "https://clutch.co/"
        }
    ],
    "content_changed_on": "2026-10-30",
    "page_url": "https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/web-development/cms-market-share",
    "csv_url": "https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/web-development/cms-market-share.csv"
}