If you’re still not convinced that WordPress is the most popular content management system in the world, here’s a list of the most interesting statistics about WordPress. Let’s get straight to those statistics:
17 Facts About WordPress That Will Amaze You
1. WordPress powers about 43% of all websites on the internet
A staggering statistic – WordPress, which was once a humble blogging platform, now powers about 42.6% of all websites on the internet according to W3Techs.
The reason for this success is the unbeatable versatility of WordPress which allows it to spread across a wide variety of platforms, from personal blogs to small business sites to Fortune 500 sites such as Sony Music, MTV, and Forbes’ own blog.
CMS Market Share - % of All Websites (Feb 2026)
Source: W3Techs, February 2026
WordPress leaves dust for other content management systems and enjoys a CMS market share of about 60%. The second platform in the ranking is Shopify with about 7%, followed by Wix at 6%. Traditional CMS platforms like Joomla have dropped to just 1.3%.
2. Users create 41.7M posts and 60.5M comments every month
That’s about 1,390,000 new posts every day, 57,916 every hour, and 965 every minute! Assuming an average post is about 300 words, we are talking about nearly 300,000 words written every minute of using WordPress.
Overall, the WordPress.com network welcomes more than 409 million people viewing more than 15.5 billion pages each month. Our users publish about 41.7 million new posts and leave 60.5 million new comments each month.
3. About 132 million spam comments are received on WordPress sites every month
Statistics from Akismet show that the number of spam comments generated in one month is four times the number of legitimate comments. In other words, WordPress is bombarded by 132 million spammers. Fortunately, Akismet succeeds in identifying 99.9 percent of those spam comments. Below is the number of spam comments blocked so far.
If you’re interested in knowing how to prevent spam, take a look at the post How to Prevent Spam on WordPress Sites Using the Akismet Plugin (relevant for both CF7 forms and for WordPress site comments).
4. More than 1.1M domains are registered for WordPress every 6 months
A survey conducted last year on global use of Content Management Systems (CMS) reveals that WordPress is responsible for about 1.1 million new domain names every six months or so. It seems that users really love the ease and convenience with which they can show an online presence through this system.
5. The word ‘WordPress’ is searched about 2,740,000 times every month
The tool KWFinder, which is a quite reliable tool for analyzing search phrases, shows that the word “WordPress” is searched by nearly 3M people worldwide every month. You can imagine what the number of searches would reach if we also add long-tail keywords containing the word WordPress to this number.
6. WordPress Meetups span dozens of countries
Meetups are small events organized by the local community under the umbrella of WordPress. These events take place regularly across Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia-Pacific, bringing together thousands of developers, designers, and site owners.
7. To date, there have been more than 1,200 WordCamps
WordCamps are local conferences where discussions about all things WordPress and future innovations of this content management system take place. The first WordCamp was organized in San Francisco by Matt Mullenweg in 2006, and since then, over 1,200 conferences have been held around the world.
8. Over 56% of WordPress sites run in a language other than English
WordPress is available in about 200 locales, with over 56% of all WordPress sites running in a language other than English. Japanese is the second most used language (5.8%), followed by Spanish, German, French, and Brazilian Portuguese.
Take a look at the guide on how to create a bilingual WordPress site using Polylang.
9. WordPress gets more visits than eBay
With about 131 million monthly visits (Uniques), the domain WordPress.com gets more visits than the domain of ebay.com which enjoys “only” about 122 million visits (Uniques Visitors) per month as noted by Automattic.
| Monthly Visits (Us) | Number of Employees | |
|---|---|---|
| Google.com | 242M | 89,058 |
| Facebook.com | 210M | 30,275 |
| Amazon.com | 199M | 575,700 |
| Twitter.com | 152M | 3,500 |
| WordPress.com | 147M | 814 |
| eBay.com | 104M | 14,100 |
10. Automattic runs WordPress.com with about 1,500 employees
In the table from the previous section, you can see the number of employees at Automattic compared to other companies. It’s remarkable to see where WordPress has managed to reach with about 1,500 employees spread across 81 countries, all working entirely remotely.
11. About 6 new posts are created every second
If you take a look at the activity on WordPress.com, you’ll discover that bloggers around the world create roughly six new posts every second. That page also shows that about 71% of all content on WordPress is written in English. Spanish is in second place with 4.7% and Indonesian in third with about 2.4%.
12. The average annual salary of a WordPress developer is about $66,000
Statistics from PayScale.com reveal that an average WordPress developer earns about $66,000 a year, with senior developers earning well over $100,000. And what about you?
13. There are over 60,000 plugins for WordPress
The plugin library currently contains over 60,000 plugins with over 2 billion downloads. Surely WordPress needs to remove some plugins that are no longer in use or have become obsolete. In any case, be sure that in most cases where you encounter a problem or want to achieve some functionality – you will find that there is a plugin offering a solution.
14. WordPress 6.8 was downloaded over 79 million times
WordPress 6.8 achieved over 79.5 million downloads, a 13% increase over the previous version, with 921 contributors – the largest contributor group yet.
15. A significant portion of WordPress installations run outdated versions
Although WordPress encourages users to upgrade to the latest version, a substantial number of installations still run older versions. All those users who hesitate to upgrade their site are risking breaches and theft of user information.
If you are among those people, take a look at the guide to securing WordPress sites which might raise your awareness of existing security risks as well as ways to block these risks and prevent breaches.
16. WordPress saves about 80% – 90% from Google’s scanning problems
Matt Cutts once said that sites built with WordPress could potentially rank higher because this content management system makes it easier for search engines to scan the site and saves about 80% – 90% of scanning problems that exist in other sites because of the way it is built. The bottom line is that WordPress is SEO friendly.
17. There is a WordPress theme that has brought in over $12M in sales
The most popular and best-selling theme on ThemeForest is Avada. The price of this theme is $69, and it has been sold over 950,000 copies, making it one of the highest-grossing digital products on the Envato marketplace.
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Summary
These statistics paint a clear picture: WordPress is not just a CMS – it is the backbone of the modern web. Powering over 42% of all websites, with a massive ecosystem of 60,000+ plugins and a global community of contributors, WordPress continues to dominate despite growing competition from platforms like Shopify and Wix.
Whether you are a developer, business owner, or content creator, understanding the scale and reach of WordPress helps put its ecosystem in perspective. The numbers speak for themselves – no other platform comes close.
