When it comes to the best blog sites, WordPress ranks on the top of the list.
Having started its journey in 2003, it is now the favored option of webmasters to create any kind of Website.
While other builders such as Wix and Squarespace are quickly gaining popularity, WordPress still remains the best website builder out there, and shows no signs of slowing down. With more businesses realizing how blogging and content generation can help them grow their businesses and with WordPress being the best platform for blogging, it is likely that WordPress popularity will actually accelerate.
It has the power to give you complete control over your website, and you can even develop a fully blown online store with the help of various eCommerce Plugins. Your can also choose from a number of WordPress Security Plugins to monitor and protect your site from hackers. Even the best web design company trusts the platform for fulfilling their client's website needs.
In this post, we have created an infographic of all the WordPress Statistics you need to know. You can find stats related to the following categories:
- WordPress Usage
- Growth of WordPress
- WordPress Themes
- WordPress Plugins
- WordPress Security
- WordPress.com
- WordPress Jobs
- WordPress Community
- WordPress Camps (2011-2015)
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WordPress Usage Statistics
WordPress is the most reliable CMS (Content Management System) for anyone looking to build a website with ease. The reason behind its success is the unparalleled versatility it offers. That, along with the freedom of customization, makes WordPress the ideal choice of blog owners, small business websites, and even Fortune 500 companies such as Sony and Walt Disney.
Here, let’s take a look at some WordPress usage statistics that illustrates its popularity. And don't forget to check out our list of notable companies that use WordPress as their primary CMS.
- WordPress owns over 60% of the share in the global CMS market.
- WordPress now powers 35% of the World Wide Web – or more than 51.9 million websites.
- Over 500 sites are included daily in the WordPress database.
- Out of every 100 U.S-based domains registered, 22 of them are running on WordPress
- Users publish at least 17 posts each second on the popular CMS system.
- Out of the top 100k websites, roughly 22,111 are powered using WordPress.
- It hosts 14.7% of the top 100 websites in the world.
- Similarly, other WordPress statistics show more than 15k websites out of the top 10k sites use W.P. as their preferred CMS.
- WordPress manages over 355,000 websites from the top 1 million sites.
- Reports by Technorati show 48% of the top 100 blogs hosted by the WordPress CMS.
- The term ‘WordPress’ is searched around 2.8 million times every month on Google.
- Globally, it earns over 37 million searches per month.
- In 2014, the non-English version of WordPress surpassed the English downloads, indicating its acceptance in the global market.
- When it comes to competing CMS, WordPress is 12 times more preferred than Drupal.
- As per the 2014 W.P. stats, WordPress is preferred by 50.07% users while Drupal and Joomla accumulate around 17.07% and 6.44% websites, respectively.
Growth of WordPress
WordPress has seen unprecedented growth since its official release. And the stakeholders continue to upgrade the system by introducing new versions of W.P. every 152 days.
- There are 36 major versions of WordPress.
- The most recent version of WordPress is 5.4.2 – released in June 2020.
- WordPress version 5.2, released in May 2019, is downloaded 37 million times.
- WordPress version 4.1 comes with 394,243 lines of code.
- 21% of WordPress codes comprise of comments.
- WordPress usage statistics show the latest version being used by 21% of the consumer base.
- Version 5X is used by 69.8% of W.P. consumers, while WordPress 4X supports 28.3% of websites.
- Version 3 and version 2 of WordPress are utilized by 1.6% and 0.3%, respectively.
WordPress milestones:
WordPress version 1.2 was released in May 2004. Plugins were introduced along with the update.
Version 1.3 included localization.
Version 1.5 of WordPress was introduced in 2005. The version included an entirely new theme system as well as a dashboard, making it easy to build websites.
Version 5.0 was released in 2018. It included the intuitive and flexible block editor – Gutenberg.
WordPress Theme Statistics
WordPress themes are designed to give your site an overall new look. They are available in both – paid and free versions, enabling the site owners to customize their website with a single click.
- According to WordPress statistics of 2014, W.P. boasted around 123 million themes.
- On average, a premium WordPress theme can cost you about $49.
- Divi, Avada by ThemeForest, and Genesis are the three most popular paid themes of WordPress.
- Among the top 10 most popular free themes on WordPress.org, only four come from third-party developers.
- There are more than 11,000 WordPress themes on ThemeForest.
- Avada, X 7, and Enfold are the top three-selling themes by ThemeForest.
- 50% of all themes on WordPress ThemeForest have grossed revenue of at least $1,000 in a month while the other 50% have managed more than $2,500 per month.
- 7% of the themes by ThemeForest earned a whopping $7,500 per month.
WordPress Statistics - Plugins
WordPress plugins are often added to W.P. sites to enhance their functionality. The plugins range in their roles and include security, eCommerce, spam control, caching, SEO, and data import/export. Here are some interesting statistics on WordPress plugins you should know about.
The official WordPress.org directory contains over 55,000 plugins.
The plugins have received 1.5 billion downloads – and are still going strong.
WooCommerce has more than 30 million downloads.
The most popular and the most downloaded plugins in the WordPress directory include: Jetpack (159 million), Akismet (150 million), WooCommerce (82.3 million), W.P. Super Cache (31.3 million), and Hello Dolly with roughly 5.6 million downloads.
There are over 6,000 premium plugins in the CodeCanyon directory.
WordPress Security Statistics
Due to its popularity, WordPress is often a target of hackers and ‘bad actors.’ However, you can ensure the protection of your website by following the best WordPress security practices and integrating a web application firewall.
According to WordFence, around 90,000 attacks target a WordPress website every minute.
An analysis of 8,000 websites shows 74% to be built on WordPress.
A weak password is a culprit in 8% of the hacked WordPress sites.
Around 4,000 WordPress websites are infected from malware present in fake SEO plugins.
61% of attacked websites are outdated.
As per Alexa, about 30.95% of the top 1 million sites are running on the vulnerable WordPress version 3.6.
The four leading causes of WordPress vulnerabilities include Plugins (52%), Cross-site scripting issues (39%), Core files (37%), and Themes (11%).
- According to report by Sucuri, WordPress is 90% more likely to be hacked compared to other CMS.
WordPress.com Statistics
WordPress.com offers the most simple and easy way to create a website or blog. Check out the statistics that show the platform’s growth over the years.
Over 50,000 websites are launched through the WordPress.com platform each day.
There are over 2 million theme switches on the platform each month.
There are 76.5 million blogs on WordPress.com – and the numbers are growing each day.
WordPress.com receives 181 million views each month – ranking as the fourth most viewed platform.
more than 409 million internet users view 21.3 billion pages each month on WordPress.com
Each month over 12 million new pages, 35 million file uploads, 70 million posts, and 77 million comments are added to the WordPress sites.
The platform receives over 27,000 support requests every month.
WordPress.com supports 120 languages. However, English remains to be dominant, with 71% of blogs available in the language.
5.1% of blogs on WordPress.com are written in Spanish.
24.7 million Blogs are uploaded monthly on the WordPress.com database.
WordPress.com gets more unique visits than Amazon each month.
Flickr, YouTube, and Photo Bucket are the most embedded services on the self-publishing platform.
WordPress Jobs
WordPress opens up a multitude of revenue-generating opportunities for developers, graphic designers, writers, and freelancers. However, the service itself has only 992 employees.
An entry-level WordPress web developer earns around $44,000 income while those occupying advanced skills can earn more than $73,910.
WordPress was the most-wanted skill in 2014.
According to the survey by the State of Word, 25% of the participants make a living from WordPress.
Around 90% of the survey participants admitted to making more than one site on WordPress. They also claimed to spend 200 hours building a website on each.
A WordPress full-site design costs approximately $1,000, while a customized website can range up to $100,000.
According to Freelancer.com, over 243,161 WordPress projects were completed in 2015.
The most successful Envato Power Elite author has sold over 100,000 copies of one theme alone.
Facebook sees 27% more monthly views than WordPress.com. However, they also hire 34 times more staff.
WordPress Community
The official community of WordPress encompasses unique and passionate individuals from all over the world. The community is also a great place to learn, share, and troubleshoot with like minded individuals.
The community hosts more than 1078 Word Camps in 76 cities of the world.
The first camp was hosted in San Francisco, California, on August 5, 2006.
There were 126 official Word Camps held in the year 2017, while 1,654 meetups took place.
There are more than 779,000 active members of the WordPress community.
If you are looking for one, there are 66 countries and 535 cities hosting WordPress meetup groups.
The official support forum sees over 2,030,000 topics.
In the WordPress Camps held between 2011 and 2015, there were 6,000 speakers and around 7,500 sessions. These camps were held in both – the USA and outside with over 3,100 sponsors. Ninety thousand tickets were sold for the session.
If you're interested in creating your own WordPress website, there are plenty of resources available online to help you get started. For instance, you can check out this guide on how to make a WordPress website.
Thanks for sharing such detailed information about WordPress statistics and it’s really helpful for everyone out there willing to start new blog thanks for such awesome information I really appreciate your help
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Ashish Sharma
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Thanks for providing an in-depth article about WordPress and relevant metrics. I see that 39% of the worldwide sites use WordPress. But I didn’t know the rest of the stats. Having 55k plugins in the repository is very nice and useful. I really like your article.
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Thanks a lot to let me know detailed information about WordPress Statistics. So helpful.