How Many Websites Use wordpress in 2024
- As of 2024, WordPress dominates the web, Bing used by around 810 million websites. WHich for about 43% of all websites world wide.
- They’re about around 500 new WordPress websites per day
- By contrast compare this to Shopify and Squarespace who only 60-80 new sites per day.
- When it comes to the CMS market:Wordpress 43.1% of the website market and 63.1% of the CMS market.
- Daily New Websites by Platform: This graph shows the number of new websites created daily on different platforms. WordPress leads significantly with 500 sites, compared to Shopify and Squarespace.
CMS Market Share: This graph illustrates the market share of CMS platforms. WordPress has a 63.1% share, overshadowing other CMS platforms.
Percentage of Websites that are Built on WordPress in 2024
As you can see WordPress is the clear winner when it comes to being the most popular platform for websites on the web.
This is likely down to functionality combined with the price, especially as WordPress is generally a free platform to get up and running with but has a huge and diverse range of plugins to cater for a kinds of features.
Stats Breakdown
- wordpress 43.1
- shopify 3.9
- wix 2.5
- square space 2.1
- joomla 1.8
- drupal 1.2
- adobe systems 1.1
- Presta Shop 0.8
- Google Systems 0.8
- Bitrix 0.7
- Webfloz 0.6
growth of WordPress over the 10-year period from 2013 to 2023.
Blue Line – Dispayes the Upward Trajectory Growth of WordPress
Red Line – Shows the % Yearly Change
WordPress Growth Statistics:
- 2023: 43.1% (+0.3%)
- 2022: 43.0% (+3.7%)
- 2021: 39.5% (+4.1%)
- 2020: 35.4% (+2.7%)
- 2019: 32.7% (+3.5%)
- 2018: 29.2% (+3.5%)
- 2017: 27.3% (+1.9%)
- 2016: 25.6% (+1.7%)
- 2015: 23.3% (+2.3%)
- 2014: 21% (+2.3%)
- 2013: 17.4% (+3.6%)
Sources: Colorlib,
