---
title: "WordPress stats"
date: 2026-07-09
author: "Casey Burridge"
link: "https://www.gravitykit.com/wordpress-statistics/"
---

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# WordPress data & statistics 2026

How much of the web runs on WordPress, how that share is changing, and what actually powers WordPress sites, measured with first-party HTTP Archive data and refreshed every quarter.

Primary source: HTTP Archive

Refreshed quarterly

![Casey Burridge](https://gravitykit.setupwp.io/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/casey-56x56.jpg)
*by*[Casey Burridge](https://www.gravitykit.com/author/casey/)

## WordPress stats at a glance

**33.2%**

Of all measurable web origins run WordPress

Source: HTTP Archive, April 2026

**35.8%**

WordPress's peak share, reached in July 2022 (now 33.21%)

Source: HTTP Archive

**~64%**

Of all sites with a detectable CMS run WordPress

Source: HTTP Archive, April 2026

**32.7%**

Of WordPress sites are built with Elementor, the top page builder

Source: HTTP Archive, April 2026

### Quick facts

- **WordPress runs 33.21% of all measurable web origins** as of April 2026, and about 64% of all sites that use a detectable CMS, more than every other CMS combined. ([Source](https://www.gravitykit.com/wordpress-market-share-2026/))
- **WordPress peaked at 35.76% in July 2022** and has declined 2.55 percentage points since, roughly a 7% relative drop over four years. ([Source](https://www.gravitykit.com/wordpress-market-share-2026/))
- **Elementor is the most-used WordPress page builder**, detected on 32.67% of WordPress sites, followed by wpBakery at 8.52%. ([Source](https://www.gravitykit.com/wordpress-page-builder-market-share-2026/))
- **Shopify is the second-biggest CMS at 4.74%**, the only platform gaining share at scale (up 12.4% year over year), and it absorbed roughly 59% of the share WordPress lost this year. ([Source](https://www.gravitykit.com/wordpress-market-share-2026/))
- **Nearly half of the measurable web (48.3%) runs no detectable CMS at all**, including static sites, headless builds, and hand-coded pages, up from 46.75% in mid-2024. ([Source](https://www.gravitykit.com/wordpress-market-share-2026/))

## Key questions, answered by the data

The questions people ask most about WordPress's position on the web, answered with April 2026 HTTP Archive data.

### Is WordPress losing market share?

Slowly. WordPress reached an all-time high of 35.76% in July 2022 and has eased to 33.21% as of April 2026, down 2.55 percentage points, or about 7% in relative terms, over four years. It's still the most-used CMS by a wide margin: the next platform, Shopify, sits at just 4.74%.

[Read the Full Study](https://www.gravitykit.com/wordpress-market-share-2026/)![WordPress share of the measurable web from 2020 to 2026 — peaked at 35.76% in July 2022, currently 33.21% in April 2026](https://www.gravitykit.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/03-wordpress-trajectory-1024x559.png)
*!*[Most popular CMSes by share of the measurable web, April 2026 — donut chart with WordPress 33.21%, No CMS detected 47.99%, Shopify 4.74%, Other CMSes 7.10%, plus six smaller named slices](https://www.gravitykit.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/01-cms-pie-924x1024.png)

### How does WordPress compare to other CMSs?

It's not close. WordPress (33.21%) is more than seven times the size of the next CMS, Shopify (4.74%), and larger than every other detected CMS combined, about 64% of all sites that use a detectable CMS. Wix (2.21%), Squarespace (1.13%), and Webflow (0.73%) trail well behind.

[Read the Full Study](https://www.gravitykit.com/wordpress-market-share-2026/)

### Which WordPress page builder leads?

Elementor, by a wide margin. It's detected on 32.67% of WordPress sites as of April 2026, up 2.51 points year over year, while the next installed builder, wpBakery, has slipped to 8.52%. Divi holds steady at 5.72%, and Bricks is the fastest riser, up 71.2% year over year off a small base.

[Read the Full Study](https://www.gravitykit.com/wordpress-page-builder-market-share-2026/)![WordPress page builders by share of WordPress sites, April 2026 — top 11 listed in descending order from Elementor at 32.67%](https://www.gravitykit.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/01-page-builders-share-2026-3-1024x717.png)
![WooCommerce and Shopify share, whole web vs the top 1M sites, May 2026](https://www.gravitykit.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/03-two-webs-1024x551.png)

### How does WooCommerce compare to Shopify?
On the web as a whole, WooCommerce leads: it runs 6.64% of measurable sites to Shopify's 4.76%. But it's a tale of two webs. Among the most popular sites (HTTP Archive's top-1M popularity tier), Shopify overtakes WooCommerce, 6.08% to 3.12%, and it's the only large ecommerce platform still growing. WooCommerce wins on breadth; Shopify wins the top tier.

[Read the Full Study](https://www.gravitykit.com/ecommerce-platform-market-share-2026/)

## WordPress vs other platforms

| Platform | Share of measurable web | YoY change |

|---|---|---|
| WordPress | 33.21% | −0.93 pp |
| Shopify | 4.74% | +0.57 pp |
| Wix | 2.21% | +0.02 pp |
| Drupal | 1.14% | −0.13 pp |
| Joomla | 1.14% | −0.18 pp |
| Squarespace | 1.13% | +0.03 pp |
| Webflow | 0.73% | +0.05 pp |

## WordPress page builders by market share

| Page builder | Share of WordPress sites | YoY change |
|---|---|---|
| Elementor | 32.67% | +2.51 pp |
| WordPress Block Editor\* | 20.62% | +1.04 pp |
| wpBakery | 8.52% | −1.22 pp |
| Divi | 5.72% | +0.06 pp |
| WordPress Site Editor\* | 1.67% | +0.52 pp |
| Beaver Builder | 1.11% | −0.05 pp |
| SiteOrigin Page Builder | 0.76% | −0.12 pp |
| Oxygen | 0.44% | +0.00 pp |
| Bricks | 0.34% | +0.15 pp |
| Themify Builder | 0.22% | −0.01 pp |
| Thrive Architect | 0.17% | −0.05 pp |

## eCommerce platforms by market share

| Rank | Platform | Share of the measurable web | Share of named platforms |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | WooCommerce | 6.64% | 39.0% |
| 2 | Shopify | 4.76% | 27.9% |
| 3 | Wix eCommerce | 1.48% | 8.7% |
| 4 | Squarespace Commerce | 1.12% | 6.6% |
| 5 | PrestaShop | 0.60% | 3.5% |
| 6 | 1C-Bitrix | 0.57% | 3.4% |
| 7 | Magento / Adobe Commerce | 0.38% | 2.2% |
| 8 | OpenCart | 0.24% | 1.4% |
| 9 | Tiendanube | 0.20% | 1.2% |
| 10 | Nuvemshop | 0.15% | 0.9% |
| 11 | BigCommerce | 0.14% | 0.8% |

## Methodology

- **Primary data source:** the HTTP Archive public dataset, which crawls the ~8.9 million origins in the Chrome UX Report and detects technologies via a Wappalyzer-based fingerprint.
- **What "market share" means here:** the % of *all measurable web origins* (the denominator includes sites with no detected CMS). This is why our 33.21% differs from W3Techs' ~43% figure, which uses a different denominator — both are correct for what they measure.
- **Sample & scope:** mobile origins, deduplicated by site. Detection has known limits (custom/obfuscated stacks under-report).
- **Freshness:** headline figures refreshed quarterly; each figure is dated inline. Last updated June 2026.
- **Cross-reference:** W3Techs and BuiltWith are linked for context where their methodology differs.

![](https://www.gravitykit.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/99d17629e3770875158abec53103af0c143b736c-1-1.png)

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