When searching the internet to help explain to others why we love using WordPress to develop new business websites, CITS found this excellent article from Kinsta:

Wild and Interesting WordPress Statistics and Facts (2021)

Our favorite facts to share –

WordPress is the world’s most popular content management system powering 34% of all websites on the internet. On top of that:

  • WordPress has a 60.8% market share in the CMS market
  • WordPress powers 14.7% of the world’s top websites
  • 500+ sites are built each day using WordPress while only 60-80 per day are built on platform like Shopify and Squarespace
  • The WordPress Plugin Directory features 55,000+ plugins
  • WooCommerce powers 22% of the top 1 million ecommerce sites in the world