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62.6%
62.6% -- cms market share for WordPress (2024-09)
According to W3Techs in September 2024, WordPress held a 62.6% CMS market share.
- Source text states 62.6% of all websites and then 43.5% of all websites, conflating the CMS market share denominator with total websites denominator
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Value
62.6%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2024-09
Entity
Geography
EMEA
Evidence Quality
B
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Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
W3Techs
Primary
Tier C
https://rodin.pl/blog/co-to-jest-cms/ ↗
Source Article
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W3Techs
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Methodology
W3Techs CMS market share figure as cited by RODIN agency blog. Note: the article's wording conflates denominators — W3Techs' 62.6% figure represents WordPress's share of websites with a known CMS, while ~43.5% is WordPress's share of all websites.
Methodology documented
Trend Over Time
| Period | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 17% | |
| 2013 | 50% | +194.1% |
| 2014 | 21% | -58.0% |
| 2016 | 25.4% | +21.0% |
| 2017 | 59.3% | +133.5% |
| 2017-01 | 59.4% | +0.2% |
| 2018 | 18% | -69.7% |
| 2018 | 32% | +77.8% |
| 2018 | 28% | -12.5% |
| 2019 | 34% | +21.4% |
| 2020 | 68% | +100.0% |
| 2020 | 35% | -48.5% |
| 2020 | 39% | +11.4% |
| 2020 | 58.55% | +50.1% |
| 2020 | 30% | -48.8% |
| 2020 | 25.6% | -14.7% |
| 2020 | 40% | +56.2% |
| 2020 | 62.1% | +55.2% |
| 2021 | 39% | -37.2% |
| 2021 | 39.6% | +1.5% |
| 2021 | 42% | +6.1% |
| 2021 | 35% | -16.7% |
| 2021 | 41% | +17.1% |
| 2021 | 65.2% | +59.0% |
| 2021 | 40% | -38.7% |
| 2021 | 38.6% | -3.5% |
| 2021 | 39.9% | +3.4% |
| 2022 | 64.2% | +60.9% |
| 2023 | 29% | -54.8% |
| 2023 | 43% | +48.3% |
| 2023 | 63.5% | +47.7% |
| 2023 | 64.3% | +1.3% |
| 2023 | 65.2% | +1.4% |
| 2024 | 35% | -46.3% |
| 2024 | 45.8% | +30.9% |
| 2024 | 62.6% | +36.7% |
| 2024-09 (current) | 62.6% | 0% |
| 2025 | 61.4% | -1.9% |
| 2025 | 64.3% | +4.7% |
| 2025 | 42.5% | -33.9% |
| 2025 | 53% | +24.7% |
| 2025 | 63.5% | +19.8% |
| 2025 | 62.1% | -2.2% |
| 2025 | 33% | -46.9% |
| 2025 | 41.9% | +27.0% |
| 2025 | 59.4% | +41.8% |
| 2026 | 35% | -41.1% |
| 2026 | 65% | +85.7% |
| 2026 | 41.9% | -35.5% |
| 2026 | 43.4% | +3.6% |
| 2026 | 32% | -26.3% |
| 2026 | 60.6% | +89.4% |
| 2026 | 41.5% | -31.5% |
| 2026 | 43.3% | +4.3% |
| 2026 | 30% | -30.7% |
| 2026 | 36% | +20.0% |
| 2026 | 59.9% | +66.4% |
| 2026 | 58.55% | -2.3% |
| 2026 | 26% | -55.6% |
| 2026 | 42% | +61.5% |
| 2026 | 63.1% | +50.2% |
| 2026-06 | 59.4% | -5.9% |
| 2026-09 | 40.2% | -32.3% |
Segmentation
IndustryMedia
RegionEMEA
RoleAll marketers
Channelcontent
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WordPress: 62.6% cms market share. Source: W3Techs (2024-09). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/wordpress-cms-market-share-2024
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