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59.5%
59.5% -- cms market share for WordPress (2026)
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Value
59.5%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
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Extraction
95
Source Trust
50
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
86
Sources (4)
W3Techs
Primary
Tier A
https://ppc.land/wordpress-5-launched-today/ ↗
Source Article
WordPress 5 goes live today
The new version of Wordpress is being launched today, Matt Mullenweg, Founder & CEO at Automattic announced yesterday.
Matt Mullenweg wrote that "based on the stability, testing, and reports on the release candidates for WordPress 5.0 so far, Automattic is now targeting Thursday, December 6th for pu…
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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 | 27% | -54.5% |
| 2017-01 | 59.4% | +120.0% |
| 2018 | 28% | -52.9% |
| 2018 | 30% | +7.1% |
| 2018 | 29.9% | -0.3% |
| 2018 | 32% | +7.0% |
| 2018 | 18% | -43.8% |
| 2019 | 34% | +88.9% |
| 2020 | 39% | +14.7% |
| 2020 | 40% | +2.6% |
| 2020 | 62.1% | +55.2% |
| 2020 | 30% | -51.7% |
| 2020 | 25.6% | -14.7% |
| 2020 | 35.2% | +37.5% |
| 2020 | 68% | +93.2% |
| 2020 | 58.55% | -13.9% |
| 2021 | 64.8% | +10.7% |
| 2021 | 39.9% | -38.4% |
| 2021 | 65.2% | +63.4% |
| 2021 | 38.6% | -40.8% |
| 2021 | 40% | +3.6% |
| 2021 | 39% | -2.5% |
| 2021 | 39.6% | +1.5% |
| 2021 | 35% | -11.6% |
| 2021 | 41% | +17.1% |
| 2021 | 42% | +2.4% |
| 2022 | 64.2% | +52.9% |
| 2023 | 43% | -33.0% |
| 2023 | 63.5% | +47.7% |
| 2023 | 64.3% | +1.3% |
| 2023 | 29% | -54.9% |
| 2024 | 62.6% | +115.9% |
| 2024 | 40% | -36.1% |
| 2024-09 | 62.6% | +56.5% |
| 2025 | 33% | -47.3% |
| 2025 | 53% | +60.6% |
| 2025 | 62% | +17.0% |
| 2025 | 42.5% | -31.5% |
| 2025 | 63.5% | +49.4% |
| 2025 | 62.1% | -2.2% |
| 2025 | 41.9% | -32.5% |
| 2025 | 59.4% | +41.8% |
| 2025 | 43.4% | -26.9% |
| 2025 | 64.3% | +48.2% |
| 2025 | 61.4% | -4.5% |
| 2025-12 | 60.2% | -2.0% |
| 2026 (current) | 62% | +3.0% |
| 2026 (current) | 41.5% | -33.1% |
| 2026 (current) | 32% | -22.9% |
| 2026 (current) | 41.9% | +30.9% |
| 2026 (current) | 35% | -16.5% |
| 2026 (current) | 59.5% | +70.0% |
| 2026 (current) | 43.4% | -27.1% |
| 2026 (current) | 43.3% | -0.2% |
| 2026 (current) | 30% | -30.7% |
| 2026 (current) | 61.2% | +104.0% |
| 2026 (current) | 36% | -41.2% |
| 2026 (current) | 58.55% | +62.6% |
| 2026 (current) | 42% | -28.3% |
| 2026 (current) | 63.1% | +50.2% |
| 2026 (current) | 26% | -58.8% |
| 2026-01 | 43.8% | +68.5% |
| 2026-06 | 59.4% | +35.6% |
| 2026-09 | 58.9% | -0.8% |
| 2026-09 | 40.2% | -31.7% |
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WordPress: 59.5% cms market share. Source: W3Techs (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/wordpress-market-share
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