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42%
42% -- cms market share for WordPress (share of all websites in W3Techs' top 10 million sites ranking) (2026)
WordPress runs roughly 42 to 43 percent of all websites tracked across the top 10 million according to W3Techs.
- Reported as an approximate range (roughly 42 to 43 percent)
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Value
42%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
Entity
Sample Size
10,000,000
Geography
Global
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://www.tisdigitech.com/blog/popular-wordpress-theme-frameworks/ ↗
Source Article
7 Popular WordPress Theme Frameworks You Must Consider 2026
WordPress still powers a sizable share of the open web, with W3Techs reporting that WordPress runs roughly 42 to 43 percent of all websites tracked across the top 10 million. Behind most well-built sites sits a theme framework: a tested parent codebase that handles hooks, performance defaults, schem…
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Source reports a range of 42-43%; midpoint extracted. Figure attributed to W3Techs tracking of the top 10 million websites. Secondary blog citation of W3Techs research.
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Segmentation
IndustryRetail
RegionGlobal
Channelcontent
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WordPress (share of all websites in W3Techs' top 10 million sites ranking): 42% cms market share. Source: W3Techs (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/wordpress-share-of-all-websites-w3techs-2026
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