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43.4%
43.4% -- cms market share for WordPress (share of the public web) (2025)
WordPress powers 43.4 percent of the public web.
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43.4%
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2025
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75
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60
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20
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30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
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W3Techs
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https://blogherald.com/blog-tips/starting-a-blog-part-1-what-to-blog-about/ ↗
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Starting a blog: What to blog about - The Blog Herald
This post was significantly updated in June 2025 to reflect new information. An archived 2005 version is available for reference here.
An estimated six million blog posts go live each day, created by a community of around 104 million writers worldwide. WordPress now powers 43.4 percent of the public…
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WordPress (share of the public web): 43.4% cms market share. Source: W3Techs (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/wordpress-share-of-public-web
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