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40%
40% -- share of active websites for WordPress (2025)
WordPress powers over 40% of all active websites globally as of 2025.
- over 40%
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40%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
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Evidence Quality
B
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50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
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W3Techs
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Tier C
https://icreationslab.com/5-best-website-builders-for-small-business-in-2025-comprehensive-list-revi… ↗
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WordPress: 40% share of active websites. Source: W3Techs (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/wordpress-share-of-sites-2025
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