B
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43.2%
43.2% -- website platform market share for WordPress (2026)
Nearly 43.2% of all websites on the internet are built on WordPress.
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Value
43.2%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
Entity
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
milople.com
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Tier C
https://www.milople.com/hire-wordpress-developer.html ↗
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Hire WordPress Developers | Custom WordPress Solutions
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milople.com
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Methodology
Vendor blog citing unnamed research on share of all websites built on WordPress
Methodology documented
Trend Over Time
| Period | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 26.4% | |
| 2019 | 30% | +13.6% |
| 2022 | 43% | +43.3% |
| 2024 | 40% | -7.0% |
| 2024 | 43.4% | +8.5% |
| 2025 | 30% | -30.9% |
| 2025 | 40% | +33.3% |
| 2025 | 43% | +7.5% |
| 2026 (current) | 43.2% | +0.5% |
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WordPress: 43.2% website platform market share. Source: milople.com (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/wordpress-website-market-share-2026
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/wordpress-website-market-share-2026" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>43.2%</strong> -- website platform market share for WordPress<br><small>Source: milople.com (2026) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/wordpress-website-market-share-2026" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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