About webatla. webatla is a domain-intelligence platform. We crawl and fingerprint domains across the web and record which technology each site runs — the same class of tool as BuiltWith or Wappalyzer, with wider coverage. Every number on this page comes from the webatla index, last refreshed on 6 July 2026.
There are 23,589,840 websites created using WordPress live in the webatla index right now — 7.7% of every domain we track, and more than the next five website platforms in our index combined. This article breaks down who runs WordPress, where those sites live, which plugins hold the ecosystem together, and how to pull the full list of sites yourself.
What WordPress actually is
WordPress is an open-source content management system (CMS) first released in 2003. It renders pages from a PHP core, a theme, and a stack of plugins, and it powers everything from single-author blogs to enterprise publishers and online stores. Because it is free, self-hostable, and endlessly extensible, it became the default way to build a website — which is exactly why the count of sites built with WordPress dwarfs every alternative. The WordPress fingerprint is measurable, and that is what webatla counts.
How many websites are created using WordPress?
The headline figure: 23,589,840 live sites run WordPress in the webatla index — 7.7% of all indexed domains. To put that share in context, here is how the count of websites created using WordPress compares with the other platforms people choose instead.
Live sites by platform. Source: webatla index, July 2026.
- WordPress — 23,589,840 sites (7.7%)
- Squarespace — 7,240,492 sites (2.4%)
- Wix — 4,617,356 sites (1.5%)
- Shopify — 2,746,823 sites (0.9%)
- Joomla — 554,966 sites (0.2%)
- Drupal — 240,289 sites (0.1%)
WordPress runs on 3.3× as many sites as Squarespace, the next-biggest platform, and on more domains than Squarespace, Wix, Shopify, Joomla and Drupal put together. When people say most of the web is built on WordPress, this is the shape of the claim: one platform, a 7.7% slice of everything we index, and a long tail of everyone else.
Who builds sites with WordPress — the plugin and theme layer
A raw WordPress install is rarely the whole story. Most websites made using WordPress are assembled from a page builder, an SEO plugin, a caching layer, and a theme. Counting those add-ons tells you what kind of sites are being built, and the webatla index tracks each one separately.
Top WordPress plugins and themes by live installs. Source: webatla index, July 2026.
- Elementor — 7,887,817 sites (2.6%). A drag-and-drop page builder; roughly one in three WordPress sites we detect ships with it.
- Yoast SEO — 7,333,886 sites (2.4%). The dominant SEO plugin, a signal these are sites built to be found in search.
- LiteSpeed Cache — 3,927,733 sites (1.3%). Server-level caching, a marker of performance-conscious hosting.
- WooCommerce — 3,377,108 sites (1.1%). The commerce layer that turns WordPress into a store; every one of these is a shop.
- Astra — 2,077,184 sites (0.7%). A lightweight theme built to pair with page builders.
The mix is telling. The two most common add-ons are a page builder and an SEO plugin, which describes the median WordPress project: a marketing or content site that someone wants ranking. The 3.4 million WooCommerce installs show the second-largest use case — WordPress as an e-commerce engine, competing directly with the standalone Shopify sites counted above.
What kinds of sites are built with WordPress
The plugin mix maps to three recurring archetypes among sites that use WordPress, and each one is a fingerprint webatla counts directly rather than a guess:
- Content and marketing sites. The single largest group. The 7.3 million Yoast SEO installs and 7.9 million Elementor builds point to blogs, media outlets, agencies and lead-generation pages — sites designed to rank and convert. For most of the web, "build a website" still means a WordPress content site.
- Online stores. The 3.4 million WooCommerce installs are all shops. That makes WordPress one of the largest e-commerce footprints on the web on its own, before you even count hosted platforms like Shopify.
- Performance-tuned and managed sites. The 3.9 million LiteSpeed Cache installs cluster on hosts that ship server-level caching — a marker of sites where speed and scale matter enough to tune for.
Add those together and you get the practical answer to what all these websites made by WordPress actually are: mostly content and commerce, built by people who wanted to own their own stack instead of renting it.
Where websites made by WordPress live
WordPress adoption is not evenly spread. The United States alone accounts for four in ten WordPress sites in the index, and the top five countries cover roughly two-thirds of the total.
Top countries by WordPress sites. Source: webatla index, July 2026.
| Country | WordPress sites | Share |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 9,495,696 | 40.8% |
| Germany | 3,339,666 | 14.3% |
| France | 1,194,882 | 5.1% |
| Japan | 1,053,931 | 4.5% |
| Netherlands | 729,970 | 3.1% |
The domain endings line up with that geography. Nearly half of all sites powered by WordPress — 11,116,459 domains, 47.1% — sit on .com, followed by .de (5.5%), .org (4.1%), .uk (2.9%) and .br (2.7%). A .com-heavy, US-and-Europe-weighted footprint is the profile of the global commercial web, which is precisely where WordPress lives.
See the full list of websites created using WordPress, filtered by country, TLD or version, on the WordPress technology page. →
Versions: half the web runs one release
Across every live install, the version fingerprint is remarkably concentrated. Per webatla's detection, 49.2% of WordPress sites report version 6.9.4 — a single release accounting for nearly half of all detected installs. Another 18.2% sit on the 7.0 branch, and the remaining share trails off across 6.8.5 (6.8%), 6.7.5 (2.5%) and 6.6.5 (1.3%). That concentration matters for anyone doing security or compatibility research: patch one dominant version and you have effectively described half the WordPress web.
Trends: read the year-over-year number carefully
The webatla index records a -66.17% year-over-year change in detected live WordPress installs between snapshots. Taken at face value that looks dramatic — but it is not 23 million sites disappearing. The same recount shows large negative swings across many technologies at once: WooCommerce -61.70%, Yoast SEO -75.52%, Astra -45.01%, LiteSpeed Cache -37.77% and Drupal -87.84%. When an entire class of technologies moves together like that, the cause is a change in how the index counts live installations between crawls — a recalibration of coverage and fingerprinting — not a real-world collapse of any one platform.
The durable signal is the share, not the swing: WordPress still holds 7.7% of the indexed web and a 3.3× lead over the next platform.
How to see the list of websites using WordPress
You do not have to estimate any of this. The WordPress technology page on webatla is a live, filterable view of every WordPress site we detect. On it you can:
- Browse the running count of live sites built on WordPress (23,589,840 and updated as we re-crawl).
- Filter by country, top-level domain, and detected version.
- Cross-reference the ecosystem — see which of those sites also run WooCommerce, Elementor or Yoast SEO.
That is the fastest way to turn "most of the web uses WordPress" into an actual, workable list of websites that use WordPress.
Get the full list of websites created using WordPress
webatla maintains a live, filterable list of every WordPress site in the index — all 23,589,840 of them, sortable by country, TLD and version. It is the same data behind every chart above, kept current as we re-crawl the web.
→ Open the WordPress technology page to browse and filter the full list of sites powered by WordPress.