Download websites that use Astra

About Astra

A theme is one of the few parts of a WordPress site that somebody usually pays for, and Astra is built around that fact. The free edition is given away through the theme directory and a paid edition sells the parts professionals reach for, which are the starter template library, the header and footer builder and the commerce layout controls. Presence on a domain therefore places that domain inside a commercial funnel, even though presence alone cannot tell you which side of the paywall the site sits on.

As of October 2026 we detect the theme on 2,060,238 sites, and the population behaves like a professional tool rather than a hobby one. Sites in it tend to be brochure and commerce builds put together by people who do this repeatedly, often with a page builder layered above and a starter template underneath. United States accounts for 714,472 of them and .com carries most of the domain mix, so the list is weighted toward English-language commercial sites before any filter is applied.

Version behaviour says something about maintenance culture. The release we record most often is 4.14.0, and our tally of distinct version strings, 3,613, runs into the ceiling of what the export stores, which means the tail is long rather than precisely measured. A theme moves forward only when somebody logs in and approves an update, or when a host does it on their behalf, so the spread of releases across a theme population is a decent proxy for how actively those sites are managed. Used carefully, the spread separates agency-maintained sites from sites that were delivered once and then abandoned.

Detection is direct but not perfect, and the imperfection is worth stating. The theme name and version appear in stylesheet paths and header comments on a normal install, which is easy to read from the public HTML. Child themes, optimisation plugins that inline and rename assets, and full-page caches that strip generator markup can each hide an install or report a parent that no longer matches reality. The count is best treated as a confident floor with a soft edge rather than as an exact census of the theme in the wild.

Distributed under GPL v2 by Brainstorm Force since 2017, the theme is free to obtain, which is precisely why the list has commercial value rather than none. Plugin vendors want the sites their add-ons can be sold into. Competing theme and builder companies want a migration target that has already demonstrated a willingness to install third-party code. Hosts want sites whose stack they know how to support and optimise. Agencies want to see how many sites their competitors have shipped on the same foundation, and how many of those sites have gone stale since delivery.

One domain can be checked in a browser in a moment, and that is the right tool when the domain is already known. The download answers the harder direction. Which sites combine this theme with a commerce plugin and a payment gateway, how the population distributes across countries and suffixes, which hosting networks concentrate it, whether a single builder's fingerprint repeats across a set of client domains, and how the release distribution shifted between two snapshots. Questions of that shape need the list rather than a lookup, because the difficult part is not confirming a domain you already suspect. The difficult part is producing the domains in the first place.