Interesting WordPress Statistics and Facts for 2021

What is WordPress?

WordPress is a free, open-source content management system used to develop websites. It powers more than one in four websites, 39.5 % of all websites on the internet. WordPress licensed under GPLV2 allows anyone to use and modify the software for free. WordPress was initially meant for creating blogs. Now, it has changed, and you can create any website type with WordPress. You can create business websites, e-commerce websites, blogs, portfolios, resumes, membership sites, forums and social networks. WordPress e-commerce development has helped much local business flourish. This provides the immense scope of online transactions and sales. So if you are planning to open an online store, WordPress ecommerce development is the best option. 

Interesting WordPress statics and Facts for 2021

• 34.1% of the Internet is WordPress. WordPress is officially the most used content management system.

• Word Press holds more than 60 per cent share in the CMS market, that is, more than 60% of websites on the internet use WordPress.
• Top websites like TED, Sony Music, The New Yorker, TechCrunch, Microsoft News Center, Bata and many more use WordPress.

• Custom WordPress Development Services platform hosts over 60 million websites.

• WordPress is older than YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. It was launched in 2003.

• The term ‘WordPress’ was the most searched word in 2018, searched nearly 2740000 times.

• There was a 3.2 % increase in website base of WordPress between 2019 and 2021.

• WordPress is far ahead of its competitors like Shopify and Squarespace. Over 500 new websites based on WordPress launches happen every day.

• WooCommerce gets a million installations per week.

• WordPress is the fifth most visited websites in the US.

• WordPress web development services are the top CMS with a global Alexa website ranking of 60.

• Businesses in over 68 languages use WordPress. However, English is the most popular language.

• WordPress.org provides more than 54000 plugins and 7000 themes. 157563262 WordPress downloads recorded so far.

• Spanish is the second most used language for WordPress users. Over 4 7 % of WordPress blogs are in Spanish.

• WordPress blogs receive 52 million comments per month.

• The WooCommerce plugin has been downloaded over 60 million times.

• Newly registered domains run with WordPress accounts to 25%.

• WordPress websites host over 70.5 million new posts every month.

• WordPress receives more monthly visitors than Amazon and Twitter.

• WordPress is the only CMS that made to the Google Trends’ interest score. The score was 100 in July 2014.

• It is 12 times and 10 times better than Drupal and Joomla.

• WordPress Theme Directory had 2,500 themes in 2008.

• WordPress has two variants: WordPress.com and WordPress.org.

• WordPress has only 800+ employees. Therefore, it is smaller than most popular tech companies.

• The most popular premium paid WordPress themes are the Genesis Framework, Divi and Avada.

• The WordPress plugin, Yoast SEO, boasts 130,801,289 downloads. Akismet is the second most downloaded WordPress plugin.

• WordPress is the most popular CMS for the last 8 years.

• 443 people developed the most successful version, WordPress v4.9. 185 out of these people were freshers.

• Outdated WordPress websites are likely to be hacked. Over 39% of hacked WordPress websites in 2017 were outdated.

• 70% of hacked websites are WordPress based.

• The average salary of a WordPress employee is $ 66,775.

• A fully functioning WordPress website will cost around $1000.

• WordPress is platform-independent. It also has native apps for all major platforms.