Companies Using WordPress

WordPress is used by 9,555,391 companies worldwide, including Infosys Limited, Capgemini Consulting, Baschi, based on our analysis of 29.6M crawled domains at TechnologyChecker.io. It's particularly popular in the Construction industry (4.83% of customers).

WordPress has 9,555,391 active customers detected through our full-sweep crawl of 29.9M live business domains. We enriched 5,954,045 of these with LinkedIn company data on TechnologyChecker.io to generate detailed insights. An additional 326,898 sites that previously used WordPress are also tracked.

WordPress holds 64.17% of the CMS & Website Builders market, ranking #1 in the category — based on our analysis of 29.6M domains and 40K+ technologies at TechnologyChecker.io.

The top alternatives to WordPress include Wix (8.72% market share), Squarespace (6.84% market share), GoDaddy Website Builder (3.67% market share), Webflow (1.75% market share) — based on our market share data across 29.6M crawled domains.

United States leads with 1,442,304 WordPress customers, followed by Germany (454,606), United Kingdom (454,360), France (282,152), Brazil (274,126), based on our enriched company data at TechnologyChecker.io.

The most common company size is 1-10 employees, representing 66.11% of WordPress customers, based on our analysis of 5,954,045 enriched companies. This is followed by 11-50 employees (22.54%) and 51-200 employees (7.43%).

The majority of WordPress customers were founded in the 2010s (38.5%), followed by the 2020s (18.66%), based on our analysis of 5,954,045 enriched companies. This suggests WordPress is most popular among relatively young companies.

The ideal WordPress customer is: Company Size: 1-10 employees, Location: US, Germany, or UK, City: London, Paris, New York, Madrid, Founded: 2010-2019, Company Age: ~7-16 years old — based on our analysis of 5,954,045 enriched companies at TechnologyChecker.io.

Yes. WordPress holds a 64.17% share of the CMS and website-builder market based on TechnologyChecker.io's monthly crawl of 28M+ domains. Its closest competitors, Wix (8.72%) and Squarespace (6.84%), are growing but together hold less than a quarter of WordPress's share. No other platform in the category has crossed the 4% mark.

TechnologyChecker.io currently tracks 9,555,391 active domains running WordPress across 248 countries and territories. Within the recent, consistently-measured stretch we have also seen 326,898 domains stop running it, which is normal turnover at this scale rather than decline. Counts from earlier years are not a like-for-like comparison: the set of domains we crawl changes every month as sites go offline and new ones are discovered, and our detection signals have widened over time.

Yes. Our live detections include Samsung (news.samsung.com), Infosys (blogs.infosys.com), Capgemini (investors.capgemini.com), Vodafone (careers.vodafone.com), SAP (news.sap.com), Orange (newsroom.orange.com), Starbucks and The Coca-Cola Company. Almost every enterprise deployment we find is a blog, newsroom, careers portal or microsite rather than the primary corporate website, which typically runs on a custom platform.

WordPress handles enterprise content needs well, particularly for newsrooms, careers portals and microsites. Companies like Samsung, Vodafone and SAP deploy it as a content layer alongside their main platforms. Only 0.13% of the WordPress sites we can size have 10,001+ employees, though at this scale that is still 6,966 large organisations. Its core strength remains with small and mid-sized businesses.

No. Claims of a WordPress decline generally rest on a year-over-year comparison of counts that are not like-for-like, since both the set of domains we crawl and the signals we detect WordPress with change over time. Measured consistently, we find 9,555,391 active domains as of August 2026 and a mild upward trend across the most recent three months. The churn we can observe directly, 326,898 domains dropping WordPress since March 2026, is under 4% of the base and normal at this scale.

Three factors drive continued WordPress adoption: its open-source model (zero licensing cost), an enormous plugin ecosystem, and a twenty-year talent pool. Our migration data supports the "default upgrade path" story for legacy platforms, 3,035 domains moved from Joomla to WordPress since March 2026, against only 496 in the other direction, a 6:1 ratio.

According to TechnologyChecker.io's enriched company data, Construction (4.83%), Business Consulting and Services (3.64%) and IT Services and IT Consulting (3.35%) lead WordPress adoption, followed by Advertising Services (3.25%) and Retail (2.93%). The distribution is remarkably flat: no single industry exceeds 5%, making WordPress the most horizontally adopted CMS across virtually every business sector.

No. While WordPress started as a blogging platform, our detection data shows 15.12% of WordPress sites also run WooCommerce for ecommerce, roughly 1.4 million storefronts. Enterprise customers like Samsung, SAP and Orange use it for news portals, careers sites and product microsites. Blogs still make up a large portion, but the platform serves diverse content needs.

WordPress.org is the free, open-source software you install on your own hosting. WordPress.com is Automattic's hosted service with managed plans. TechnologyChecker.io's detection data covers both, but self-hosted WordPress.org installations dominate our enterprise and mid-market segments. WordPress.com skews toward personal sites and small blogs.

Yes, with proper infrastructure. Our live detections include Samsung's global press hub, SAP's newsroom and Vodafone's careers portal, all running WordPress under significant traffic loads. G2 reviewers do flag performance-adjacent concerns, plugin conflicts are the single most-mentioned complaint at 63 mentions, which suggests real-world performance depends heavily on hosting quality and plugin discipline rather than on WordPress itself.

WordPress core is regularly updated, but G2 reviews show 43 mentions of security concerns tied to outdated plugins and themes, plus a further 23 mentions of vulnerabilities from the same root cause. Most vulnerabilities stem from third-party plugins, not WordPress core. Regular updates and managed hosting mitigate the primary risks.

WordPress holds 64.17% of the CMS market versus Squarespace's 6.84% based on our crawl data. Migration between them runs in both directions and is close to balanced: since March 2026 we have seen 2,362 domains move from Squarespace to WordPress and 2,777 the other way, a net loss of 415 for WordPress. Squarespace wins on simplicity; WordPress wins on customization, plugin ecosystem, and ecommerce via WooCommerce.

WordPress (64.17% market share) dwarfs Wix (8.72%). Contrary to the common assumption, our migration data shows WordPress is slightly ahead on this corridor: 4,251 domains moved from Wix to WordPress since March 2026 against 3,440 the other way, a net gain of 811. Wix appeals to users who find WordPress too complex, while WordPress retains users who need plugins, custom code, or WooCommerce's ecommerce capabilities.

Based on TechnologyChecker.io's tech stack overlap data, the most common WordPress companion technologies are Google Analytics (47.01% of WordPress sites), Cloudflare (23.12%), WooCommerce (15.12%), Site Kit (6.45%), WhatsApp Business Chat (5.95%) and MonsterInsights (3.72%). These reflect the core priorities of WordPress users: analytics, performance, ecommerce and direct customer contact.

Yes. WordPress.org is open-source under the GPL license, free for any commercial purpose. Costs come from hosting, premium themes, and plugins. Our data shows 88.65% of WordPress businesses have 50 or fewer employees, suggesting most users operate on lean budgets. Enterprise users pay for managed hosting and custom development.