39.5% of All Websites Are Powered by This Technology

New data reveals the WordPress is now powering 39.5% of all websites in 2021, up from powering 35% of sites in 2020.

Counting only sites that use a content management system (CMS), WordPress has a market share of 64.1%. A significant number of websites (38.3%) use no content management system at all.

This data is provided by W3Techs which tracks usage statistics of web technologies, including content management systems (CMS), operating systems, web hosting providers, top level domains, and more.

WordPress has a commanding lead as the most popular CMS, with Shopify coming in at a distant second with 3.2% market share.

Although Shopify is designed for ecommerce, it’s not the most popular ecommerce CMS on the market. That title also goes to WordPress.

Was WordPress Created for Blogging Only?

Saying WordPress is a blogging platform means disregarding all the plugins site owners can use to turn their website into almost anything they want it to be.

Take the WooCommerce plugin, for example, which is used by 4.9% of all websites. Given WooCommerce is exclusive to WordPress sites, that makes WordPress the most popular CMS for ecommerce. Not Shopify.

WooCommerce powers over 28.19% of all online stores and is the most popular plugin on the entire internet with 68% usage distribution.

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