Founding year : 2003
Headquarters : San Francisco, California
Founder(s) : Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little
Current CEO : Matt Mullenweg
Parent company : Automatic
Subsidiary : Woocommerce, Tumblr, Akismet, Gravatar, Simplenote
What is WordPress ?
WordPress started in 2003 has grown into the world’s largest blogging tool, used by millions of websites and viewed by tens of millions of people every day.
The number of WordPress users :
How many websites use WordPress ?
60 million sites
Last updated 3/1/21
What is the percentage of WordPress sites ?
40%
Last updated 3/1/21
Percentage of the top 10 million websites worldwide that use WordPress :
33.4%
Last updated 3/15/2019
Additional WordPress statistics :
WordPress Share in Global Content Management Market :
60.2%
Last updated 3/14/2018
Number of posts written using WordPress :
2.5 billion
Last updated 6/26/15
Number of comments left on WordPress sites :
3 billion
Last updated 6/26/15
Number of new WordPress sites added daily :
50,000
Last updated 3/14/15
Number of people who view WordPress blogs per month :
409 million people
Last updated 3/1/21
Number of page views on WordPress blogs per month :
20 billion pages
Last updated 3/1/21
Number of new WordPress blog comments per month :
77 million new comments
Last updated 3/1/21
Number of new posts on WordPress blogs per month :
70 million
Last updated 3/1/21
WordPress powers 2,682 of the top 10,000 websites.
Last updated 10/17/2016
The most popular WordPress theme(s) :
Genesis and Divi each own 10 percent of all WordPress sites :
Last updated 2/23/2017
Number of WordPress employees :
510
Last update 12/12/2016
Number of plugins available for WordPress blogs :
54,775
Last updated 3/24/2019
Number of times WordPress plugins have been downloaded :
1.3 billion times
Last update 6/29/2016
Number of views for your top five blog posts on WordPress.com :
15.8 million
Number of languages in which WordPress blogs are written :
over 120
Last updated 8/2/18
The best language to write WordPress blogs in :
English (71%)
Last updated 8/2/18
Percentage of WordPress blogs written in Spanish :
4.7%
Last updated 8/2/18
Longest title ever on a WordPress.com post :
19,176 words
Last updated 6/26/15
Longest WordPress.com Post Ever :
10 million words
Last updated 6/20/15
Number of posts made by WordPress.com users in 2016 :
595 million
Number of comments left by WordPress.com users in 2016 :
457 million
Total number downloads :
196 million times
Last update 12/12/2016
Percentage of online stores running WooCommerce :
39%
Last update 12/12/2016
Number of online stores running WooCommerce :
1.5 million active stores
Last update 12/12/2016
Number of sites where Jetpack is installed :
2.1 million
Last update 12/12/2016
Average number of photos provided by Photon per day :
29 million
Last update 12/12/2016
Number of spam comments blocked by Akismet in 2016 :
80 billion