WordPress Websites in New Zealand
We verified 5,664 live WordPress websites on New Zealand's .nz domain extension, the 29th largest country in our list of websites using WordPress. Sites on generic extensions such as .com are counted separately, so the real number of WordPress sites from New Zealand is higher. Most of these sites are written in English, followed by Japanese.
How New Zealand sites compare
- 15% of New Zealand sites run WooCommerce, above the WordPress average (9.5%).
- 4.4% still run a WordPress release older than 6.0, below the WordPress average (6.1%).
- 12% of New Zealand sites use Rank Math, above the WordPress average (9.9%).
- 47% of New Zealand sites use Yoast SEO, above the WordPress average (41%).
What New Zealand websites are built with
Plugins used alongside
Share of New Zealand sites that also load each plugin on their homepage.
Most used themes
Active parent theme on New Zealand sites.
Page builders
52% of these sites use no detectable page builder.
SEO plugins
Detected from plugin files and the HTML comments SEO plugins add.
Languages
Language declared in the page's <html lang> attribute.
WordPress versions
Among sites that expose their version (64%); the rest hide it.
Hosting (when identifiable)
Only hosts that identify themselves in HTTP headers are counted.
How popular these sites are
Rank is the position of the domain in a list of the 100 million most-visited domains; lower means more traffic.
Top 10 New Zealand websites by traffic rank
The full list of all 5,664 sites, with every column, is in the dataset.
| Rank | Domain | Homepage title | Theme |
|---|---|---|---|
| 36,988 | sciencemediacentre.co.nz | New Zealand Science Media Centre - Science Media Centre | smc-2018 |
| 40,235 | thedailyblog.co.nz | The Daily Blog – Independent left-wing political commentary | Kadence |
| 41,785 | e-tangata.co.nz | E-Tangata | A Māori and Pasifika Sunday magazine | extra |
| 44,885 | youthline.co.nz | Home - Youthline NZ | Twenty Twenty-Four |
| 46,741 | asa.co.nz | Advertising Standards Authority – Every ad a responsible ad | nook-clone |
| 46,932 | sciblogs.co.nz | Sciblogs | Farewell to Sciblogs | Divi |
| 49,227 | foreignaffairs.co.nz | ForeignAffairs.co.nz – MIL-OSI: Data > Intelligence > News | mil-osi |
| 51,183 | nzoss.org.nz | Understanding Open Source Software - Open Source Software | Twenty Twenty-Three |
| 53,216 | tcf.org.nz | Home | NZ Telecommunications Forum | Divi |
| 65,080 | poetrysociety.org.nz | NZ Poetry Society | | Divi |
Get all 5,664 New Zealand websites
The full dataset includes a ready-made New Zealand file with all 5,664 sites, plus domain, URL, title, WordPress version, theme, plugins, page builder, SEO plugin, hosting, language and country for every site, as CSV files ready for Excel or your CRM.