WordPress Statistics 2026: Themes, Plugins, Versions & Hosting
We checked the homepages of the top 20 million domains and confirmed 2,424,552 live websites using WordPress. This report breaks them down by WordPress version, theme, plugin, page builder, SEO plugin, e-commerce, hosting, country and language. All numbers come from our own scan, run between September 30, 2026 and October 3, 2026.
Key findings
- Hello Elementor is the most used theme (167,647 sites), ahead of Divi (145,050) and Astra (108,536).
- Contact Form 7 is the most visible plugin, loaded on 22% of homepages; Elementor follows at 20%.
- Elementor powers 23% of all WordPress sites; 60% use no detectable page builder.
- 47% of sites show a WordPress 7.x version, 32% hide their version, and 6.1% still run a release older than 6.0.
- Yoast SEO is detected on 41% of sites and Rank Math on 9.9%.
- WooCommerce is active on 9.5% of WordPress sites (229,248 stores).
- 65% of WordPress sites use a generic extension such as .com; among country extensions, Germany leads with 102,332 sites.
WordPress versions in use
Share of all 2,424,552 sites. 32% hide their version (often on purpose, for security).
By major version
Most common releases
Among sites that show a version, 68% are on the 7.x branch. 148,604 sites still expose a release older than 6.0: see the outdated WordPress list.
Most popular WordPress themes
Active parent theme. 8.3% of sites have no detectable theme folder (headless sites, heavy optimisation or custom setups). All theme pages.
Most used WordPress plugins
Plugins that load on the homepage. The average homepage loads 3.6 detectable plugins; 17% load none and 6.2% load ten or more. All plugin pages.
Page builders, SEO plugins and stores
Page builders
60% use none we can detect.
SEO plugins
48% show no SEO plugin.
E-commerce
Most common page builder + theme combinations
| Page builder | Theme | Sites |
|---|---|---|
| Elementor | Hello Elementor | 166,650 |
| Divi | Divi | 142,521 |
| Elementor | Astra | 77,118 |
| Avada | Avada | 43,342 |
| Elementor | OceanWP | 18,509 |
| Beaver Builder | Beaver Builder Theme | 17,520 |
| Elementor | GeneratePress | 9,389 |
| Bricks | Bricks | 8,352 |
Hosting and web servers
Hosts can only be identified when they add their own HTTP headers, so this shows the hosts we can see rather than full market share. Hosting pages.
Identifiable hosts
Web server / CDN header
WordPress sites by country and language
Country from the domain extension; 65% of sites use a generic extension and aren't assigned a country. Country pages.
Country extensions
Declared language
How these numbers were collected
The source is top-100-million-domains (WebsiteLaunches), a public ranking of the 100 million most popular domains. We visited the top 20 million of them between September 30, 2026 and October 3, 2026 and checked each homepage for WordPress: generator tags, REST API links and headers, theme and plugin files served by the site itself, WordPress cookies and hosting headers, with extra probes for unclear cases. 18,895 WordPress installs that showed a placeholder, maintenance page or error were excluded from these statistics. Details are on the methodology page.
Limits
- Only plugins visible on the homepage are counted, so plugin shares are a lower bound.
- Sites beyond the top 20 million domains of the ranking are not included.
- Country is based on the domain extension, not on where the business or server is.
Citing this report
You're welcome to quote these numbers with a link to this page: "WordPress Statistics 2026", every-wp, https://every-wp.com/wordpress-statistics/.
Get the data behind this report
All 2,424,552 sites with the columns used here, as CSV files you can filter yourself.