WordPress stopped being “just a blogging platform” years ago. Today it runs everything from one-page portfolios to enterprise newsrooms and full e-commerce stores. But how many websites are actually built with WordPress right now — and what can that number tell you if you build, market to, or compete with them?
According to webatla’s live count of websites built with WordPress, there are 22,333,009 sites running it as of the latest daily export — roughly 7.3% of every domain webatla indexes. Widely cited market figures put WordPress at more than 40% of all websites; the 7.3% looks lower only because it’s measured against a far larger pool — every domain out there, including the millions that are parked, redirecting, or running no CMS at all. Narrow the denominator to real, content-serving sites and WordPress’s dominance is exactly what you’d expect.
The real scale of the WordPress web
WordPress launched in 2003, built by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little, and is now maintained by Automattic under a GPLv2 license. It runs on PHP, ships with the Gutenberg block editor, and is backed by an official repository of more than 59,000 plugins. That ecosystem is why 22.3 million sites keep it as their foundation.
What makes the number useful isn’t the headline — it’s that every one of those 22.3 million records is re-checked and re-exported daily, and each carries the domain plus its DNS, WHOIS, IP address, hosting country and traffic rank. That turns “WordPress is popular” into something you can actually filter and act on.
Where websites built with WordPress live
The United States accounts for the largest share by a wide margin, but WordPress is genuinely global — Germany alone holds more than 14% of detected installs.
| Country | WordPress sites | Share |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 9,016,743 | 40.9% |
| Germany | 3,150,773 | 14.3% |
| France | 1,136,779 | 5.2% |
| Japan | 979,509 | 4.4% |
| Netherlands | 696,275 | 3.2% |
The domains behind them, by TLD
Nearly half of all WordPress sites sit on .com, but the long tail of country-code domains confirms how far the platform reaches beyond English-speaking markets.
| TLD | WordPress sites | Share |
|---|---|---|
| .com | 10,496,827 | 47.0% |
| .de | 1,201,417 | 5.4% |
| .org | 911,975 | 4.1% |
| .uk | 646,317 | 2.9% |
| .br | 600,365 | 2.7% |
Which WordPress version they run — and why it matters
This is the cross-section most site owners never look at, and the one that matters most for site health. Just over half of all installs are on the current 6.9.4, and WordPress 7.0 has already climbed to 16.1% adoption. But a meaningful chunk of the web is still running cores that are two or more releases behind.
| Version | WordPress sites | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 6.9.4 | 7,808,735 | 51.2% |
| 7.0 | 2,464,192 | 16.1% |
| 6.8.5 | 1,039,199 | 6.8% |
| 6.7.5 | 388,336 | 2.5% |
| 6.6.5 | 194,018 | 1.3% |
Outdated cores are where problems accumulate: unpatched vulnerabilities, deprecated functions, and — for anyone who cares about traffic — the broken internal links and 404s that pile up when a site is restructured without maintenance. If you can identify which sites are lagging on version, you know exactly where those issues are hiding.
What runs alongside WordPress
WordPress rarely runs alone. The same dataset shows which themes and plugins dominate the stacks built on top of it:
- LiteSpeed Cache — 3.7M sites (performance/caching)
- Hello Elementor — 2.0M sites (theme)
- Astra — 2.0M sites (theme)
- Slider Revolution — 1.9M sites (visual plugin)
Because webatla records the full technology stack per site — CMS, caching, analytics, payments, frameworks — you can see not just that a site is built with WordPress, but everything running next to it.
How this data is actually useful
A list of 22.3 million WordPress sites is only interesting if you can slice it. In practice, that unlocks a few concrete jobs:
- Prospecting. Pull every site on a specific stack — for example, all WordPress + WooCommerce sites in a given country — as a clean lead list.
- Market research. Size a niche, or measure which themes and plugins are winning before you build for that ecosystem.
- Tech audits and migrations. Filter by version to find sites on outdated cores that need attention.
- Competitive analysis. See exactly what tooling your competitors — or your competitors’ clients — are running.
Getting the full list
The figures above are just the summary. The complete, daily-refreshed list of websites built with WordPress is available from webatla’s WordPress dataset (linked at the top of this article) as a single JSONL file — one row per site, carrying the domain plus DNS, WHOIS, IP, hosting country and rank, and filterable by country, TLD, version and co-installed technology. There’s a free sample to inspect the schema before you commit, and it’s a one-time purchase rather than a subscription.
Whether you’re building the next big plugin, running an agency, or just want to understand the platform your business depends on, starting from real data beats guessing at the size of the WordPress web.