If you’re using WordPress or planning to, for your website, you should know about some WordPress Statistics. So that you can make better decisions considering WordPress and its features.
These statistics about WordPress are a result of careful studies and research done by various established organizations. Therefore, you can trust the data and take any particular action on your website aligned with what you learn.
The world is so enthusiastic about Artificial Intelligence these days, so let’s start with AI statistics for WordPress.
WordPress AI Statistics
1. WordPress users take help from AI tools like OpenAI’s GPT-4 to produce content with automation, adding personalized user experiences, and SEO optimization with fewer efforts. (new target)
2. There are over 1400 AI plugins for WordPress at WordPress.org
3. AI Engine is the most used AI plugin for WordPress. (builtwith)
4. Kubio AI is the new WordPress page builder offering dedicated AI web development capabilities.
5. To generate WordPress content, there are a total of 10 AI Tools, and WP AI Writer is the most used. (theresanaiforthat)
6. Only 2.7% of web developers highly trust AI tools. (stackoverflow)
7. ChatGPT is the most used developer tool with 82.1% market coverage. (stackoverflow)
WordPress SEO Statistics
8. As of April 2025, there are over 4.4k SEO plugins for WordPress at WordPress.org
9. Yoast SEO is the most used SEO plugin for WordPress, with 9,860,231 (approx 10M) active installations, followed by Rank Math and AIOSEO with 3M active installations. (builtwith)
10. AMP for WordPress by Weston Ruter is the most used plugin for WordPress to create AMP URLS and improve search traffic.
11. WordPress is the best CMS for SEO. (gotch seo)
12. Compared to the Yoast SEO plugin, Rank Math offers more in the free version. (Zapier)
WordPress Industry-Based Statistics
13. The tech industry can see a rise in WordPress usage by 15%-20%.
14. Among 79,000 hospital websites, 27% are powered by WordPress. (ilovewp)
15. On themeforest.net, as of April 2025, there are 754 medical WordPress themes available.
16. Colleges and universities like Bates College and the University of Florida use WordPress for their websites. (colorwhistle)
17. Over 140,000 school websites are powered by WordPress. (ilovewp)
18. To give WordPress e-Commerce capabilities, WooCommerce is the most used plugin with 8+ million active installations.
19. The most stores created using WooCommerce are from the Home and Garden category. (storeleads)
20. In 2024, the annual revenue estimated for WooCommerce is $27.9 million. (shoptrial)
WordPress Statistics for Bloggers
21. With 2,388,382 live websites, Blogger is the primary competitor of WordPress in blogging. (builtwith)
22. Blogs with relevant images tend to get 94% more views than blogs with no images.
23. The average length of the blog posts published on WordPress is between 1500-2000 words. (orbitmedia)
24. WordPress.com hosts blogs written in over 120 languages, and 71% are in the English language. (WordPress.com)
25. 600 million blogs are on Tumblr. (tumblr)
WordPress Usage Statistics
26. 43.4% of websites on the internet use WordPress as their CMS. (w3techs)
27. As of April 2025, there are over 523.2 million websites that are built on WordPress.
28. Bloomberg.com, Booking.com, and Cnet.com are among the top 1 million websites that WordPress powers. (builtwith)
29. Every year, 840 million posts are published on WordPress.
30. In the last 10 years, WordPress has doubled its market share. (w3techs)
WordPress Plugins and Themes Statistics
31. On WordPress.org, there are over 59,000 free plugins. On themeforest.net, there are 5,200 paid plugins. Overall, there are 90,000+ WordPress plugins—free and paid—available in the market. (WP Odyssey)
32. Elementor and Yoast are the most used plugins for WordPress, with 10M Active installations. But, all-time downloads of Yoast are more than Elementor. Yoast SEO’s All Time downloads count 802,789,789, whereas Elementor has 632,149,567 as of April 2025.
33. On WordPress.org, there are over 13,000 free themes. On themeforest.net, there are 15,943 paid WordPress themes.
34. Astra, Divi, and Avada are the most used WordPress themes.
Security Statistics for WordPress
35. For the WordPress ecosystem, there were 7,966 new vulnerabilities reported in 2024. (securityweek)
36. WordFence isn’t foolproof when it comes to WordPress security, as 14% of malware is developed to tamper with it. (patchstack)
37. Per minute, an average of 90k attacks happen on WordPress sites. (coolest-gadgets)
38. 39% of WordPress websites hacked in 2024 were using an outdated version. (coolest-gadgets)
Make the Most of These Facts and Statistics
These WordPress statistics clearly give us an idea of what works and what doesn’t. If you want to grow and grow effectively, keep these statistics in check whenever you do perform a significant action on your WordPress site.
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