Since its launch almost two decades ago in 2003, WordPress has come a long way. What was created as a personal publishing platform on May 27, 2003 has become the most popular content management system in the world that powers almost half of all websites on the internet.

If you are interested in learning more astonishing WordPress facts, statistics and insights, you have come to the right place.

Ultimate List of Amazing WordPress Statistics For 2022

WordPress Usage Statistics

1. WordPress powers 43.3% of all websites
2. More than 455 million websites use WordPress
3. 14.7% of top 100 websites on the internet are powered by WordPress
4. WordPress market share is 65.2% in the content management systems market, which makes it the market leader.
5. More than 1.1 million new domains are registered by WordPress every six months
6. WordPress powers more than 2 million new websites every year
7. 661 new websites are created daily on WordPress
8. WordPress 5.7 has been downloaded 37 million times
9. There are more than 58,000 plugins on WordPress
10. Every second, 17 posts are published on WordPress

WordPress.com Traffic Statistics

1. 409 million people visit WordPress.com every month
2. These users visits more than 20 billion pages on WordPress.com every month
3. Every month, 70 million new posts are posted on WordPress
4. WordPress posts get more than 77 million comments each month
5. 35 million files are uploaded on the platform every month
6. 24.7 million files were uploaded on WordPress.com blogs every month
7. 12 million new pages are created each month
8. 50,000 WordPress.com sites are being launched every day
9. Every month, more than 27000 new support requests are added.

WordPress Security Statistics

1. More than 90,000 attacks target WordPress websites every minute
2. 61% of infected websites are outdated
3. 52% of these attacks use vulnerabilities in plugins
4. 41% of vulnerabilities are caused by WordPress hosting platform
5. 39% use cross-site scripting vulnerabilities
6. 37% are caused due to core WordPress files
7. 16.1% use brute force attack
8. 10% use themes and hosting loopholes
9. 8% of WordPress websites are compromised due to weak passwords

WordPress Plugin Statistics

1. WordPress plugins are downloaded over 1 billion times
2. Akismet is the most popular plugin on WordPress with more than 82 million downloads
3. JetPack is the second most popular plugin with 53 million downloads
4. Only 11 plugins have managed to receive more than 7 million download
5. Only 19 plugins have managed to surpass the 1 million download mark
6. 57% of WordPress plugins have never been rated.

WordPress Themes Statistics

1. There are over 31,000 themes available for WordPress
2. Avanda is the most popular WordPress theme and has been sold 500,000 times
3. The second most popular theme is X, which has received more than 200,000
4. The third most popular WordPress theme is Enfold, which has been downloaded 181,000 times
5. The average cost of WordPress themes is $77.57
6. 23.2% of WordPress themes cost $59
7. 18.9% WordPress themes cost $41 to $58
8. 17.1% of WordPress themes cost $31 to $40
9. 15.2% WordPress themes cost anywhere between $60 and $70

WordPress Version Statistics

1. WordPress version 5 is used by 87.8% users
2. WordPress version 4 is used by 11.5% users
3. WordPress version 3 is used by 0.6% users
4. WordPress version 2 is used by less than 0.1% users
5. WordPress version 1 is used by less than 0.1% users

WordPress Language and Country Statistics

1. WordPress is available in 60 languages around the world
2. Top 5 countries with respect to WordPress usage are the United States, Iran, United Kingdom, Russia and Canada
3. The United States has more than 9,266,877 WordPress websites
4. Iran has 345,878 WordPress websites
5. The United Kingdom has 317,775 websites
6. Canada has 310,441 websites
7. Russia has 210,885 websites

WordPress Community Statistics

1. There are more than 1550 meetup groups
2. These WordPress groups have more than 511,000 active members worldwide
3. WordPress support forum covers more than 20 million different topics
4. 1084 WordCamps have been organized till date
5. These community events were held in 76 cities of the world
6. WordCamps took place in 65 countries around the world
7. WordCamp were organized across 6 different continents of the world

 Which of these WordPress statistics really blew your mind? Let us know in the comments section below.

References

https://financesonline.com/wordpress-statistics/
https://www.whatsthehost.com/wordpress-stats/
https://kinsta.com/blog/wordpress-statistics/
https://www.codeinwp.com/blog/wordpress-statistics/#popularity
https://www.manaferra.com/wordpress-statistics/#:~:text=In%202022%2C%20WordPress%20has%20a,than%2010%25%20over%20the%20years.
https://www.envisagedigital.co.uk/wordpress-market-share/#:~:text=How%20Many%20Websites%20Use%20WordPress%20in%202021%3F,internet%2C%20that’s%20an%20impressive%20number