These facts and numbers are essential because WordPress plays a crucial role in the online business environment.
The platform's capabilities have encouraged companies of all sizes to move to it, levelling the playing field. The prime determiner of how useful your WordPress site is is your creativity, not the cash in your bank. These factors make it possible even for small businesses to compete with large, global companies that enjoy massive marketing budgets.
35%
WordPress powers 35% of the internet in 2020, an increase of 2% compared to early 2019 and a 4% rise from the previous year. If you count only the CMS-built sites, then about 60% of them are WordPress
400 000 000
Over 400 million people visit WordPress sites each month
118 billion words
In 2016, nearly 118 billion words were published on WordPress
28%
But WordPress is not only for blogging – almost 28% of all e-commerce goes through WooCommerce · 281 new WooCommerce shops appear on average every day
661
661 WordPress sites also pop up daily
50,000
WordPress.org offers over 50,000 plugins and over 3,500 GPL-licensed themes · In 2018, the non-English WordPress downloads were more than the English ones