WordPress Statistics 2022 – Usage and Security Stat Information

WordPress is an online, open-source software that helps people to create a website. Ever since being released in 2003

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– WordPress is used by around 43 percent of all websites.

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– Of all the websites that rank in the top 1,0000,000, around 63.9 percent of them use WordPress.

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– 20 billion pages of WordPress.com sites are viewed by 409 million people every month.

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– Around 70 million new posts are being published by users each month. Also, they are posting 77 million new comments in a month.

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WordPress hosts blogs that are written in more than 120 languages.

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– WordPress 5.7 is one of the most popular versions with over 36 million downloads.

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WordPress has over 59k plugins and their downloads reach one billion and counting.

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90K attacks on WordPress sites every minute.

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– More than 500 new websites are built using the WordPress platform every day.

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