44.5% of WordPress Sites Are Behind the Latest Release, and Popular Sites Barely Do Better

    44.5% of WordPress sites that show their version are not on the current 7.1 release, and 29.9% are more than one major release behind. The most visited WordPress sites are behind the latest release almost as often, at 41.4%.

    Share of WordPress sites that show a version by wordPress version
    7.1 (current)
    55.5%
    7.0
    14.6%
    6.9
    8.5%
    6.8
    5.9%
    6.7
    2.7%
    6.6
    1.6%
    6.5
    1.2%
    6.4
    1.3%
    6.0 to 6.3
    3.1%
    5.x
    4%
    Older than 5.0
    1.7%

    Source: Suff Digital analysis of 3,121,352 WordPress homepages · the public HTTP Archive crawl of more than 15 million websites, September 2026

    Behind 7.1 by site popularity
    Most visited 10k
    41.4%
    10k to 1 million
    43.4%
    1 million to 10 million
    43.4%
    Outside the top 10 million
    45.5%
    All WordPress sites
    44.5%

    Source: Suff Digital analysis of 3,121,352 WordPress homepages · the public HTTP Archive crawl of more than 15 million websites, September 2026

    No redirect to https by small business WordPress sites
    Older than 7.1
    10.3%
    On 7.1
    4.6%

    Source: Suff Digital analysis of 3,121,352 WordPress homepages · the public HTTP Archive crawl of more than 15 million websites, September 2026

    Source: 44.5% of WordPress Sites Are Behind the Latest Release, and Popular Sites Barely Do Better - Suff Digital