Surprising Tech Trends in WordPress and Beyond – WP Tavern
As you possible know, WordPress software powers 46% of all websites on the Internet. I believed it will be enjoyable to dive a bit deeper and word some traits that have an effect on the WP neighborhood.
WordPress utilization stays dominant and regular
Since its founding in 2003, WordPress usage has risen steadily and consistently:
WP consultants who’re sufficiently old will recall that Drupal and Joomla commanded a big share of the market early on – not anymore.
Each are down significantly since their peaks round 2015:
Getting individuals to replace software program and run safety patches is troublesome on any platform. WP and associated tech appears to be no exception to that rule.
Antiquated WordPress Core Installs
Nearly 20% of all WP websites are operating a really outdated model of WP, the excellent news is that outdated variations of WP are nonetheless patched for safety vulnerabilities.
Antiquated PHP
As we’ll see beneath, 3-out-of-every-4 WP installs are doubtlessly insecure as a consequence of antiquated variations of PHP operating on the server.
jQuery continues to be driving excessive!
What’s to not love about jQuery?! You’ll be able to shortly write code that does all types of fancy animations and different issues with out figuring out a complete lot about javascript.
It’s not clear how a lot of this excessive jQuery utilization is because of tech debt vs new code, however what is evident is that jQuery is without doubt one of the most-used languages in WordPress:
React usage is up for the highest 1 million websites however method down total
As you possible know, React is used to build most Gutenberg blocks, so it’s now widely-used within the WP neighborhood. The story is extra nuanced when websites worldwide.
React appears to be gaining reputation within the prime 1 million web sites:
Nevertheless, React utilization is method down Web-wide:
WordPress’ rivals are rocking!
Maybe you’ve heard of two of WP’s major rivals: Squarespace and Wix. Properly, they are both doing quite well:
I’ve observed in my WP consulting observe that a variety of my shoppers are utilizing Hubspot Touchdown Web page Builder as well as to WordPress – often to host and monitor downloads of 1-off lead technology pdfs and associated type leads. So I used to be curious how Hubspot’s competing product is doing.
Hubspot Touchdown Web page Builder utilization has gone down a bit lately however nonetheless maintains a notable market share:
What about e-commerce?
WooCommerce and Shopify are in a head-to-head battle for the #1 e-commerce platform.
In line with BuiltWith.com, there are round 2.75 million web sites utilizing a WooCommerce checkout web page (there are, apparently, additionally many Woo websites not utilizing the usual checkout and/or any checkout in any respect).
Equally, there are round 2.75 million Shopify websites.
Shopify usage remains high however has been reducing since 2022:
WooCommerce e-commerce is trending much like Shopify:
Mailchimp is down; Zoho Mail and Google Enterprise are up.
This part contains some stats I discovered notable as a consequence of the truth that these are merchandise lots of the small enterprise house owners and WP consultants I converse with use and suggest frequently.
Mailchimp’s utilization downfall appears to coincide with its acquisition by Intuit in 2021:
Zoho Mail, in the meantime, appears to be largely profitable with its low-cost/high-feature enterprise mannequin.
For instance, Zoho Mail utilization is up fairly a bit since 2020, although utilization dipped somewhat in 2022:
In the meantime, the outdated guard isn’t sleeping. Google Workspace (previously Google Apps for Enterprise) is up up up:
How is our outdated buddy, PHP, doing?
PHP utilization has been down significantly for six years however nonetheless powers round 35 million web sites, most of that are, presumably, WP websites:
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