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Automattic's CMS empire shows cracks as WordPress share falls

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Web publishing giant remains dominant, but 6 straight months of decline suggest era of uninterrupted growth may be over

After months of lawsuits, injunctions, plugin disputes, and public sparring between Automattic and WP Engine, WordPress is showing its first sustained market share decline in years.

As first reported by Search Engine Journal, new data from web technology tracker W3Techs puts WordPress at 41.9 percent of all websites, down from 43.2 percent six months earlier and extending a losing streak that stretches back into 2025.

The numbers are hardly catastrophic for software that still powers more than two-fifths of the web, but they represent a notable shift for a platform whose market share had remained stable for years.

For years, the W3Techs charts were about as exciting as watching paint dry. WordPress sat at roughly 43 percent of the web and rarely moved very far in either direction. Last year,...

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