Hi all, I run StackScope. We crawl newly launched websites and check what they're built with. For our September report, I looked at 585,887 WordPress sites we found between July and September.

In September's crawl, we detected WordPress on about 16% of all new sites. If we only count sites where we could identify a platform, its share was 40.2%.

Across the larger WordPress sample, we found Elementor on 42.2% and WooCommerce on 22.0%.

The country breakdown varied a lot:

• Japan (12,561 sites): Elementor was on 3.7% and WooCommerce on 0.9%. Cocoon was on 39.9%. It's a free Japanese theme maintained by Xserver, a Japanese host.
• India (16,573 sites): Elementor was on 65.0%.
• Vietnam (1,554 sites): Flatsome was on 58.3%, WooCommerce on 49.4%, and Elementor on 13.4%.

Astra was the most common theme we detected in 14 of the 17 countries with at least 1,000 sites in the sample.

We could only estimate a country for about 17% of the WordPress sites, and the method undercounts the US. We also miss plugins and themes that don't leave a visible trace.

If you build WordPress sites in these countries, does this match what you're seeing?

Full write-up, including the methodology