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title: "Lorem Ipsum Statistics: WordPress Sites 4x More Likely Than Shopify - PageSpeed Matters"
url: https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/lorem-ipsum-statistics
description: "'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet' appears in the page code of 1.63% of WordPress homepages, against 0.39% of Shopify homepages, making WordPress sites 4.2x as likely to carry placeholder text."
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Lorem Ipsum Statistics: WordPress Sites 4x More Likely Than Shopify (https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/lorem-ipsum-statistics)

'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet' appears in the page code of 1.63% of WordPress homepages, against 0.39% of Shopify homepages, making WordPress sites 4.2x as likely to carry placeholder text.

Homepages with lorem ipsum in the page code, by platform

WordPress 1.63%

Shopify 0.39%

Wix 0.3%

Squarespace 0.18%

Source: PageSpeed Matters, Oct 2026. All crawled homepages, no date limit.

Counts text anywhere in the page code, including hidden templates.

Source: Lorem Ipsum Statistics: WordPress Sites 4x More Likely Than Shopify - PageSpeed Matters (https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/lorem-ipsum-statistics)