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title: "WordPress Version Statistics 2026: 18.7% Run Old Releases - PageSpeed Matters"
url: https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/wordpress-version-statistics
description: "Of 60,542 top 1M WordPress homepages exposing a version, 81.3% run one of the three newest releases (7.1, 7.0 or 6.9) and 18.7% run something older."
lang: en
---

WordPress Version Statistics 2026: 18.7% Run Old Releases (https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/wordpress-version-statistics)

Of 60,542 top 1M WordPress homepages exposing a version, 81.3% run one of the three newest releases (7.1, 7.0 or 6.9) and 18.7% run something older.

Share of version-exposing WordPress homepages by release

7.1 56.6%

7.0 15.9%

6.9 8.8%

6.8 5.9%

6.7 2.4%

Older 10.4%

Source: PageSpeed Matters. 60,542 top 1M WordPress homepages exposing a version, HTTP Archive, Sept 2026.

Sites that hide their WordPress version are excluded.

Source: WordPress Version Statistics 2026: 18.7% Run Old Releases - PageSpeed Matters (https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/wordpress-version-statistics)