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WordPress
Who runs WordPress, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest content management system alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Joomla
Measured from WordPress’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit WordPress01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs WordPress
WordPress wordpress.org
Open source software which you can use to easily create a beautiful website, blog, or app.
Wikidata: content management system
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What WordPress tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
tracker that follows visitors
5 of the 19 alternatives below have fewer, 4 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 2 tools
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to WordPress
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to WordPress, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Joomla Content Management System (CMS) - try it! It's free!
Joomla! is the mobile-ready and user-friendly way to build your website. Choose from thousands of features and designs. Joomla! is free and open source.
Very close - 02
Client Challenge
free and open-source web content management system
Very close - 03
Ghost: The best open source blog & newsletter platform
Beautiful, modern publishing with email newsletters and paid subscriptions built-in. Used by Platformer, 404Media, Lever News, Tangle, The Browser, and thousands more.
Very close - 04
Wix.com - The platform trusted by millions of businesses
Build the business you have in mind on a platform trusted by millions. Hosting, business tools, domains and marketing built in. Try it for free.
Very close - 05
Website Builder – Easily Create Your Own Website — Squarespace
Create a website and grow your business with a free Squarespace trial. Start with customizable website templates, AI website builder tools, or a domain name.
Very close - 06
Concrete CMS is a Free and Open Source Content Management System for Teams
Concrete CMS is an open source content management system for teams. A website builder with built in tools make editing content easy.
Very close - 07
Backdrop CMS | Free Open Source CMS built in PHP
Backdrop CMS is a simple, lightweight, and easy to use Content Management System used to build attractive, professional websites.
Very close - 08
Webflow: The agentic web platform for modern businesses
Design, build, optimize, and rank in AI search — all in Webflow. Enterprise-grade security, CMS, hosting, and AEO built in. Trusted by over 300k teams.
Very close - 09
TYPO3 Project and Governance — Democratic Open Source - TYPO3 Project
The TYPO3 project is a volunteer community backed by a not-for-profit member association, and a fully-owned service company.
Very close - 10
Create a blog or website for free and make money online - Altervista
Do you want to create a website for free? Find out how to do it on Altervista: open a blog or a website quickly and easily and start making money online. Altervista is free of charge forever
Very close - 11
Blogger.com - Create a unique and beautiful blog easily.
Publish your passions your way. Whether you’d like to share your knowledge, experiences or the latest news, create a unique and beautiful blog.
Very close - 12
How To Make a Website – Free Website Builder | Strikingly
Strikingly is the best free website builder for anyone to create a gorgeous, mobile-friendly website easily. Quick, simple and stylish. Make your own free website today.
Very close - 13
Webnode Website Builder | Build Your Free Website with AI
Create your website instantly with Webnode’s AI Website Builder. Generate text, images, and layout in seconds, or use website templates. Start for free.
Very close - 14
WooCommerce
WooCommerce is the open-source ecommerce platform that helps merchants and developers build successful businesses for the long term.
Very close - 15
Free Website Builder: Build a Free Website or Online Store | Weebly
Weebly’s free website builder makes it easy to create a website, blog, or online store. Find customizable templates, domains, and easy-to-use tools for any type of business website.
Very close - 16
Free Website Builder 100% Off | Create a Free Website - SITE123
Create a free website with SITE123. No design or coding skills required. SITE123 is by far the easiest free website builder. Create your website now!
Very close - 17
Create a Website for Free. Tilda Website Builder
Create a website, online store, landing page with Tilda intuitive website builder. Build your site from hundreds of pre-designed templates and publish it today. No code required.
Very close - 18
Discourse | One platform. Any community.
Discourse is the customizable, scalable community platform powering more than 22,000 communities that create knowledge through conversation.
Very close - 19
Bring Your Business Online | Websites & More – Jimdo
Try Jimdo, the all-in-one small business solution. Websites, online stores, bookings, logos, SEO, analytics, domains, and hosting.
Very close - 20
Open Source ERP and CRM | Odoo
From ERP to CRM, eCommerce and CMS. Download Odoo or use it in the cloud. Grow Your Business.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles WordPress’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones WordPress uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what WordPress adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 6 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 41 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to WordPress’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress meta generator: WordPress 7.2-beta4-65303
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress 7.2-beta4-65303)
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: 7VWES_-rcHBcmaQis9mSYamPfNwE03f4vyTj4pfuAw0
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace · not on wordpress.org 13/20
- Google Tag Manager 8/20
- Atlassian · not on wordpress.org 8/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on wordpress.org 8/20
- Google Fonts 7/20
- Cloudflare · not on wordpress.org 5/20
- Amazon SES · not on wordpress.org 5/20
- HubSpot · not on wordpress.org 5/20
- OpenAI · not on wordpress.org 5/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on wordpress.org 5/20
- Zendesk · not on wordpress.org 5/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on wordpress.org 5/20
- SendGrid · not on wordpress.org 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on wordpress.org 4/20
- Font Awesome · not on wordpress.org 4/20