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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
- 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
- First copy 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.
20 of the 60 sites closest to WordPress match.
- 01
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 - 02
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 - 03
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 - 04
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 - 05
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 - 06
Carrd - Simple, free, fully responsive one-page sites for pretty much anything
A free platform for building simple, fully responsive one-page sites for pretty much anything.
Very close - 07
HYVOR® - Independent Software Foundry
Privacy-first website tools, crafted with care. Trusted by millions, from indie makers to enterprises.
Very close - 08
Carbonmade - Your Online Portfolio
Carbonmade helps you show off your work and get discovered. Perfect for photographers, illustrators, motion designers, graphic designers, copywriters or anyone else who creates. NO coding needed, fully customizable layouts with everything included.
Very close - 09
Cargo
Site builder for designers and artists
Very close - 10
Appwrite · The open-source cloud for developers and agents
Appwrite is an open-source developer platform with Auth, Databases, Storage, Functions, Messaging, and Sites. The open-source cloud for agents and developers.
Very close - 11
Zotero | Your personal research assistant
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
Very close - 12
Web Hosting Built for Growth - DreamHost
DreamHost offers domain names, web hosting, managed WordPress hosting, business email, and much more. 100% uptime guarantee, 24/7 support. Sign up today!
Very close - 13
Open Source Cloud ERP Software | ERPNext
ERPNext is the world's best 100% open source ERP software which supports manufacturing, distribution, retail, trading, services, education & more. Contact us!
Very close - 14
MySQL
Open-source relational database management system
Very close - 15
Neocities: Create your own free website!
Create and surf awesome websites for free.
Very close - 16
Firefox: The fast, private browser that keeps you safe — Firefox.com
The independent browser that has your back. Firefox blocks trackers, has a free built-in VPN, puts you in control of AI, and never sells your personal data.
Very close - 17
The Free Software Media System | Jellyfin
The volunteer-built media solution that puts you in control of your media. Stream to any device from your own server, with no strings attached.
Very close - 18
Penpot: The open-source design platform for teams.
Penpot is the open-source design platform for teams building digital products at scale, enabling deeper collaboration across design, code, and AI workflows.
Very close - 19
Astro
Astro builds fast content sites, powerful web applications, dynamic server APIs, and everything in-between.
Very close - 20
Enlightenment Main
window manager for Unix-like operating systems
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 = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,208
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 43 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
Sitemaps
, 2 of them guides, blog or magazine pages.
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