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Regional edition
United States

73% WordPress on .us, 61% on .ca. North America's Government Web Runs Legacy.

.us sites: 7,240 detected, 73% WordPress. Canadian .ca sites: 39,161 detected, 61% WordPress. Silicon Valley runs modern. Government and SMB America runs WordPress and Drupal.

🇮🇳 India 🇬🇧 United Kingdom 🇺🇸 United States 🇦🇺 Australia & New Zealand 🇪🇺 European Union 🌎 Latin America 🌏 East Asia 🌏 Southeast Asia
United States data
.us sites on WordPress
Source: WebPulse Common Crawl WARC scan. 5,308 of 7,240 detected .us sites run WordPress.
73.3%
Canadian .ca sites on WordPress
Source: WebPulse WARC scan. 23,733 of 39,161 .ca sites. Canada's Drupal share (13.3%) reflects government Drupal adoption.
60.6%
Shopify in the US (.us)
Source: WebPulse WARC scan. 1,185 of 7,240 .us sites — Shopify is the second framework, not a modern JS alternative.
16.4%
US government Drupal legacy
Source: WebPulse WARC scan of government sites. Drupal dominates US federal web, confirmed at scale.
53%+ of .gov
Federal IT legacy spending
Source: GAO reports. Over 80% of federal IT budget goes to maintaining legacy systems.
$100B+ annually
CISA KEV entries
Source: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Federal agencies required to patch.
1,100+
What we see in United States

US .gov sites are 53%+ Drupal — the largest confirmed Drupal deployment in the world. Government Drupal adoption was a deliberate security posture choice, but the framework's declining community raises maintenance questions.

Canada at 13.3% Drupal and 18.5% Shopify shows a market splitting between government CMS (Drupal) and commercial ecommerce (Shopify), with WordPress holding the middle at 61%.

The American healthcare-on-WordPress problem is a HIPAA compliance conversation waiting to happen. The OCR is increasing enforcement of 'reasonable safeguards.'

Stripe, Netflix, Airbnb, Notion — American tech companies drove the migration to modern frameworks. But they represent an island. The broader .us web is 73% WordPress.

United States sites we scanned
stripe.com Next.js
modern
whitehouse.gov WordPress
legacy
nasa.gov Drupal
legacy
netflix.com Next.js
modern
nytimes.com React
modern
Country-level scan data

Same region. Different digital realities.

2 countries analyzed from our scan data. The gap within regions is wider than the gap between them.

🇨🇦 Canada
91%
8% mod
🇺🇸 US
97%
2% mod
Modern
Legacy
🇨🇦
8%
modern
Canada
76,222 sites analyzed
wordpress shopify drupal
🇺🇸
2%
modern
US
15,882 sites analyzed
wordpress shopify joomla
United States compliance landscape
HIPAA

Health information protection. Running patient services on 18,005 CVEs challenges the 'reasonable safeguards' requirement.

PCI DSS 4.0

Payment card security. Plugin-based payment paths on WordPress expand PCI scope dramatically.

CCPA/CPRA

California privacy. Data subject requests on legacy CMS platforms are operationally difficult.

FedRAMP

Federal cloud authorization. Legacy infrastructure makes authorization challenging.