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Indonesia Has Gojek, Tokopedia, Traveloka. 87% of Detected .id Sites Run WordPress.

The startup ecosystem didn't trickle down. Among 7,497 detected .id domains in our scan, 87% run WordPress — despite the country's tech unicorns running modern stacks.

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Indonesia Has Gojek, Tokopedia, Traveloka. 87% of Detected .id Sites Run WordPress.
Key finding

WordPress on .id domains: 87% of detected (Source: WebPulse Common Crawl WARC scan. 6,522 WordPress out of 7,497 detected on .id domains. Among detected frameworks only — many .id sites went undetected.)

The Paradox

87% of detected
WordPress on .id domains
Source: WebPulse Common Crawl WARC scan. 6,522 WordPress out of 7,497 detected on .id domains. Among detected frameworks only — many .id sites went undetected.

Indonesia built Gojek (modern), Tokopedia (Next.js), Traveloka (modern), Bukalapak (modern) — some of Southeast Asia's most sophisticated tech platforms. But among the 7,497 .id domains where we detected a framework, 87% run WordPress. The unicorns use .com domains and modern stacks — they're largely invisible in .id TLD data.

Two Indonesias

There's the Indonesia of unicorns — Jakarta startup ecosystem, venture-funded, modern stacks, Silicon Valley-connected. And there's the Indonesia of 270 million people — SMB websites built by freelancers using WordPress because that's what the Fiverr tutorial taught. The two don't intersect.

The 100M User Gap

Indonesia's digital banking has 100M+ users on modern infrastructure. But those users' businesses run websites on WordPress. The app layer modernized. The web layer didn't. This isn't a technology choice — it's an education and ecosystem gap.

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