Total detections: 10,002,735 (Source: WebPulse Common Crawl scan. The largest independent framework detection survey published.)
The Definitive Count
10,002,735 framework detections across 929 TLDs and 74 countries. This is the largest independent web framework survey ever published. The finding is unambiguous: the web is legacy infrastructure. WordPress alone accounts for 7.4 million of the 10 million sites we detected. Three out of four websites on the detectable web run on a PHP CMS released in 2003.
The Long Tail Revealed
From 2M to 8M detections, WordPress held at exactly 73%. We called it immovable. Then the long tail showed up. The last 2 million detections reached deeper — smaller sites, older sites, regional domains that barely get crawled. Those sites are even more WordPress-dominated. At 10M, WordPress gained share. So did Joomla (2.8% to 3.5%). Modern frameworks lost share: Next.js dropped from 3.0% to 2.6%. Shopify corrected from 9.6% to 7.8%.
What 10 Million Tells Us
The deeper you scan, the more legacy you find. Every million additional detections pushes the modern share down, not up. The conference-circuit web — Next.js, Astro, SvelteKit, Remix — is real, but it accounts for approximately 5% of what actually exists. The other 95% runs on WordPress, Shopify, Drupal, and Joomla. This is not a trend waiting to reverse. This is the structural reality of the web at scale.
