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.
