WordPress: 7,427,780 detections (74.3% of detected) (Source: WebPulse Common Crawl scan, 10M+ detections. Among detected frameworks. WordPress has the strongest HTML signatures — it is over-represented in detection.)
The Numbers at Scale
At 10M+ scale, every modern framework that's ever been discussed on Hacker News — all of them together account for approximately 5.0% of what our scanner detects. WordPress alone is 74.3% of detected. The ratio is approximately 8x. Important context: WordPress has the strongest HTML signatures of any framework, making it the easiest to detect. Modern frameworks, especially those behind CDNs, are harder to identify. The 5% is a floor, not a ceiling — but even with detection bias, the gap is structural. And it grew wider as the sample expanded.
The Tipping Point Is Only at the Top
Our Tranco top-10K data showed 51.5% modern — the tipping point. But that's the top 10,000 sites. Expand to the full web and the picture inverts completely. The tipping point exists only among the elite. The web that most people actually build and use is overwhelmingly legacy.
What This Means for 'The Future of the Web'
Every article about 'the future of web frameworks' is written from inside the 5%. The other 95% isn't reading those articles, isn't attending those conferences, and isn't migrating. The gap between what the tech industry discusses and what the web actually runs has never been wider.
