We run a WordPress hosting company in the EU, so we wanted to know where WordPress sites in Germany live and what they run, and the numbers we could find were either years old or came from small samples. So we counted them from Common Crawl, the public web archive, and the full results are in our report WordPress in Germany: hosts, versions and plugins, with the method, the limits and a CSV you can reuse.
Of the 996,727 German homepages in the September 2026 crawl, 470,097 run WordPress, which is 47.2%. We expected the market to be spread across many local hosts, but three companies, IONOS, ALL-INKL and Strato, serve 52% of those sites between them, and no other host reaches 8%.
What else stood out
The big international hosts hardly appear in the data. AWS, Google Cloud, Azure and DigitalOcean together serve under 1% of German WordPress sites, and only 2.8% sit behind a CDN that hides the real host, so the typical German WordPress site is on a local shared hosting plan. If you are choosing one yourself, we wrote down what to compare when choosing WordPress hosting in Europe.
A fifth of the sites run a WordPress version older than 6.9, and the share changes a lot between hosts, from 16% at IONOS to 32% at Strato. PHP is harder to see because only a third of sites show it, but of those that do, 17.5% still run PHP 7, which stopped getting security fixes in November 2022.
The plugin list looks very German, because 37% of the sites load a cookie consent plugin, with Borlabs Cookie and Complianz far ahead of the rest. Elementor is on a quarter of the sites, and WooCommerce shops make up 5.9% of them.
We plan to repeat the count with every new crawl, so the next report will show how these numbers move.
If your own site still runs WordPress older than 6.9 or PHP 7, update those two first, because they are the cheapest security fix you can make.