WordPress Popular Posts on new websites
WordPress plugin that tracks and displays the most viewed posts on a site.
Found via: StackScope Discovery (Indie) 1 · StackScope Wider Web 101
WordPress Popular Posts appeared on about 29 new sites in the last 30 days.
These figures cover websites that went live since April 2026, not the web as a whole.
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Each dot is one launch day. Line is the 7-day rolling average. Chart starts at first detection.
The shaded area was measured against a different set of sites, so the line can step there without WordPress Popular Posts itself changing.
Coverage details
Amber: 8 July to 10 September 2026, before we improved our infrastructure to index new sites much sooner, often on the day they go live. Sites found that early often haven't finished setting up, so anything usually added after launch reads lower from 10 September. We record each site as it was when we found it.
The share is a proportion of whatever we were tracking at the time. For a single continuous measure, switch to launch platforms.
What kind of sites use WordPress Popular Posts
22 sites with a known type, all time
Domain endings using WordPress Popular Posts
102 sites, all time
- .com 61.8%
- .org 7.8%
- .net 6.9%
- .uk 2.9%
- .in 2.0%
- .it 2.0%
- .online 2.0%
- .pro 2.0%
- .se 2.0%
Country
Country likely for 22 of 102 sites (21.6%), all time.
How we know
Country comes from what each site says about itself, such as a company registration, legal terms or a phone number, not just its domain ending. Too few sites state their country plainly for the usual count, so this one also counts single signals: a country domain ending, a phone number (for North America, its area code), a location the site declares in its own page metadata, or a country-specific vendor stack and the page language where they agree and nothing contradicts them. Read these as likely rather than certain.
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Japan
22.7%
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Vietnam
18.2%
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United Kingdom
9.1%
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Italy
9.1%
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Sweden
9.1%
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Czechia
4.6%
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France
4.6%
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Indonesia
4.6%
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Ireland
4.6%
Wordpress Plugin leaders
| Tool | % of sitesall time | % of categoryall time | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | – |
Elementor
|
5.1% | 52.0% |
| #2 | ▲1 |
Contact Form 7
|
1.9% | 19.4% |
| #3 | ▼1 |
Elementor Pro
|
1.9% | 19.4% |
| #4 | ▲1 |
Yoast
|
1.7% | 17.1% |
| #5 | ▼1 |
Site Kit by Google
|
1.5% | 15.2% |
| … | ||||
| #390 | ▼60 | WordPress Popular Posts Current page | <0.1% | <0.1% |
Percentages show all-time adoption across the new sites we track: the share of all of them, and of the sites using any Wordpress Plugin tool.Among September launches it ranked #411 in Wordpress Plugin, down from #351 in August. All 1954 in Wordpress Plugin →
Often used with
| Tool | Sites | vs all new sites |
|---|---|---|
jQuery
|
89 | 6.2x |
Google Analytics
|
53 | 5.0x |
Google Tag Manager
|
49 | 4.1x |
Cloudflare DNS
|
68 | 2.2x |
Tools that turn up far more often on WordPress Popular Posts sites than on new sites in general, and how many times as common each one is there.
Recent launches using WordPress Popular Posts
1 of the 102 sites using WordPress Popular Posts are product launches we list individually. The other 101 are sites we found crawling the wider web: they count towards the figures above, but we do not publish them one by one. They are included in the StackScope API and in Stackdar alerts. How StackScope Discovery works
The StackScope API serves all 102 sites using WordPress Popular Posts, filterable and exportable, from £15 a month.