WordPress powers roughly 590 million websites worldwide. From small blogs to enterprise portals at NASA, CNN or Disney. We have worked with it since 2010 and explain what WordPress can do, where its limits are and why we use GeneratePress instead of page builders.
Updated: February 2026WordPress holds over 62% CMS market share. The nearest competitor, Shopify, manages roughly 4.5%. Joomla sits at 1.5%, Drupal below 1%. There are solid reasons for that.
WordPress is open source. No vendor lock-in, no monthly platform fees. Your data belongs to you. Want to switch hosts? No problem - it runs on any standard web hosting.
Source: W3Techs, February 2026
Short answer: Yes. WordPress Core is extremely secure. In 2024, Patchstack reported exactly 7 core vulnerabilities - none critical. 96% of all reported security issues came from third-party plugins.
The problem is not WordPress itself. Use only trusted, actively maintained plugins with regular updates and you have a secure system. We have seen this across 15 years of client projects.
Source: Patchstack State of WordPress Security 2025
Wix and Squarespace are rental models. Nice interface, no question. But you depend on the platform. Export? Limited. SEO control? Restricted. Costs? Ongoing.
WordPress is ownership. Full control. With the right theme and solid plugins you achieve results that website builders cannot deliver. For SEO especially, the difference is night and day.
W3Techs, February 2026
GeneratePress weighs under 10 KB. Elementor ships with 200-300 KB. Divi is similar. Sounds like a small difference? It means the gap between 76 and 95+ PageSpeed points at Google.
No jQuery, only 2 HTTP requests, clean WordPress-compliant code. Less code also means fewer attack vectors and fewer plugin conflicts. We have built exclusively with GeneratePress since 2010.
WP-Rocket Theme Benchmark, Kinsta 2026
WordPress 7.0 ships April 9, 2026. The biggest release in years.
Like Google Docs. Multiple authors work simultaneously - no locking or conflicts.
New Abilities API for AI-assisted content creation directly in the Gutenberg editor. Already today, tools for AI-powered SEO content creation streamline editorial workflows within WordPress.
Finally. The admin area gets a contemporary design. Long overdue.
Older PHP versions dropped. Performance and security both benefit.
WordPress itself sends no data to third parties. Problems arise from plugins and themes that load external services. Google Fonts for example: Since a German court ruling, dynamic loading can result in fines of 100-250 EUR per violation.
We consistently host all resources locally. No Google Fonts, no external CDNs, no tracking without consent. This makes WordPress fully GDPR compliant.
The software is free. Web hosting starts at 5 EUR/month, a domain at 10-15 EUR/year. Premium themes or plugins are optional. For a professional business website with 5-10 pages, budget from 2,500 EUR with us.
Sure. The Gutenberg editor works like a text editor with blocks. Creating pages, inserting images, changing text - you can learn it in an afternoon. We provide training after project completion.
The New York Times, CNN, Disney, NASA, the White House - all use WordPress. With WordPress Multisite, corporations manage hundreds of websites from a single installation. Enterprise hosting starts at about 2,000 USD/month with WordPress VIP.
Wix and Squarespace are rental. No full export, limited SEO control, ongoing costs of 17-50 EUR/month. WordPress is yours. Runs on any server. Full control.
Minor updates come automatically. Major updates 2-3 times per year. Check plugins weekly. Sounds like work, takes 10 minutes. Or book a maintenance package with us.
WordPress.org - the self-hosted version. Full control, all plugins, your own theme. WordPress.com is a hosted service with limitations. For professional websites, always WordPress.org.
No. The Gutenberg block editor handles most requirements. Page builders make websites slow (200-300 KB extra) and create dependencies. We work with GeneratePress and custom code.
Very fast. Under 1 second load time, PageSpeed 95-100. Key factors: theme choice (GeneratePress: under 10 KB), hosting quality and no plugin bloat. We achieve this consistently across our projects.
Free initial consultation. We explain what makes sense for your project - and what does not.