Ahrefs analyzed site data for sites with llms.txt files and found they are rarely every accessed.

fter a few years with no tests, Kevin Ohashi again held his WP hosting tests. Note that these are a pay to participate, opt-in sets of tests.

Joost was releasing a WordPress market share report based on the Chrome User Experience Report data, but discontinued it. The team at GravityKit has picked it up and released an update.

This article estimates the average cost for a WooCommerce store. I always imagined that Woo subscriptions were more expensive.

Roger Montti looks at the WordPress usage stats from several sources and notices slight decline for a number of quarters, that seems to have picked up speed this year.

The Admin Bar released the results of their 2026 survey of agency owners and freelancers. There are a number of interesting findings. For example, 58.3% are using page builders, 27.8% are using block collections, and 9.7% are using default Gutenberg FSE.

Dries did an experiment where he added a markdown version of his articles, llms.text info files for AI, and then watched what happened. The result was not what people expect.

The Patchstack team has collected and analyzed all the 2025 data about the security of the WordPress ecosystem. Their our annual report shows that attackers are getting more sophisticated, it is getting harder to clean sites, and mention is made of the fact that security procedures may need to change given the rise of AI custom code.

If you read the page source before reading the page copy, then this report on CSS usage might be of interest. This is an in-depth analysis of what CSS is used on the top 100,000 websites. There are some interesting numbers, for instance, for CSS size, in the 50th percentile sites have 309KB of CSS. Note, there is a navigator on right side of the page to see and jump between sections.