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.

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.

This is an interesting survey of web designer pricing.

The ACF Annual Survey for 2025 was released. I didn’t see much that surprised me except for the number of people building blocks with ACF.

An article from Joost looking at innovation in WordPress, and specifically at plugins. Some interesting findings, suggesting I think that innovation is declining (?). The article doesn’t mention premium plugins as a locus for innovation.