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.

This survey finds that companies that switch away from WordPress are happy with the change.

This survey has some interesting information about WordPress users, especially in relation to number of plugins used, budget, and important features.

A lot goes into a WordPress release. Md Shahjahan shared a retrospective analysis of the WordPress 6.8 release showing contributor stats. It is an interesting look at what it takes and the fact that it is a world-wide effort involving many people and companies.