A discussion on Twitter about the many people posting that they’ve left WordPress for Astro went modestly viral, with longtime WordPress supporters explaining why they ditched WordPress for Astro. Statistics show that WordPress is losing users and Astro is gaining them at a rate of 100% year over year, indicating that the shift toward Astro is more than a passing trend.
WordPress Marketshare Steadily Declining
An underreported statistic about WordPress is that WordPress peaked in mid 2025 with a marketshare of 43.6% and has been on a steady decline ever since, currently sitting at a 42.2% marketshare (according to W3Techs), a drop of 1.4%. WordPress is losing marketshare, this is a fact.
An argument could be made that the WordPress marketshare percentage is inflated because a significant number of WordPress websites are abandoned or spam. The official WordPress statistics show that 10.56% of WordPress websites haven’t been updated since 2022. That means, if you don’t count abandoned websites, the actual WordPress marketshare is less than the 42.2%.
Astro Downloaded 2.5 Million Times Per Week
Astro is a static site generator and web framework. It’s not a content management system, it is software that generates websites from content. Sites created with Astro are called static because they are classic HTML web pages that are not dynamically generated from a database the way that PHP-based sites built with WordPress are. The consequence is that Astro-based sites download faster and are less complicated.
Astro had been steadily gaining popularity since it debuted in 2021. The idea that Astro is not popular and that the hoopla is loud voices is demonstrably false. Astro’s popularity is real. It is currently being downloaded at a rate of 2.5 million downloads per week. That’s a 100% increase from 2025 when it was being downloaded at a rate of 1.4 million weekly downloads.
Screenshot Of The Astro Download Statistics
Joost de Valk, founder of the Yoast SEO plugin, may have identified one of the reasons why so many people are turning to Astro. He recently wrote of an epiphany in which he realized he didn’t need a content management system (CMS); he just needed a website.
He wrote:
“For twenty years, ‘I want a website’ meant “I need a CMS.” WordPress, Joomla, Drupal: the conversation was always about which one. That framing is outdated. People never wanted a CMS. They want a website.”
Some Doubt The Astro Reality
Rayhan Arif, a WordPress business person, recently expressed his incredulity over the many tweets and blog posts by people sharing their experience leaving WordPress for Astro.
He tweeted:
“Every “’leaving WordPress’ post I come across seems to point to Astro. But when I dig a little deeper, I often don’t see any prior conversations or context showing those people were actually using WordPress in the first place.
To me, it starts to feel less organic and more like a coordinated narrative almost like a…
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