W3Techs (April 2026): Elementor on 18.6% of WordPress sites, 13.2% of all websites

Claim (W3Techs, Elementor detail page, fetched April 19, 2026):

"Elementor is used by 18.6% of all the websites whose content management system we know. This is 13.2% of all websites."

Source: https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cm-elementor

Confidence: Verified.

WordPress.org plugin directory: Elementor (free) has 10M+ active installations (cap raised from 5M+ to 10M+ in May 2024). Beaver Builder Lite: 100,000+ active installations.

Refines: [[elementor-share-2026]] (brief 2) which reported 13.1% from an earlier W3Techs snapshot. The 18.6% number is more recent and accounts for continued growth despite the page-builder category as a whole declining (Colorlib reports Elementor at 40-50% of page-builder market, down from 56% peak — see [[elementor-share-2026]]). Elementor IS the default for small-business WordPress.