Polylang vs WPML

WPML is used by more websites in our catalog: 169 use Polylang and 37,654 use WPML.

Polylang sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Polylang: 34, WPML: 26).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Polylang went from 0.02% to 0.02% of all tracked sites, while WPML went from 5.0% to 4.3%. Polylang is gaining ground faster in our index.

31 websites in our catalog use both Polylang and WPML.

Adoption is counted from Site Stats Database's own crawl; Domain Rating comes from Ahrefs and traffic from DataForSEO. Figures reflect the sites we track and refresh at least monthly.