Distributor vs Contact Form 7
A side by side look at reach, regional footprint and where each wordpress plugins technology actually wins, built from live detections across millions of websites.
The short version. Contact Form 7 has roughly 97x more sites overall (50 vs 4.8K). But the split flips by market: Distributor trails across most markets, while Contact Form 7 runs the majority in India and Germany. Which one fits depends far more on your market than on raw totals.
Head to head
Where each technology comes out ahead, by dimension
Who leads each market
Share of the two technologies per country. The marker is Distributor's 1% global share, so bars past it lean Distributor.
Where to build
Building an app, theme or agency around one technology? This is where its sites actually concentrate.
Build for Distributor
Build for Contact Form 7
Germany is the most one-sided market in this comparison: 2K Contact Form 7 sites to 1 on Distributor, a 100% split. For a new project there, the ecosystem, plugins and talent all point one way.
Which should you choose
A quick read based on reach and regional traction
Choose Distributor if
- ✓You value where it concentrates its footprint over sheer volume.
- ✓Your team is already invested in the Distributor stack.
Choose Contact Form 7 if
- ✓You operate in India and Germany, its heartland.
- ✓You want the larger install base (4.8K sites) and a bigger ecosystem.
- ✓Your team is already invested in the Contact Form 7 stack.
Export the websites behind either technology
Get the sites using Distributor or Contact Form 7 with emails, socials and country filters.