This year could be mainly attributed to e-commerce growth. WordPress has WooCommerce as a plugin.
Shopify too had impressive growth this year.
Shopify too had impressive growth this year.
And another thing, that I personally don't have much of a stake in, a lot of WooCommerce addon plugins are of dubious quality. Following the Wordfence blog about security issues in plugins, there are often Woo plugins that have quite some big issues, like unauthenticated SQL attack or similar. As a hacker you don't even have to go to the trouble of multi-staging several security issues to get in, 1 of these is enough.