⚡ Content Management Systems

Content Management Systems (CMS) are software solutions that allow users to create, edit, and organize website content without coding, making it easier to maintain.

According to our research, content management systems are used on 47.2% of all websites.
99.3% of these sites use only one CMS, 0.7% use two.

⭐ Most Popular in 2025

The following chart shows the leading CMS platforms in 2025, based on market share.

The most popular is WordPress, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 85.2% share.
It is followed by Joomla with 3.1% and Drupal with 2.6%.

WordPress 85.2%
Joomla 3.1%
Drupal 2.6%
TYPO3 1.5%
Bitrix 0.7%
Adobe Experience Manager 0.5%
HubSpot CMS 0.5%
Craft 0.4%
Contao 0.3%
Contentful 0.3%
K2 0.3%
DNN 0.2%
October CMS 0.2%
DataLife Engine 0.2%
Other 4%

You can also drill down by country:

🚀 Country Highlights

Here is a list of platforms that are especially popular in certain countries.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

Drupal is #2 in the United States ^(-1)
TYPO3 is #2 in Germany ^(-2)
Bitrix is #2 in Russia ^(-3)
October CMS is #2 in Tanzania ^(-11)
DataLife Engine is #2 in Azerbaijan ^(-12)
Sitecore is #2 in the United Arab Emirates ^(-14)
Sanity is #2 in Norway ^(-15)
Gnuboard is #2 in Korea ^(-16)
Z-BlogPHP is #2 in China ^(-21)
Craft is #3 in Belgium ^(-5)

✨ Best CMS Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 287 CMS platforms we track, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	WordPress San Francisco, California, United States A widely used open-source content management system built on PHP and MySQL. FreeOpen source	85.2%
2	Joomla New York, United States An open-source content management system written in PHP. FreeOpen source	3.1%
3	Drupal Portland, Oregon, United States A modular open-source content management platform written in PHP. FreeOpen source	2.6%
4	TYPO3 Düsseldorf, Germany An open-source enterprise content management system written in PHP that supports multisite and multilingual installations and has a large extension repository. FreeOpen source	1.5%
5	Bitrix Kaliningrad, Russia A popular Russian modular content management system based on PHP and MySQL. 6,200 RUB+	0.7%
6	Adobe Experience Manager San Jose, California, United States A software solution that's equal part content management system and digital asset management system. $50,000+/year	0.5%
7	HubSpot CMS Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A hosted platform for building websites, blogs, landing pages, apps, and emails that integrates tightly with HubSpot CRM and other marketing tools. Free$15+/seat/month	0.5%
8	Craft Bend, Oregon, United States A flexible open-source content management system written in PHP that supports MySQL or PostgreSQL databases and is built on the Yii framework. Free$279+	0.4%
9	Contao Lyss, Switzerland An open-source content management system built with PHP, Symfony, and MySQL. FreeOpen source	0.3%
10	Contentful Berlin, Germany A commercial, cloud-based, headless content management system that structures content for use across multiple digital platforms via APIs. Free$300+/month	0.3%
11	K2 Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles A Joomla content management extension that replaces and enhances the default article system. FreeOpen source	0.3%
12	DNN Austin, Texas, United States A free and open-source content management system based on .NET and MS SQL Server. FreeOpen source	0.2%
13	October CMS Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia A self-hosted, open-source content management system built on the Laravel PHP framework. Free$39	0.2%
14	DataLife Engine Krasnoyarsk, Russia A Russian commercial CMS based on PHP and MySQL. 6,990 RUB+	0.2%
15	Concrete CMS Portland, Oregon, United States An open source content management system built with PHP and MySQL. FreeOpen source	0.2%
16	Sitecore San Francisco, California, United States An enterprise CMS built on ASP.NET and Microsoft SQL Server that manages, delivers, and optimizes digital content and experiences across multiple channels. $40,000+/year	0.2%
17	Sanity San Francisco, California, United States A cloud-based headless CMS that stores content as structured data in a hosted content lake and delivers it via APIs to any frontend. Free$15+/seat/month	0.2%
18	Gnuboard Seoul, Korea A PHP-based open source bulletin board system developed in South Korea. FreeOpen source	0.1%
19	Kentico Brno, Czech Republic A commercial content management system built on ASP.NET and Microsoft SQL Server. $1,050+/month	0.1%
20	ExpressionEngine Ormond Beach, Florida, United States An open source content management system built on PHP and MySQL. FreeOpen source$249+	0.1%
21	Optimizely CMS New York, United States A cloud-based content management system with enterprise-level features and headless delivery capabilities. $36,000+/year	0.1%
22	Liferay Diamond Bar, California, United States An open source enterprise web platform for building business solutions. FreeOpen source$$$	0.1%
23	Z-BlogPHP A Chinese open source blogging content management system developed with PHP. FreeOpen source	0.1%
24	WordPress VIP San Francisco, California, United States A fully hosted enterprise solution based on WordPress, designed to support high-traffic websites with enhanced performance, security, and scalability. $25,000+/year	0.1%
25	Storyblok Linz, Austria An enterprise-grade headless content management system with a visual editor. Free$99+/month	0.1%

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Data is based on the analysis of 2,617,332 websites.
Statistics were last calculated on December 15, 2025.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.