⚡ Content Management Systems

Content Management Systems (CMS) are software solutions that allow users to create, edit, and organize website content without coding, simplifying ongoing website maintenance.

They typically provide administrative interfaces for content publishing, user and permission management, templating, media handling, and extensibility through themes or plugins, supporting both simple websites and complex platforms.

According to our research, content management systems are used on 43.8% of all websites.
99.3% of these sites use only one CMS, 0.7% use two.

Statistics based on 3.4M+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the leading CMS platforms in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is WordPress, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 84% share.
It is followed by Joomla with 3% and Drupal with 2.9%.

WordPress 84%
Joomla 3%
Drupal 2.9%
TYPO3 1.5%
Bitrix 0.9%
HubSpot CMS 0.5%
Adobe Experience Manager 0.5%
Craft 0.4%
Contentful 0.3%
Contao 0.3%
K2 0.3%
DNN 0.2%
October CMS 0.2%
DataLife Engine 0.2%
Other 4.8%

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)
Sanity is #2 in Norway ^(-13)
Gnuboard is #2 in Korea ^(-18)
Craft is #3 in Belgium ^(-5)
Optimizely CMS is #3 in Sweden ^(-18)
K2 is #4 in Italy ^(-7)
Liferay is #4 in Spain ^(-19)
Adobe Experience Manager is #5 in Australia ^(-2)

✨ Best CMS Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 290 CMS platforms we track, ranked by their market share.

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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	84%
2	Joomla New York, United States An open-source content management system written in PHP. FreeOpen source	3%
3	Drupal Portland, Oregon, United States A modular open-source content management platform written in PHP. FreeOpen source	2.9%
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+	0.9%
6	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%
7	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%
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	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%
10	Contao Lyss, Switzerland An open-source content management system built with PHP, Symfony, and MySQL. FreeOpen source	0.3%
11	K2 Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles A Joomla content management extension that replaces and extends the default article system with a structured content framework. 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 content management system built on PHP with MySQL that is primarily used for managing and publishing news, blogs, and informational sites. 7,990 RUB+	0.2%
15	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%
16	Sitecore San Francisco, California, United States An enterprise CMS built on ASP.NET Core and Microsoft SQL Server that manages, delivers, and optimizes digital content and experiences across multiple channels. $40,000+/year	0.2%
17	Concrete CMS Portland, Oregon, United States An open-source content management system built with PHP and MySQL that combines in-context editing and modular page building. FreeOpen source	0.2%
18	ExpressionEngine Ormond Beach, Florida, United States An open-source content management system built on PHP and MySQL. FreeOpen source$249+	0.2%
19	Kentico Brno, Czech Republic A commercial content management system built on ASP.NET and Microsoft SQL Server. $1,050+/month	0.1%
20	Gnuboard Seoul, Korea A PHP-based open-source bulletin board system and content management solution from South Korea that lets sites run discussion forums, community pages, and article boards on the LAMP stack. FreeOpen source	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	Storyblok Linz, Austria An enterprise-grade headless content management system with a visual editor. Free$99+/month	0.1%
23	Liferay Diamond Bar, California, United States An open-source enterprise web platform for building business solutions, intranets, customer portals, and digital experiences across web and mobile channels. 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	Finalsite Glastonbury, Connecticut, United States A cloud-based community relationship management platform for K-12 schools that combines website management, communications, and enrollment tools in a single system. $6,000+/year	0.1%

👉 See Also

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 3,406,701 websites.
We currently track the presence of 290 CMS platforms across the web.
Statistics were last calculated on May 6, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.