⚡ Content Management Systems in Canada

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

Canada is a North American country with a population of over 40 million people.

According to our research, content management systems are used on 48.7% of websites from Canada.

Statistics based on 67K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is WordPress, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 86.9% share.
It is followed by Drupal with 3.8% and Joomla with 1.8%.

WordPress 86.9%
Drupal 3.8%
Joomla 1.8%
Craft 0.7%
Adobe Experience Manager 0.6%
HubSpot CMS 0.5%
Contentful 0.5%
Kentico 0.4%
Open Journal Systems 0.3%
Sitefinity 0.3%
Concrete CMS 0.3%
ExpressionEngine 0.3%
Sitecore 0.2%
DNN 0.2%
Other 3.2%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top platforms that are more popular in Canada than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

2. Drupal ^(-1)
4. Craft ^(-4)
5. Adobe Experience Manager ^(-2)
7. Contentful ^(-2)
8. Kentico ^(-11)
9. Open Journal Systems ^(-23)
10. Sitefinity ^(-21)
11. Concrete CMS ^(-6)
12. ExpressionEngine ^(-6)
13. Sitecore ^(-3)

✨ Best CMS Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 143 CMS platforms used on sites from Canada, 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	86.9%
2	Drupal Portland, Oregon, United States A modular open-source content management platform written in PHP. FreeOpen source	3.8%
3	Joomla New York, United States An open-source content management system written in PHP. FreeOpen source	1.8%
4	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+	0.7%
5	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	0.6%
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	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	0.5%
8	Kentico Brno, Czech Republic A commercial content management system built on ASP.NET and Microsoft SQL Server. $1,050+/month	0.4%
9	Open Journal Systems Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Open source software for the management of peer-reviewed academic journals. FreeOpen source	0.3%
10	Sitefinity Burlington, Massachusetts, United States A cloud-based, AI-powered, enterprise-grade CMS built on .NET technology. $$$	0.3%
11	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	0.3%
12	ExpressionEngine Ormond Beach, Florida, United States An open-source content management system built on PHP and MySQL. FreeOpen source$249+	0.3%
13	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%
14	DNN Austin, Texas, United States A free and open-source content management system based on .NET and MS SQL Server. FreeOpen source	0.2%
15	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%
16	OpenText Web Waterloo, Ontario, Canada An enterprise web content management system formerly known as TeamSite.	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	0.1%
18	K2 Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles A Joomla content management extension that replaces and extends the default article system with a structured content framework. FreeOpen source	0.1%
19	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	0.1%
20	Statamic Ormond Beach, Florida, United States A flexible content management system built on Laravel that can operate as a full-stack or headless CMS, using flat files or a database, and can generate static sites. FreeOpen source$275+	0.1%
21	Prismic Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A headless CMS and page builder for Next.js, Nuxt, and SvelteKit sites. Free$180+/month	0.1%
22	Microsoft SharePoint Redmond, Washington, United States A cloud-based collaboration and content management service that enables organizations to store, share, and manage documents, knowledge, and internal websites within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. $5+/user/month	0.1%
23	Sociavore Kitchener, Ontario, Canada A website builder and e-commerce platform designed specifically for restaurants to manage their online presence, ordering, and guest interactions. $49/month	0.1%
24	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$$$	0.09%
25	SilverStripe Wellington, New Zealand An open-source content management system written in PHP for building content-driven websites. FreeOpen source	0.09%

👉 See Also

🌎 CMS in other countries

🗃️ 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 67,681 websites from Canada.
We currently track the presence of 290 CMS platforms across the web.
Of these, 143 were detected on websites from Canada.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.