⚡ Content Management Systems in China

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

China is an East Asian country with a population of around 1.4 billion people.

According to our research, content management systems are used on 10.9% of websites from China.

Statistics based on 64K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is WordPress, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 70.6% share.
It is followed by PbootCMS with 12.8% and Z-BlogPHP with 5.5%.

WordPress 70.6%
PbootCMS 12.8%
Z-BlogPHP 5.5%
Drupal 2.8%
Adobe Experience Manager 1.9%
Joomla 1.1%
TYPO3 0.6%
Contentful 0.4%
Strapi 0.3%
Ghost 0.3%
Sitecore 0.3%
ThinkCMF 0.3%
Halo 0.2%
HubSpot CMS 0.2%
Other 2.9%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. PbootCMS ^(-45)
3. Z-BlogPHP ^(-64)
5. Adobe Experience Manager ^(-2)
8. Contentful ^(-1)
9. Strapi ^(-14)
10. Ghost ^(-18)
11. Sitecore ^(-5)
12. ThinkCMF ^(-226)
13. Halo ^(-229)
15. Youdian CMS ^(-234)

✨ Best CMS Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 85 CMS platforms used on sites from China, 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	70.6%
2	PbootCMS Changsha, Hunan Province, China An open-source PHP content management system from China for building enterprise websites. FreeOpen source	12.8%
3	Z-BlogPHP Xiangyang, Hubei, China A Chinese open-source blogging and content management system developed using PHP. FreeOpen source	5.5%
4	Drupal Portland, Oregon, United States A modular open-source content management platform written in PHP. FreeOpen source	2.8%
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	1.9%
6	Joomla New York, United States An open-source content management system written in PHP. FreeOpen source	1.1%
7	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	0.6%
8	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	0.4%
9	Strapi San Francisco, California, United States An open-source headless CMS built with Node.js and TypeScript that connects to various databases and frontend frameworks. FreeOpen source$45+/month	0.3%
10	Ghost Singapore An open-source content management system built on Node.js that serves as a publishing platform for blogs, newsletters, and membership-based websites. FreeOpen source$18+/month	0.3%
11	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	0.3%
12	ThinkCMF	0.3%
13	Halo Shenzhen, China A Chinese open-source content management system built using Java and Spring Boot. FreeOpen source	0.2%
14	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	0.2%
15	Youdian CMS	0.2%
16	Prismic Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A headless CMS and page builder for Next.js, Nuxt, and SvelteKit sites. Free$180+/month	0.1%
17	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%
18	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%
19	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%
20	Magnolia Münchenstein, Switzerland An enterprise content management system that combines traditional page-based authoring with headless content management in a hybrid architecture. FreeOpen source$3,500+/month	0.1%
21	October CMS Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia A self-hosted, open-source content management system built on the Laravel PHP framework. Free$39	0.1%
22	Chevereto An open-source, self-hosted, multi-user media sharing platform for image and video hosting. FreeOpen source$59/year	0.1%
23	DNN Austin, Texas, United States A free and open-source content management system based on .NET and MS SQL Server. FreeOpen source	0.1%
24	OpenCms Cologne, Germany An open-source Java-based content management system that uses XML for structured content. FreeOpen source	0.1%
25	Kentico Brno, Czech Republic A commercial content management system built on ASP.NET and Microsoft SQL Server. $1,050+/month	0.08%

👉 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 64,974 websites from China.
We currently track the presence of 292 CMS platforms across the web.
Of these, 85 were detected on websites from China.
Statistics were last calculated on September 18, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.