⚡ Content Management Systems in France

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

France is a Western European country with a population of around 69 million people.

According to our research, content management systems are used on 50.2% of websites from France.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is WordPress, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 84.4% share.
It is followed by Drupal with 5.7% and Joomla with 3%.

WordPress 84.4%
Drupal 5.7%
Joomla 3%
SPIP 1.2%
TYPO3 1.1%
E-monsite 0.3%
Prismic 0.3%
HubSpot CMS 0.3%
Adobe Experience Manager 0.2%
Contentful 0.2%
K2 0.2%
Contao 0.2%
Strapi 0.2%
eZ Publish 0.2%
Other 2.5%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Drupal ^(-1)
4. SPIP ^(-37)
6. E-monsite ^(-78)
7. Prismic ^(-20)
13. Strapi ^(-15)
14. eZ Publish ^(-68)
15. Ibexa DXP ^(-59)
16. Mastodon ^(-43)
19. CMS Made Simple ^(-29)
20. Storyblok ^(-3)

✨ Best CMS Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 128 CMS platforms used on sites from France, 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	84.4%
2	Drupal Portland, Oregon, United States A modular open-source content management platform written in PHP. FreeOpen source	5.7%
3	Joomla New York, United States An open-source content management system written in PHP. FreeOpen source	3%
4	SPIP France A French open-source content management system designed for collaborative online publishing and editorial workflows. FreeOpen source	1.2%
5	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	1.1%
6	E-monsite Amiens, France A French website builder that allows users to create free or professional websites, online stores and blogs. Free€5+/month	0.3%
7	Prismic Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A headless CMS and page builder for Next.js, Nuxt, and SvelteKit sites. Free$180+/month	0.3%
8	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	0.3%
9	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	0.2%
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	0.2%
11	K2 Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles A Joomla content management extension that replaces and enhances the default article system. FreeOpen source	0.2%
12	Contao Lyss, Switzerland An open-source content management system built with PHP, Symfony, and MySQL. FreeOpen source	0.2%
13	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	0.2%
14	eZ Publish Porsgrunn, Norway A discontinued PHP application framework with advanced CMS functionality, the predecessor of Ibexa DXP. Legacy	0.2%
15	Ibexa DXP Oslo, Norway A technology platform that empowers businesses to create and manage content, deliver it across multiple channels, and personalize the customer experience. FreeOpen source€30,000+/year	0.2%
16	Mastodon Berlin, Germany Mastodon is free, open-source software for running self-hosted, federated social networking services based on the ActivityPub protocol. FreeOpen source	0.2%
17	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. 6,990 RUB+	0.1%
18	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	0.1%
19	CMS Made Simple An open-source, modular, enterprise-level CMS written in PHP. FreeOpen source	0.1%
20	Storyblok Linz, Austria An enterprise-grade headless content management system with a visual editor. Free$99+/month	0.1%
21	Pimcore Salzburg, Austria An open-source enterprise platform that includes PIM, MDM, CDP, DAM, DXP/CMS, and digital commerce. FreeOpen source$$$	0.1%
22	Liferay Diamond Bar, California, United States An open-source enterprise web platform for building business solutions, intranets, customer portals, and digital experiences across web and mobile channels. FreeOpen source$$$	0.1%
23	Plone Fishers, Indiana, United States An open-source enterprise content management system written in Python and JavaScript. FreeOpen source	0.09%
24	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+	0.09%
25	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	0.09%

👉 See Also

🌎 CMS in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 111,745 websites from France.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.