⚡ 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 52.1% of websites from France.

Statistics based on 126K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ 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 84.6% share.
It is followed by Drupal with 5.7% and Joomla with 2.9%.

WordPress 84.6%
Drupal 5.7%
Joomla 2.9%
SPIP 1.2%
TYPO3 1.1%
Prismic 0.3%
E-monsite 0.3%
HubSpot CMS 0.3%
Strapi 0.2%
Adobe Experience Manager 0.2%
Contentful 0.2%
Ibexa DXP 0.2%
Contao 0.2%
K2 0.2%
Other 2.4%

🚀 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.

4. SPIP ^(-36)
6. Prismic ^(-20)
7. E-monsite ^(-85)
9. Strapi ^(-14)
12. Ibexa DXP ^(-61)
15. eZ Publish ^(-69)
16. CMS Made Simple ^(-37)
17. Hapi ^(-126)
22. Plone ^(-27)
23. Liferay ^(-2)

✨ Best CMS Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 126 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	84.6%
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	2.9%
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	Prismic Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A headless CMS and page builder for Next.js, Nuxt, and SvelteKit sites. Free$180+/month	0.3%
7	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%
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	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%
10	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%
11	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%
12	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%
13	Contao Lyss, Switzerland An open-source content management system built with PHP, Symfony, and MySQL. FreeOpen source	0.2%
14	K2 Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles A Joomla content management extension that replaces and extends the default article system with a structured content framework. FreeOpen source	0.2%
15	eZ Publish Porsgrunn, Norway A discontinued PHP application framework with advanced CMS functionality, the predecessor of Ibexa DXP. Legacy	0.2%
16	CMS Made Simple Sooke, British Columbia, Canada An open-source content management system written in PHP that enables users to build and manage websites with flexible templating, role-based permissions, and an extensible module system. FreeOpen source	0.2%
17	Hapi Paris, France A web solution dedicated to the hotel sector that is developed by the French company MMCréation.	0.1%
18	Storyblok Linz, Austria An enterprise-grade headless content management system with a visual editor. Free$99+/month	0.1%
19	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	0.1%
20	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	0.1%
21	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%
22	Plone Fishers, Indiana, United States An open-source enterprise content management system built with Python and the Zope application server for managing scalable and content-rich websites. FreeOpen source	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$$$	0.09%
24	Pimcore Salzburg, Austria An open-source enterprise platform that includes PIM, CDP, DAM, DXP/CMS, and digital commerce. FreeOpen source$9,900+/year	0.09%
25	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	0.08%

👉 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 126,053 websites from France.
We currently track the presence of 292 CMS platforms across the web.
Of these, 126 were detected on websites from France.
Statistics were last calculated on September 19, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.