⚡ Content Management Systems in India

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

India is a South Asian country with a population of over 1.4 billion people.

According to our research, content management systems are used on 38.4% of websites from India.

Statistics based on 72K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is WordPress, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 94.2% share.
It is followed by Drupal with 2.3% and Joomla with 1.3%.

WordPress 94.2%
Drupal 2.3%
Joomla 1.3%
Adobe Experience Manager 0.3%
Open Journal Systems 0.3%
Strapi 0.2%
K2 0.1%
Ghost 0.1%
Contentful 0.1%
HubSpot CMS 0.1%
Osclass 0.1%
Liferay 0.09%
Sanity 0.09%
Botble 0.07%
Other 0.7%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Drupal ^(-1)
4. Adobe Experience Manager ^(-3)
5. Open Journal Systems ^(-26)
6. Strapi ^(-22)
7. K2 ^(-4)
8. Ghost ^(-21)
9. Contentful ^(-1)
11. Osclass ^(-67)
12. Liferay ^(-12)
13. Sanity ^(-1)

✨ Best CMS Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 88 CMS platforms used on sites from India, 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	94.2%
2	Drupal Portland, Oregon, United States A modular open-source content management platform written in PHP. FreeOpen source	2.3%
3	Joomla New York, United States An open-source content management system written in PHP. FreeOpen source	1.3%
4	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	0.3%
5	Open Journal Systems Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Open source software for the management of peer-reviewed academic journals. FreeOpen source	0.3%
6	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%
7	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%
8	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	0.1%
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	0.1%
10	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	0.1%
11	Osclass Chtelnica, Slovakia An open-source classifieds script used to create, manage, and scale classifieds websites. FreeOpen source	0.1%
12	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$$$	0.09%
13	Sanity San Francisco, California, United States A cloud-based headless CMS that stores content as structured data in a hosted content lake and delivers it via APIs to any frontend. Free$15+/seat/month	0.09%
14	Botble Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam A commercial content management system based on the Laravel framework. $17+	0.07%
15	Sitecore San Francisco, California, United States An enterprise CMS built on ASP.NET Core and Microsoft SQL Server that manages, delivers, and optimizes digital content and experiences across multiple channels. $40,000+/year	0.06%
16	Prismic Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A headless CMS and page builder for Next.js, Nuxt, and SvelteKit sites. Free$180+/month	0.05%
17	DNN Austin, Texas, United States A free and open-source content management system based on .NET and Microsoft SQL Server. FreeOpen source	0.05%
18	TYPO3 Düsseldorf, Germany An open-source enterprise content management system written in PHP that supports multisite and multilingual installations and has a large extension repository. FreeOpen source	0.04%
19	DataLife Engine Krasnoyarsk, Russia A Russian commercial content management system built on PHP with MySQL that is primarily used for managing and publishing news, blogs, and informational sites. 7,990 RUB+	0.04%
20	Sitefinity Burlington, Massachusetts, United States A cloud-based, AI-powered, enterprise-grade CMS built on .NET technology. $$$	0.03%
21	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	0.03%
22	Bitrix Kaliningrad, Russia A popular Russian modular content management system based on PHP and MySQL. 6,200 RUB+	0.03%
23	Wagtail Bristol, United Kingdom An open-source CMS written in Python and built on the Django web framework. FreeOpen source	0.03%
24	Umbraco Odense, Denmark An open-source .NET content management system for building content-driven websites and headless applications, with optional managed cloud hosting. FreeOpen source$55+/month	0.03%
25	October CMS Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia A self-hosted, open-source content management system built on the Laravel PHP framework. Free$39	0.03%

👉 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 72,204 websites from India.
We currently track the presence of 290 CMS platforms across the web.
Of these, 88 were detected on websites from India.
Statistics were last calculated on May 26, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.