⚡ Content Management Systems in Iceland

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

Iceland is a Northern European island country with a population of over 380 thousand people.

According to our research, content management systems are used on 44.9% of websites from Iceland.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is WordPress, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 73.4% share.
It is followed by Moya with 9.4% and Prismic with 5.5%.

WordPress 73.4%
Moya 9.4%
Prismic 5.5%
Joomla 3.5%
DatoCMS 1.3%
Drupal 1.1%
Contentful 0.7%
Sanity 0.6%
Wagtail 0.5%
HubSpot CMS 0.4%
Payload CMS 0.4%
DataLife Engine 0.4%
Gnuboard 0.2%
WordPress VIP 0.2%
Other 2.4%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Moya ^(-117)
3. Prismic ^(-24)
5. DatoCMS ^(-39)
7. Contentful ^(-2)
8. Sanity ^(-7)
9. Wagtail ^(-28)
11. Payload CMS ^(-67)
12. DataLife Engine ^(-2)
13. Gnuboard ^(-7)
14. WordPress VIP ^(-10)

✨ Best CMS Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 38 CMS platforms used on sites from Iceland, 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	73.4%
2	Moya Akureyri, Iceland An Icelandic content management system based on PHP and Mysql.	9.4%
3	Prismic Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A headless CMS and page builder for Next.js, Nuxt, and SvelteKit sites. Free$180+/month	5.5%
4	Joomla New York, United States An open-source content management system written in PHP. FreeOpen source	3.5%
5	DatoCMS Florence, Italy A cloud-based headless CMS that organizes content and assets via APIs for delivery across websites, mobile apps, and other digital channels. Free€199+/month	1.3%
6	Drupal Portland, Oregon, United States A modular open-source content management platform written in PHP. FreeOpen source	1.1%
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	0.7%
8	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	0.6%
9	Wagtail Bristol, United Kingdom An open-source CMS written in Python and built on the Django web framework. FreeOpen source	0.5%
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	0.4%
11	Payload CMS San Francisco, California, United States An open-source application framework and headless CMS built with Next.js that supports both self-hosting and cloud deployment. FreeOpen source	0.4%
12	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+	0.4%
13	Gnuboard Seoul, Korea A PHP-based open-source bulletin board system and content management solution from South Korea that lets sites run discussion forums, community pages, and article boards on the LAMP stack. FreeOpen source	0.2%
14	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	0.2%
15	ExpressionEngine Ormond Beach, Florida, United States An open-source content management system built on PHP and MySQL. FreeOpen source$249+	0.2%
16	CMS Made Simple An open-source, modular, enterprise-level CMS written in PHP. FreeOpen source	0.2%
17	Dynamicweb Viby J, Denmark An all-in-one software platform that combines e-commerce, CMS, PIM, and digital marketing in a single .NET-based solution. $1,500+/month	0.2%
18	Plone Fishers, Indiana, United States An open-source enterprise content management system written in Python and JavaScript. FreeOpen source	0.2%
19	ProcessWire A PHP-based open-source content management system and web application framework focused on flexible content modeling and API-driven development. FreeOpen source	0.2%
20	Contentstack San Francisco, California, United States A headless, API-first enterprise content management system designed to manage modular content and deliver it across multiple channels. $995+/month	0.2%
21	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%
22	Open Journal Systems Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Open source software for the management of peer-reviewed academic journals. FreeOpen source	0.2%
23	DSpace Atlanta, Georgia, United States An open-source web repository software, a mix of a content management system and a document management system, that allows researchers and scholars to publish documents and data. FreeOpen source	0.08%
24	Bludit A lightweight, flat-file, open source content management system developed in PHP. FreeOpen source	0.08%
25	Dotclear France A PHP-based open-source web publishing software developed in France. FreeOpen source	0.08%

Data is based on the analysis of 2,774 websites from Iceland.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.