⚡ Content Management Systems in Italy

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

Italy is a Southern European country with a population of around 59 million people.

According to our research, content management systems are used on 56.5% of websites from Italy.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is WordPress, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 87.5% share.
It is followed by Joomla with 6.1% and Drupal with 2.3%.

WordPress 87.5%
Joomla 6.1%
Drupal 2.3%
K2 0.8%
TYPO3 0.7%
Adobe Experience Manager 0.3%
Liferay 0.3%
HubSpot CMS 0.2%
Pimcore 0.2%
Contentful 0.2%
DNN 0.1%
ProcessWire 0.1%
October CMS 0.1%
Craft 0.1%
Other 1%

🚀 Highlights

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

4. K2 ^(-7)
6. Adobe Experience Manager ^(-1)
7. Liferay ^(-15)
9. Pimcore ^(-26)
11. DNN ^(-1)
12. ProcessWire ^(-21)
15. OpenCms ^(-48)
16. DatoCMS ^(-28)
17. Plone ^(-29)
18. Open Journal Systems ^(-14)

✨ Best CMS Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 111 CMS platforms used on sites from Italy, 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	87.5%
2	Joomla New York, United States An open-source content management system written in PHP. FreeOpen source	6.1%
3	Drupal Portland, Oregon, United States A modular open-source content management platform written in PHP. FreeOpen source	2.3%
4	K2 Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles A Joomla content management extension that replaces and enhances the default article system. FreeOpen source	0.8%
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	0.7%
6	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%
7	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$$$	0.3%
8	HubSpot CMS Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A hosted platform for building websites, blogs, landing pages, apps, and emails that integrates tightly with HubSpot CRM and other marketing tools. Free$15+/seat/month	0.2%
9	Pimcore Salzburg, Austria An open-source enterprise platform that includes PIM, MDM, CDP, DAM, DXP/CMS, and digital commerce. FreeOpen source$$$	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	DNN Austin, Texas, United States A free and open-source content management system based on .NET and MS SQL Server. FreeOpen source	0.1%
12	ProcessWire A PHP-based open-source content management system and web application framework focused on flexible content modeling and API-driven development. FreeOpen source	0.1%
13	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%
14	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+	0.1%
15	OpenCms Cologne, Germany An open source content management system based on Java and XML. FreeOpen source	0.09%
16	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	0.09%
17	Plone Fishers, Indiana, United States An open-source enterprise content management system written in Python and JavaScript. FreeOpen source	0.09%
18	Open Journal Systems Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Open source software for the management of peer-reviewed academic journals. FreeOpen source	0.09%
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	0.08%
20	Storyblok Linz, Austria An enterprise-grade headless content management system with a visual editor. Free$99+/month	0.08%
21	Kentico Brno, Czech Republic A commercial content management system built on ASP.NET and Microsoft SQL Server. $1,050+/month	0.07%
22	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	0.07%
23	Blastness CMS Milan, Italy A specialized content management system built for hoteliers. $$$	0.07%
24	Wagtail Bristol, United Kingdom An open-source CMS written in Python and built on the Django web framework. FreeOpen source	0.06%
25	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	0.06%

👉 See Also

🌎 CMS in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 87,898 websites from Italy.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.