⚡ Content Management Systems in Kenya

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

Kenya is an East African country with a population of over 55 million people.

According to our research, content management systems are used on 61.6% of websites from Kenya.

Statistics based on 2K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is WordPress, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 87.4% share.
It is followed by Drupal with 5.7% and Joomla with 4.8%.

WordPress 87.4%
Drupal 5.7%
Joomla 4.8%
Wagtail 0.5%
Adobe Experience Manager 0.4%
K2 0.3%
Optimizely CMS 0.3%
October CMS 0.2%
TYPO3 0.2%
Amadeus Web Solutions 0.1%
Kentico 0.1%
Sanity 0.1%
Craft 0.06%
Pimcore 0.06%
Concrete CMS 0.06%

🚀 Highlights

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

4. Wagtail ^(-32)
5. Adobe Experience Manager ^(-2)
6. K2 ^(-6)
7. Optimizely CMS ^(-17)
8. October CMS ^(-6)
10. Amadeus Web Solutions ^(-70)
11. Kentico ^(-9)
14. Pimcore ^(-19)
15. Concrete CMS ^(-4)
16. WordPress VIP ^(-7)

✨ Best CMS Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 25 CMS platforms used on sites from Kenya, 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	87.4%
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	4.8%
4	Wagtail Bristol, United Kingdom An open-source content management system written in Python and built on the Django web framework. FreeOpen source	0.5%
5	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	0.4%
6	K2 Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles A Joomla content management extension that replaces and extends the default article system with a structured content framework. FreeOpen source	0.3%
7	Optimizely CMS New York, United States A cloud-based content management system with enterprise-level features and headless delivery capabilities. $36,000+/year	0.3%
8	October CMS Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia A self-hosted, open-source content management system built on the Laravel PHP framework. Free$39	0.2%
9	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	0.2%
10	Amadeus Web Solutions Madrid, Spain A hotel website management platform that enables hotel owners to create, host, and manage websites designed to increase direct bookings. $$$	0.1%
11	Kentico Brno, Czech Republic A commercial content management system built on ASP.NET and Microsoft SQL Server. $1,050+/month	0.1%
12	Sanity San Francisco, California, United States A cloud-based headless CMS that stores content as structured data in a hosted content lake and delivers it via APIs to any frontend. Free$15+/seat/month	0.1%
13	Craft Bend, Oregon, United States A flexible open-source content management system written in PHP that supports MySQL or PostgreSQL databases and is built on the Yii framework. Free$279+	0.06%
14	Pimcore Salzburg, Austria An open-source enterprise platform that includes PIM, CDP, DAM, DXP/CMS, and digital commerce. FreeOpen source$9,900+/year	0.06%
15	Concrete CMS Portland, Oregon, United States An open-source content management system built with PHP and MySQL that combines in-context editing and modular page building. FreeOpen source	0.06%
16	WordPress VIP San Francisco, California, United States A fully hosted enterprise solution based on WordPress, designed to support high-traffic websites with enhanced performance, security, and scalability. $25,000+/year	0.06%
17	DataLife Engine Krasnoyarsk, Russia A Russian commercial content management system built on PHP with MySQL that is primarily used for managing and publishing news, blogs, and informational sites. 7,990 RUB+	0.06%
18	Prismic Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A headless CMS and page builder for Next.js, Nuxt, and SvelteKit sites. Free$180+/month	0.06%
19	Sitefinity Burlington, Massachusetts, United States A cloud-based, AI-powered, enterprise-grade CMS built on the .NET platform. $$$	0.06%
20	Open Journal Systems Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada An open-source software for managing and publishing peer-reviewed academic journals. FreeOpen source	0.06%
21	Botble Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam A commercial content management system based on the Laravel framework. $17+	0.06%
22	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	0.06%
23	Finalsite Glastonbury, Connecticut, United States A cloud-based community relationship management platform for K-12 schools that combines website management, communications, and enrollment tools in a single system. $6,000+/year	0.06%
24	CushyCMS Melbourne, Victoria, Australia A content management system that doesn't require installation and allows users to define editable website areas and edit them with a WYSIWYG editor. Free$28/month	0.06%
25	Lodgify Website Builder Barcelona, Spain Designed specifically for vacation rentals and hotels and includes SEO friendly templates in over 30 languages and Lodgify booking engine integration. $20+/month	0.06%

👉 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 2,787 websites from Kenya.
We currently track the presence of 291 CMS platforms across the web.
Of these, 25 were detected on websites from Kenya.
Statistics were last calculated on November 2, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.