⚡ Content Management Systems in Portugal

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

Portugal is a Southern European country with a population of around 10.3 million people.

According to our research, content management systems are used on 49% of websites from Portugal.

Statistics based on 16K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is WordPress, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 82.8% share.
It is followed by Joomla with 7.2% and Drupal with 3.1%.

WordPress 82.8%
Joomla 7.2%
Drupal 3.1%
Adobe Experience Manager 0.9%
K2 0.6%
Liferay 0.5%
Umbraco 0.4%
Microsoft SharePoint 0.3%
Sitecore 0.3%
Mastodon 0.3%
DNN 0.3%
Contentful 0.3%
HubSpot CMS 0.3%
TYPO3 0.2%
Other 2.6%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Joomla ^(-1)
4. Adobe Experience Manager ^(-3)
5. K2 ^(-7)
6. Liferay ^(-19)
7. Umbraco ^(-31)
8. Microsoft SharePoint ^(-37)
9. Sitecore ^(-7)
10. Mastodon ^(-55)
11. DNN ^(-2)
16. Open Journal Systems ^(-11)

✨ Best CMS Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 78 CMS platforms used on sites from Portugal, 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	82.8%
2	Joomla New York, United States An open-source content management system written in PHP. FreeOpen source	7.2%
3	Drupal Portland, Oregon, United States A modular open-source content management platform written in PHP. FreeOpen source	3.1%
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	0.9%
5	K2 Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles A Joomla content management extension that replaces and extends the default article system with a structured content framework. FreeOpen source	0.6%
6	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$$$	0.5%
7	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	0.4%
8	Microsoft SharePoint Redmond, Washington, United States A cloud-based collaboration and content management service that enables organizations to store, share, and manage documents, knowledge, and internal websites within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. $5+/user/month	0.3%
9	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	0.3%
10	Mastodon Berlin, Germany Mastodon is free, open-source software for running self-hosted, federated social networking services based on the ActivityPub protocol. FreeOpen source	0.3%
11	DNN Austin, Texas, United States A free and open-source content management system based on .NET and MS SQL Server. FreeOpen source	0.3%
12	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	0.3%
13	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%
14	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%
15	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%
16	Open Journal Systems Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada An open-source software for managing and publishing peer-reviewed academic journals. FreeOpen source	0.2%
17	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	0.2%
18	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+	0.2%
19	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%
20	Amplience London, United Kingdom A headless CMS and DAM platform that centralizes structured content creation, asset storage, and delivery via APIs for omnichannel experiences. $25,000+/year	0.1%
21	Prismic Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A headless CMS and page builder for Next.js, Nuxt, and SvelteKit sites. Free$180+/month	0.1%
22	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%
23	ExpressionEngine Ormond Beach, Florida, United States An open-source content management system built on PHP and MySQL. FreeOpen source$249+	0.1%
24	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	0.1%
25	Wagtail Bristol, United Kingdom An open-source content management system written in Python and built on the Django web framework. FreeOpen source	0.1%

👉 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 16,440 websites from Portugal.
We currently track the presence of 292 CMS platforms across the web.
Of these, 78 were detected on websites from Portugal.
Statistics were last calculated on September 18, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.