⚡ Content Management Systems in Russia

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

Russia is a Eurasian country with a population of around 144 million people.

According to our research, content management systems are used on 39.3% of websites from Russia.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is WordPress with an impressive share of 48.8%, followed by Bitrix with 29.5% and Joomla with 7.6%.

WordPress 48.8%
Bitrix 29.5%
Joomla 7.6%
DataLife Engine 3.8%
Drupal 3.6%
Megagroup CMS.S3 1.7%
MODX 1.5%
UMI.CMS 0.7%
K2 0.6%
InstantCMS 0.6%
HostCMS 0.5%
October CMS 0.3%
TYPO3 0.2%
Strapi 0.1%
Other 0.5%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Bitrix ^(-3)
4. DataLife Engine ^(-10)
6. Megagroup CMS.S3 ^(-43)
7. MODX ^(-29)
8. UMI.CMS ^(-69)
9. K2 ^(-2)
10. InstantCMS ^(-62)
11. HostCMS ^(-78)
12. October CMS ^(-1)
14. Strapi ^(-14)

✨ Best CMS Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 85 CMS platforms used on sites from Russia, 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	48.8%
2	Bitrix Kaliningrad, Russia A popular Russian modular content management system based on PHP and MySQL. 6,200 RUB+	29.5%
3	Joomla New York, United States An open-source content management system written in PHP. FreeOpen source	7.6%
4	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+	3.8%
5	Drupal Portland, Oregon, United States A modular open-source content management platform written in PHP. FreeOpen source	3.6%
6	Megagroup CMS.S3 Saint Petersburg, Russia A Russian commercial content management system written in PHP. 5,000 RUB+/year	1.7%
7	MODX Dallas, Texas, United States An open-source content management platform and PHP application framework focused on performance and security. FreeOpen source$39+/month	1.5%
8	UMI.CMS Saint Petersburg, Russia A PHP-based commercial multi-site content management system developed in Russia. 7,900 RUB+	0.7%
9	K2 Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles A Joomla content management extension that replaces and enhances the default article system. FreeOpen source	0.6%
10	InstantCMS A modular open source CMS that allows you to build websites for any purpose. FreeOpen source	0.6%
11	HostCMS Shakhty, Rostov Oblast, Russia A Russian content management system built with PHP and MySQL.	0.5%
12	October CMS Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia A self-hosted, open-source content management system built on the Laravel PHP framework. Free$39	0.3%
13	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%
14	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	0.1%
15	Open Journal Systems Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Open source software for the management of peer-reviewed academic journals. FreeOpen source	0.1%
16	MaxSite CMS	0.09%
17	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%
18	Ghost Singapore An open-source content management system built on Node.js. FreeOpen source$11+/month	0.06%
19	e107 An open-source website content management system powered by PHP, MySQL and Bootstrap. FreeOpen source	0.05%
20	CMS Made Simple An open-source, modular, enterprise-level CMS written in PHP. FreeOpen source	0.04%
21	Kentico Brno, Czech Republic A commercial content management system built on ASP.NET and Microsoft SQL Server. $1,050+/month	0.04%
22	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	0.04%
23	Wagtail Bristol, United Kingdom An open-source CMS written in Python and built on the Django web framework. FreeOpen source	0.04%
24	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	0.04%
25	Contao Lyss, Switzerland An open-source content management system built with PHP, Symfony, and MySQL. FreeOpen source	0.03%

👉 See Also

🌎 CMS in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 90,434 websites from Russia.
Statistics were last calculated on March 20, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.