⚡ 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 38.5% 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 a substantial share of 51.3%, followed by Bitrix with 26.8% and Joomla with 7.8%.

WordPress 51.3%
Bitrix 26.8%
Joomla 7.8%
DataLife Engine 3.9%
Drupal 3.5%
Megagroup CMS.S3 1.8%
MODX 1.4%
UMI.CMS 0.7%
InstantCMS 0.6%
K2 0.6%
HostCMS 0.4%
October CMS 0.3%
TYPO3 0.2%
Strapi 0.1%
Other 0.6%

🚀 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 ^(-42)
7. MODX ^(-28)
8. UMI.CMS ^(-69)
9. InstantCMS ^(-63)
10. K2 ^(-1)
11. HostCMS ^(-87)
12. October CMS ^(-1)
14. Strapi ^(-12)

✨ Best CMS Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 84 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	51.3%
2	Bitrix Kaliningrad, Russia A popular Russian modular content management system based on PHP and MySQL. 6,200 RUB+	26.8%
3	Joomla New York, United States An open-source content management system written in PHP. FreeOpen source	7.8%
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+	3.9%
5	Drupal Portland, Oregon, United States A modular open-source content management platform written in PHP. FreeOpen source	3.5%
6	Megagroup CMS.S3 Saint Petersburg, Russia A Russian commercial content management system written in PHP. 5,000 RUB+/year	1.8%
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	1.4%
8	UMI.CMS Saint Petersburg, Russia A PHP-based commercial multi-site content management system developed in Russia. 7,900 RUB+	0.7%
9	InstantCMS A modular open source CMS that allows you to build websites for any purpose. FreeOpen source	0.6%
10	K2 Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles A Joomla content management extension that replaces and enhances the default article system. FreeOpen source	0.6%
11	HostCMS Shakhty, Rostov Oblast, Russia A Russian content management system built with PHP and MySQL.	0.4%
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	MaxSite CMS	0.1%
16	Open Journal Systems Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Open source software for the management of peer-reviewed academic journals. FreeOpen source	0.09%
17	e107 An open source website content management system powered by PHP, MySQL and Bootstrap. FreeOpen source	0.06%
18	Ghost Singapore An open source content management system built on Node.js. FreeOpen source$11+/month	0.05%
19	Kentico Brno, Czech Republic A commercial content management system built on ASP.NET and Microsoft SQL Server. $1,050+/month	0.05%
20	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	0.05%
21	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	0.05%
22	CMS Made Simple An open source, modular, enterprise-level CMS written in PHP. FreeOpen source	0.04%
23	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%
24	Wagtail Bristol, United Kingdom An open source CMS written in Python and built on the Django web framework. FreeOpen source	0.04%
25	Flynax Sunny Isles, Florida, United States A commercial PHP script for creating classified ad websites with premium themes, plugins and native mobile apps available for an additional fee. $95+	0.03%

👉 See Also

🌎 CMS in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 80,519 websites from Russia.
Statistics were last calculated on February 3, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.