⚡ Content Management Systems in the United States

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

The United States of America (USA) is a North American country with a population of over 341 million people.

According to our research, content management systems are used on 46.7% of websites from the United States.

Statistics based on 571K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is WordPress, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 85.8% share.
It is followed by Drupal with 2.7% and Joomla with 1.6%.

WordPress 85.8%
Drupal 2.7%
Joomla 1.6%
HubSpot CMS 0.7%
CivicEngage 0.6%
DNN 0.6%
Craft 0.5%
October CMS 0.5%
Adobe Experience Manager 0.5%
iMatrix 0.5%
WordPress VIP 0.4%
Contentful 0.4%
Finalsite 0.4%
Sanity 0.3%
Other 4.5%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Drupal ^(-1)
4. HubSpot CMS ^(-2)
5. CivicEngage ^(-22)
6. DNN ^(-6)
7. Craft ^(-1)
8. October CMS ^(-5)
10. iMatrix ^(-25)
11. WordPress VIP ^(-13)
13. Finalsite ^(-12)
14. Sanity ^(-1)

✨ Best CMS Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 221 CMS platforms used on sites from the United States, 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	85.8%
2	Drupal Portland, Oregon, United States A modular open-source content management platform written in PHP. FreeOpen source	2.7%
3	Joomla New York, United States An open-source content management system written in PHP. FreeOpen source	1.6%
4	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	0.7%
5	CivicEngage Manhattan, Kansas, United States A content management system designed specifically for municipal and government websites. $$$	0.6%
6	DNN Austin, Texas, United States A free and open-source content management system based on .NET and MS SQL Server. FreeOpen source	0.6%
7	Craft Bend, Oregon, United States A flexible open-source content management system written in PHP that supports MySQL or PostgreSQL databases and is built on the Yii Framework. Free$279+	0.5%
8	October CMS Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia A self-hosted, open-source content management system built on the Laravel PHP framework. Free$39	0.5%
9	Adobe Experience Manager San Jose, California, United States A software solution that's equal part content management system and digital asset management system. $50,000+/year	0.5%
10	iMatrix El Segundo, California, United States Provides advanced website and digital marketing solutions for small to medium-sized health and wellness practices. $$$	0.5%
11	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	0.4%
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	0.4%
13	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	0.4%
14	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	0.3%
15	Blox CMS East Moline, Illinois, United States A content management system for media and news organizations. $$$	0.3%
16	ExpressionEngine Ormond Beach, Florida, United States An open-source content management system built on PHP and MySQL. FreeOpen source$249+	0.3%
17	Sitecore San Francisco, California, United States An enterprise CMS built on ASP.NET Core and Microsoft SQL Server that manages, delivers, and optimizes digital content and experiences across multiple channels. $40,000+/year	0.3%
18	Kentico Brno, Czech Republic A commercial content management system built on ASP.NET and Microsoft SQL Server. $1,050+/month	0.3%
19	Sitefinity Burlington, Massachusetts, United States A cloud-based, AI-powered, enterprise-grade CMS built on .NET technology. $$$	0.3%
20	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	0.2%
21	SpotHopper Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States A marketing & online revenue platform for restaurants that handles website creation, reservations, online ordering, social media and email marketing. $249+/month	0.2%
22	Edlio CMS Glendale, California, United States A content management system for K-12 schools and districts that is packed with features designed specifically for teachers and school administrators. $$$	0.1%
23	Revize eGov CMS Troy, Michigan, United States A cloud-based content management system designed specifically for government websites.	0.1%
24	Modern Campus Toronto, Ontario, Canada A cloud-based content management system designed specifically for higher education institutions. $$$	0.1%
25	Prismic Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A headless CMS and page builder for Next.js, Nuxt, and SvelteKit sites. Free$180+/month	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 571,566 websites from the United States.
We currently track the presence of 288 CMS platforms across the web.
Of these, 221 were detected on websites from the United States.
Statistics were last calculated on April 10, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.