⚡ Content Management Systems in South Africa

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

South Africa is an African country with a population of over 60 million people.

According to our research, content management systems are used on 55% of websites from South Africa.

Statistics based on 18K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is WordPress, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 91.8% share.
It is followed by Joomla with 3.3% and Drupal with 1.7%.

WordPress 91.8%
Joomla 3.3%
Drupal 1.7%
K2 0.4%
Adobe Experience Manager 0.4%
HubSpot CMS 0.3%
DNN 0.3%
Craft 0.2%
Sanity 0.2%
Microsoft SharePoint 0.1%
Refinery 0.1%
Contentful 0.1%
October CMS 0.1%
Plone 0.1%
Other 0.9%

🚀 Highlights

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

4. K2 ^(-7)
5. Adobe Experience Manager ^(-2)
7. DNN ^(-5)
9. Sanity ^(-5)
10. Microsoft SharePoint ^(-31)
11. Refinery ^(-158)
14. Plone ^(-32)
15. Open Journal Systems ^(-16)
16. Amplience ^(-28)
17. Strapi ^(-11)

✨ Best CMS Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 68 CMS platforms used on sites from South Africa, 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	91.8%
2	Joomla New York, United States An open-source content management system written in PHP. FreeOpen source	3.3%
3	Drupal Portland, Oregon, United States A modular open-source content management platform written in PHP. FreeOpen source	1.7%
4	K2 Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles A Joomla content management extension that replaces and extends the default article system with a structured content framework. FreeOpen source	0.4%
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	HubSpot CMS Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A hosted platform for building websites, blogs, landing pages, apps, and emails that integrates tightly with and other marketing tools. Free$15+/seat/month	0.3%
7	DNN Austin, Texas, United States A free and open-source content management system based on .NET and MS SQL Server. FreeOpen source	0.3%
8	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%
9	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%
10	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	0.1%
11	Refinery A content management system based on Ruby on Rails. FreeOpen source	0.1%
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	0.1%
13	October CMS Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia A self-hosted, open-source content management system built on the Laravel PHP framework. Free$39	0.1%
14	Plone Fishers, Indiana, United States An open-source enterprise content management system built with Python and the application server for managing scalable and content-rich websites. FreeOpen source	0.1%
15	Open Journal Systems Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada An open-source software for managing and publishing peer-reviewed academic journals. FreeOpen source	0.1%
16	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%
17	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	0.09%
18	ExpressionEngine Ormond Beach, Florida, United States An open-source content management system built on PHP and MySQL. FreeOpen source$249+	0.07%
19	MODX Dallas, Texas, United States An open-source content management platform and PHP application framework focused on performance and security. FreeOpen source$39+/month	0.07%
20	HCL Digital Experience Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India An enterprise web portal and digital experience platform that provides an integration framework for information systems and business applications. Free$$$	0.06%
21	Orchard Core Redmond, Washington, United States An open-source, modular content management system and application framework built on ASP.NET Core that allows multiple sites to run from a single installation and supports both traditional and headless content delivery. FreeOpen source	0.05%
22	Bloomreach Experience Manager Mountain View, California, United States A Java-based digital experience platform available under open-source and enterprise licenses. FreeOpen source$100,000+/year	0.05%
23	Prismic Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A headless CMS and page builder for Next.js, Nuxt, and SvelteKit sites. Free$180+/month	0.04%
24	Osclass Chtelnica, Slovakia An open-source classifieds script used to create, manage, and scale classifieds websites. FreeOpen source	0.04%
25	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	0.04%

👉 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 18,940 websites from South Africa.
We currently track the presence of 290 CMS platforms across the web.
Of these, 68 were detected on websites from South Africa.
Statistics were last calculated on August 3, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.