🆚 Backdrop CMS vs. Contao

Type

Content management system
Content management system

About

Backdrop is an open-source content management system that is a fork of Drupal 7 with usability improvements and new features.

Contao is an open-source content management system built with PHP, Symfony, and MySQL.

It offers advanced editing features, a fine-grained permission system, responsive images, a full-text search engine, a flexible form generator, and built-in SEO tools.

Headquarters

New York, United States
Lyss, Switzerland

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source

Categories

CMS › Rank #120
CMS › Rank #10

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Contao CMS platform is 39 times more popular than Backdrop CMS.
Total websites

Market share

CMS

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Contao is more popular in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, while Backdrop CMS is more popular in the United States, Hungary, and Estonia.
Germany
Switzerland
Austria
France
United States
United Kingdom
Poland
Italy
Greece
Netherlands

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Contao is more popular than Backdrop CMS in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Travel
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Health
Software/Hardware
Public Information
Entertainment

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#127,632
#128,242
#134,134
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Name
Rank
#3,833
#15,274
#17,430
#21,765
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See also

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