🆚 CMS Made Simple vs. Contao

Type

Content management system
Content management system

About

CMS Made Simple is an open-source content management system written in PHP that enables users to build and manage websites with flexible templating, role-based permissions, and an extensible module system.

It includes versioned content editing, an add-on manager for installing extensions, built-in features such as news, search, and navigation, and supports multilingual sites and caching to improve performance.

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

Sooke, British Columbia, Canada
Lyss, Switzerland

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source

Categories

CMS › Rank #48
CMS › Rank #10

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Contao CMS is 7 times more popular than CMS Made Simple.
Total websites

Market share

CMS

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Contao is more popular in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, while CMS Made Simple is more popular in the United States, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.
Germany
Austria
Switzerland
France
United States
Netherlands
United Kingdom
Poland
Czech Republic
Canada

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

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

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#89,825
#127,089
#168,015
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Name
Rank
#13,564
#14,419
#28,258
#50,352
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See also

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