🆚 CMS Made Simple vs. Contao

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.

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

• 🔥 17th most popular in France in the CMS category.
• ⬆️ 27th most popular in the Netherlands in the CMS category.
• ⬆️ 39th most popular in the United Kingdom in the CMS category.
• ⬆️ 40th most popular in Germany in the CMS category.

• ⭐ 4th most popular in Germany in the CMS category.
• ⭐ 4th most popular in Austria in the CMS category.
• ⭐ 5th most popular in Switzerland in the CMS category.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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