🆚 CMSimple vs. Kirby
- 📈 CMSimple is four times more popular than Kirby.
- 🌎 CMSimple is more popular in Germany, the United States, and Switzerland.
- 🌍 Kirby is more popular in France.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
KirbyType
Content management system
Content management system
About
CMSimple is a 
PHP based flat file content management system that requires no database.
Kirby is a commercial flat-file content management system that lets users build websites using plain text files for content without requiring a database.
It supports 
Markdown for text formatting, 
YAML-based blueprints to define structured fields and content models, multilingual sites, customizable user roles and permissions, and built-in image manipulation and media management.
Headquarters
Berlin, Germany
Neckargemünd, Germany
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free version ✔️Free upon request for students, selected educational projects, charities and nonprofits
Basic€99
Enterprise€349
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The CMSimple platform is 4 times more popular than Kirby.
Total websites
Market share
CMS
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
CMSimple is more popular in Germany, the United States, and Switzerland, while Kirby is more popular in France.
Germany
United States
France
Switzerland
United Kingdom
Denmark
Russia
Austria
Indonesia
Czech Republic
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
CMSimple is more popular among sites focused on education and reference, while Kirby is more commonly used on business sites.
Education/Reference
Business
Public Information
Health
Shareware/Freeware
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Sports
Software/Hardware
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Pico🗃️ 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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.