🆚 Contao vs. Drupal

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.

Drupal is a modular open-source content management platform written in PHP.

It provides over 50,000 modules for adding and customizing its functionality, flexible content types, multilingual support, RESTful API integration, and built-in user roles and permissions for managing complex websites.

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

• ⭐ 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.

• 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the CMS category.
• 🥈 Second most popular in France in the CMS category.
• 🥈 Second most popular in Belgium in the CMS category.
• 🥈 Second most popular in Canada in the CMS category.
• 🥈 Second most popular in Australia in the CMS category.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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