🆚 Contao vs. ExpressionEngine
- 📈 Contao is twice as popular as ExpressionEngine.
- 🌍 Contao is more popular in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
- 🌎 ExpressionEngine is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada.
Contao
ExpressionEngineType
About
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.
ExpressionEngine is an open-source content management system built on PHP and MySQL.
It includes custom channel fields, strict template separation, front-end editing through a floating control center called The Dock, the Multiple Site Manager for running separate websites from one installation, built-in member groups and permissions, and 
HTML, 
JSON, or 
XML output for headless delivery.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Germany in the CMS category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Austria in the CMS category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Switzerland in the CMS category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Croatia in the CMS category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Ireland in the CMS category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in the United Kingdom in the CMS category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Canada in the CMS category.
- 🔥 16th most popular in the United States in the CMS category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
🗃️ 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 4,001,723 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.