🆚 Contao vs. ProcessWire

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Contao is four times more popular than ProcessWire.
🌍 Contao is more popular in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria.
🌎 ProcessWire is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.

Contao

ProcessWire

Type

Content management system

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.

ProcessWire is a PHP-based open-source content management system and web application framework focused on flexible content modeling and API-driven development.

It offers a hierarchical page structure with custom field types, a jQuery-style API, role-based access control, multilingual support, built-in caching and search, configurable URLs and SEO settings, and an extensible ecosystem with over 600 third-party modules.

Headquarters

Lyss, Switzerland

Website

contao.org #105,378

processwire.com #469,009

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Contao CMS is 4 times more popular than ProcessWire.

Total websites

Market share

CMS

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Contao is more popular in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, while ProcessWire is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.

Germany

Switzerland

Austria

United States

France

United Kingdom

Netherlands

Italy

Belgium

Finland

Awards

⭐ 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.

⭐ 8th most popular in Finland in the CMS category.
⭐ 9th most popular in Germany in the CMS category.
🔥 11st most popular in Switzerland in the CMS category.
🔥 12nd most popular in Italy in the CMS category.
🔥 12nd most popular in Belgium in the CMS category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Contao is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and travel, while ProcessWire is more commonly used on real estate, online shopping, and finance and banking sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Travel

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Education/Reference

Entertainment

Internet Services

Health

Real Estate

Software/Hardware