🆚 Craft vs. ExpressionEngine
- 📈 Craft is three times more popular than ExpressionEngine.
- 🌎 Craft is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.
- 🌍 ExpressionEngine is more popular in Croatia, Greece, and Turkey.
Craft
ExpressionEngineType
About
Craft is a flexible open-source content management system written in 
PHP that supports MySQL or 
PostgreSQL databases and is built on the Yii framework.
It includes a templating system powered by Twig, a built-in 
GraphQL API and headless mode, hundreds of free and commercial plugins, custom fields and relationships, live preview, localization, and fine-grained user permissions.
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.
Headquarters
Pricing
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
- 🥉 Third most popular in Belgium in the CMS category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the United Kingdom in the CMS category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the Netherlands in the CMS category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Australia in the CMS category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Canada 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.
- 🔥 17th 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 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.