🆚 Drupal vs. WordPress

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 WordPress is much more popular than Drupal.
🌎 WordPress is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
🌍 Drupal is more popular in Guam and Micronesia.

Type

Content management system

Content management system

About

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.

WordPress is a widely used open-source content management system built on PHP and MySQL.

It offers a plugin ecosystem with over 60,000 extensions, thousands of themes, a block-based editor for content creation, REST API support, multisite capabilities, and a large community for support and development.

Headquarters

Portland, Oregon, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

drupal.org #76,955

wordpress.org #3,825

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Free ✔️Open source

Categories

CMS › Rank #3

CMS › Rank #1

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The WordPress CMS is 29 times more popular than Drupal.

Total websites

Market share

CMS

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

WordPress is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Drupal is more popular in Guam and Micronesia.

United States

Germany

United Kingdom

Japan

France

Spain

Italy

Netherlands

Australia

Canada

Awards

🥈 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 India in the CMS category.

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the CMS category.
🥇 Most popular in Germany in the CMS category.
🥇 Most popular in Japan in the CMS category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the CMS category.
🥇 Most popular in France in the CMS category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

WordPress is more popular than Drupal in all market segments.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Blogs/Wiki

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Entertainment

Online Shopping

Travel

Health

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

instructure.com

#52

#183

#251

youradchoices.com

#311

psychologytoday.com

#419

Name

Rank

#17

#83

#140

#234

#297

Compare alternatives

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See also

Drupal technology profile

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Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
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