Content Management SystemsSummary: A new section of our web technology surveys shows the usage of content management systems. We extend our coverage of web technologies by including content management systems (CMS).
There is some disagreement about this term, because sometimes wikis are seen as something different than a CMS, and often systems that only support blogging are regarded a separate category. Also, some people make a distinction between hosted systems, and systems that one can download and install on a server.
In our surveys, we do not make these distinctions. The main reason is that technically speaking these differences tend to disappear. Many "traditional" CMS can be configured to operate in a wiki-like mode, and some blog engines have evolved into quite powerful full-blown CMS. Therefore we decided to include them all in one category, even discussion board systems. Please note, however, that we do not include off-line systems, used to generate static HTML pages that are then uploaded to a server. One has to draw a line somewhere, otherwise Notepad would be a CMS.
The first statistics in this new category show some surprises:
- The clear lead of Wordpress, being used by much more sites than the other leading CMS such as Joomla, Drupal and Typo3.
- The high number of sites that consist only (or mainly) in a forum. Their favorite systems are vBulletin, phpBB and Discuz.
- The high number of sites that use Blogger as underlying technology. Note that we include only sites that have their own domain, as we consider all subdomains of blogger.com or blogspot.com as belonging to the same domain.
It will be interesting to watch how the statistics in this category change over time.
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