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Content Management Systems Market Report

Get all the information about content management systems in an extensive report.

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This extensive report shows many detailed statistics of the content management system market.

Our technology market report is a detailed monthly report on the usage of content management systems on websites. The report comes via email as a PDF file and has over 17,550 pages with hierarchical bookmarks that make it easy to navigate. It covers this information:

  • List of all content management systems
    Which content management systems are covered? Shows a list of all 956 content management systems monitored for our surveys, together with a short description and a link to the website.
  • Usage and Market Share Report
    How popular is each of the content management systems? Shows percentages of usage and market shares for all content management systems that we monitor. Also shows how much these figures changed compared to the last month and to the last year.
  • Historical Trend Report
    How did the popularity of the content management systems change over time? Shows tables and diagrams of historical trends of usage and market shares for all content management systems since January 2013. Please note, that we permanently keep adding more content management systems to our surveys, therefore not all of them cover the entire time frame.
  • Growth Rate Report
    Which are the fastest growing content management systems? Shows the current growth rates in the usage of all content management systems both in absolute figures and percentages in the last month and in the last year.
  • Trend Analysis Report
    Which market segments contributed most to usage changes of each content management system? Shows which geographical regions, identified by top level domain and content language, saw the most significant popularity gains or declines in the popularity of the various content management systems in the last 12 months.
  • New Site Usage Report
    How popular is each of the content management systems among new sites? Shows percentages of usage and market shares for all content management systems among sites that were first visited in the last month, because they have only recently entered the top 10 million sites.
  • Top Site Usage Report
    Which content management systems are primarily used by high traffic sites? Shows for each content management system the share of top sites among all the sites that use that specific content management system.
  • Page Speed Report
    What is the average speed when loading pages of different content management systems? Shows for each of the 519 content management systems, for which we have at least 100 measurements, the average Time to First Byte (TTFB) and Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) measurements, obtained from Google's Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX).
  • Usage Pattern Report
    On which part of websites are content management systems being used? Shows for each content management system the percentages of websites that use it on the home page, on inner pages only, or on subdomains only.
  • Change Report
    Which percentage of sites switched between content management system? Shows for each content management system the percentages of websites that recently switched to or from another content management system as well as the top five content management systems that were involved in such changes.
  • List of up to 300 sites that switched between content management systems
    Which popular sites changed their content management system? Shows the 300 most popular sites that switched from one content management system to another in the last month (if there are that many sites in a month). Also shows the involved content management systems.
  • List of sites that use specific content management systems
    For each of the 956 content management systems: which popular sites use it, which sites started or stopped using it recently? Shows up to 50 popular sites that use a specific content management system, and up to 50 sites that started using it in the last month, and up to 50 sites that stopped using it in the last month (if there are that many sites in a month).
  • List of top sites that use none of the content management systems
    Which popular sites don't use any content management system that we monitor? Shows the 300 most popular sites that do not use a content management system.
  • Market Position Report
    Where in the market diagram are the content management systems? Shows the market position of the 30 most popular content management systems in terms of popularity and usage by high traffic sites.
  • Ranking Breakdown Report
    Which content management systems are popular among high traffic sites? Shows usage and market shares and ranks of all content management systems among websites within popularity ranges of the Alexa ranking, that is among the top 1 million sites, the top 100,000, the top 10,000 and the top 1,000 sites.
  • Multiple Content Management Systems Usage Report
    How frequently are more than one content management system used on one site, and which ones? Shows for each content management system statistics on the usage together with other content management systems. We identify here usage on the same site, not necessarily on the same page.
  • Cross-Technologies Market Segmentation Reports
    Which content management systems are particularly strong in which markets? A large set of reports evaluating the combined usage of two categories of web technologies. This shows, for example, the usage and market shares and ranks of all content management systems on any top level domain compared to the usage on all websites.

    These detailed reports are available not only for top level domains, but also for the usage of content management systems broken down by

    • Server-side Programming Languages
    • Client-side Programming Languages
    • JavaScript Libraries
    • CSS Frameworks
    • Web Servers
    • Web Panels
    • Operating Systems
    • Web Hosting Providers
    • Data Center Providers
    • Reverse Proxy Services
    • DNS Server Providers
    • Email Server Providers
    • SSL Certificate Authorities
    • JavaScript Content Delivery Networks
    • Traffic Analysis Tools
    • Advertising Networks
    • Tag Managers
    • Social Widgets
    • Site Elements
    • Structured Data Formats
    • Markup Languages
    • Character Encodings
    • Image File Formats
    • Top Level Domains
    • Server Locations
    • Content Languages
  • Geographical Distribution Report
    Which content management system is the most popular one in each country? Shows a colored world map indicating the most popular content management system by country.

Please see technologies overview for explanations on the methodologies used in the surveys, and read our disclaimer to learn about possible incompleteness and inaccuracy of our data.

Table of Content

This is a preview of the current report's table of content.

1. About this Survey 3
2. Content Management Systems 5
3. Usage Overview 49
3.1. Subcategories 71
4. Historical Trends 89
4.1. Subcategories 161
5. Growth Rates 237
6. Trend Analysis 261
7. New Site Usage 473
8. Top Site Usage 490
9. Page Speed 513
10. Usage Pattern 527
11. Changes 549
12. Sites with recent Technology Changes 656
13. Sites using specific Content Management Systems 662
14. Top sites using none of the Content Management Systems 2510
15. Market Position 2516
16. Ranking Breakdown 2519
17. Multiple Content Management System Usage 2564
18. Segmentation Reports 3884
18.1. Server-side Programming Languages 3884
18.2. Client-side Programming Languages 3989
18.3. JavaScript Libraries 4033
18.4. CSS Frameworks 4319
18.5. Web Servers 4411
18.6. Web Panels 4609
18.7. Operating Systems 4660
18.8. Web Hosting Providers 4777
18.9. Data Center Providers 7322
18.10. Reverse Proxy Services 9170
18.11. DNS Server Providers 9271
18.12. Email Server Providers 11046
18.13. SSL Certificate Authorities 12668
18.14. JavaScript Content Delivery Networks 12853
18.15. Traffic Analysis Tools 12947
18.16. Advertising Networks 13458
18.17. Tag Managers 13664
18.18. Social Widgets 13705
18.19. Site Elements 13903
18.20. Structured Data Formats 14344
18.21. Markup Languages 14432
18.22. Character Encodings 14545
18.23. Image File Formats 14648
18.24. Top Level Domains 14755
18.25. Server Locations 16543
18.26. Content Languages 17192
19. Geographical Distribution 17566

Licence

Purchasing this report entitles you to use the information within your organization and in direct non-public communication with your business partners. The data may not be published or sold to third parties.

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