Top 5 Content Management Systems (CMS) by Market Share
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It is estimated that the CMS market share will grow up to $123 billion by 2026. WordPress has the lion share of 62% of the market share powering approximately 34% of the websites. WordPress receives around 24 million visitors every month, with 8 million coming from the US. Joomla comes second with a share of 4.9%. Statistics indicate that Wix is the fastest growing, with a growth rate of 149% per year. If you are looking for webhosting opinions for your website, here is what you should know:

Top 5 CMS by Countries

1. WordPress

WordPress is one of the biggest and commonly known CMS, with the largest market share. The platform is easy to use, the reason why it attracts a high number of users. WordPress has more than 60 million websites all over the world. It has thousands of themes and plugins to choose from for customization of your website. Features of WordPress include:

  • It has thousands of themes and plugins, which makes it highly customizable

  • Has a good and strong community

  • It has intuitive and publishing and content management options

  • It offers intuitive publishing and content management options

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The WordPress CMS is commonly used in South and North America, European countries, some Asian countries, Australia, and a few African countries. In the American continents, the leading countries using Word press are Canada, the USA, and Brazil. In Europe, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom are leading in this CMS's use. In Asia, the leading countries are India, Pakistan, and Indonesia. African countries using WordPress are Kenya, Nigeria, among others.

2. Joomla

Approximately 25 million websites are powered by Joomla, which is 10% of the market share globally. Joomla is common in some African countries such as Kenya, Ethiopia, Cameroon, among others. In Asia, countries that use this CMS are Russia, Mongolia, among others. In Europe, Poland, Greece, Bosnia, among others, use Joomla.

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Features of Joomla CMS:

  • It has excellent support for custom posts

  • It offers advanced user management features

  • It has multilingual support

  • Supports the use of unique templates for every category of pages

3. Drupal

Drupal is the third biggest CMS with approximately and among the big 3 CMS with Word Press and Joomla. The software is commonly used in these countries: Namibia, Honduras, Jordan, Brazil, Bhutan, Cambodia, Chile, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, Hungary, Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Macedonia, Malaysia, Nepal, Nigeria, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Sri Lanka, Venezuela, and Yemen. 

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Features of Drupal CMS:

  • It has SEO-friendly features

  • It has mobile-friendly features

  • Supports blogging functionality

  • Supports e-Commerce functionality

4.Typo 3

Typo 3 is among the biggest CMS. It is recognized globally. Typo 3 has high scalability, which takes care of enterprise-level websites. Typo 3 is easy to use and offers great solutions for creating an intranet, large corporate portals, and e-commerce platforms. It is commonly used in a few African countries, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, France, and other 138 countries.

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Key Features of Typo 3 are:

  • Enables you to manage multiple sites on a single installation

  • Supports multilingual websites

  • Efficiently supports enterprise-level sites

  • The software allows you to save and share data and tools among your websites. 

5. Wix

Wix CMS is an all-in-one website builder, and it has a market share of 6.98%. If you are a newbie, Wix is fully hosted and will manage all technical details. Wix has used Israel, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Ireland, Lithuania, the United States, and Ukraine.

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Features of Wix CMS:

  • It has SEO-friendly features 

  • It has mobile-friendly features

  • It is user-friendly

  • Supports Blogging functionality 

  • Supports e-commerce functionality 

Conclusion

In 2018, the size of the Content Management System (CMS) was at $35.9 billion and it is likely to hit $123 billion by the year 2026. It is set to grow by a CAGR of 16%. WordPress is the biggest CMS with a huge market share of 61.9%. Joomla follows it by far with a market share of 4.9%. Drupal comes third with a 3.2% market share. Going by the statistics, WordPress is doing extremely well and this status quo will remain for a long time. However, the fastest growing CMS in 2020 is Wix and is likely to overtake Joomla and Drupal in the near future.

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