CMS popularity

Comparison of the popularity of content management systems. The ranking is based on the traffic of the site as provided by Alexa. It could not reflect the number of users of the CMS. The last update was on March 11, 2013.

Main types of CMS:

• Portal. Dedicated to a topic or business.
• Discussion forum.
• Digg-like. List of news presented by the authors and rated by users.
• Blog. News server for personal use or business.

An so specialized content management systems and frameworks are also ranked. All CMS are written in PHP and MySQL but the short list of Java software.
The number beside the name is the Alexa rank on the Web as of May 2009.

Portals and blogs

Blogs and news servers are included in this list along with tools to manage a classical or eCommerce site.

1. Wordpress 98
   Blog manager, the easiest to use.
2. Joomla! 373
   A rigid CMS but with all the essential functions.
3. Drupal 526
   Designed for professional webmasters, features extensive configuration.
4. Typo3 5 300
   Multi-domains.
5. PHP-Nuke 7300. Falling.
6. MODx 11 300
   Modular, has function to import HTML pages of a static site.
7. PHPList 13 000
   News server.
8. CMS Made Simple 18 000
   Easy to use but with limitations.
9. Spip 20 000
   CMS for portals made of templates.
10. SilverStripe 21 500
    Based on the Sapphire framework, it had the advantages of both Wordpress and Drupal. Certified by Microsoft.
11. b2evolution 33 000. Falling.
    Blog and more.
12. Textpattern 35 000
13. Xoops 38 000. Falling.
14. e107 40 000
    Similar to Joomla.

Collaboratives

These are forums, Digg-like and wikis.

1. vBulletin 4200
   Commercial CMS for building a forum.
2. SMF 4 500
   Forum.
3. phpBB 5 400
   Forum.
4. MediaWiki 7 800
5. Pligg 10 000
   Digg-like.
6. Geeklog 88 000. Falling.
   Blog.
7. Freeglobes 104 000. Falling.
   Directory.
8. FluxBB 107 000. Falling.
   Forum.
9. Nucleus CMS 127 000. Down sharply.
   Blog.
10. Phorum 165 000. Down sharply.
    Easy to configure.
11. SNews 188 000. Down sharply.
    Extensive blogging and public domain.

Images, videos and ecommerce CMS

Usable as main site or added to a site. Magento and Prestashop grew great popularity.

1. Magento. 870.
   e-shop manager.
2. Prestashop 1100.
   e-shop manager.
3. Elgg 13 000
   Social network.
4. Coppermine 33 500. Falling.
   Image gallery.
5. PHPMotion 44000. Falling.
   Video sharing.
6. eGroupWare 105 000. Falling.
   Groupware.

CMS written in Java

1. Magnolia. 100 000.
2. Open CMS. 156 000. Falling.
3. Cocoon.
   Framework by Apache.

See also

• List of CMS.
• Getting started with Joomla.

How to choose a CMS?

The popularity of software is an indicator of quality. But for the list of features, a dynamic comparator is also useful.

• Open Source CMS. Comparison with user comments.
• CMS Matrix. Comparing two CMS, or more.