Exit

2026

State of CMS

About you

Q1 What is your role?
Q2 How many years of experience do you have with websites?

Building or managing websites.

Q3 Who do you make websites for?
Q4 How many people work at your company?

Freelancers: select “Only me”.

Q5 How many websites do you work on now?
Q7 Have you built or managed websites with a CMS in the last 12 months?

The next questions depend on your answer.

No CMS this year

Q8 How do you manage website content without a CMS?
Q9 Why did you not use a CMS? (optional)

Your experience

Q10 Which CMSs have you heard about or used in the last 10 years?
All CMSs (64)

Separate names with commas.

Your experience

WordPress

Q11 What is your experience with WordPress?

Your experience

Drupal

Q11 What is your experience with Drupal?

Your experience

HubSpot CMS

Q11 What is your experience with HubSpot CMS?

Your experience

Webflow

Q11 What is your experience with Webflow?

Your experience

Joomla

Q11 What is your experience with Joomla?

Your experience

TYPO3

Q11 What is your experience with TYPO3?

Your experience

Contentful

Q11 What is your experience with Contentful?

Your experience

Framer

Q11 What is your experience with Framer?

Your experience

Wix

Q11 What is your experience with Wix?

Your experience

Squarespace

Q11 What is your experience with Squarespace?

Your experience

Sanity

Q11 What is your experience with Sanity?

Your experience

Sitecore

Q11 What is your experience with Sitecore?

Your experience

Storyblok

Q11 What is your experience with Storyblok?

Your experience

Liferay

Q11 What is your experience with Liferay?

Your experience

Craft CMS

Q11 What is your experience with Craft CMS?

Your experience

1C-Bitrix

Q11 What is your experience with 1C-Bitrix?

Your experience

Adobe Experience Manager

Q11 What is your experience with Adobe Experience Manager?

Your experience

Blogger

Q11 What is your experience with Blogger?

Your experience

Brightspot

Q11 What is your experience with Brightspot?

Your experience

Builder.io

Q11 What is your experience with Builder.io?

Your experience

CloudCannon

Q11 What is your experience with CloudCannon?

Your experience

CMS Made Simple

Q11 What is your experience with CMS Made Simple?

Your experience

Concrete CMS

Q11 What is your experience with Concrete CMS?

Your experience

Contao

Q11 What is your experience with Contao?

Your experience

Contentstack

Q11 What is your experience with Contentstack?

Your experience

DataLife Engine

Q11 What is your experience with DataLife Engine?

Your experience

DatoCMS

Q11 What is your experience with DatoCMS?

Your experience

Decap CMS

Q11 What is your experience with Decap CMS?

Your experience

Directus

Q11 What is your experience with Directus?

Your experience

DNN

Q11 What is your experience with DNN?

Your experience

Duda

Q11 What is your experience with Duda?

Your experience

Enonic

Q11 What is your experience with Enonic?

Your experience

ExpressionEngine

Q11 What is your experience with ExpressionEngine?

Your experience

Front Matter CMS

Q11 What is your experience with Front Matter CMS?

Your experience

Ghost

Q11 What is your experience with Ghost?

Your experience

GoDaddy Website Builder

Q11 What is your experience with GoDaddy Website Builder?

Your experience

Hygraph

Q11 What is your experience with Hygraph?

Your experience

Kentico Xperience

Q11 What is your experience with Kentico Xperience?

Your experience

Keystatic

Q11 What is your experience with Keystatic?

Your experience

Keystone

Q11 What is your experience with Keystone?

Your experience

Kirby

Q11 What is your experience with Kirby?

Your experience

Magnolia

Q11 What is your experience with Magnolia?

Your experience

microCMS

Q11 What is your experience with microCMS?

Your experience

Mobirise

Q11 What is your experience with Mobirise?

Your experience

October CMS

Q11 What is your experience with October CMS?

Your experience

Optimizely CMS (Episerver)

Q11 What is your experience with Optimizely CMS (Episerver)?

Your experience

Pages CMS

Q11 What is your experience with Pages CMS?

Your experience

Payload

Q11 What is your experience with Payload?

Your experience

Pimcore

Q11 What is your experience with Pimcore?

Your experience

Plone

Q11 What is your experience with Plone?

Your experience

Prismic

Q11 What is your experience with Prismic?

Your experience

ProcessWire

Q11 What is your experience with ProcessWire?

Your experience

Progress Sitefinity

Q11 What is your experience with Progress Sitefinity?

Your experience

Readdy

Q11 What is your experience with Readdy?

Your experience

Silverstripe

Q11 What is your experience with Silverstripe?

Your experience

SPIP

Q11 What is your experience with SPIP?

Your experience

Statamic

Q11 What is your experience with Statamic?

Your experience

Strapi

Q11 What is your experience with Strapi?

Your experience

STUDIO

Q11 What is your experience with STUDIO?

Your experience

Sveltia CMS

Q11 What is your experience with Sveltia CMS?

Your experience

Tilda

Q11 What is your experience with Tilda?

Your experience

TinaCMS

Q11 What is your experience with TinaCMS?

Your experience

Umbraco

Q11 What is your experience with Umbraco?

Your experience

Weebly

Q11 What is your experience with Weebly?

Your experience

Other CMS 1

Q11 What is your experience with Other CMS 1?

Your experience

Other CMS 2

Q11 What is your experience with Other CMS 2?

Your experience

Other CMS 3

Q11 What is your experience with Other CMS 3?

Your experience

Other CMS 4

Q11 What is your experience with Other CMS 4?

Your experience

Other CMS 5

Q11 What is your experience with Other CMS 5?

Your experience, last 12 months

Q12 Which of these did you use in the last 12 months?

Static site: hand-coded or made with a site generator. AI-built: made with Lovable, v0 or a similar tool.

Your experience, last 12 months

WordPress

Q13 Who chose WordPress?
Q14 How happy are you with WordPress?

Your experience, last 12 months

Drupal

Q13 Who chose Drupal?
Q14 How happy are you with Drupal?

Your experience, last 12 months

HubSpot CMS

Q13 Who chose HubSpot CMS?
Q14 How happy are you with HubSpot CMS?

Your experience, last 12 months

Webflow

Q13 Who chose Webflow?
Q14 How happy are you with Webflow?

Your experience, last 12 months

Joomla

Q13 Who chose Joomla?
Q14 How happy are you with Joomla?

Your experience, last 12 months

TYPO3

Q13 Who chose TYPO3?
Q14 How happy are you with TYPO3?

Your experience, last 12 months

Contentful

Q13 Who chose Contentful?
Q14 How happy are you with Contentful?

Your experience, last 12 months

Framer

Q13 Who chose Framer?
Q14 How happy are you with Framer?

Your experience, last 12 months

Wix

Q13 Who chose Wix?
Q14 How happy are you with Wix?

Your experience, last 12 months

Squarespace

Q13 Who chose Squarespace?
Q14 How happy are you with Squarespace?

Your experience, last 12 months

Sanity

Q13 Who chose Sanity?
Q14 How happy are you with Sanity?

Your experience, last 12 months

Sitecore

Q13 Who chose Sitecore?
Q14 How happy are you with Sitecore?

Your experience, last 12 months

Storyblok

Q13 Who chose Storyblok?
Q14 How happy are you with Storyblok?

Your experience, last 12 months

Liferay

Q13 Who chose Liferay?
Q14 How happy are you with Liferay?

Your experience, last 12 months

Craft CMS

Q13 Who chose Craft CMS?
Q14 How happy are you with Craft CMS?

Your experience, last 12 months

1C-Bitrix

Q13 Who chose 1C-Bitrix?
Q14 How happy are you with 1C-Bitrix?

Your experience, last 12 months

Adobe Experience Manager

Q13 Who chose Adobe Experience Manager?
Q14 How happy are you with Adobe Experience Manager?

Your experience, last 12 months

Blogger

Q13 Who chose Blogger?
Q14 How happy are you with Blogger?

Your experience, last 12 months

Brightspot

Q13 Who chose Brightspot?
Q14 How happy are you with Brightspot?

Your experience, last 12 months

Builder.io

Q13 Who chose Builder.io?
Q14 How happy are you with Builder.io?

Your experience, last 12 months

CloudCannon

Q13 Who chose CloudCannon?
Q14 How happy are you with CloudCannon?

Your experience, last 12 months

CMS Made Simple

Q13 Who chose CMS Made Simple?
Q14 How happy are you with CMS Made Simple?

Your experience, last 12 months

Concrete CMS

Q13 Who chose Concrete CMS?
Q14 How happy are you with Concrete CMS?

Your experience, last 12 months

Contao

Q13 Who chose Contao?
Q14 How happy are you with Contao?

Your experience, last 12 months

Contentstack

Q13 Who chose Contentstack?
Q14 How happy are you with Contentstack?

Your experience, last 12 months

DataLife Engine

Q13 Who chose DataLife Engine?
Q14 How happy are you with DataLife Engine?

Your experience, last 12 months

DatoCMS

Q13 Who chose DatoCMS?
Q14 How happy are you with DatoCMS?

Your experience, last 12 months

Decap CMS

Q13 Who chose Decap CMS?
Q14 How happy are you with Decap CMS?

Your experience, last 12 months

Directus

Q13 Who chose Directus?
Q14 How happy are you with Directus?

Your experience, last 12 months

DNN

Q13 Who chose DNN?
Q14 How happy are you with DNN?

Your experience, last 12 months

Duda

Q13 Who chose Duda?
Q14 How happy are you with Duda?

Your experience, last 12 months

Enonic

Q13 Who chose Enonic?
Q14 How happy are you with Enonic?

Your experience, last 12 months

ExpressionEngine

Q13 Who chose ExpressionEngine?
Q14 How happy are you with ExpressionEngine?

Your experience, last 12 months

Front Matter CMS

Q13 Who chose Front Matter CMS?
Q14 How happy are you with Front Matter CMS?

Your experience, last 12 months

Ghost

Q13 Who chose Ghost?
Q14 How happy are you with Ghost?

Your experience, last 12 months

GoDaddy Website Builder

Q13 Who chose GoDaddy Website Builder?
Q14 How happy are you with GoDaddy Website Builder?

Your experience, last 12 months

Hygraph

Q13 Who chose Hygraph?
Q14 How happy are you with Hygraph?

Your experience, last 12 months

Kentico Xperience

Q13 Who chose Kentico Xperience?
Q14 How happy are you with Kentico Xperience?

Your experience, last 12 months

Keystatic

Q13 Who chose Keystatic?
Q14 How happy are you with Keystatic?

Your experience, last 12 months

Keystone

Q13 Who chose Keystone?
Q14 How happy are you with Keystone?

Your experience, last 12 months

Kirby

Q13 Who chose Kirby?
Q14 How happy are you with Kirby?

Your experience, last 12 months

Magnolia

Q13 Who chose Magnolia?
Q14 How happy are you with Magnolia?

Your experience, last 12 months

microCMS

Q13 Who chose microCMS?
Q14 How happy are you with microCMS?

Your experience, last 12 months

Mobirise

Q13 Who chose Mobirise?
Q14 How happy are you with Mobirise?

Your experience, last 12 months

October CMS

Q13 Who chose October CMS?
Q14 How happy are you with October CMS?

Your experience, last 12 months

Optimizely CMS (Episerver)

Q13 Who chose Optimizely CMS (Episerver)?
Q14 How happy are you with Optimizely CMS (Episerver)?

Your experience, last 12 months

Pages CMS

Q13 Who chose Pages CMS?
Q14 How happy are you with Pages CMS?

Your experience, last 12 months

Payload

Q13 Who chose Payload?
Q14 How happy are you with Payload?

Your experience, last 12 months

Pimcore

Q13 Who chose Pimcore?
Q14 How happy are you with Pimcore?

Your experience, last 12 months

Plone

Q13 Who chose Plone?
Q14 How happy are you with Plone?

Your experience, last 12 months

Prismic

Q13 Who chose Prismic?
Q14 How happy are you with Prismic?

Your experience, last 12 months

ProcessWire

Q13 Who chose ProcessWire?
Q14 How happy are you with ProcessWire?

Your experience, last 12 months

Progress Sitefinity

Q13 Who chose Progress Sitefinity?
Q14 How happy are you with Progress Sitefinity?

Your experience, last 12 months

Readdy

Q13 Who chose Readdy?
Q14 How happy are you with Readdy?

Your experience, last 12 months

Silverstripe

Q13 Who chose Silverstripe?
Q14 How happy are you with Silverstripe?

Your experience, last 12 months

SPIP

Q13 Who chose SPIP?
Q14 How happy are you with SPIP?

Your experience, last 12 months

Statamic

Q13 Who chose Statamic?
Q14 How happy are you with Statamic?

Your experience, last 12 months

Strapi

Q13 Who chose Strapi?
Q14 How happy are you with Strapi?

Your experience, last 12 months

STUDIO

Q13 Who chose STUDIO?
Q14 How happy are you with STUDIO?

Your experience, last 12 months

Sveltia CMS

Q13 Who chose Sveltia CMS?
Q14 How happy are you with Sveltia CMS?

Your experience, last 12 months

Tilda

Q13 Who chose Tilda?
Q14 How happy are you with Tilda?

Your experience, last 12 months

TinaCMS

Q13 Who chose TinaCMS?
Q14 How happy are you with TinaCMS?

Your experience, last 12 months

Umbraco

Q13 Who chose Umbraco?
Q14 How happy are you with Umbraco?

Your experience, last 12 months

Weebly

Q13 Who chose Weebly?
Q14 How happy are you with Weebly?

Your experience, last 12 months

Other CMS 1

Q13 Who chose Other CMS 1?
Q14 How happy are you with Other CMS 1?
Q15 What type of CMS is Other CMS 1?

Select how you use it.

The next questions depend on your answer.

Your experience, last 12 months

Other CMS 2

Q13 Who chose Other CMS 2?
Q14 How happy are you with Other CMS 2?
Q15 What type of CMS is Other CMS 2?

Select how you use it.

The next questions depend on your answer.

Your experience, last 12 months

Other CMS 3

Q13 Who chose Other CMS 3?
Q14 How happy are you with Other CMS 3?
Q15 What type of CMS is Other CMS 3?

Select how you use it.

The next questions depend on your answer.

Your experience, last 12 months

Other CMS 4

Q13 Who chose Other CMS 4?
Q14 How happy are you with Other CMS 4?
Q15 What type of CMS is Other CMS 4?

Select how you use it.

The next questions depend on your answer.

Your experience, last 12 months

Other CMS 5

Q13 Who chose Other CMS 5?
Q14 How happy are you with Other CMS 5?
Q15 What type of CMS is Other CMS 5?

Select how you use it.

The next questions depend on your answer.

Your experience, last 12 months

Custom-built CMS

Q13 Who chose Custom-built CMS?
Q14 How happy are you with Custom-built CMS?
Q15 What type of CMS is Custom-built CMS?

Select how you use it.

The next questions depend on your answer.

Your experience, last 12 months

Static site, no CMS

Q13 Who chose Static site, no CMS?
Q14 How happy are you with Static site, no CMS?

Your experience, last 12 months

AI-built site, no CMS

Q13 Who chose AI-built site, no CMS?
Q14 How happy are you with AI-built site, no CMS?

Switching CMS

Q16 Have you switched to a different CMS in the last 12 months?

The next questions depend on your answer.

Q17 In the last 12 months, did a change at a CMS company make you think about leaving it?

Select all that apply.

Switching CMS

Q18 What type of switch was it?
Q19 Which CMS did you switch from?

If you switched more than once, select the most important one.

Q20 Which CMS did you switch to?
Q21 Why did you switch?

Select up to 3.

Q22 How easy was the migration? (optional)
Q23 Did you use AI for the migration?
Q24 Apart from the new CMS, did you try other CMSs?

The next questions depend on your answer.

Trying CMSs

Q25 In the last 12 months, which CMS did you try most seriously?
Q26 How far did you go with it?
Q27 Why did you try it?

Select up to 3.

Q28 What did you decide?

Content

Q30 Who edits the content of your sites?
Q31 How many people edit content on your sites?
Q32 Which editor do you use with WordPress?

Select all that you use.

Q33 When you need a new landing page, how long does it take until it is live?
Q34 How much do you agree? (optional)
I am considering a headless CMS
Non-developers can use AI in the CMSs I work with
I have considered Git-based CMSs
Vendor lock-in has an effect on which CMS I choose
Visual design/editing capabilities is a must-have
Q35 Where do your sites run?

Select all that apply.

Frontend stack

Q36 Which frameworks or site generators do your sites use?

Separate names with commas.

Q37 How are most pages rendered?

Problems

Q38 What are your biggest problems with CMSs today?

Select up to 3.

AI

Q39 What did you use AI for with your CMS in the last 12 months?
Q40 Would you let an AI agent publish changes to your site without a person checking them?
Q41 What stops you from using more AI with your CMS?

Select up to 3.

Q42 In the last 12 months, did you change your content to perform better in AI answers?

AEO (answer engine optimization): making content that AI tools such as ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews show in their answers.

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