Open Source CMS Reports

In the fast-evolving digital landscape of 2025, open source content management systems (CMS) remain the backbone for millions of websites, blogs, and enterprise platforms. From powering personal portfolios to driving complex e-commerce sites, CMS like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Ghost, Strapi, TYPO3, and Craft CMS offer flexibility, cost-effectiveness, and robust ecosystems. This report dives into the latest data on trends, security, user adoption, customization, community support, and performance benchmarks. Drawing from recent industry analyses, we'll provide data-driven comparisons to help developers, marketers, and business owners select the ideal CMS for their needs. Whether you're scaling a startup or optimizing a legacy site, staying ahead means understanding how these platforms stack up in a year dominated by AI integration and headless architectures. User Adoption and Market Share Open source CMS continue to dominate the web, with over 80 million sites relying on the...

WordPress is a leading open source CMS. Backed by both a large community and the efforts of Automattic, Inc., it has grown from a pure blogging focus into a full-fledged content management system. The default system is focused on blogging, but a large number of open source plugins are available to extend the functionality. Automattic offers commercial support and consultancy for WordPress. wordpress Umbraco is a commercial open source product. The .NET CMS is written primarily in C# and uses XSLT for a variety of rendering tasks. The system is backed by the Umbraco Corporation whose business model is premised on offering a dual-licensing scheme for the core, plus sales of support and training. umbraco Xoops is a community-backed open source CMS. The system is built in PHP and employs the Smarty templating engine. Xoops is suitable for a variety of uses. The default system provides basic content management functionality and installable modules allow you to extend the system’s capabilit...