By Aurélien Debord · · updated on November 9, 2025
When choosing a technical solution, it depends on many factors: the performance of the chosen solution, its scalability, and its popularity. The purpose of this post is to regularly update the distribution of CMS by market share.
But what exactly is a CMS? A CMS (content management system) is a content management solution. A website built using such a solution allows its webmaster to update, add, or delete pages without having to "get their hands dirty with code." Quite handy, isn't it?!
Over the months, the share of WordPress remains constant. Since November 2015, this content management system has powered almost 40% of all websites worldwide. WordPress, therefore, accounts for more than 1 in 3 sites!
As a preamble, let's remember that depending on the project, the right solution to choose varies. You don't select the same technical platform for designing a showcase site as you would for customer management software.
This is precisely where WordPress has built its dominance: its versatility. With WordPress, you can just as easily create a small amateur site as an internationally significant institutional site, or even e-commerce.
There's also a large community of professionals who keep evolving the solution and ship extra features (plugins).
Finally, let's add that WordPress provides an interface that is easily understandable for the final administrator. All these are good reasons explaining the success of this CMS.
SaaS (Software as a Service-based) solutions are self-hosted tools where the site administrator pays a monthly subscription to use them. These types of websites are gaining ground because they require no IT skills and are therefore easily accessible for anyone wanting to venture online.
Notably, we observe the rise of the e-commerce solution Shopify, which climbs to second place.
However, be cautious, as with these platforms you never truly own your site: if the subscription is no longer paid, the site will no longer be online. Finally, the customization possibilities remain less than with an Open-source CMS or framework.
Source: w3Techs
Photo source: University of Washington
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