If you are curious to know the most visited CMS web sites, a possible answer is provided by the Alexa site information, with the site traffic rank.
The Alexa traffic rank, based on three months of aggregated historical traffic data, could be assumed as a measure of the CMS current popularity among the Internet users. A visit to Alexa today gives the following results:
| CMS site | Alexa rank | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | WordPress | 315 |
| 2 | Joomla! | 446 |
| 3 | Drupal | 671 |
| 4 | PHP-Nuke | 4298 |
| 5 | Typo3 | 5791 |
| 6 | ExpressionEngine | 7895 |
| 7 | MODx | 8133 |
| 8 | Pligg | 9003 |
| 9 | Elgg | 12338 |
| 10 | Xoops | 13411 |
| 11 | DotNetNuke | 15007 |
| 12 | CMS Made Simple | 15519 |
| 13 | TYPOlight | 16638 |
| 14 | Movable Type | 17310 |
| 15 | eZ publish | 18195 |
| 16 | b2evolution | 18300 |
| 17 | Plone | 18514 |
| 18 | Alfresco | 20281 |
| 19 | Textpattern | 22828 |
| 20 | Concrete5 | 28652 |
| 21 | SilverStripe | 29373 |
| 22 | Umbraco | 30267 |
| 23 | Mambo | 31941 |
| 24 | Tikiwiki | 39031 |
| 25 | e107 | 45089 |
| 26 | Zikula | 45182 |
| 27 | PHP-Fusion | 45506 |
| 28 | ImpressCMS | 45762 |
| 29 | Geeklog | 48617 |
| 30 | Nucleus | 50442 |
For details on the Alexa ranking system you can read The New Alexa Rankings.
Please note that our CMS statistics don’t make any claim of scientific accuracy, they are just intended to entertain our readers.
Only blog platforms and general content management systems are considered here; specialized systems, e.g. those building forums, wikis, image galleries and e-commerce sites are not included.
