Top 10 Content Management Systems (Oct 2025)

WordPress remains the dominant force in content management systems, powering 43.3% of websites surveyed and holding a 60.7% share among sites using a CMS, according to W3Techs (October 2025). That is still a commanding lead, but it marks a sustained decline from its peak of 65.2% in 2022 and is back to the same level as 2018, prior to the pandemic boom.

For executives and technical teams, this shift signals more than a market statistic.

As WordPress shows its first significant slide in two decades, SaaS competitors like Shopify, Wix, and Squarespace…