TOTAL score
A score between 1 and 10 based on the average of our Expert Score and User Score.
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Market Position
A score between 1 and 10 based on popularity and market reach of each product.
Total Score
A score between 1 and 10 based on the average of our Expert Score and User Score.
CloudRank™ tier
Based on product's total score.
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25 Most Popular Content Management Systems
Here is a list of all 25 Content Management Systems solutions evaluated with our CloudRank™ analysis. We have compared their features, user satisfaction, market presence and other key factors in an in-depth analysis you can find below:
1. HubSpot
8.66
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Score:8.66
Customers company size
No. of employees:
1-10 11-50 51-100 100+
Best features
Content Authoring
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Performance and Reliability
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Content Queue
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User, Role, and Access Management
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Centralized Database & Content Repository
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Worst features
File Sharing
%
Appearance Customization
%
Customization
%
Mobile
%
Templates
%
2. monday.com
8.64
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Score:8.64
Customers company size
No. of employees:
1-10 11-50 51-100 100+
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API/Integrations
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Performance and Reliability
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Templates
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User, Role, and Access Management
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Customization
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Worst features
Support
%
Discussions
%
Centralized Database & Content Repository
%
Tagging
%
Comments and Voting
%
3. Squarespace
8.63
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Score:8.63
Customers company size
No. of employees:
1-10 11-50 51-100 100+
Best features
Mobile
%
User, Role, and Access Management
%
Content Queue
%
Appearance Customization
%
Support
%
Worst features
Customization
%
Comments and Voting
%
Rich Text Editor
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Content Authoring
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SEO Optimization
%
4. WordPress
8.60
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Score:8.60
Customers company size
No. of employees:
1-10 11-50 51-100 100+
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Content Authoring
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Branding/Themes
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Categories
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Tagging
%
User, Role, and Access Management
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Support
%
Flexible Deployment
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API/Integrations
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Performance and Reliability
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Internal Search Filters
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5. M-Files
8.30
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Score:8.30
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No. of employees:
1-10 11-50 51-100 100+
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Versioning
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Internationalization
%
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File Sharing
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Templates
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API/Integrations
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Tagging
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Support
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6. Laserfiche
8.23
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Score:8.23
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No. of employees:
1-10 11-50 51-100 100+
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Internationalization
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Versioning
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Versioning
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API/Integrations
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Tagging
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Mobile
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Support
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Templates
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7. Acquia
8.13
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Score:8.13
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No. of employees:
1-10 11-50 51-100 100+
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8. Contentful
7.90
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Score:7.90
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No. of employees:
1-10 11-50 51-100 100+
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File Sharing
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Versioning
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Uploads
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9. Joomla!
7.88
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Score:7.88
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No. of employees:
1-10 11-50 51-100 100+
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10. Kentico
7.73
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Score:7.73
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No. of employees:
1-10 11-50 51-100 100+
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11. Webflow
7.49
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Score:7.49
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No. of employees:
1-10 11-50 51-100 100+
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Tagging
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Categories
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12. Drupal
7.36
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Score:7.36
Customers company size
No. of employees:
1-10 11-50 51-100 100+
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User, Role, and Access Management
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Content Authoring
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Appearance Customization
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Customization
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API/Integrations
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Worst features
Mobile
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Internal Search Filters
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Templates
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13. Pantheon.io
7.33
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Score:7.33
Customers company size
No. of employees:
1-10 11-50 51-100 100+
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Versioning
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Content Authoring
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Centralized Database & Content Repository
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Content Queue
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Support
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Mobile
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14. Solodev
7.26
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Score:7.26
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No. of employees:
1-10 11-50 51-100 100+
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Content Queue
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File Sharing
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Tagging
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Centralized Database & Content Repository
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File Sharing
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SEO Optimization
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Internationalization
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15. Brightcove
7.24
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Score:7.24
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No. of employees:
1-10 11-50 51-100 100+
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File Sharing
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16. Episerver
7.22
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Score:7.22
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No. of employees:
1-10 11-50 51-100 100+
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Content Authoring
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Internationalization
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Versioning
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17. BOLD
7.21
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Score:7.21
Customers company size
No. of employees:
1-10 11-50 51-100 100+
Best features
Tagging
%
Performance and Reliability
%
User, Role, and Access Management
%
SEO Optimization
%
API/Integrations
%
Worst features
Rich Text Editor
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Support
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18. ConcreteCMS
7.03
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Score:7.03
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No. of employees:
1-10 11-50 51-100 100+
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Appearance Customization
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Customization
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19. Agility CMS
6.98
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Score:6.98
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No. of employees:
1-10 11-50 51-100 100+
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20. Sitecore
6.96
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Score:6.96
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No. of employees:
1-10 11-50 51-100 100+
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Customization
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21. Write.as
6.91
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Score:6.91
Customers company size
No. of employees:
1-10 11-50 51-100 100+
Best features
Content Authoring
%
Mobile
%
SEO Optimization
%
Rich Text Editor
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API/Integrations
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File Sharing
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Customization
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Tagging
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22. Evoq Content
6.90
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Score:6.90
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No. of employees:
1-10 11-50 51-100 100+
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Content Authoring
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Appearance Customization
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Customization
%
User, Role, and Access Management
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File Sharing
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23. Sitefinity
6.88
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Score:6.88
Customers company size
No. of employees:
1-10 11-50 51-100 100+
Best features
Appearance Customization
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Content Authoring
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Discussions
%
File Sharing
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File Sharing
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Worst features
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%
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Score:6.70
Customers company size
No. of employees:
1-10 11-50 51-100 100+
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25. django CMS
6.37
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Score:6.37
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1-10 11-50 51-100 100+
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Activity Feed
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Our report covered 25 most popular products from the Content Management Systems category. We’ve analyzed their features, performance, integration, customer support, pricing, and several other key buying factors and combined it with feedback from user reviews to come up with the current list of best solutions:
- 2022 Content Management Systems Leaders: HubSpot, monday.com, Squarespace, WordPress, M-Files, Laserfiche, Acquia
- 2022 Content Management Systems Contenders: Contentful, Joomla!, Kentico, Webflow, Drupal, Pantheon.io, Solodev, Brightcove, Episerver, BOLD, ConcreteCMS, Agility CMS, Sitecore, Write.as
- 2022 Content Management Systems Rising Stars: Evoq Content, Sitefinity, , django CMS
HubSpot CMS is another one of HubSpot’s plethora of products and solutions and is the leader in our content management software category. The company that developed this software, HubSpot, is well-known for providing businesses of all sizes SaaS products to help them with their day-to-day operations. From marketing to CRM, they got it covered.
Their content management platform is filled with a robust set of features to make the lives of content creators and marketers easier. Using HubSpot CMS, you can create and manage personalized web pages for different visitors. Moreover, this software allows those web pages to be optimized for a handful of devices and conversions. This software has a drag-and-drop editor which eliminates the need for developers to create and update webpages. Additionally, it has a huge library of pre-built themes with the option for custom development that allows you to create a cohesive site without worrying about mismatched logos and colors, among other things.
The security HubSpot CMS provides is also worth notetaking. This software employs the users and team permissions feature to keep your team organized as your business scale. In effect, you can use this to grant access to areas of your website that only select team members can edit, publish, or configure. To top things all off, HubSpot provides round-the-clock customer support to help you troubleshoot any problems you may encounter with their software.
Most users of Content Management Systems solutions confirm that in most cases these tools allow them to reach the following business goals:
- It centralized business content storage into a single location, accessible on multiple devices. [ 85.0% of users ]
- It integrates with leading CMS, ECM and DAM products, email service providers, as well as social networks. [ 88.7% of users ]
- It protected content from unauthorized or unintentional changes and modifications. [ 82.3% of users ]
- It provided a preconfigured open environment for team members to see, edit, share, and sync files. [ 88.0% of users ]
- It provided an array of collaboration tools for group editing and assessment. [ 83.1% of users ]
How did we select products for this Content Management Systems report?
The Winter 2022 version of the report includes a total of 25 Content Management Systems products that were compared and analyzed by our team. We selected them based on the following factors:
- Popularity of a given brand in the SaaS market (based on our own market research)
- How popular a given brand is among FinancesOnline users (based on number of mothly readers for each review page)
- Availability of statistical data generated from user reviews of a particular product (we excluded products with not enough data to draw meaningful conclusions)
- The current listing reflects the state of our database and research as of February 2022. An updated version of the report will be released quarterly to keep data fresh and incorporate information about shifts and changing trends in the market.
What are the current Content Management Systems trends?
AI and Automation
Much like any other software, artificial intelligence and automation will soon become more relevant for content management solutions. Tasks such as tagging and categorizing are only a couple of the many repetitive tasks that can be eliminated through the employment of AI and automation.
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Most Important Benefits from AI-Powered Solutions
Most Important Benefits from AI-Powered Solutions
Predictions linked to customers, business health and machines: 38
Predictions linked to customers, business health and machines
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Most Important Benefits from AI-Powered Solutions
Automation of manual/repetitive tasks: 27
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Most Important Benefits from AI-Powered Solutions
Monitoring and alerts to provide assessments on the state of your business: 14
Monitoring and alerts to provide assessments on the state of your business
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Most Important Benefits from AI-Powered Solutions
Increase quality of customer communications: 10
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Most Important Benefits from AI-Powered Solutions
Recommendations related to internal issues/customer facing efforts: 7
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Most Important Benefits from AI-Powered Solutions
Others: 4
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Migration to Cloud
In the coming years, more businesses are more inclined to migrate and prefer their SaaS to be deployed via the cloud. One of many pros in migrating to the cloud is that it provides businesses the opportunity to operate more efficiently and with greater scalability. According to the data gathered by IDC, the reported annual revenue of software as a service segment of the global public IT cloud services was $61.11 billion, and in just a span of four years, it ballooned to $148.5 billion in 2019. This trend shows that SaaS deployed via the cloud, as an industry, is continuously growing. In fact, 75% of all databases will be deployed or migrated to a cloud platform by 2022.
Source: IDC
Headless CMS
Personalization is one of the many key strategies to keep your audience entertained and engaged. This makes headless CMS an important trend to watch out for because it allows personalization across multiple channels and destinations in the user journey. Moreover, using headless CMS makes it easier to distribute content or digital experiences by eliminating the front end. This enables users to deliver content through API and is able to do so in any format and across a variety of platforms and devices.
