State of Content Management Systems in Ontario (2019)

In Q4 2019, tbk conducted a random 200-organizational study to determine what content management systems (CMSs) are being used in Ontario. Learn what CMSs are popular and how their popularity differs amongst large, small, not-for-profit and public sector groups.

  • We Scanned

    200

    Ontario-Based Organizations

    (50 from each category)

    • Private Sector, Large
      (Over 500 employees)

    • Private Sector, SME
      (500 or less employees)

    • Public Sector

    • Not-for-Profit

Overall CMS Usage

  • WordPress

    35.5%

  • Drupal

    12.5%

  • SiteCore

    7.5%

  • Adobe Experience Manager

    3.5%

  • Kentico

    2.5%

  • Unknown/No CMS

    14.5%

  • Other (2% or Less)

    24%

Results

By Category

Private Sector, Large

  • WordPress: 20%
  • Adobe Experience Manager: 14%
  • Drupal: 12%
  • SiteCore: 10%
  • Agility CMS: 4%
  • Sitefinity: 6%
  • Unknown/No CMS: 14%
  • Other (2% or less): 20%

Private Sector, SME

  • WordPress: 52%
  • Drupal: 6%
  • Unknown/No CMS: 20%
  • Other (2% or less): 22%

Not-for-Profit Sector

  • WordPress: 46%
  • Drupal: 10%
  • Kentico: 10%
  • SiteCore: 4%
  • Weebly: 4%
  • Joomla: 4%
  • Unknown/No CMS: 12%
  • Other (2% or less): 10%

Public Sector

  • WordPress: 24%
  • Drupal: 22%
  • SiteCore: 16%
  • SchoolMessenger: 6%
  • SharePoint: 4%
  • Ektron: 4%
  • Unknown/No CMS: 12%
  • Other (2% or less): 12%

Additional Notes

  • All organizations in the study have at least one office in Ontario.
  • Data compiled between October 3rd, 2019 and October 28th, 2019.
  • In compiling the organizations, auditors made sure no city was represented with more than 20 results.
  • Via the random process, only two (2) of tbk’s clients were found in the results.
  • Whatcms.org was used to tabulate results. If no CMS was found, a manual audit occurred.
  • In cases where more than one CMS was found using Whatcms.org, we used the CMS that was referenced on the highest number of pages (in these cases, the most popular CMS listed took precedence over an “Unknown” result)