Headless CMS

Parent Category: CMS

Headless CMS is a back-end-only content management system that acts primarily as a content repository. A headless CMS makes content accessible via an API for display on any device, without a built-in front-end or presentation layer.



We have discovered 70,371 live websites that use Headless CMS.

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Headless CMS usage statistics

Total sites that use Headless CMS70,371 websites
Percentage of website that use category0.11%
Number of technologies in Headless CMS category23

Category leader Contentful
Fastest Growing Technology Hygraph
Most Popular in Country United States


Website Distribution by Country

Number of websites using Headless CMS
United States57,752 websites



Germany3,259 websites
France1,149 websites
Netherlands1,087 websites
GB799 websites
Singapore447 websites
Russia416 websites
Japan377 websites
Poland372 websites
Hong Kong362 websites

Website Distribution by TLD

Number of websites using Headless CMS
.com32,966 websites
.io4,230 websites
.org2,844 websites
.de2,787 websites
.co.uk1,940 websites
.net1,597 websites
.nl1,548 websites
.se1,197 websites
.com.au1,086 websites
.no1,080 websites

Top Technologies

Leading technologies in the Headless CMS category (out of 23 total).
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Top technology switches

Number of websites that recently switched technologies within category

FromToWebsite Count
Contentful Sanity7
Contentful DatoCMS4
Prismic Sanity3
DatoCMS Contentful3
Storyblok Sanity1
Amplience Contentstack1

Websites utilizing Headless CMS

Top websites that use Headless CMS
DomainCountryRankContacts
github.com United States21
afternic.com United States52
vimeo.com United States67
fiber.google.com United States117
jsdelivr.com United States151
shopify.com United States185
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