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 74,795 live websites that use Headless CMS.

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Headless CMS usage statistics

Total sites that use Headless CMS74,795 websites
Percentage of website that use category0.13%
Number of technologies in Headless CMS category25
Category leader Ghost
Fastest Growing Technology Ghost
Most Popular in Country United States

Subcategories



    Website Distribution by Country

    Number of websites using Headless CMS
    United States50,944 websites


    Germany4,349 websites
    GB2,382 websites
    France1,853 websites
    Netherlands1,440 websites
    Canada1,087 websites
    Australia884 websites
    Sweden859 websites
    Japan785 websites
    Italy762 websites

    Website Distribution by TLD

    Number of websites using Headless CMS
    .com36,148 websites
    .io4,154 websites
    .org3,183 websites
    .de2,977 websites
    .co.uk1,979 websites
    .net1,690 websites
    .nl1,656 websites
    .com.au1,175 websites
    .se1,138 websites
    .no1,137 websites

    Top Technologies

    Leading technologies in the Headless CMS category (out of 25 total).
    TechnologyWebsitesMarket ShareRecent changes
    Ghost20,633 27.59% +4,069
    Contentful15,553 20.79% -2,422
    Sanity12,732 17.02% -594
    Prismic8,954 11.97% -141
    Storyblok5,612 7.50% +163
    DatoCMS3,005 4.02% -152
    dotCMS1,740 2.33% +938
    Builder1,206 1.61% -311
    Contentstack1,136 1.52% -337
    Hygraph1,022 1.37% +0
    microCMS831 1.11% +20
    Strapi762 1.02% -6
    Amplience542 0.72% -2
    Papoo CMS437 0.58% -15
    Directus292 0.39% -5
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    Top technology switches

    Number of websites that recently switched technologies within category

    FromToWebsite Count
    Contentful Sanity18
    Prismic Sanity6
    DatoCMS Sanity6
    Contentful Storyblok3
    Storyblok Sanity2
    Hygraph Sanity2

    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
    openjsf.org United States234
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