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 43,559 live websites that use Headless CMS.

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Headless CMS usage statistics

Total sites that use Headless CMS43,559 websites
Percentage of website that use category<0.1%
Number of technologies in Headless CMS category20
Category leader Ghost
Fastest Growing Technology Sanity
Most Popular in Country United States



Top Technologies

Top 6 technologies in Headless CMS category (out of 20 total).
TechnologyWebsitesMarket ShareRecent changes
Ghost17,601 40.41% +16
Sanity8,573 19.68% +184
Prismic7,762 17.82% -32
DatoCMS2,882 6.62% +37
Contentstack1,119 2.57% +36
Builder1,052 2.42% +15
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Top technology switches

Number of websites that switched technologies within category in the past 3 months

FromToWebsite Count
DatoCMS Sanity3
Prismic Sanity3
Amplience DatoCMS1
Contentstack Sanity1
Sanity Prismic1
Wagtail CMS Ghost1

Headless CMS usage distribution by website rank

The correlation between utilization of Headless CMS technologies and the relative popularity of websites

Geographical Distribution

Category usage distribution by websites across the globe.



Websites utilizing Headless CMS

Top websites that use Headless CMS
DomainCountryRankContacts
vimeo.com United States67
www.jsdelivr.com United States151
openjsf.org United States234
www.booking.com Netherlands740
a.wholelottanothing.org United States981
feedly.com United States1,149
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