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 49,460 live websites that use Headless CMS.

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Headless CMS usage statistics

Total sites that use Headless CMS49,460 websites
Percentage of website that use category<0.1%
Number of technologies in Headless CMS category22
Category leader Ghost
Fastest Growing Technology Sanity
Most Popular in Country United States


Headless CMS usage by Country

United States38,902 websites


Germany2,634 websites
France1,089 websites
GB662 websites
Netherlands582 websites
Hong Kong486 websites
Singapore462 websites
Poland318 websites
Switzerland297 websites
Japan277 websites

Headless CMS usage by TLD

.com23,326 websites
.io2,140 websites
.de2,010 websites
.org2,002 websites
.co.uk1,274 websites
.net1,204 websites
.nl1,042 websites
.se858 websites
.no856 websites
.fr804 websites

Top Technologies

Top 6 technologies in Headless CMS category (out of 22 total).
TechnologyWebsitesMarket ShareRecent changes
Ghost17,241 34.86% -5
Sanity9,408 19.02% +592
Prismic7,828 15.83% +63
Storyblok4,331 8.76% +303
DatoCMS3,006 6.08% +95
Contentstack1,291 2.61% +83
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Top technology switches

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

FromToWebsite Count
Prismic Sanity4
Prismic Storyblok2
Centra Storyblok1
DatoCMS Sanity1
Ghost Sanity1
Prismic DatoCMS1

Websites utilizing Headless CMS

Top websites that use Headless CMS
DomainCountryRankContacts
vimeo.com United States67
jsdelivr.com United States151
openjsf.org United States234
booking.com United States740
a.wholelottanothing.org United States981
ted.com United States1,134
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