CMS shares in 2026: WordPress, Tilda and Bitrix worldwide and in Russia
"WordPress holds 58.9% of the market" and "WordPress runs on 40.7% of sites" are two numbers from one source on one date, and both are true. The difference is the denominator — and that is where most roundups break.
Below: both columns in full, an independent check from a second source, the Russian cut with Tilda in second place, and the provenance of the popular "1C-Bitrix — 11.8%" figure, which is real but not from 2026.
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Two columns that get confused constantly
W3Techs publishes two shares per CMS as of 27 August 2026, and the difference between them is the source of half the bad citations:
| CMS | Of all sites | Of sites with a CMS |
|---|---|---|
| No tracked CMS | 30.9% | — |
| WordPress | 40.7% | 58.9% |
| Shopify | 5.3% | 7.7% |
| Wix | 4.2% | 6.1% |
| Squarespace | 2.4% | 3.5% |
| Joomla | 1.2% | 1.7% |
| Tilda | 0.8% | 1.2% |
| Bitrix | 0.4% | 0.6% |
"WordPress holds 58.9% of the market" and "WordPress runs on 40.7% of sites" are both true and mean different things. Almost a third of sites use none of the tracked systems.
On dating: if you meet "WordPress — 43%" labelled 2026, that is roughly a two-year-old state. The source updates daily, and a figure without a retrieval date goes stale silently.
An independent check from a second source
HTTP Archive crawls 16,213,084 sites and detects CMSes with a Wappalyzer fork. Its result: a CMS was found on over 54% of sites, with WordPress at 64.3% of sites carrying a CMS and 35.0–35.6% of all sites.
The divergence from W3Techs (58.9% vs 64.3%) is explicable: different site sets and different detectors. They must not be added or averaged.
An important caveat on dating. This is a July 2025 crawl published in January 2026. No 2026 edition of the Web Almanac exists. Presenting these numbers as current would be incorrect.
A method limitation the source itself acknowledges: only the home page is tested, and "a home page is not necessarily representative of the entire website". Systems with no recognisable fingerprint — headless, bespoke, stripped builds — are invisible entirely, and nobody estimates how large that undercount is.
Russia: Tilda comes second, but by how much depends on the question
W3Techs offers two Russian cuts as of 27 August 2026. The denominator for both is sites whose CMS could be identified:
| CMS | .ru zone | Russian-language sites |
|---|---|---|
| WordPress | 33.5% | 45.4% |
| Tilda | 27.1% | 7.2% |
| Bitrix | 16.0% | 16.0% |
Note Tilda: 27.1% in the .ru zone against 7.2% among Russian-language sites. These are not two estimates of the same thing and not a contradiction — they are different populations. Tilda sites concentrate in the .ru zone, while a substantial part of the Russian-language web lives in other zones where it is almost absent.
Limitation: only the top three positions per segment are published free; the rest sits behind a paid report. The segmentation pages carry no "share of all sites" column at all, so any figure taken from here and presented as "percent of the Russian web" will be wrong.
Where the "1C-Bitrix — 11.8%" figure comes from
It is real, but it is March 2024, not 2026. The source is a survey by iTrack: 5,465,652 domains in the RU zone were probed, 56.2% responded within thirty seconds, and a CMS was detected on 23.2% of domains. Of the sites with a detected CMS: WordPress 42.87%, Tilda 18.51%, 1C-Bitrix 11.79%, Joomla 7.13%.
This is the only primary census of the Russian zone made from inside that we know of. Nothing more recent exists: iTrack published no 2025 or 2026 data. Roundups dating this figure to 2026 are lying about the date, not the number.
Russian sources that do not serve this topic: the CMS Magazine ranking is compiled from data web studios enter themselves and its latest edition is marked 2020; their CMS prevalence monitoring dates to December 2013.
One more trap is BuiltWith. In its Russian cut (2,126,016 detections as of 24 August 2026) Bitrix and 1C-Bitrix appear as two separate rows at 8.01% and 7.96%. They must not be added: almost certainly the same system counted twice. The same list files Google Search Appliance under CMS at 6.66% — a detection artefact.
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