As of October 27, 2026, Ghost is used by 12,904 websites in the TechLeads index: 0.04% of all CMS detections, the 52nd most-used of 550 CMS technologies.
Websites using each technology in the TechLeads index, and its share of all CMS detections.
| # | Technology | Websites | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | WordPress | 23,136,781 | 68.3% |
| 2 | Wix | 2,699,124 | 8.0% |
| 3 | Squarespace | 2,169,185 | 6.4% |
| 4 | Wix Hosted | 863,996 | 2.6% |
| 5 | GoDaddy Website Builder | 635,348 | 1.9% |
| 6 | Joomla | 443,925 | 1.3% |
| 7 | Weebly | 401,831 | 1.2% |
| 8 | Tilda | 347,424 | 1.0% |
| 9 | Drupal | 333,686 | 0.99% |
| 10 | Jimdo | 194,253 | 0.57% |
| 11 | JouwWeb | 165,799 | 0.49% |
| 12 | Wordpress Staging | 164,095 | 0.48% |
| 13 | Jimdo Free | 139,432 | 0.41% |
| 14 | TYPO3 CMS | 131,056 | 0.39% |
| 15 | Duda | 125,214 | 0.37% |
| 16 | Out Dated Browser | 120,700 | 0.36% |
| 17 | Strato Website | 118,159 | 0.35% |
| 18 | Graphy Courses | 97,489 | 0.29% |
| 19 | Cargo Collective | 73,840 | 0.22% |
| 20 | Lauyan TOWeb | 68,990 | 0.20% |
| 21 | Ghost | 12,904 | 0.04% |
Rows link to each competitor's market share page where one exists. The table lists the 21 most-used technologies; ranks are by website count.
In HTTP Archive's monthly crawl of public websites, Ghost was detected on 20,916 pages in September 2026, down 6.9% from a year earlier (peak: 23,938). HTTP Archive is a separate dataset from the TechLeads index, so its numbers are not added to ours.
Same month, other CMS technologies in HTTP Archive: WordPress 16,643,427, Shopify 2,534,621, Wix 1,365,181, Squarespace 880,903, Drupal 525,382.
See all 12,904 websites using Ghost or download the full list as a CSV for $29.
TechLeads scans public websites and detects Ghost from signals in the page HTML, scripts, cookies, HTTP headers and DNS records. Market share is Ghost's website count divided by the website counts of all CMS technologies we track; a site using two CMS tools counts for both. Counts were last refreshed on October 27, 2026 and update daily.
Ghost accounts for 0.04% of CMS detections in the TechLeads index (12,904 websites), which makes it the 52nd most-used of 550 CMS technologies we track.
TechLeads currently detects Ghost on 12,904 websites. HTTP Archive's monthly crawl, a separate dataset, detected it on 20,916 pages in September 2026.
By number of websites, the largest CMS technologies besides Ghost are WordPress (23,136,781), Wix (2,699,124), Squarespace (2,169,185), Wix Hosted (863,996), GoDaddy Website Builder (635,348).
Websites using Ghost include simplebits.com, itsfoss.com, spreadprivacy.com, fireflies.ai, highscalability.com, scotthelme.co.uk. The full list of 12,904 websites can be exported as a CSV for $29.
