What is the fastest CMS for web content (news website with some static pages) ?

Database being a point of vulnerability is completely removed from the equation with its flat file approach. See More

score 17 · Answer 2

Grav CMS

Top Pro

Does not use any database, it is a complete flat Elise CMS

Top Con

Some plugins might be out of date and abandoned

changes in latest versions of Grav seem to break some plugins that haven't been touched in a long time classes deprecated / removed) do PHP knowledge might be required to develop ACL seems to be cumbersome to set-up (not intuitive but it can be done) good for 'marketing' sites but not for really complex sites without PHP / Grav knowledge See More

Top Pro

Easy to extend functionality

using the Twig templating engine create plugins define Admin fields using yaml in blueprints can be used with a front-end framework (eg: Vuejs) but it requires a bit of tinkering can be headless CMS See More

Top Con

Scaling issues

No real scaling solution should your site become very large. Although it is supposed to be for small or middle-sized projects, not every site remains that way and the lack of a proper scaling solution is disappointing. According to them and a quick search in their forums says scaling is in the works, but some of the official posts are from years ago and still nothing has been done. See More

Top Pro

Fast, easy to use

Very fast, easy to update, - has admin panel for noobies or just edit markdown files for posts. See More

Top Con

Not user-friendly

Require some technical knowledge to use. See More

score 6 · Answer 3

October

Top Pro

Has built-in caching

Specs

License:MIT

For free Octobercms can be hosted by yourself on your own server See More

Top Pro

Easy to program

Top Pro

Built on top of Laravel

Top Pro

Self-host

Top Pro

Easy to Learn

Easy to Learn as long as you are developing sites with preexisting plugins See More

Top Pro

Fast construction

One of the main advantages of the system is its ability to be easily installed on a hosting server so the Webmaster can start working with it within a short timespan See More

A more complex Dupal installation can easily exhaust 256 MB of RAM with only one or two visitors. See More

score 7 · Answer 4

Drupal

Top Con

High resource consumption

Top Pro

Free and open source

Drupal is free to use and open source. See More

Specs

License:GPLv2+

Default Template Engine:twig

Headless:yes

Extensible:yes

Drupal is not easy to get into and out of the box doesn't offer much. To get Drupal doing what you want it to, modules are required. To get modules, an understanding of how Drupal works is required. And that takes time. See More

Top Con

Steep learning curve

Top Pro

Active community

Drupal have one of biggest and more active communities across FOSS, maintaining a large and vibrant ecosystem of extensions and installation profiles. See More

Top Con

Not fast

PHP scripts need to be executed every time a page is rendered. See More

Top Pro

Semantic HTML5

Top Pro

Great for enterprise use

Drupal is stable, with powerful version control and access control methods and can handle large amounts of traffic. See More

Top Pro

Excellent SEO

Drupal was designed from the beginning to follow best practices in regards to SEO. See More

Top Pro

Highly customizable

Drupal can be customized to do almost anything. It was built ground up with the intent of using a wide variety of small modules to get the exact result wanted instead of just the most common solutions. See More

Top Pro

Multi-lingual support

Starting with Drupal 8, there's built-in multi-lingual support. See More

Top Pro

Great templating engine

Top Pro

Drupal has full SEO capabilities

(vs Joomla, which lacks SEO capabilities), there is an essential issue for promotion. See More

Top Pro

Responsive front-end and back-end

Drupal 8 follows responsive design philosophy out of the box, both front-end and back-end. See More

Top Pro

It's easy to transfer config changes from dev to production

Top Pro

Good accessibility

Top Pro

RESTful

Drupal 8 has REST services built in. See More

ProcessWire is heavily based on custom fields. All objects (Pages) inside ProcessWire are based on extensible templates comprised of fields that can be easily defined. Many useful fields come prebuilt and they can be extended with modules. See More

score 2 · Answer 5

ProcessWire

Top Pro

Custom Fields on steroids

Specs

License:MPL 2.0 and MIT licenses

Multi Language Support:Yes

Default Template Engine:Flexible

Either using the modules already available or writing your own module, using the jQuery-like API. See More

Top Pro

Extensible

Top Pro

Template engine agnostic

By default, ProcessWire comes with 0 assumption on how you handle the output. You have 100% freedom on how you want to develop the frontend. Want to plain output stuff, go ahead. Want to use any number of Templating Engine, do it. Just use as Headless-CMS, okay! See More

Top Pro

Powerful and easy API

The API is jQuery like; // find some pages: $pages->find('template=skyscraper, architect=john, sort=title')->limit(4); // mutate $pages->get('title=Hello You')->set('title', 'HelloWorld')->save(); $pages->get('title=Old')->trash(); // trash page // check user… $user->isLogedin(); echo $user->name; // guest $session->login($name, $pass); $session->logout(); // redirect $session->redirect($url); See More

Top Pro

Open source

Source available on GitHub. See More

Top Pro

Nice and helpful growing community

You will always find one to respond politely in the forums. Sometimes even the creator Ryan Cramer himself. See More

Top Pro

Powerful selector engine

The way you fetch, access and manipulate objects (Pages) in ProcessWire is extremely powerful and easy. You can receive any page and its custom fields, filter, travers, add… See More

Top Pro

Easy to learn

Processwire is extremely easy to learn. Consider this: echo $pages->get('title=Hello World')->title; // "Hello World" echo $pages->get('title=Hello World')->parent->title; // "Home" echo $pages->find('Template=Category')->count; // 126 echo $pages->find('Template=Category')->each('title'); // ['Audio', 'Video' …] Selectors are so powerful but yet so easy. Check out the cheatsheet. See More

Requests can be served directly from disk or memory with no script execution needed. There's no delay from waiting on PHP to finish executing or waiting for the database to return results. See More

score 5 · Answer 6

Netlify CMS

Top Pro

Pages are precompiled into static HTML

score 17 · Answer 7

WordPress

Top Con

Slow

Unless you have no visitors or put an unnecessary amount of money on complicated cache solutions, this platform runs slowly. See More

Top Pro

Huge number of third party extensions

TequilaSunrise's Experience

The swiss army knife of CMSs. Lots of themes available, very many for free. Plugins for just about anything you may need. The ecosystem is very big and will cover much of what you require. See More

Specs

License:GPLv2

Default Template Engine:PHP

Store Support:Yes (Plugin)

Top Con

A bit of bloat

WP has grown past being just a blogging platform and as such it's not as lightweight as it used to be. See More

Top Pro

Fast construction

One of the main advantages of the system is its ability to be easily installed on a hosting server so the Webmaster can start working with it within a short timespan. See More

JoomBoost - Joomla! Extensions Developer's Experience

A lot of old and non secure plugins check in exploit-db See More

Top Con

Very hard to speed up if you REALLY need performance

Top Pro

Easy to Learn

Easy to Learn as long as you are developing sites with preexisting plugins. See More

Top Con

Vulnerable

Vulnerable to database exploits and hacking of plugins and server applications. See More

Top Pro

Widely used

According to some statistics, WP powers a fifth of the Internet. It means there are resources for everything. Community support, tutorials, extensions and a plethora of customization options. See More

Top Con

Dated

The code is a mess, uses dated conventions, and relies on dated technology. See More

Top Pro

Complete control if needed

If you set up WP on your own server, you can change every single aspect of it as you see fit. See More

Top Con

Cumbersome

Not meant for customizing complex databases of archival info. See More

Top Pro

Post-level privacy controls

Each post can have a different access level. See More

Top Con

Wordpress has one thing going for it, extensions. If you need functionality that is outside of the extensions, which most significant sites do, your costs are going to jump.

The complexity, bloat and sluggish programming in wordpress makes it easy to put up a quick site. But anything that requires actual programming is going to drive costs up quickly. See More

Top Pro

Extensive documentation

The WP Codex is quite well written and accessible. See More

Top Con

Complexity

WP is considerably more complex due to many more customization options compared to other solutions. See More

Top Pro

Self-host & WP-host options

For free WordPress can be hosted by yourself on your own server, or as a subdomain of wordpress.com. You can also pay to use a custom domain with WP hosting. See More

Top Pro

RSS feeds for everything

Including tags and categories. See More

Top Pro

Open source

Anyone can view the code of WordPress since it's under a libre/open source license. See More

If it's not part of the default Joomla installation, quality extensions are rare. Joomla has a extensions library, but it is full of abandoned, dated or bloated components, modules and plugins. See More

score 10 · Answer 8

Joomla!

Top Pro

Easy to pick up

Top Con

Extensions are scarce, badly maintained & rarely good

JoomBoost - Joomla! Extensions Developer's Experience

With Joomla you can build blog website easily with static pages using Content component. See More

Specs

License:GPLv2

Multi Language Support:Yes

Default Template Engine:PHP

Which can be found here. See More

Top Pro

More than 8000 extensions

Top Con

Insecure

It's common-place for a Joomla-based website to be defaced, often very quickly. This is most often due to the low quality of extensions. See More

Top Pro

Powerful and user-friendly admin interface

Admin interface is constantly being iterated on to remove unnecessary legacy features and to streamline the interface. Resulting in a very clean and easy to understand interface that also offers a wide range of options. See More

I use fastCMS for most of my new client projects. I just love it so do the clients. See More

score 3 · Answer 9

Webflow

score 6 · Answer 10

fastCMS

Top Pro

Very very fast

PopularArtemis's Experience

score 1 · Answer 11

eBuilderCMS

Top Con

Doesn't run well

Top Pro

Reliable and secure

score 3 · Answer 12

Appernetic

Top Pro

Secure

It's more secure than a Wordpress installation, you don't have a database, application server or vulnerable plugins that can be hacked. See More

Top Con

Written in Go

And you have to work with Git workflow and Hugo, which you'll have to learn as well. See More

Top Pro

Easy to get started

No need to learn about Linux, installation of binaries, Git, GitHub. Git workflow or Hugo. See More

Top Con

Lack of extensions

When compared to other, more established CMSs out there, Appernetic has a huge space to cover in terms of extensions like addons/plugins and themes. See More

Known is is very lightweight (compared to other CMS like WordPress). See More

score 1 · Answer 13

ExpressionEngine

Add Video or Image

Answer 14

known

Top Pro

Very lightweight

Specs

Technology:PHP

score 2 · Answer 15

fasty

Top Pro

It's flexible

You can add partials and link a partial to a specific dataset (e.g. an AQL request) so creating dynamic content is easy. See More

Top Con

young project

the doc, the website is still not ready See More

HumorousLoviatar's Experience

Very fast and lightweight compared to other CMS I've worked before. See More

Specs

License:MIT

Language:Lua / Javascript / Moonscirpt

Multi Language Support:Yes

Headless:Can be

Work on a staging website and deploy on production (1 click) See More

Top Pro

Workflow

Top Con

It need Docker

If you know how to use docker it's very easy ... if not, it can be complicated. See More

NeighborlyHephaestus's Experience

I made Fasty to have a blazing fast CMS based on openresty server. You can manage your layouts, pages, partials, requests to database, etc... Once your website is set up, a non tech person can update content easily. See More

Top Pro

Blazing fast

it has a built-in cache. See More

Top Pro

API Builder

You can manage your API directly within the admin UI. No need to deploy ... You just need to click on the publish button See More

The license for studying, improving, and distributing the software is free for everyone. See More

score 2 · Answer 16

Mojo Portal

Top Pro

Open source

Top Pro

Doesn't require any particular skills or experience

Anyone can use mojoPortal to build a website, no coding knowledge is required. See More

score 1 · Answer 17

Enonic XP

Top Pro

Enonic XP ships with a plugin to GatsbyJS this makes it easy to do static websites using React

Specs

License:Open source with GPL3

Runs in any cloud:Run in Enonic or other clouds. Docker image provided.

Image handling:Smart image handling with focal point, zoom+pan, flip and more.

GraphQL API:Flexible API for accessing content

Can be fully customised, on the other hand template engine (GUI driven customisation) is still under development. See More

score 1 · Answer 18

JBLOUD

Top Con

Young

Top Pro

Easy, fast, no server load

JBLOUD is 100% EC6 javascript, uses WebDAV to upload/delete both data and media. Doesn't require any DB or server side programming language, a single server can host hundreds of sites without any significative load. See More

FerventCihuatecayotl's Experience

By far the fastest existing CMS, a single server can serve hundreds of CMS. See More