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73% -- headless architecture adoption rate for Businesses (CTO/CMO/IT decision-makers) (2024)

2024  · n=1,015  · WP Engine

73% of businesses surveyed now use headless architecture according to the 2024 State of Headless report.

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73%
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2024
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Businesses (CTO/CMO/IT decision-makers)
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1,015
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Source Trust
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Citation Chain
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Methodology
45
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WP Engine Primary Tier B
https://ideafueled.com/blog/headless-cms-vs-traditional-cms-saas/ ↗
Confidence: 53/100 Vintage: 2024 Channel: Deep Crawl
Source Article
Headless CMS vs Traditional CMS: What Scales better for SaaS
Most SaaS companies do not outgrow their product. They outgrow their CMS. A traditional CMS handles a marketing blog fine. It struggles with a product that serves content across web apps, mobile, docs, and email. According to WP Engine‘s State of Headless 2024 report, surveyed across 1,015 CTOs, CMO…
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WP Engine State of Headless 2024 survey of 1,015 CTOs, CMOs, and IT decision-makers; article also notes adoption was 'up nearly 40% from 2019' (hedged, not extracted separately)

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Businesses (CTO/CMO/IT decision-makers): 73% headless architecture adoption rate. Source: WP Engine (2024). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/headless-architecture-adoption-2024
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/headless-architecture-adoption-2024" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>73%</strong> -- headless architecture adoption rate for Businesses (CTO/CMO/IT decision-makers)<br><small>Source: WP Engine (2024) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/headless-architecture-adoption-2024" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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