B
Evidence Grade B
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63%
63% -- cms usage rate for top 10 million most visited web pages (2026)
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Value
63%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
Entity
Sample Size
10,000,000
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
60
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
W3Techs
Primary
Tier B
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Web Design and Development - Relevantium
and development
Until 1991 no website existed. Yahoo was launched in 1994, Google in 1998, Wikipedia in 2001, and Facebook in 2004. Currently there are about 2 billion websites, many of them inactive.
According to data from w3techs.com, of the 10 million most visited web pages in the world, 37% do n…
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W3Techs
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Methodology
Data from w3techs.com; 37% do not use a CMS
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top 10 million most visited web pages: 63% cms usage rate. Source: W3Techs (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/top-sites-cms-usage-w3techs
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/top-sites-cms-usage-w3techs" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>63%</strong> -- cms usage rate for top 10 million most visited web pages<br><small>Source: W3Techs (2026) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/top-sites-cms-usage-w3techs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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