Companies Using CKEditor

We detect CKEditor on 39,226 domains, including Upwork Enterprise, Dell Technologies Inc, Hewlett Packard Enterprise. A detection means the technology is present on that domain, which for large organisations is often a single storefront or subdomain rather than a company-wide deployment. Among domains we matched to a company with a resolved industry, the most common is Spectator Sports (11.94%).

We detect 39,226 domains running CKEditor across our monthly crawl of live business domains. Company data could be matched for 19,477 of them (49.7%), and every company-size, industry and country breakdown on this page describes that matched subset rather than the full detected base. A further 4,892 domains carried a CKEditor detection previously and no longer do.

CKEditor holds 20.73% of the WYSIWYG Editors category, ranking #3. This is a share of the domains we detect running a platform in this category — not a share of all websites, and not a share of spending — so it is not directly comparable to figures published on other denominators.

The top alternatives to CKEditor include Froala Editor (30.25% market share), TinyMCE (27.67% market share), Quill (14.44% market share), Ace (3.33% market share) — measured as a share of the domains we detect running a platform in this category.

The United States at 6,457 of the companies we can place, then Germany at 1,870, the United Kingdom (895), France (805) and Brazil (782). Germany in second place is unusual in our data and we can measure it without explaining it: the obvious answer, Drupal's German base, does not hold, because Drupal is on only 2.41% of CKEditor domains.

61.97% have 10 employees or fewer and 21.04% have 11 to 50. The largest names in our list are almost all secondary properties, chiefly investor-relations sites, so a big employee count there belongs to the parent company rather than to whoever runs the site.

32.63% were founded in the 2010s, 19.5% in the 2000s and 13.64% in the 2020s. That is the oldest profile of the four category leaders, which fits a project that has been Drupal's default editor since the 2000s and accumulated through a generation of CMS builds.

The ideal CKEditor customer is: Company Size: 1-10 employees, Industry: Sports media and enterprise IR, Location: US or Germany, Founded: 2000-2019, Stack: jQuery-era application — based on our analysis of 19,477 enriched companies at TechnologyChecker.io.

We detect CKEditor on 39,226 active domains as of our August 2026 crawl, third in the WYSIWYG Editors category at 20.73%. This is a conservative count: CKEditor is matched on the editor actually loading (its CKEDITOR global, its CDN, or a style[data-cke] element), and an editor usually runs behind a login our crawler never reaches. Read it as a floor.

The core is open source under GPL, and CKSource also sells a commercial licence plus paid collaboration features. There is no price barrier to basic use, which shows in the size distribution: 61.97% of the companies we can size have 10 employees or fewer.

TinyMCE is ahead in our data, 52,357 domains to 39,226. That is the fairest comparison in this category, because both are matched the same way, on the editor script and its runtime global. Comparing either to Froala (57,223) is not like-for-like: Froala is matched on classes it leaves in published content, so it counts pages that were authored with it as well as sites where it runs.

It is one platform, not a vertical. The segment is 1,907 domains, about 4.9% of CKEditor's base, and it runs a near-uniform stack: 90.1% DoubleClick Floodlight, 89.4% Google Publisher Tag, 87.8% Facebook Login, 94.2% Moment.js. That is a single ad-funded sports-media platform that ships CKEditor. Remove it and the industry column flattens to the usual retail, software and IT services spread.

Because Drupal bundles it. 49 of the 50 largest companies we detect matched on a subdomain and 23 of those begin with investor, investors or ir: investors.upwork.com, investors.delltechnologies.com, ir.united.com, investor.tjx.com. Of all 213 CKEditor domains on an investor-relations subdomain, 212 run Acquia Cloud Site Factory, Drupal Multisite and Akamai. One Drupal platform's fleet. At 0.5% of the base it shapes the company list without moving the headline number.

No, and that surprised us. CKEditor is Drupal's default editor, but Drupal is on only 2.41% of CKEditor domains (plus 1.53% Drupal Multisite). WordPress is 9.46%. The large majority of CKEditor detections are on custom applications rather than a mainstream CMS, which is consistent with the stack: jQuery on 91.14%, Ruby on Rails on 21.89%, Apache on 23.59%.

Rarely, though more than for its rivals. Of the 4,478 domains that dropped CKEditor entirely, 79 now run another editor we track: 26 Froala, 22 TinyMCE, 18 Quill, 9 Trix, 4 Ace. That is 1.8%, the highest replacement rate in this category and still very low. The remaining 98% are sites rebuilt or retired, not editors swapped.