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Is ExpressionEngine right for manufacturers?

ExpressionEngine offers a flexible, developer-friendly CMS with strong content management capabilities, but its smaller ecosystem and waning popularity make it a niche choice for modern industrial applications.

Who Chooses It

ExpressionEngine powers 4 of the 25,000+ industrial websites we track, ranking 48th of 60 platforms, with a typical site size of around 150 pages.

ExpressionEngine is a veteran, developer-oriented PHP CMS with a long agency history, but it barely appears in our industrial index. We track only a handful of sites on it, far too few to draw any statistical picture of who uses it or why. As a platform it had a strong following among agencies through the 2000s and 2010s and is known for flexible content handling. Its near-absence here reflects how uncommon it has become for new industrial sites rather than any judgment we can make from the data. With so few examples, we present it for completeness rather than analysis.

At a Glance

  • Total sites
    4
  • CMS rank
    48 of 60
  • Dominant role
    Contract Manufacturing 50%
  • Typical scale
    172 pages
  • Top sector
    Fabricated Metal
How It Compares

A snapshot of ExpressionEngine industrial websites based on what's been built, not necessarily what the CMS can do.

  • ScaleMid-market
  • CommerceBlended
  • FootprintMulti-market
  • PublishingStatic
  • SecurityBaseline

The figures on this page come from Industrial Site Design's latest automated scan of the industrial websites we track, last updated . How we measure

Industrial Sites on ExpressionEngine

Industrial Site Design tracks 4 websites built on ExpressionEngine.