Germany 77% WordPress. Sweden 83%. The Nordic 'Modern Leader' Myth Is Busted.
108,079 .de sites, 63,213 .fr sites, 49,178 .it sites scanned. Germany at 77% WordPress. But the real surprise: Sweden at 83% and Netherlands at 83% — the 'digital leaders' run the same legacy stack as everyone else.
The Nordic digital leadership myth is busted: Sweden 83% WordPress, Netherlands 83%, Denmark 77%, Finland 74%. Spotify and Klarna chose modern stacks, but the broader Nordic web did not follow. The divide is funded tech vs everything else, not North vs South.
Czechia at 12% modern with a notable SvelteKit presence is Central Europe's quiet modernizer. Estonia at 15% modern leads the Baltics. The innovation is happening in smaller markets, not the ones with the biggest reputations.
Germany's 77% WordPress and 8.5% Joomla means 86% of the web powering Europe's largest economy runs on legacy CMS. The Mittelstand digital transformation story has not reached web infrastructure.
France at 73% WordPress and 11% Drupal reflects the French institutional model — government and universities chose Drupal early and stayed. La French Tech startups run modern, but they're the exception.
Same region. Different digital realities.
30 countries analyzed from our scan data. The gap within regions is wider than the gap between them.
General Data Protection Regulation. The global standard. Breach notification, data subject rights, consent management. Legacy CMS creates demonstrable compliance challenges.
Network and Information Security. Expanded cybersecurity obligations for essential and important entities. Effective October 2024.
Platform regulation. Content management and transparency requirements that favor modern, API-first architectures.
European digital identity framework. Interoperability requirements that legacy infrastructure struggles to meet.