The 20 Largest ExpressionEngine Sites

TLDR All of the 20 largest ExpressionEngine sites are based in the United States.

In over 6 years of developing with and for ExpressionEngine, we’ve found it to be one of the most flexible and powerful CMS systems around. To proof just how powerful ExpressionEngine is, we’ve assembled a list of the 20 largest ExpressionEngine sites, based on their Quantcast rating.

Results

  Domain Company Quantcast Alexa Visits*
advertise.thechive.com RESIGNATION MEDIA LLC 145 1071 11,177,000
visit.today.com
events.today.com
Today 205 1146 11,463,000
publicpolicy.verizon.com Verizon Trademark Services LLC 293 591 19,698,000
democrats.org DNC Services Corporation 571 34659 599,700
www9.toysrus.com Geoffrey LLC 736 1264 12,086,000
infocus.gettyimages.com Getty Images Inc 849 1833 6,684,600
mynewsletterbuilder.com Blue House Works Inc 907 77068 286,700
order.pizzahut.com Pizza Hut Inc 961 2475 6,018,600
help.verticalresponse.com VerticalResponse 1055 5336 2,776,600
altpress.com Alternative Press 1118 19298 1,006,400
fodors.com Random House LLC 1261 5495 2.257,500
eeorigin.barackobama.com Organizing for Action 1265 38672 651,800
blog.lenovo.com Lenovo Group 1494 564 20,576,000
lostlettermen.com VaynerStudios, LLC 1670 54714 554.275
smilereminder.com   2015 47529 412,766
id.garmin.com
ph.garmin.com
developer.garmin.com
Garmin Ltd. 2501 1717 9,000,700
saleshub.trendmicro.com Trend Micro Inc. 2581 6369 2,527,600
pb.com Pitney Bowes Inc 2643 8042 2,300,000
religionnews.com Religion News LLC 3075 42254 516,600
mediasolutions.lohud.com Journal News Media Group 3284 25199 771,700

Last update on 20th March 2015; Data collected on 18th March 2015; *Visits in the last 30 days. The number of visits differs from visitors. Visits includes multiple visits from the same individual.

Findings

  • 20 / 20 sites are based in the United States
  • 20 / 20 sites use Google Analytics
  • 17 / 20 sites are running on Apache
  • 12 / 20 use Akamai CDN

With over 20,000,000 visits / month, sites like blog.lenovo.com need to keep up with around 28,000 visits per hour. Can your CMS do that?.