{
 "title": "The State of Higher-Ed CMS Readiness 2026",
 "publisher": "Replatform Radar",
 "published": "2026-07-23",
 "license": "CC BY 4.0",
 "method": "One polite homepage request per institution. Signals are presence checks observable from a single fetch. CMS and version inferred from response fingerprints and the generator meta; sites that do not expose a marker are excluded from those cuts rather than guessed.",
 "sample": {
  "label": "US higher education (.edu)",
  "sampled": 2368,
  "measured": 1796,
  "overall": {
   "sites": 1796,
   "avg_score": 70.0,
   "https": 99.9,
   "title_ok": 88.6,
   "has_description": 79.1,
   "has_viewport": 99.7,
   "has_canonical": 80.1,
   "has_structured_data": 43.4,
   "has_open_graph": 68.4,
   "has_h1": 84.7,
   "hsts": 52.9,
   "csp": 23.7,
   "nosniff": 49.3,
   "avg_html_kb": 183.0,
   "avg_script_tags": 16.8
  },
  "grades": {
   "A": 14.5,
   "B": 17.5,
   "C": 25.3,
   "D": 19.7,
   "F": 22.9
  },
  "ai_citable_pct": 31.4,
  "by_platform": {
   "WordPress": {
    "sites": 608,
    "avg_score": 72.7,
    "https": 100.0,
    "title_ok": 88.3,
    "has_description": 77.6,
    "has_viewport": 100.0,
    "has_canonical": 93.6,
    "has_structured_data": 80.1,
    "has_open_graph": 86.2,
    "has_h1": 81.2,
    "hsts": 43.8,
    "csp": 17.1,
    "nosniff": 31.6,
    "avg_html_kb": 252.9,
    "avg_script_tags": 24.6
   },
   "Drupal": {
    "sites": 324,
    "avg_score": 73.8,
    "https": 100.0,
    "title_ok": 92.0,
    "has_description": 68.5,
    "has_viewport": 100.0,
    "has_canonical": 99.1,
    "has_structured_data": 25.9,
    "has_open_graph": 50.0,
    "has_h1": 85.8,
    "hsts": 72.8,
    "csp": 18.8,
    "nosniff": 98.8,
    "avg_html_kb": 207.3,
    "avg_script_tags": 14.0
   },
   "Adobe Experience Manager": {
    "sites": 20,
    "avg_score": 81.8,
    "https": 100.0,
    "title_ok": 95.0,
    "has_description": 90.0,
    "has_viewport": 100.0,
    "has_canonical": 80.0,
    "has_structured_data": 55.0,
    "has_open_graph": 80.0,
    "has_h1": 90.0,
    "hsts": 80.0,
    "csp": 40.0,
    "nosniff": 90.0,
    "avg_html_kb": 249.9,
    "avg_script_tags": 11.1
   },
   "HubSpot CMS": {
    "sites": 18,
    "avg_score": 75.2,
    "https": 100.0,
    "title_ok": 83.3,
    "has_description": 94.4,
    "has_viewport": 100.0,
    "has_canonical": 77.8,
    "has_structured_data": 27.8,
    "has_open_graph": 88.9,
    "has_h1": 77.8,
    "hsts": 83.3,
    "csp": 77.8,
    "nosniff": 16.7,
    "avg_html_kb": 147.3,
    "avg_script_tags": 18.3
   }
  },
  "cms_share": {
   "Unknown": 43.6,
   "WordPress": 33.9,
   "Drupal": 18.0,
   "Adobe Experience Manager": 1.1,
   "HubSpot CMS": 1.0,
   "Sitecore": 0.5,
   "Optimizely (Episerver)": 0.4,
   "Concrete CMS": 0.3,
   "Kentico": 0.3,
   "Squarespace": 0.2
  },
  "drupal_versions": {
   "Drupal 10": 192,
   "Drupal 11": 94,
   "Drupal 8": 9,
   "Drupal 9": 8,
   "Drupal 7": 4
  },
  "drupal_versioned": 307,
  "drupal_eol": 21,
  "drupal_eol_pct": 6.8
 },
 "vs_web": {
  "label": "General web (Tranco random sample)",
  "measured": 27385,
  "avg_score": 69.4,
  "has_structured_data": 50.1,
  "ai_citable_pct": 36.8,
  "csp": 31.4,
  "drupal_share": 3.6,
  "wordpress_share": 18.3
 }
}