Site sector · 246 sites
What are education websites built with?
As of 2026-10-02, we read the home pages of 246 education websites among our popular sample: the most used CMS is Drupal (26%), the most used framework is React (4.9%) and the most used CDN or host is cdnjs (20%).
Most used technologies
| Technology | Category | Sites | Share | vs all sites |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Tag Manager | Tag manager | 185 | 75% | 1.8x |
| jQuery | JavaScript library | 123 | 50% | 1.7x |
| PHP | Programming language | 116 | 47% | 2.0x |
| Apache HTTP Server | Web server | 76 | 31% | 3.5x |
| Nginx | Web server | 73 | 30% | 1.4x |
| Google Fonts | Fonts | 72 | 29% | 1.7x |
| Font Awesome | Fonts | 67 | 27% | 2.8x |
| Drupal | CMS | 65 | 26% | 5.8x |
| cdnjs | CDN | 48 | 20% | 2.4x |
| Google Analytics | Analytics | 46 | 19% | 0.9x |
| WordPress | CMS | 43 | 17% | 1.1x |
| Adobe Fonts | Fonts | 42 | 17% | 5.0x |
| YouTube | Video | 41 | 17% | 4.0x |
| Bootstrap | UI library | 34 | 14% | 1.5x |
| jQuery Migrate | JavaScript library | 31 | 13% | 1.8x |
| jsDelivr | CDN | 30 | 12% | 1.5x |
| Slick | JavaScript library | 27 | 11% | 2.5x |
| Cloudflare | CDN | 23 | 9.3% | 0.3x |
| Modernizr | JavaScript library | 19 | 7.7% | 3.4x |
| Adobe Experience Manager | CMS | 18 | 7.3% | 2.0x |
| Google Hosted Libraries | CDN | 18 | 7.3% | 1.6x |
| Swiper | JavaScript library | 18 | 7.3% | 1.1x |
| Tailwind CSS | UI library | 17 | 6.9% | 0.5x |
| New Relic | Monitoring | 16 | 6.5% | 2.6x |
| Yoast SEO | SEO | 16 | 6.5% | 0.9x |
"vs all sites" compares the share here with the share among all 7,859 sites: 2.0x means twice as common.
Over-represented here
Technologies much more common on education websites than on average (at least 8 sites):
| Technology | Sites | Share | vs all sites |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foundation | 9 | 3.7% | 10.3x |
| Drupal | 65 | 26% | 5.8x |
| Adobe Fonts | 42 | 17% | 5.0x |
| YouTube | 41 | 17% | 4.0x |
| Vimeo | 12 | 4.9% | 4.0x |
| Apache HTTP Server | 76 | 31% | 3.5x |
| Modernizr | 19 | 7.7% | 3.4x |
| Font Awesome | 67 | 27% | 2.8x |
| Fancybox | 9 | 3.7% | 2.6x |
| New Relic | 16 | 6.5% | 2.6x |
Most popular education websites
- mit.edu #98
- harvard.edu #133
- stanford.edu #169
- cornell.edu #257
- washington.edu #415
- yale.edu #533
- upenn.edu #550
- psu.edu #606
- ucla.edu #649
- wisc.edu #706
- cam.ac.uk #731
- uci.edu #752
- cmu.edu #847
- ucsd.edu #902
- uchicago.edu #906
- utexas.edu #911
- asu.edu #1,081
- ufl.edu #1,084
- duke.edu #1,136
- uiuc.edu #1,140
- purdue.edu #1,146
- nyu.edu #1,168
- unc.edu #1,174
- umd.edu #1,208
- usc.edu #1,251
- arizona.edu #1,301
- illinois.edu #1,313
- colorado.edu #1,337
- northwestern.edu #1,376
- sjtu.edu.cn #1,388
- virginia.edu #1,452
- tsinghua.edu.cn #1,456
- utah.edu #1,474
- tamu.edu #1,504
- univie.ac.at #1,528
- osu.edu #1,530
- bu.edu #1,567
- ucsb.edu #1,584
- ncsu.edu #1,624
- rutgers.edu #1,653
- pitt.edu #1,670
- vt.edu #1,713
- brookings.edu #1,734
- indiana.edu #1,809
- georgetown.edu #1,829
- cuny.edu #1,841
- hawaii.edu #1,869
- wustl.edu #1,870
- tufts.edu #1,911
- lse.ac.uk #1,918
- gatech.edu #1,960
- uga.edu #1,997
- fsu.edu #2,021
- unl.edu #2,023
- brown.edu #2,029
- iastate.edu #2,038
- hbs.edu #2,050
- rochester.edu #2,065
- anu.edu.au #2,079
- oregonstate.edu #2,092
- uiowa.edu #2,148
- unsw.edu.au #2,281
- iu.edu #2,303
- usf.edu #2,361
- u-tokyo.ac.jp #2,411
- udel.edu #2,425
- uoregon.edu #2,463
- vanderbilt.edu #2,474
- pku.edu.cn #2,514
- nd.edu #2,590
- wsu.edu #2,594
- uq.edu.au #2,618
- colostate.edu #2,636
- byu.edu #2,661
- gmu.edu #2,712
- sydney.edu.au #2,804
- manchester.ac.uk #2,818
- buffalo.edu #2,865
- clemson.edu #2,899
- uky.edu #2,915
- uw.edu #2,938
- dartmouth.edu #2,960
- gla.ac.uk #2,961
- ucr.edu #2,973
- emory.edu #2,976
- miami.edu #3,081
- imperial.ac.uk #3,105
- uh.edu #3,127
- lsu.edu #3,155
- missouri.edu #3,169
- warwick.ac.uk #3,177
- uconn.edu #3,201
- kcl.ac.uk #3,207
- cuhk.edu.hk #3,231
- leeds.ac.uk #3,471
- ku.edu #3,540
- utk.edu #3,608
- unm.edu #3,638
- icm.edu.pl #3,640
- rit.edu #3,792
The 100 most popular of 246 are listed; the number is the position in our popularity-ordered sample (1 = most popular).
FAQ
- What are education websites built with?
- As of 2026-10-02, we read the home pages of 246 education websites among our popular sample: the most used CMS is Drupal (26%), the most used framework is React (4.9%) and the most used CDN or host is cdnjs (20%).
- Which technologies are most common on education websites?
- Google Tag Manager (75%), jQuery (50%), PHP (47%), Apache HTTP Server (31%), Nginx (30%) and Google Fonts (29%) (share of the 246 sites analysed on 2026-10-02).
- What is typical for education websites compared with all sites?
- Foundation (10.3x as common as on average), Drupal (5.8x as common as on average), Adobe Fonts (5.0x as common as on average) and YouTube (4.0x as common as on average).