Download websites that use Ektron CMS

About Ektron CMS

A product name and a vendor name that do not match is what an acquisition looks like by the time it reaches a technology index. Our record files Ektron CMS under Optimizely, a company whose current line is sold under other names entirely, and the software itself dates from 2001. Enterprise content management from that period was bought on long procurement cycles and installed to last, which is precisely why sites running it are still out there.

Finding the platform on a live site now says more about the organisation than about the software. A site still on a discontinued enterprise system is usually one that was expensive to build, that works well enough, and that nobody has been given budget to replace. The stack around it tends to be equally frozen: an ageing application server, integrations written against interfaces nobody documents any more, and a content team trained on an editor no vendor demonstrates at conferences. As of October 2026 we detect 2 sites of that kind.

A count in this range is not a market share reading. Platforms in wind down lose sites in bursts, when a redesign lands or a hosting contract ends, and our figure is a snapshot of one crawl rather than a trend line. What the figure does establish is that the population is small enough to work through by hand, which changes what a researcher can do with it. A universe of a few dozen or a few hundred confirmed sites is something a person can qualify individually, which is rarely true of a list drawn from a mainstream system.

Two fields on this record deserve a caution. The recorded implementation language is JavaScript, which describes the client side files our detector can see rather than the server technology behind them, and the Proprietary designation refers to the terms the product shipped under rather than to whatever support arrangement a given site still holds, if any. Detection is inferential for a platform of this age. Markup fossils survive migrations, so a site that moved years ago can keep matching on leftover paths or scripts, while a heavily proxied or statically exported site can run the platform invisibly.

With those caveats in place the list has unusually direct commercial value. A confirmed inventory of sites running a platform that has no roadmap is a lead list for migration agencies, a target list for the vendors of replacement systems, and a working population for security researchers, since patch availability for a retired enterprise product is not something anyone should assume. Auditors looking at public sector or financial sites have a related interest in knowing what is still in service. None of those questions can be answered one domain at a time, because the point is finding the sites nobody knew were still on it. The download hands over that set in a single file, with the caveats above attached rather than quietly omitted.