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?.