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Adobe Experience Manager

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Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service is a set of composable services for creating and managing experiences. Its main solutions are AEM Sites, AEM Assets and AEM Forms.[1]

Adobe Experience Manager is an enterprise-level content management solution that enables organizations to create, manage, and deliver digital experiences across multiple channels, including websites, mobile apps, and forms.

Adobe Experience Manager belongs toContent Management System (CMS)category.

Solutions

Sites, Assets and Forms, licensed individually[1]

Delivery

Edge Delivery Services as a top-level solution[1]

Long-term release

AEM 6.5 LTS for extended maintenance[2]

Authoring UI

Touch-enabled only; the classic UI is gone[3]

104websites

use it — 4.1% of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months

#2of 46

tools in its category seen in our scans (we recognize 503)

26public pages

on UptimeCard — open any of them to see how that site is doing

In short: A modular Adobe platform: each solution is licensed on its own, and customers who need extended maintenance can use AEM 6.5 LTS.[1][2]

2.76% of all websites we track run Adobe Experience Manager▼ 0.01 points since 20 Sep

Should you use Adobe Experience Manager?

The 10-second version, from the vendor’s own pages and what we see in our scans

Adobe Experience Manager fits if…

  • Organizations that want to license content, asset and forms services separately and use them together.[1]
  • Teams that need a long-term support release, which AEM 6.5 LTS provides.[2]

Look elsewhere if…

  • Teams with a single small site may not need a set of composable services that are licensed per solution.[1]
The classic authoring UI is not available in the Cloud Service, so older training may not match.[3]
Solutions are licensed individually, so each one you add is a separate license.[1]

Products

Solutions in AEM as a Cloud Service

AEM Sites

A high-level solution for sites, licensed individually.[1]

AEM Assets

A high-level solution for assets, licensed individually.[1]

AEM Forms

A high-level solution for forms, licensed individually.[1]

AEM Screens

A digital signage solution for public and internal displays.[2]

Adobe Experience Manager versions

The newest release, the series that still gets fixes, and what changed

Latest release

2026.9.0[4]

Released 24 Sept 2026

Maintained series

2026

How Adobe Experience Manager sites protect themselves

Share of the 104 sites we scanned that run each protection

HSTS89% · 92 sites

HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) informs browsers that the site should only be accessed using HTTPS

Akamai Bot Manager28% · 29 sites

Akamai Bot Manager detect bots using device fingerprinting bot signatures

reCAPTCHA18% · 19 sites

reCAPTCHA is a free service from Google that helps protect websites from spam and abuse

Protections add up, they do not replace each other: a site can run all of them.

What sites use Adobe Experience Manager for

An estimate from UptimeCard's technology map of 21 public sites

Runs the whole site11 sites

auspost.com.au · avalara.com · barracuda.com

Runs the marketing site9 sites

aiia.eu · akamai.com · anaplan.com

Runs a shop or catalog1 sites

optus.com.au

Rough guide, not a measurement: each description is written automatically from the site’s technology stack and the site has not confirmed it. A site is counted once, in the first group its description fits (shop, help and docs, blog, marketing site; otherwise the whole site). Descriptions that only guess (“likely”, “may”) are left out.

At a glance

UptimeCard's own scans and tests of 2,555 websites · refreshed weekly

How Adobe Experience Manager sites scoreout of 100 · hover or tap a score for details

48PerformancePooraverage site: 5092AccessibilityGoodaverage site: 8981Best practicesGoodaverage site: 9392SEOGoodaverage site: 92

Page load time

Loads about 11% slower than the average site

Adobe Experience Manager sites
4.8 s
All sites
4.3 s

Most Adobe Experience Manager sites load in 3.4–5.8 s. Home page weight: 3.6 MB vs 3.3 MB for all sites. 21 public sites measured.

Where are they hosted?

Mostly Amazon Web Services and Cloudflare

  • Amazon Web Services42%
  • Cloudflare12%
  • Akamai International B.V.8%
  • Fastly8%
  • Other31%
United States 69%Canada 15%Australia 4%

Who uses it?

Technology and Software is the biggest group

Technology and Software65%
Business Services12%
Cybersecurity12%
Other8%

Share of 26 classified public sites. “× average” compares with all 961 public sites.

How Adobe Experience Manager sites are built

Closest partners. The number says how many times more often the tool runs on Adobe Experience Manager sites than on an average website. Hover a partner for its share of sites.

Adobe Client Data Layer18×Adobe Target13×Adobe Experience Platform Launch12×Adobe Experience Platform Identity Service9×Brightcove9×Adobe Analytics8×Akamai mPulse6×Boomerang6×Akamai5×

Stacks we see most. Tools that tend to run together with Adobe Experience Manager on the same websites. The percentage is the share of all 104 Adobe Experience Manager sites that run the whole stack.

17 stacks · swipe, drag or use the arrows
#1

Adobe Experience Manager + DigiCert + Akamai + OneTrust + Adobe Client Data Layer

5.8%6 of 104 sites
#2

Adobe Experience Manager + Akamai + TrustArc

6.7%7 of 104 sites
#3

Adobe Experience Manager + Akamai + OneTrust + Brightcove + VideoJS

3.8%4 of 104 sites
#4

Adobe Experience Manager + GSAP + Handlebars + YouTube

3.8%4 of 104 sites
#5

Adobe Experience Manager + DigiCert + TrustArc

4.8%5 of 104 sites
#6

Adobe Experience Manager + OneTrust + Sectigo

4.8%5 of 104 sites
#7

Adobe Experience Manager + Handlebars + ZURB Foundation

4.8%5 of 104 sites
#8

Adobe Experience Manager + Adobe Client Data Layer + GSAP

3.8%4 of 104 sites
#9

Adobe Experience Manager + Bootstrap + GSAP

3.8%4 of 104 sites
#10

Adobe Experience Manager + OneTrust + Handlebars

3.8%4 of 104 sites
#11

Adobe Experience Manager + DigiCert + Amazon ALB

3.8%4 of 104 sites
#12

Adobe Experience Manager + Adobe Client Data Layer + Sectigo

3.8%4 of 104 sites
#13

Adobe Experience Manager + DigiCert + Unpkg

3.8%4 of 104 sites
#14

Adobe Experience Manager + Akamai + YouTube

3.8%4 of 104 sites
#15

Adobe Experience Manager + Bootstrap + ZURB Foundation

3.8%4 of 104 sites
#16

Adobe Experience Manager + YouTube + Imperva

3.8%4 of 104 sites
#17

Adobe Experience Manager + GSAP + Mustache

3.8%4 of 104 sites

Usually installed alongside

The bigger the bubble, the more of the 104 Adobe Experience Manager sites also run the tool. Colour shows what the tool does. Hover or tap a bubble for details.

Adobe Experience Platform Launch53%Google Tag Manager37%OneTrust43%Google Analytics39%Facebook Pixel26%Linkedin Insight Tag24%Microsoft Advertising20%Google Ads14%Adobe Target16%Cart Functionality15%
Tag managerCookie consentAnalyticsAdvertisingA/B testingOnline store

Similar tools in its category

Content Management System (CMS): 503 tools known, 46 seen in our scans

WordPress463 sitesAlternativeContentful89 sitesAlternativeDrupal70 sitesAlternativeHubSpot CMS Hub54 sitesAlternativeSanity28 sitesAlternativeCraft CMS20 sitesAlternativeSanity.io19 sitesAlternativeSitecore17 sitesAlternative

How websites combine Adobe Experience Manager with other tools

Relationships found on the websites that use it, from the same map status pages show.

Integrates with another 34Built on a platform 18Complements another tool 18Needs another tool 11Overlaps with another 2

Questions about Adobe Experience Manager

What is AEM made of?
High-level solutions such as AEM Sites, AEM Assets and AEM Forms, built on composable services.[1]
Is there a long-term support release?
Yes. AEM 6.5 LTS is described as the long-term support release for customers who need extended maintenance.[2]
How many websites use Adobe Experience Manager?
We found Adobe Experience Manager on 104 of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months (4.1%). 26 of them have a public status page.
What is Adobe Experience Manager often used with?
Among the websites we scan, Adobe Experience Manager is often found alongside Adobe Experience Platform Launch (52.9% of its sites), DigiCert (46.2% of its sites), Akamai (43.3% of its sites).
What are the alternatives to Adobe Experience Manager?
Other content management systems we recognize include WordPress, Contentful, Drupal, HubSpot CMS Hub.

Is your website built with Adobe Experience Manager?

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