Headless CMS — Decoupled CMS
A content management system that is decoupled from its presentation layer and focuses exclusively on content storage and API delivery. Contentful, Sanity, Strapi, and Hygraph are leading examples.
HCMS
A content management system that is decoupled from its presentation layer and focuses exclusively on content storage and API delivery. Contentful, Sanity, Strapi, and Hygraph are leading examples.
Derivatives & related terms
- Headless WordPress
- Contentful
- Sanity
- Strapi
- Directus
- Payload CMS
- Content API
- Content modeling
- Decoupled CMS
- Hybrid CMS
- DXP (Digital Experience Platform)
- MACH architecture
SEO tip
In the headless CMS setup, the management of canonical URLs, hreflang tags, and structured data is entirely up to the developer. Without automation, significant technical SEO debts quickly arise.
Source: Georgia Business & Technology Glossary by Del-Ops Technology & Consulting Team. Last Updated: February 2026.