🆚 Bitrix vs. Joomla

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Joomla is four times more popular than Bitrix.
🌎 Joomla is more popular in Germany, the United States, and Italy.
🌍 Bitrix is more popular in Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan.

Bitrix

Joomla

Type

Content management system

About

Bitrix is a popular Russian modular content management system based on PHP and MySQL.

It offers more than 40 built-in modules such as e-commerce, blogs, forums, and photo galleries, supports multilingual content, customizable access permissions, and REST APIs.

Joomla is an open-source content management system written in PHP.

It offers a flexible extension system with over 4,000 extensions, a template-driven architecture, access control levels, built-in multilingual support, and tools for content versioning and SEO management.

Headquarters

Kaliningrad, Russia

New York, United States

Website

1c-bitrix.ru/products/cms/ #19,138

joomla.org #28,142

Pricing

Free version ❌

Start6,200 RUB

Standard17,900 RUB

Small business40,900 RUB

Business83,900 RUB

Enterprise1,699,000+ RUB

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Joomla CMS is 4 times more popular than Bitrix.

Total websites

Market share

CMS

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Joomla is more popular in Germany, the United States, and Italy, while Bitrix is more popular in Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan.

Russia

Germany

United States

Italy

United Kingdom

Poland

Spain

Ukraine

France

Netherlands

Awards

🥇 Most popular in Russia in the E-Commerce category.
🥇 Most popular in Belarus in the E-Commerce category.
🥇 Most popular in Kazakhstan in the E-Commerce category.
🥇 Most popular in Uzbekistan in the E-Commerce category.
🥈 Second most popular in Russia in the CMS category.

🥈 Second most popular in Italy in the CMS category.
🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom in the CMS category.
🥈 Second most popular in Poland in the CMS category.
🥈 Second most popular in Spain in the CMS category.
🥈 Second most popular in the Netherlands in the CMS category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Joomla is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and education and reference, while Bitrix is more commonly used on online shopping and fashion and beauty sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Online Shopping

Travel

Health

Internet Services

Entertainment

Sports

General News