🆚 Contao vs. Joomla

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Content management system
Content management system

About

Contao is an open-source content management system built with PHP, Symfony, and MySQL.

It offers advanced editing features, a fine-grained permission system, responsive images, a full-text search engine, a flexible form generator, and built-in SEO tools.

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

Lyss, Switzerland
New York, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source

Categories

CMS › Rank #10
CMS › Rank #2

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Joomla CMS is 9 times more popular than Contao.
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 Contao is more popular in Liechtenstein.
Germany
United States
Italy
Russia
United Kingdom
Poland
France
Spain
Switzerland
Netherlands

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Joomla is more popular than Contao in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Travel
Internet Services
Health
Sports
Entertainment
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Online Shopping

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#13,564
#14,419
#14,638
#28,258
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