🆚 Drupal vs. Joomla

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Content management system
Content management system

About

Drupal is a modular open-source content management platform written in PHP.

It provides over 50,000 modules for adding and customizing its functionality, flexible content types, multilingual support, RESTful API integration, and built-in user roles and permissions for managing complex websites.

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

Portland, Oregon, United States
New York, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source

Categories

CMS › Rank #3
CMS › Rank #2

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Joomla CMS is 1.2 times more popular than Drupal.
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 Kingdom, and Italy, while Drupal is more popular in the United States, France, and Belgium.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Italy
Russia
Spain
Netherlands
Poland
Belgium

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Joomla is more popular among sites focused on sports and real estate, while Drupal is more commonly used on business, education and reference, and marketing and merchandising sites.
Business
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Health
Travel
Government/Military
Internet Services
Public Information
Entertainment

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#227
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Rank

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