🆚 Joomla vs. Mastodon CMS

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Joomla is much more popular than Mastodon CMS.
🌍 Joomla is more popular in all countries.
⭐ Mastodon CMS is particularly popular in Germany.

Type

Content management system

Content management system

About

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.

Mastodon is free, open-source software for running self-hosted, federated social networking services based on the ActivityPub protocol.

It allows users to host independent “instances” that communicate across the global “Fediverse,” supports up to 500-character posts (toots), images, video, audio, polls, local and federated timelines, chronological feeds with no ads or algorithms, and community-based moderation.

Headquarters

New York, United States

Berlin, Germany

Website

joomla.org #28,142

joinmastodon.org #268,863

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Free ✔️Open source

Categories

CMS › Rank #2

CMS › Rank #59

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Joomla CMS is 91 times more popular than Mastodon CMS.

Total websites

Market share

CMS

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Joomla is more popular than Mastodon CMS in all countries.

Germany

United States

Italy

Russia

United Kingdom

Poland

Spain

France

Netherlands

Greece

Awards

🥈 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.

⭐ 9th most popular in Portugal in the CMS category.
🔥 16th most popular in France in the CMS category.
⬆️ 31st most popular in Germany in the CMS category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Joomla is more popular than Mastodon CMS in all market segments.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Travel

Internet Services

Health

Sports

Entertainment

Blogs/Wiki

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#499

#2,744

slobodnadalmacija.hr

#2,821

#2,914

#3,220

Name

Rank

#35,763

#76,122

#88,802

mastodon.social

#100,158

#148,953

Compare alternatives

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See also

Joomla technology profile

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Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
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