🆚 Joomla vs. MODX

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

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.

MODX is an open-source content management platform and PHP application framework focused on performance and security.

It separates content from presentation using a tag-based template system, supports configurable and extendable caching, offers user groups and access contexts, content versioning and workflows, custom resource types and routing, and can be extended with extras from a community repository to add features such as e-commerce, SEO tools, and media management.

Headquarters

New York, United States
Dallas, Texas, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free version ✔️Open source
Cloud
Base
(10 GB storage)
$39/month
Pro
(30 GB storage)
$99/month
Business
(100 GB storage)
$349/month

Categories

CMS › Rank #2
CMS › Rank #36

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Joomla CMS is 37 times more popular than MODX.
Total websites

Market share

CMS

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Joomla is more popular than MODX in all countries.
Germany
United States
Russia
Italy
United Kingdom
Poland
Spain
France
Netherlands
Ukraine

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

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

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
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Name
Rank
#31,762
#48,209
#61,183
#74,194
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See also

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