🆚 Joomla vs. ProcessWire

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Joomla is much more popular than ProcessWire.
🌍 Joomla is more popular in all countries.
⭐ ProcessWire 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.

ProcessWire is a PHP-based open-source content management system and web application framework focused on flexible content modeling and API-driven development.

It offers a hierarchical page structure with custom field types, a jQuery-style API, role-based access control, multilingual support, built-in caching and search, configurable URLs and SEO settings, and an extensible ecosystem with over 600 third-party modules.

Headquarters

New York, United States

Website

joomla.org #28,142

processwire.com #469,009

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Free ✔️Open source

Categories

CMS › Rank #2

CMS › Rank #33

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Joomla CMS is 33 times more popular than ProcessWire.

Total websites

Market share

CMS

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Joomla is more popular than ProcessWire in all countries.

Germany

United States

Italy

United Kingdom

Russia

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.

⭐ 8th most popular in Finland in the CMS category.
⭐ 9th most popular in Germany in the CMS category.
🔥 11st most popular in Switzerland in the CMS category.
🔥 12nd most popular in Italy in the CMS category.
🔥 12nd most popular in Belgium in the CMS category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Joomla is more popular than ProcessWire 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

#499

#2,744

slobodnadalmacija.hr

#2,821

#2,914

#3,220

Name

Rank

muensterland.com

#49,488

productmadness.com

#50,392

#50,508

#60,983

#75,248

Compare alternatives

Technologies with similar characteristics.

See also

Joomla technology profile

ProcessWire technology profile

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Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
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