🆚 Joomla vs. Sitecore

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Joomla is much more popular than Sitecore.
🌎 Joomla is more popular in Germany, the United States, and Italy.
🌍 Sitecore is more popular in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Aruba.

Joomla

Sitecore

Type

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.

Sitecore is an enterprise CMS built on ASP.NET and Microsoft SQL Server that manages, delivers, and optimizes digital content and experiences across multiple channels.

It supports real-time personalization based on visitor behavior and location, integrates data through its xConnect framework into the Experience Database (xDB), offers a built-in Marketing Automation Engine, and provides headless content delivery options.

Headquarters

New York, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

joomla.org #28,142

sitecore.com #42,649

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Free version ❌

$40,000+/year

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Joomla CMS is 18 times more popular than Sitecore.

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 Sitecore is more popular in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Aruba.

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.

🥈 Second most popular in the United Arab Emirates in the CMS category.
⭐ 6th most popular in Hong Kong in the CMS category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Australia in the CMS category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Singapore in the CMS category.
⭐ 8th most popular in China in the CMS category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Joomla is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and education and reference, while Sitecore is more commonly used on finance and banking, and fashion and beauty sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Travel

Health

Internet Services

Sports

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Online Shopping

Entertainment