🆚 Joomla vs. WordPress

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *
Joomla
WordPress

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.

WordPress is a widely used open-source content management system built on PHP and MySQL.

It offers a plugin ecosystem with over 60,000 extensions, thousands of themes, a block-based editor for content creation, REST API support, multisite capabilities, and a large community for support and development.

Headquarters

New York, United States
San Francisco, California, United States

Website

joomla.org #28,142
wordpress.org #3,825

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source

Categories

CMS › Rank #2
CMS › Rank #1

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The WordPress CMS is 28 times more popular than Joomla.
Total websites

Market share

CMS

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

WordPress is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Joomla is more popular in Antarctica.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Japan
France
Italy
Spain
Netherlands
Australia
Brazil

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

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

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#499
#2,744
#2,821
#2,914
#3,220
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Name
Rank
#17
#83
#140
#234
#297
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See also

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