Backdrop vs Joomla
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Backdrop · Joomla · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
4
13
Open Page Rank 8+
27
280
Open Page Rank 7+
65
969
Open Page Rank 6+
113
1,864
Open Page Rank 5+
195
3,347
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Backdrop · Joomla · share of sites in each country using one or the other
Germany
693
29,173
United States
1,297
22,184
Italy
457
17,925
Poland
181
16,329
Russia
82
15,255
France
1,398
12,982
Spain
734
10,313
United Kingdom
521
8,683
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Backdrop | Joomla |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.6 s | 1.8 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 900 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Jun 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
Joomla to Backdrop
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| landitec.de | Dec 2025 |