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
265
Open Page Rank 7+
70
919
Open Page Rank 6+
126
1,773
Open Page Rank 5+
210
3,211
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
717
25,264
United States
1,333
19,343
Italy
445
15,211
Poland
179
14,311
Russia
78
12,782
France
1,375
10,685
Spain
681
8,563
United Kingdom
500
7,544
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Backdrop | Joomla |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.6 s | 1.9 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, Aug 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 |