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+
5
14
Open Page Rank 8+
35
252
Open Page Rank 7+
83
880
Open Page Rank 6+
144
1,677
Open Page Rank 5+
243
3,046
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
763
25,269
United States
1,379
18,958
Italy
521
15,642
Poland
191
14,115
Russia
85
12,845
France
1,530
10,796
Spain
826
9,081
United Kingdom
517
7,370
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, Sep 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 |