ButterCMS vs Joomla
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
ButterCMS · Joomla · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
1
14
Open Page Rank 8+
3
252
Open Page Rank 7+
8
880
Open Page Rank 6+
14
1,677
Open Page Rank 5+
28
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
ButterCMS · Joomla · share of sites in each country using one or the other
Germany
40
25,269
United States
138
18,958
Italy
29
15,642
Poland
21
14,115
Russia
11
12,845
France
29
10,796
Spain
31
9,081
United Kingdom
63
7,370
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | ButterCMS | Joomla |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.1 s | 1.8 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 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.