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
13
Open Page Rank 8+
3
280
Open Page Rank 7+
10
969
Open Page Rank 6+
16
1,864
Open Page Rank 5+
32
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
ButterCMS · Joomla · share of sites in each country using one or the other
Germany
52
29,173
United States
146
22,184
Italy
29
17,925
Poland
25
16,329
Russia
13
15,255
France
50
12,982
Spain
34
10,313
United Kingdom
79
8,683
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | ButterCMS | Joomla |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.2 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, 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.