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
265
Open Page Rank 7+
8
919
Open Page Rank 6+
14
1,773
Open Page Rank 5+
28
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
ButterCMS · Joomla · share of sites in each country using one or the other
Germany
39
25,264
United States
134
19,343
Italy
30
15,211
Poland
25
14,311
Russia
12
12,782
France
35
10,685
Spain
33
8,563
United Kingdom
67
7,544
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | ButterCMS | Joomla |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.3 s | 1.9 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 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.