ExpressionEngine vs Joomla
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
ExpressionEngine · Joomla · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
5
13
Open Page Rank 8+
32
265
Open Page Rank 7+
89
919
Open Page Rank 6+
177
1,773
Open Page Rank 5+
396
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
ExpressionEngine · Joomla · share of sites in each country using one or the other
Germany
389
25,264
United States
2,298
19,343
Italy
332
15,211
Poland
186
14,311
Russia
95
12,782
France
277
10,685
Spain
266
8,563
United Kingdom
1,000
7,544
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | ExpressionEngine | Joomla |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.7 s | 1.9 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 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.