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+
33
280
Open Page Rank 7+
90
969
Open Page Rank 6+
182
1,864
Open Page Rank 5+
408
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
ExpressionEngine · Joomla · share of sites in each country using one or the other
Germany
420
29,173
United States
2,621
22,184
Italy
381
17,925
Poland
211
16,329
Russia
113
15,255
France
340
12,982
Spain
307
10,313
United Kingdom
1,153
8,683
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | ExpressionEngine | Joomla |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.7 s | 1.8 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 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.