Ghost vs Joomla
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Ghost · Joomla · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
4
13
Open Page Rank 8+
35
265
Open Page Rank 7+
158
919
Open Page Rank 6+
296
1,773
Open Page Rank 5+
507
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
Ghost · Joomla · share of sites in each country using one or the other
Germany
1,126
25,264
United States
3,195
19,343
Italy
786
15,211
Poland
609
14,311
Russia
560
12,782
France
1,012
10,685
Spain
864
8,563
United Kingdom
1,465
7,544
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Ghost | Joomla |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.6 s | 1.9 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 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.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
Joomla to Ghost
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| imcadom.com | Oct 2025 |