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+
5
13
Open Page Rank 8+
40
280
Open Page Rank 7+
163
969
Open Page Rank 6+
309
1,864
Open Page Rank 5+
536
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
Ghost · Joomla · share of sites in each country using one or the other
Germany
1,264
29,173
United States
3,469
22,184
Italy
912
17,925
Poland
674
16,329
Russia
614
15,255
France
1,233
12,982
Spain
998
10,313
United Kingdom
1,656
8,683
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Ghost | Joomla |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.6 s | 1.8 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 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.
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 |