Joomla vs MODX
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Joomla · MODX · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
13
0
Open Page Rank 8+
280
24
Open Page Rank 7+
969
48
Open Page Rank 6+
1,864
79
Open Page Rank 5+
3,347
136
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Joomla · MODX · share of sites in each country using one or the other
Germany
29,173
802
United States
22,184
748
Russia
15,255
5,521
Italy
17,925
213
Poland
16,329
338
France
12,982
267
Spain
10,313
205
United Kingdom
8,683
445
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Joomla | MODX |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 ms | 700 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.