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
1
Open Page Rank 8+
265
22
Open Page Rank 7+
919
45
Open Page Rank 6+
1,773
77
Open Page Rank 5+
3,211
132
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
25,264
642
United States
19,343
607
Russia
12,782
4,819
Italy
15,211
179
Poland
14,311
273
France
10,685
206
Spain
8,563
159
United Kingdom
7,544
386
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Joomla | MODX |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.9 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, 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.