Joomla vs WordPress

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

Joomla · WordPress · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.

By country

Joomla · WordPress · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 22,184

1,036,104

Japan 2,797

501,069

Germany 29,173

386,848

India 6,237

400,184

United Kingdom 8,683

348,389

France 12,982

338,555

Italy 17,925

318,819

Brazil 6,621

300,319

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

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.

All Joomla sites · All WordPress sites