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 19,343

915,273

Japan 2,359

434,030

Germany 25,264

344,615

India 5,446

347,241

United Kingdom 7,544

302,584

France 10,685

280,353

Italy 15,211

272,209

Brazil 5,959

272,704

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, 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.

All Joomla sites · All WordPress sites