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 18,958

890,234

Japan 2,341

429,012

Germany 25,269

337,554

India 5,229

340,035

United Kingdom 7,370

300,059

Italy 15,642

285,630

France 10,796

284,252

Spain 9,081

260,337

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, Sep 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