Alternatives and competitors

Sites like Joomla

The 20 closest content management system alternatives to Joomla, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 11 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to Joomla? The closest matches are Drupal, WordPress and Moodle. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.

Neighbours
k = 20
Sites searched
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Vector
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Query
7 ms

01 · Entity

About Joomla

Joomla joomla.org

Joomla Content Management System (CMS) - try it! It's free!

Joomla! is the mobile-ready and user-friendly way to build your website. Choose from thousands of features and designs. Joomla! is free and open source.

Wikidata: web-based Content Management System (CMS)

Top 10K · #3,149 English 11 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit Joomla

Summary by Claude

Official site of Joomla, a free open-source content management system for building websites and web applications, with downloads, extensions, templates, documentation and project news.

Who it’s for
Website builders, web developers and site owners
Business model
Donations and sponsorships (nonprofit open source)

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Joomla’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

MediaWikiOdooPHPNode.jsphpMyAdminJimdojQueryMoodleWordPressDrupal

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Joomla

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Joomla, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English
  1. 01
    Drupal drupal.org Top 10K English

    Client Challenge

    free and open-source web content management system

  2. 02
    WordPress wordpress.org Top 100 English

    Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS | WordPress.org

    Open source software which you can use to easily create a beautiful website, blog, or app.

  3. 03
    Moodle moodle.org Top 10K

    Moodle challenge

    e-learning platform

  4. 04
    jQuery jquery.com Top 1K English

    jQuery

    jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library

  5. 05
    Jimdo jimdo.com Top 10K English

    Bring Your Business Online | Websites & More – Jimdo

    Try Jimdo, the all-in-one small business solution. Websites, online stores, bookings, logos, SEO, analytics, domains, and hosting.

  6. 06
    phpMyAdmin phpmyadmin.net Top 10K English

    phpMyAdmin

    database administration tool

  7. 07
    Node.js nodejs.org Top 10K English

    Node.js — Run JavaScript Everywhere

    Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.

  8. 08
    PHP php.net Top 1K English

    PHP

    PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

  9. 09
    doxygen.org Top 10K English

    Doxygen homepage

    Source code documentation and analysis tool

  10. 10
    boutell.com Top 10K

    Welcome to Boutell.Com, Inc.!

  11. 11
    gohugo.io Top 10K English

    The world's fastest framework for building websites

    Hugo is one of the most popular open-source static site generators. With its amazing speed and flexibility, Hugo makes building websites fun again.

  12. 12
    Odoo odoo.com Top 1K English

    Open Source ERP and CRM | Odoo

    From ERP to CRM, eCommerce and CMS. Download Odoo or use it in the cloud. Grow Your Business.

  13. 13
    MediaWiki mediawiki.org Top 10K English

    MediaWiki

    free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation

  14. 14
    WordPress.com wordpress.com Top 100 English

    WordPress.com: Everything You Need to Build Your Website

    Create your WordPress website with built-in hosting, premium themes, and powerful tools. No technical setup required. Start building today—free plan available.

  15. 15
    FreeBSD freebsd.org Top 10K English

    The FreeBSD Project

    free Unix-like operating system

  16. 16
    Plausible Analytics plausible.io Top 10K English

    Plausible Analytics | Simple, privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative

    Plausible is a lightweight and open-source Google Analytics alternative. Your website data is 100% yours and the privacy of your visitors is respected.

  17. 17
    OSF osf.io Top 10K English

    OSF

    tools that make open science practice easier

  18. 18
    Laravel laravel.com Top 10K English

    Laravel - The clean stack for Artisans and agents

    Laravel is a framework for building modern web apps and AI agents. Expressive syntax, built-in tools, and everything you need to ship fast.

  19. 19
    Blogger blogger.com Top 1K English

    Blogger.com - Create a unique and beautiful blog easily.

    Publish your passions your way. Whether you’d like to share your knowledge, experiences or the latest news, create a unique and beautiful blog.

  20. 20
    WooCommerce woocommerce.com Top 10K English

    WooCommerce

    WooCommerce is the open-source ecommerce platform that helps merchants and developers build successful businesses for the long term.

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to joomla.org’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Joomla uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What Joomla is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

Built with

CMS
  • Joomla meta generator: Joomla! - Open Source Content Management
CSS & UI
  • Font Awesome asset https://www.joomla.org/media/system/css/joomla-fontawesome.min.css?e1cc83
Fonts
  • Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Open+Sans:wght@300;400;700&display=swap
Analytics
  • Cloudflare Web Analytics asset https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/vce701823e78c4301a35b7e07294d87301792…
Tag managers
CDN
Languages & backends
  • PHP implied by Joomla (meta generator: Joomla! - Open Source Content Management)
Video
Email hosting
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)

Stack changes

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Joomla adds or drops shows up here.

SimilarSiteSearch

Competitors by meaning, stacks from the source. Data from public homepages and DNS.

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