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
- 4,032
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 11 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)
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
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Joomla
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Joomla, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Client Challenge
free and open-source web content management system
Very close cos 0.937 - 02
Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS | WordPress.org
Open source software which you can use to easily create a beautiful website, blog, or app.
Very close cos 0.932 - 03
jQuery
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
Very close cos 0.907 - 04
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.
Very close cos 0.899 - 05
phpMyAdmin
database administration tool
Very close cos 0.899 - 06
Discover Moodle — the world's most popular LMS
Build an effective, engaging learning ecosystem with Moodle, the most customisable and popular LMS for education, enterprise, and public sector organisations.
Close cos 0.893 - 07
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.
Close cos 0.893 - 08
PHP
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
Close cos 0.891 - 09
Doxygen homepage
Source code documentation and analysis tool
Close cos 0.889 - 10
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.
Close cos 0.886 - 11
Open Source ERP and CRM | Odoo
From ERP to CRM, eCommerce and CMS. Download Odoo or use it in the cloud. Grow Your Business.
Close cos 0.887 - 12
MediaWiki
free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation
Close cos 0.887 - 13
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.
Close cos 0.889 - 14
The FreeBSD Project
free Unix-like operating system
Close cos 0.884 - 15
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.
Close cos 0.884 - 16
OSF
tools that make open science practice easier
Close cos 0.885 - 17
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.
Close cos 0.882 - 18
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.
Close cos 0.884 - 19
WooCommerce
WooCommerce is the open-source ecommerce platform that helps merchants and developers build successful businesses for the long term.
Close cos 0.882 - 20
The Go Programming Language
Go is an open source programming language that makes it simple to build secure, scalable systems.
Close cos 0.881
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
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a56310ac2f94b1e5-HAM
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by Joomla (meta generator: Joomla! - Open Source Content Management)
- Video
- YouTube embeds page source: youtube-nocookie.com/embed/
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS maisie.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=7TrTF1YOtjmEurOW7v7IISpix39HBhwi2vyy_RTS1tA
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Joomla adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 16/20
- Cloudflare 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS 6/20
- Google Workspace 6/20
- Mailchimp · not on joomla.org 5/20
- nginx · not on joomla.org 5/20
- Atlassian · not on joomla.org 4/20
- Google Fonts 4/20
- PHP 4/20
- WordPress · not on joomla.org 4/20
- Mailchimp Transactional · not on joomla.org 4/20
- OpenAI · not on joomla.org 4/20
- Font Awesome 4/20
- Amazon SES · not on joomla.org 3/20
- jQuery · not on joomla.org 3/20
- Zendesk · not on joomla.org 3/20