Is Ghost or Joomla more popular?

Joomla is used by more websites in our catalog: 775 use Ghost and 2,891 use Joomla.

Does Ghost or Joomla have higher-authority sites?

Ghost sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Ghost: 34, Joomla: 29).

Is Ghost or Joomla growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Ghost went from 0.11% to 0.09% of all tracked sites, while Joomla went from 0.33% to 0.33%. Joomla is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Ghost and Joomla?

No. A site runs a single CMS / website platform, so Ghost and Joomla are mutually exclusive.

Where does this Ghost vs Joomla data come from?

Adoption is counted from Site Stats Database's own crawl; Domain Rating comes from Ahrefs and traffic from DataForSEO. Figures reflect the sites we track and refresh at least monthly.

Ghost vs Joomla — Site Stats Database

Ghost vs Joomla

A side-by-side comparison of two content management systems, based on the 515,058 CMS sites tracked by Site Stats Database.

Last updated July 1, 2026

Metric	Ghost	Joomla
Websites	775	2,891
Market share	0.15%	0.56%
Share of top 10K sites	0.04%	0.08%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#31	#19

Median DR	34	29

Average DR	35	31

Median keywords	997	665

Median referring domains	393	377

Median domain age	7 yrs	18 yrs

Average domain age	10 yrs	18 yrs

Average monthly traffic	28,443	20,880

Combined monthly traffic	22,042,995	60,363,288

allbud.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)77
Total Keywords81,210
Referring Domains4,878
Domain Age22 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,897,288
Traffic Trend
TechnologyGhost
blog.duolingo.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)88
Total Keywords48,347
Referring Domains7,397
Domain Age16 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,884,812
Traffic Trend
Technology
bestfreestreaming.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)6
Total Keywords6,973
Referring Domains252
Domain Age5 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,284,080
Traffic Trend
Technology
alisoneroman.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)63
Total Keywords21,747
Referring Domains2,228
Domain Age11 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,183,351
Traffic Trend
Technology
roadrunner.travel
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)52
Total Keywords40,115
Referring Domains3,357
Domain Age19 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)845,158
Traffic Trend
Technology
retrododo.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)57
Total Keywords47,167
Referring Domains8,068
Domain Age9 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)818,794
Traffic Trend
Technology
wheelchairtravel.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)63
Total Keywords7,654
Referring Domains2,838
Domain Age11 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)446,858
Traffic Trend
Technology
gamingtrend.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)66
Total Keywords49,133
Referring Domains7,940
Domain Age20 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)396,941
Traffic Trend
Technology
blog.gratefulness.me
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)59
Total Keywords40,731
Referring Domains4,386
Domain Age8 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)354,956
Traffic Trend
Technology
exploros.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)36
Total Keywords44,249
Referring Domains924
Domain Age14 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)334,928
Traffic Trend
TechnologyGhost

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
allbud.com	English	77	81,210	4,878	22 yrs	1,897,288		Ghost

musicca.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)64
Total Keywords57,982
Referring Domains3,824
Domain Age11 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,910,422
Traffic Trend
TechnologyJoomla
greektraveltellers.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)35
Total Keywords14,414
Referring Domains1,123
Domain Age8 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)2,163,512
Traffic Trend
Technology
thousandtrails.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)67
Total Keywords66,268
Referring Domains3,775
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,969,701
Traffic Trend
Technology
uab.edu
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)83
Total Keywords132,617
Referring Domains41,478
Domain Age40 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,805,268
Traffic Trend
TechnologyJoomla
yourgoodwill.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)50
Total Keywords9,228
Referring Domains875
Domain Age
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,715,968
Traffic Trend
Technology
iwgia.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)72
Total Keywords9,191
Referring Domains5,756
Domain Age29 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,353,554
Traffic Trend
TechnologyJoomla
traviscountytx.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)76
Total Keywords60,134
Referring Domains6,971
Domain Age15 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,129,558
Traffic Trend
Technology
dni.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)83
Total Keywords19,989
Referring Domains30,302
Domain Age21 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,073,314
Traffic Trend
TechnologyJoomla
penn.museum
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)74
Total Keywords30,615
Referring Domains10,072
Domain Age17 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)550,241
Traffic Trend
TechnologyJoomla
fun4firstcoastkids.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)36
Total Keywords17,262
Referring Domains689
Domain Age12 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)515,252
Traffic Trend
Technology