Is Hugo or Joomla more popular?

Joomla is used by more websites in our catalog: 1,068 use Hugo and 2,891 use Joomla.

Does Hugo or Joomla have higher-authority sites?

Hugo sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Hugo: 39, Joomla: 29).

Is Hugo or Joomla growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Hugo went from 0.14% to 0.12% 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 Hugo and Joomla?

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

Where does this Hugo 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.

Hugo vs Joomla — Site Stats Database

Hugo 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	Hugo	Joomla
Websites	1,068	2,891
Market share	0.21%	0.56%
Share of top 10K sites	0.07%	0.08%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#27	#19

Median DR	39	29

Average DR	41	31

Median keywords	887	665

Median referring domains	561	377

Median domain age	11 yrs	18 yrs

Average domain age	12 yrs	18 yrs

Average monthly traffic	43,550	20,880

Combined monthly traffic	46,511,181	60,363,288

wumbo.net
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)63
Total Keywords39,007
Referring Domains1,229
Domain Age9 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)7,922,257
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHugo
clerk.chat
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)68
Total Keywords23,105
Referring Domains1,495
Domain Age6 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)5,892,917
Traffic Trend
Technology
ropensci.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)74
Total Keywords2,103
Referring Domains4,218
Domain Age14 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)3,018,439
Traffic Trend
Technology
wvu.edu
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)83
Total Keywords178,823
Referring Domains46,225
Domain Age34 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,912,529
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHugo
git-scm.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords25,518
Referring Domains85,916
Domain Age17 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,768,595
Traffic Trend
Technology
brave.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords32,872
Referring Domains59,082
Domain Age30 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,164,895
Traffic Trend
TechnologyHugo
pgealerts.alerts.pge.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)81
Total Keywords7,782
Referring Domains1,225
Domain Age35 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)1,038,468
Traffic Trend
Technology
exceljet.net
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)70
Total Keywords50,278
Referring Domains7,394
Domain Age13 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)940,958
Traffic Trend
Technology
oliveandmango.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)50
Total Keywords52,730
Referring Domains1,450
Domain Age9 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)935,286
Traffic Trend
Technology
freegames.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)48
Total Keywords6,944
Referring Domains3,003
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)757,716
Traffic Trend
Technology

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
wumbo.net	English	63	39,007	1,229	9 yrs	7,922,257		Hugo

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
Technology
fun4firstcoastkids.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)36
Total Keywords17,262
Referring Domains689
Domain Age12 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)515,252
Traffic Trend
Technology