Is Joomla or SMF more popular?

Joomla is used by more websites in our catalog: 2,891 use Joomla and 117 use SMF.

Does Joomla or SMF have higher-authority sites?

Joomla sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Joomla: 29, SMF: 14).

Is Joomla or SMF growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Joomla went from 0.33% to 0.33% of all tracked sites, while SMF went from 0.02% to 0.01%. Joomla is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Joomla and SMF?

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

Where does this Joomla vs SMF 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.

Joomla vs SMF — Site Stats Database

Joomla vs SMF

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	Joomla	SMF
Websites	2,891	117
Market share	0.56%	0.02%
Share of top 10K sites	0.08%	0.00%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#19	#86

Median DR	29	14

Average DR	31	19

Median keywords	665	644

Median referring domains	377	310

Median domain age	18 yrs	19 yrs

Average domain age	18 yrs	18 yrs

Average monthly traffic	20,880	7,091

Combined monthly traffic	60,363,288	829,682

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

Website	Language	DR (Ahrefs)	Total Keywords	Referring Domains	Domain Age	Traffic (Jun 2026)	Traffic Trend	Technology
musicca.com	English	64	57,982	3,824	11 yrs	2,910,422		Joomla

tropicalfruitforum.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)32
Total Keywords32,795
Referring Domains892
Domain Age14 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)55,775
Traffic Trend
TechnologySMF
learngospelmusic.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)1.5
Total Keywords11,007
Referring Domains226
Domain Age25 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)53,736
Traffic Trend
Technology
forestryforum.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)47
Total Keywords30,903
Referring Domains2,268
Domain Age25 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)49,595
Traffic Trend
Technology
chemicalforums.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)34
Total Keywords21,566
Referring Domains1,123
Domain Age22 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)44,932
Traffic Trend
Technology
pacificbulbsociety.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)53
Total Keywords6,311
Referring Domains2,159
Domain Age24 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)41,976
Traffic Trend
Technology
geekhack.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)71
Total Keywords12,518
Referring Domains4,086
Domain Age18 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)40,290
Traffic Trend
TechnologySMF
ballreviews.com
Language
DR (Ahrefs)35
Total Keywords10,572
Referring Domains804
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)37,972
Traffic Trend
Technology
thefora.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)4.7
Total Keywords1,107
Referring Domains56
Domain Age7 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)30,204
Traffic Trend
TechnologySMF
allposterforum.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)8
Total Keywords544
Referring Domains247
Domain Age16 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)24,019
Traffic Trend
Technology
bitcointalk.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)83
Total Keywords11,493
Referring Domains45,974
Domain Age15 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)23,450
Traffic Trend
Technology