Is Joomla or WordPress more popular?

WordPress is used by more websites in our catalog: 2,891 use Joomla and 267,619 use WordPress.

Does Joomla or WordPress have higher-authority sites?

Joomla sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Joomla: 29, WordPress: 26).

Is Joomla or WordPress growing faster?

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Joomla went from 0.33% to 0.33% of all tracked sites, while WordPress went from 35% to 30%. Joomla is gaining ground faster in our index.

Can a site use both Joomla and WordPress?

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

Where does this Joomla vs WordPress 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 WordPress — Site Stats Database

Joomla vs WordPress

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	WordPress
Websites	2,891	267,619
Market share	0.56%	52%
Share of top 10K sites	0.08%	16%
Share of top 100K sites

Rank	#19	#1

Median DR	29	26

Average DR	31	28

Median keywords	665	921

Median referring domains	377	350

Median domain age	18 yrs	12 yrs

Average domain age	18 yrs	14 yrs

Average monthly traffic	20,880	52,075

Combined monthly traffic	60,363,288	13,936,359,016

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

rottentomatoes.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)87
Total Keywords4,123,803
Referring Domains130,919
Domain Age27 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)626,896,769
Traffic Trend
TechnologyWordPress
nytimes.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)94
Total Keywords9,214,622
Referring Domains1,473,314
Domain Age32 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)256,700,108
Traffic Trend
Technology
dictionary.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords3,387,790
Referring Domains129,246
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)242,622,664
Traffic Trend
Technology
healthline.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords7,041,614
Referring Domains458,961
Domain Age21 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)220,346,497
Traffic Trend
Technology
thesaurus.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)82
Total Keywords1,253,792
Referring Domains42,419
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)206,651,155
Traffic Trend
Technology
akc.org
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)90
Total Keywords655,094
Referring Domains78,973
Domain Age31 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)125,727,029
Traffic Trend
TechnologyWordPress
harvard.edu
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)93
Total Keywords3,845,102
Referring Domains714,396
Domain Age41 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)104,117,233
Traffic Trend
TechnologyWordPress
inchcalculator.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)78
Total Keywords756,682
Referring Domains16,163
Domain Age12 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)89,221,177
Traffic Trend
Technology
biblegateway.com
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)91
Total Keywords965,722
Referring Domains185,253
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)82,990,263
Traffic Trend
Technology
nasa.gov
LanguageEnglish
DR (Ahrefs)92
Total Keywords977,872
Referring Domains485,459
Domain Age28 yrs
Traffic (Jun 2026)82,000,277
Traffic Trend
TechnologyWordPress