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Joomla
Who runs Joomla, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest content management system alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Drupal
Measured from Joomla’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Joomla01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Joomla
Joomla joomla.org
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)
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Joomla tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
tracker that follows visitors
12 of the 19 alternatives below have fewer, 2 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 4 tools
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
Privacy-friendly analytics
Counts visits without cookies or personal profiles.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Joomla
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Joomla, thumbs down if it isn’t.
20 of the 60 sites closest to Joomla match.
- 01
The FreeBSD Project
free Unix-like operating system
Very close - 02
Open Source Cloud Computing Infrastructure - OpenStack
Deployed by thousands. Proven production at scale. OpenStack is a set of software components that provide common services for cloud infrastructure.
Very close - 03
The NetBSD Project
Very close - 04
Welcome to Python.org
The official home of the Python Programming Language
Very close - 05
Debian -- The Universal Operating System
Debian is an operating system and a distribution of Free Software. It is maintained and updated through the work of many users who volunteer their time and effort.
Very close - 06
Wikimedia
The Wikimedia movement is a global community of people, projects, and activities working together to create and share knowledge freely.
Very close - 07
The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Movement
Since 1983, developing the free Unix style operating system GNU, so that computer users can have the freedom to share and improve the software they use.
Very close - 08
Xfce Desktop Environment
Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems. It aims to be fast and low on system resources, while still being visually appealing and user friendly.
Very close - 09
Welcome to CodeIgniter
The small framework with powerful features
Very close - 10
Symfony, High Performance PHP Framework for Web Development
Symfony is a web framework and a set of reusable PHP packages to build web applications, APIs, microservices and CLI apps.
Very close - 11
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
ICANN’s mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet.
Very close - 12
MediaWiki
free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation
Very close - 13 Very close
- 14
I2P - The Invisible Internet Project | EN
I2P is a fully encrypted private network layer. Protect your online activity from surveillance and censorship with built-in end-to-end encryption.
Very close - 15
Home | Grants.gov
USA federal website
Very close - 16
Codeberg.org
Codeberg is a non-profit community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.
Very close - 17
Ghost: The best open source blog & newsletter platform
Beautiful, modern publishing with email newsletters and paid subscriptions built-in. Used by Platformer, 404Media, Lever News, Tangle, The Browser, and thousands more.
Very close - 18
French commune
Very close - 19
The Linux Kernel Archives
Unix-like operating system kernel, basis for all Linux operating systems
Very close - 20
Welcome – Gentoo Linux
The website of Gentoo, a flexible Linux distribution.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Joomla’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Joomla uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Joomla adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 11 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,217
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 32 ms
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). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
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
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Google Workspace 8/20
- nginx · not on joomla.org 8/20
- PHP 5/20
- jQuery · not on joomla.org 5/20
- SendGrid · not on joomla.org 5/20
- Cloudflare 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS 5/20
- Amazon SES · not on joomla.org 4/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on joomla.org 4/20
- WordPress · not on joomla.org 4/20
- Atlassian · not on joomla.org 3/20
- Google Fonts 3/20
- Font Awesome 3/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on joomla.org 3/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on joomla.org 3/20