CMS
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WordPress
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Joomla
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Drupal
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LifeRay
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Expression Engine
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Typo3
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Number of Websites Built |
75 Million |
2.8 Million |
1.1 Million |
10K – 15K |
2.4K |
5K – 10K |
Downloads |
160 Million |
75 Million |
25 Million |
20K |
— |
9 Million |
Market Share |
58.4% |
7.2% |
4.8% |
Less than 1% |
Less than 1% |
1.5% |
Free Themes |
3000+ |
1000+ |
2000+ |
— |
— |
100+ |
Free Plugins |
44K |
5K |
26K |
— |
— |
1500+ |
Software Cost |
FREE
(Open Source) |
FREE
(Open Source) |
FREE
(Open Source) |
FREE |
Free & Paid |
FREE
(Open Source) |
Updates Frequency |
40 Days |
36 Days |
30 Days |
30 Days |
60 Days |
60 Days |
Best Used For |
Ideal for fairly simple websites. i.e blogging, news site and anyone looking for easy to manage website. Add-ons make it easy to extend the website functionality |
Joomla allows you to build the website with more content and structure flexibility than WordPress, with fairly easy and intuitive usage. It is best for social networking sites |
For complex, advanced and versatile sites. for sites that require complex data organizations. for community platforms sites with multiple users |
Mainly used to enable corporate extranet and intranet. It is also described as a web application framework or content management framework. |
Mainly used for small and individual websites |
TYPO3 is an enterprise CMS. It is specially designed for publishing digital content |
Best for WebSite Type |
Newbie, Professional, Business, and eCommerce |
Professional, Business and eCommerce |
Professional, Business and eCommerce |
Professional and Business |
Small Business and Individuals |
Professional and Business |
Ease of Use |
Fairly simple to use |
Somewhat simple to use but hard from WordPress |
Not easy to use, requires professional knowledge |
Not an easy CMS |
Not an easy CMS |
Not so easy to manage |
Customization |
Highly customizable |
Less customizable |
Highly customizable |
Less Customizable |
Customizable to some extent |
Customizable to some extent |
Security |
Less secure, but there are plugins that make it secure |
Secure to some extent as compared to WordPress |
Highly secured |
Secure to some extent |
Secure platform |
Built-in security features |
Architecture |
Fairly simple architecture |
Complex architecture |
Complex architecture |
Complex architecture |
— |
Complex architecture |
Support |
Easily available |
Community support |
Community support |
Very limited |
Limited |
Limited |
Performance |
Moderate |
Good |
Excellent |
Good |
Slow |
Good |
Search Engine Optimization |
Built-in support for SEO |
Not good in terms of SEO |
Has built-in SEO support but less than WordPress |
Does not have built-in support |
No built-inn support |
No Built-in support |
Multisite Support |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
No |
No |
Yes |
Scalability |
Easy to Scale |
Less scalable |
Enterprise level scalability |
Scalable with the help of plugins and extensions |
Little scaleable |
Scaleable |
Integration |
Integratable to 700+ platforms |
Integratable to 100+ platforms |
Integratable to 200+ platforms |
Integratable with different portals with REST, SOAP and RSS |
No information available |
No information available |
Language Used |
PHP |
PHP |
PHP |
Java |
PHP |
PHP |