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Contentful vs Joomla comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Contentful
Ranking in Web Content Management
4th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
22
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Joomla
Ranking in Web Content Management
10th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Web Content Management category, the mindshare of Contentful is 1.4%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Joomla is 2.5%, up from 2.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Web Content Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Contentful1.4%
Joomla2.5%
Other96.1%
Web Content Management
 

Featured Reviews

Margaret  Thatcher - PeerSpot reviewer
Production Manager at Unilever
Content workflows have become faster and empower non-technical teams to update pages independently
Contentful makes it easier for non-technical teams to update content by providing organized, flexible data models with support for a variety of data types and content editors such as WYSIWYG form fields and raw text areas. It has great built-in versioning features with history and draft states, so it is easy to make updates and revert when needed. Some of the best features that Contentful offers include organized, flexible data models with support for a variety of data types and content editors such as WYSIWYG form fields and raw text. Contentful has great built-in versioning features with history and draft states, making it easy to make updates and revert when needed. Additionally, it has a very intuitive user interface and good support for multiple spaces, which can be helpful for companies that need separate projects for development, staging, and production. It is also very cost-effective and powerful, and it keeps a history of changes made to the content easily. The versioning and multiple spaces features of Contentful have helped my team manage content effectively, as we leverage Contentful's headless CMS capabilities to easily build a static website using modern technology such as GatsbyJS and ReactJS, making it an ideal solution for small businesses and startups seeking a low-maintenance approach. It is a very scalable tool. Contentful has positively impacted my organization as it is very scalable, can be used by any size of organization, and is a very cost-effective tool. It helps us save cost, especially when dealing with a lot of content compared to other alternatives. Its intuitive design facilitates seamless updates of photos and written content while providing the ability to revert changes when necessary. It has been a very good tool because I am able to spend less time maintaining websites, and my clients spend less time worrying about their site crashing or being hacked. This tool has allowed me to be much more flexible with the types of front-end technology I can use. Since it is very easy to use for all types of technical users, there is no time wasted. It enabled rapid project delivery and low-cost projects for my organization. Since adopting Contentful, we have seen an increase in sales and marketing from 45% to 65%. More work is delivered due to reusability and other features within a shorter time and with less manual effort.
JS
Techvangelist & CEO at IT Guru Solutions, Inc.
One of the most robust, stable, secure, feature-rich CMSs on the market
I would like to see more back-end admin power pulled into the front-end, therefore the admins will not have to use the back-end as much, especially for the menu manager, user manager, etc. versus using third-party extensions to achieve this. As it is today, it often ends up introducing some potentially serious security concerns. When I turn over a Joomla site, editing content is easy for most folks (i.e., changing the Contact Us or About Us pages). However, when it comes time for them to edit menus and navigation to add a new page or article into the menu somewhere, it starts to get a little complex for many users to build these menu items, especially when there are multiple menus being used in different positions. I also would like to see the same sorting and attributes available through the web browser on the JED (sorting by free or commercial license, sort by rating, popularity, etc.) within the back-end Joomla Web Installer when browsing extensions. I would also like to see the Joomla security bulletins pulled into the admin back-end with better publishing of known extension issues, especially for ones we have installed. Therefore, if we do not have them installed, we never see those bulletins. If we do, then pertinent messages showing up like "there are X number of extension updates available" can pushed upfront and center like updates and security notice usually are.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Contentful has impacted my organization positively because the business is able to change the content without the help of a developer, and they can make a deployment very easily."
"Since adopting Contentful, we have seen an increase in sales and marketing from 45% to 65%."
"Contentful is stable."
"Contentful has positively impacted my organization because, as I mentioned, since we are using the headless setup, when we need to create new pages, update content, or conduct any marketing activity, we no longer need to rely on a technical person."
"I advise using Contentful as the first option because it is scalable and stable with all features included."
"Contentful is a great tool and a powerful solution to support multiple platforms."
"Contentful has positively impacted my work because I have people browsing Google and because I use SEO as well, and my articles are indexed and written by me, people come and read them, and the most valuable part is that some people find them attractive and actually read about topics like the difference between chatbots or agents, what is a chatbot, what is fine-tuning, or remote work, which are quite important looking at the market right now."
"We have definitely seen a return on investment with Contentful, as we have saved hundreds of thousands of dollars in licensing fees and additional vendor fees and have also saved approximately months of time being able to spin up landing pages and content while maintaining a small team without relying on external agency or department support."
"Despite some limitations, Joomla stands out from the crowd and manages to retain its position in the market."
"Joomla is one of the most popular CMSs today."
"No useful review content was provided."
"This CMS lets you create an own website within minutes, no matter if the user has knowledge in coding."
"The speed in which you can take a CMS and make it a full-blown shopping cart with analytics tracking, SEO, user accounts, security, and ease of use through a robust framework of modules and plugins to enhance and promote-related content is about as turnkey as it gets with Joomla."
"Joomla is a complete and easy-to-use content manager system; it's possible to create a website, manage its structure and contents, and add features using hundreds of extensions, and the most valuable thing for us is the easy way you update content, add articles, modify structure, and apply SEO tags and info."
"Simplicity and security are basic elements to build a website quickly and safely, and with JoomShaper it was for me even easier."
"With a fairly small learning curve for the end user who wants the basics, Joomla is one of the most robust, stable, secure, feature-rich CMSs on the market."
 

Cons

"I think Contentful could be improved if it could include built-in localization, meaning translation of language, and allow for creative editing of visual and imagery."
"Contentful can improve by addressing one technical issue regarding the creation of builds."
"There was no return on investment. It was very expensive to implement all the needed specialties a company needs for its public publish strategy, to publish the content in different countries, different markets, and different languages."
"Apart from that, the price is a bit high when we are storing more content in the CMS."
"However, I find that the licensing can be frustrating, especially for smaller organizations."
"While Contentful already incorporates a lot of AI integration, improvements could be made in feature-wise AI integrations, such as generating SEO data for product catalogs or assisting marketers in writing new articles, which would make it more future-ready."
"I have seen a return on investment with fewer employees needed and time saved, but the money costs are quite high."
"Contentful needs to be improved for migration, not only for migration, but from lower to higher environments as well, as the schema diffs and everything are not working as expected."
"Web applications created in Joomla eat up a lot of server resources."
"I would like to see more back-end admin power pulled into the front-end, therefore the admins will not have to use the back-end as much, especially for the menu manager, user manager, etc. versus using third-party extensions to achieve this."
"I would like to see the same sorting and attributes available through the web browser on the JED (sorting by free or commercial license, sort by rating, popularity, etc.) within the back-end Joomla Web Installer when browsing extensions."
"Joomla itself seems to be secure, but many add-ons are badly written and allow LFI, RFI, SQL injection and XSS attacks."
"Customizing components is not so easy."
"When it comes time for them to edit menus and navigation to add a new page or article into the menu somewhere, it starts to get a little complex for many users to build these menu items, especially when there are multiple menus being used in different positions."
"With even basic Joomla, it requires a course."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Joomla is open source, therefore free. Only hosting, the time to build it along with the training time is your startup cost."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Construction Company
14%
Media Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Government
7%
Outsourcing Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business14
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise18
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Contentful?
Setup cost and pricing are handled by our organization's admin team. Currently, I do not have much information on this.
What needs improvement with Contentful?
I would prefer a model where template changes are stored locally in the browser or somewhere as an incomplete draft. If there is an explicit save or create draft action, that would make it easier w...
What is your primary use case for Contentful?
I have been using Contentful for around two to three years. Initially, we used Contentful as our CMS. From there, we transitioned from using it as a basic CMS to extensively using it for all the fe...
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