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Contentful vs Joomla comparison

 

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

Categories and Ranking

Contentful
Ranking in Web Content Management
7th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Joomla
Ranking in Web Content Management
17th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Web Content Management category, the mindshare of Contentful is 1.4%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Joomla is 2.0%, down from 2.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Web Content Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Contentful1.4%
Joomla2.0%
Other96.6%
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

"Since adopting Contentful, we have seen an increase in sales and marketing from 45% to 65%."
"Contentful has positively impacted our organization because it is seamless and almost 60% of the content is flowing well with no dependency on any particular part of AEM."
"Contentful has impacted my organization positively as I spend less time maintaining our website, the developer spends less time maintaining our website, and our clients spend less time worrying about their site being hacked or crashing."
"Contentful has positively impacted my organization by greatly increasing productivity and collaboration."
"Contentful has positively impacted my organization by allowing me to both develop and release content really quickly and be responsive to market changes and other factors."
"Contentful is stable."
"Contentful has impacted my organization positively because it has been a game changer since we started using this tool."
"Contentful is a very easy-to-use tool, making managing content very easy and serving as a very cost-effective solution, thus making it a recommendable tool."
"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."
"No useful review content was provided."
"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."
"Simplicity and security are basic elements to build a website quickly and safely, and with JoomShaper it was for me even easier."
"Joomla is one of the most popular CMSs today."
"This CMS lets you create an own website within minutes, no matter if the user has knowledge in coding."
"Do your project in Joomla; you will see that it is a better solution for website development."
"One of the most robust, stable, secure, feature-rich CMSs on the market."
 

Cons

"There were challenges because when I was creating a solution, I didn't know Contentful very well. I found a lot of problems with types and matching in TypeScript types with the fields I was using and with the API and the full module."
"Contentful has not helped my organization or our customers achieve any measurable benefits, such as saving time or improving workflows, as we have not measured that."
"I think the free tier has always been very generous, but the 25 content model types have at times been limiting, and I have had to find innovative ways to work around it because we are a community radio station that runs on donations and grants."
"A minor issue I have is that Contentful does not have a way to organize fields within an entry."
"Deployments could be somewhat easier for migrating content from lower environments to higher environments, which is a challenge we are currently experiencing with Contentful."
"Contentful can be improved by enhancing their SDK to directly connect with our presentation layer, and if we just provide a class name or something, that would make it better."
"I believe Contentful could be improved by adding a way to migrate data between spaces, such as from a staging space to production, and the support team could respond to questions much faster with an increased response time."
"One area where I believe Contentful can be improved is better handling of complex content relationships, as when content is deeply nested with references inside references, the queries can get messy and hard to manage on the front end."
"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."
"With even basic Joomla, it requires a course."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Web applications created in Joomla eat up a lot of server resources."
 

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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Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise9
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Contentful?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it is very cost-effective and the affordability is very high.
What needs improvement with Contentful?
I believe it would be nice to have some documentation, especially for new learners who are starting. A minor issue I have is that Contentful does not have a way to organize fields within an entry. ...
What is your primary use case for Contentful?
My main use case for Contentful is that it provides us with quick and easy content updates as it is the backend to our website. We use it to make changes, improvements, and updates on our content. ...
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