Joomla! is another popular free-to-use CMS with more than 35 million downloads and is as widely used as Drupal worldwide. Joomla! is also considered to be a Content Management Framework and is built on a Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework which can be leveraged independently of the CMS to build applications.

When comparing Joomla! to WordPress and Drupal it is viewed as offering the best of both worlds as far as ease of use (which WordPress is known for) and ability to build highly robust sites with advanced technical features (which sets Drupal apart).