Wordpress vs. Joomla vs. Droupal



http://www.techi.com/2011/07/open-source-wars-wordpress-vs-drupal-vs-joomla/

Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal are all content management systems for the web. These three sites are all very similar and cam do many similar things to create a website for your personal or business or organization's website.

Knowing that these sites are similar, according to Techi.com, there are very key differences in these websites that allows the user to choose which site best fits the customer's needs.

The differences have been broken down into 3 categories:

History
Functionality
Cost

History

Comparing the history of the three content management sites may seem irrevelant, but it is always helpful to know how the sites came about.

Wordpress:
Wordpress was released in May of 2003 by Matt Mullenweg. It has had only 3 core versions which means primarily not that many changes to the site and only minimal changes to the layout and form of the site. There have been 164 updates and frequent an update a little more than every 2 weeks (17.8 days).

Drupal:
Drupal came into existance in 2001 by Dries buytaert as a community web board for his classmates to communicate. After 7 core version updates Drupal has made many changes to its site which included 77 updates which averages about every 36 days.


Joomla:
Joomla is the newest platform which was released in 2005 which got its start from Mambo which was a closed-source propritary CMS which was created in 2000. There have been 6 core versions of Joomla with updates ranging from every 25 to 49 days.

Functionality

The functionality of the website is most important to the user. This shows how the website works, how many plugins, social media mentions, and SEO use the website has.

Wordpress:
Wordpress, in my opinion is the best in this category.
Plugins/Modules & Extensions: 14,629- Almost twice as many as Drupal and Joomla.
Number of themes: 1,392
US Monthly visits to main site: 50 million
# of Websites using the platform (of top million websites): 14.3%
Global monthly Google searches: 30.4 million
Out-of-box SEO Strength: 5/5
Ease of install: Beginner
Ease of moderation: Beginner
Overall: This is for very basic and simple websites.

Drupal:
Drupal ranks last in my opinion. :-(
Plugins/Modules & Extensions: 8,039
Number of themes: 885
US Monthly visits to main site: 55,700
# of Websites using the platform (of top million websites): 1.6%
Global monthly Google searches: 5 million
Out-of-box SEO Strength: 4/5
Ease of install: Advanced
Ease of moderation: Advanced
Overall: If you have the knowledge, this CMS can do many things!

Joomla:
Joomla is a mix of Wordpress and Drupal
Plugins/Modules & Extensions: 7,608
Number of themes: UNKNOWN
US Monthly visits to main site: 59,600
# of Websites using the platform (of top million websites): 2.7%
Global monthly Google searches: 11.1 million
Out-of-box SEO Strength: 4/5
Ease of install: Moderate
Ease of moderation: Moderate
Overall: This is not quite the most adanved to use but may pose some challanges but can do more than basic CMS.

COST
For some companies, this will determine which CMS to use.

Wordpress:
Startup/Customization Cost: $250- $15,000
Avg Monthly Maintanence Cost: $250
Google's Adwords Cost per Click: $2.18

Drupal:
Startup/Customization Cost: $5,000- $50,000
Avg Monthly Maintanence Cost: $1,500
Google's Adwords Cost per Click: $4.58

Joomla:
Startup/Customization Cost: $2,000- $20,000
Avg Monthly Maintanence Cost: $500
Google's Adwords Cost per Click: $2.53

Overall, as a user, you need to find out which features benefit your site the most. On that decesion, you can then pick the best content managemetn site for your business or organization!