Bitrix Site Manager vs. Joomla!

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bitrix Site Manager
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Bitrix is an SMB content management system. In February 2015, sale of Bitrix SiteManager was discontinued, though support and upgrades for existing installations can still be obtained.N/A
Joomla
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Joomla! is a free and open source content management system used to publish web content. Included features are page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, a search function, and support for language internationalization.N/A
Pricing
Bitrix Site ManagerJoomla!
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Bitrix Site ManagerJoomla
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Bitrix Site ManagerJoomla!
Considered Both Products
Bitrix Site Manager
Chose Bitrix Site Manager
I have developed some small web sites in Joomla but the problem is that these kinds of CMS platforms are very easily hackable.
Joomla

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Features
Bitrix Site ManagerJoomla!
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Bitrix Site Manager
-
Ratings
Joomla!
8.4
51 Ratings
2% above category average
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.451 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Bitrix Site Manager
-
Ratings
Joomla!
6.8
48 Ratings
13% below category average
API00 Ratings7.346 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings6.347 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Bitrix Site Manager
-
Ratings
Joomla!
7.7
54 Ratings
1% below category average
WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings8.253 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings8.551 Ratings
Admin section00 Ratings8.349 Ratings
Page templates00 Ratings7.052 Ratings
Library of website themes00 Ratings6.450 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings7.650 Ratings
Publishing workflow00 Ratings8.450 Ratings
Form generator00 Ratings7.646 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Bitrix Site Manager
-
Ratings
Joomla!
7.6
52 Ratings
2% above category average
Content taxonomy00 Ratings7.951 Ratings
SEO support00 Ratings7.750 Ratings
Bulk management00 Ratings8.049 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings7.052 Ratings
Community / comment management00 Ratings7.250 Ratings
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Bitrix Site ManagerJoomla!
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
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User Ratings
Bitrix Site ManagerJoomla!
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.2
(75 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(28 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.1
(14 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.9
(2 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
7.8
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(4 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(3 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.9
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
Bitrix Site ManagerJoomla!
Likelihood to Recommend
Bitrix
No answers on this topic
The Joomla Project
If your developers want to have some fun, Joomla offers the stability and friendliness to do custom coding. Certain marketing initiatives require us to get "cute" with the interface, and Joomla allows for that a bit easier than WordPress (and definitely easier than sites like Squarespace). The security of Joomla is also always a plus.
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Pros
Bitrix
  • Bitrix is well structured CMS.
  • It provides rich integration with social media.
  • Available modules are mature and well tested.
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The Joomla Project
  • Security. Its got many new features in the new Joomla! 4 which make the already good security even better. I like the ability to use my Yubi keys to log in with the new webauth standard, I don't think any other CMS has that built in
  • W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 (with AA compliance)
  • Really good SEO that gets our sites to the top of the search engines again without the need for any extra things
  • Speed, it gets a really good score (100%) in the google lighthouse on our server, can't beat that
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Cons
Bitrix
  • BITRIX does not provide multilingual features to the user-defined contents, although Bitrix does provide multilingual capabilities on system UI specific stuff. For example if our site is publishing company news then BITRIX does not provide an out of the box feature to implement this in different languages.
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The Joomla Project
  • Because Joomla's user community is smaller than WP, it lacks as many choices from 3rd party developers, meaning it can be a little more difficult to find the right extension for what you need to accomplish
  • Along the same vein, most of the best 3rd-party software for Joomla! is paid
  • Simple features such as Add to Menu and Cache cleaners should be adopted as part of the Joomla! core, though they are available as extensions
  • Joomla! could use a simpler and easier URL rewriting process
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Likelihood to Renew
Bitrix
Mostly good support, but some times i got response late so overall good. Good options with Ajax load of contents with different URL in browser. Similar and better modules to show different contents. Good options for advertising contents.
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The Joomla Project
I gave it a rating of 10 because I just love how Joomla! works, how it is set up and how it handles many users. Also it is very fast, and there is no overload on the MySQL database or servers ever.
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Usability
Bitrix
No answers on this topic
The Joomla Project
Joomla! 3.x is easily installed either manually or via a script provided by your host. It contains most of the tools needed to begin creating websites right from the start. Those features that it doesn't have are easily installed via links and buttons from the thousands of extensions available in the community
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Performance
Bitrix
No answers on this topic
The Joomla Project
Today's Modern Joomla performs very well and is robust and durable. The pages load faster than they ever did in the past and Modern Joomla's integration into other software or systems has become seamless. Modern Joomla sites will last long and will stay running forever.
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Support Rating
Bitrix
No answers on this topic
The Joomla Project
Between the core Joomla developers who are excellent at answering questions and providing support, you have a whole community of developers who work with Joomla and are happy to help fellow developers out answering questions and supporting the Joomla project. Out of the many communities I am involved in for open-source software, Joomla's community is by far the best.
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Online Training
Bitrix
No answers on this topic
The Joomla Project
It is good if you know Joomla! if not it can get a bit confusing
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Implementation Rating
Bitrix
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The Joomla Project
Joomla has gone through tremendous growing pains. It is now better than ever. But before, when it was going from 1.5-2.5, the templates and plugins would break over and over again. If you don't understand what Joomla was trying to do back then, you might have a bad attitude toward it. Today, those pains are over and things don't break like they used to during that time period.
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Alternatives Considered
Bitrix
I have developed some small web sites in Joomla but the problem is that these kinds of CMS platforms are very easily hackable.
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The Joomla Project
We tested other platforms like WordPress, Magento and some local CMS. 
But Joomla offered us better resources for generating content.
Joomla is a CMS suitable for many types of projects, especially if you have several people editing content at the same time.
It allows you to maintain visual standardization and offers many options for working with images.
With its ability to control access to different articles, categories or even different components, it is a great tool, even if they are managed by different people.
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Return on Investment
Bitrix
  • Bitrix Site Manager provides an out of the box way to publish contents on a search engine friendly URL. In this way, site contents more easily crawlable by different search engines.
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The Joomla Project
  • Joomla has reduced our costs of rolling out a new website because it uses less developer time and can be rolled out by individual users as needed.
  • Joomla has a lot of extensions and add-ons that make it easy to create and implement advanced solutions quickly.
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