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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Contentful

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/AContentful is a cloud based CMS solution that provides the ability to manage content across multiple platforms.The editing interface allows for managing content interactively and provides developers the ability to deliver the content with the programming language and template framework of their choice.

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    Joomla

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AJoomla! 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
    ContentfulJoomla
    Editions & Modules
    Lite
    $300
    per month
    Community
    Free
    Enterprise
    Custom
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    Pricing Offerings
    ContentfulJoomla
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    ContentfulJoomla
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    Contentful
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    The Joomla Project
    Chose Joomla
    Joomla and Concrete5 have about the same capability and similar issues. Purchasing a SAAS like Squarespace, Weebly or Wix would be worth the price to remove the hassle of Joomla. A more robust free CMS like WordPress or Drupal would be a better solution if you wanted to remain …
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    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
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    93%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    13 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    87%
    Happy with the feature set
    13 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    Features
    ContentfulJoomla
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Contentful and Joomla!
    Feature
    Contentful
    8.5
    10 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Joomla!
    8.3
    51 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Role-based user permissions8.510 Ratings8.351 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Contentful and Joomla!
    Feature
    Contentful
    9.5
    12 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Joomla!
    6.6
    48 Ratings
    17% below category average
    API9.311 Ratings7.246 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language9.79 Ratings6.047 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Contentful and Joomla!
    Feature
    Contentful
    7.8
    13 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Joomla!
    7.7
    54 Ratings
    2% below category average
    WYSIWYG editor7.34 Ratings8.353 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness9.58 Ratings8.551 Ratings
    Admin section9.311 Ratings8.249 Ratings
    Page templates7.64 Ratings7.052 Ratings
    Library of website themes7.52 Ratings6.350 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design4.57 Ratings7.550 Ratings
    Publishing workflow9.312 Ratings8.450 Ratings
    Form generator7.01 Ratings7.546 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Contentful and Joomla!
    Feature
    Contentful
    9.4
    12 Ratings
    22% above category average
    Joomla!
    7.6
    52 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Content taxonomy10.011 Ratings7.951 Ratings
    SEO support10.09 Ratings7.650 Ratings
    Bulk management9.08 Ratings8.049 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions9.08 Ratings7.052 Ratings
    Community / comment management9.01 Ratings7.150 Ratings
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    Score7.7 out of 10
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    Score7.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    ContentfulJoomla
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (13 ratings)
    8.2
    (75 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (28 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (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
    ContentfulJoomla
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Contentful
    It's a great all rounder for content projects. It's easy in the basics and powerful in the complex, data heavy scenarios. Extending the platform is straightforward and the SDK gives you everything you need. If you have many many varying content types , it gets expensive and perhaps not the best choice .
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    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
    Contentful
    • Flexible. This CMS can be easily extended and provide access to dynamic content
    • Simple. The WYSWG is very easy to work with and identifying pages and content in the system is fairly easy
    • Clean Interface. The interface is clean and uncluttered keeping focus on the content and not other factors.
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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
    Contentful
    • Contentful uses "references" to allow you to build very modular content. If I have a "slider" content type, I can create a "slide" content type which references a "button" content type, and so forth. This works well, but I occasionally wish there was a better solution for one-off content, like a settings page. Currently, this is done for creating an entire content type called "settings" with a single entry. Not a big deal, but not ideal, either.
    • There are a few quirks with GatsbyJS integration, etc, but these issues are being fixed and improved upon very quickly.
    • A minor gripe, but Contentful does not have a way to organize fields within an entry. Entries with many fields are somewhat tiresome to scroll through.
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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
    Contentful
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Contentful
    It is a very easy to use and configure application. I find that it is on the user to manage the content after the models have been created, yet I still do not encounter issues finding or creating new components for our site. It is easy to set up and easy to navigate.
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    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
    Contentful
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    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
    Contentful
    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
    Contentful
    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
    Contentful
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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
    Contentful
    Easy to use and much more organized as a single platform versus multi. The layout is clean and easy to read and we don’t have to worry about certain users safe guarding data or content then losing it when they leave the company. It’s a one stop shop for imagery
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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
    Contentful
    • Contentful has saved us valuable development time that was previously spent doing deploys for minor content updates.
    • Contentful has helped us maintain consistent documentation, reducing time needed to review for consistency.
    • Can't say we've really experienced any negative ROI impacts from using Contentful, but we've run into some limitations in adding too many content models and the next pricing tier is substantially more expensive.
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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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