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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Contentstack

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AContentstack headquartered in San Francisco offers an API-first headless CMS. From desktops to smart phones, from kiosks to smart watches, from billboards to jumbotrons, from dashboards to VR headsets – content is delivered with the push of a button and optimized for every screen, device and channel.N/A

    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
    ContentstackJoomla
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ContentstackJoomla
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    ContentstackJoomla
    Considered Both Products
    Contentstack
    No answer on this topic
    The Joomla Project
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    12 Answers
    93%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    9 Answers
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    13 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    12 Answers
    87%
    Happy with the feature set
    13 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    8 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    10 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    Features
    ContentstackJoomla
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Contentstack and Joomla!
    Feature
    Contentstack
    7.4
    11 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Joomla!
    8.2
    51 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Role-based user permissions7.411 Ratings8.251 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Contentstack and Joomla!
    Feature
    Contentstack
    7.5
    10 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Joomla!
    6.5
    48 Ratings
    18% below category average
    API8.19 Ratings7.146 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language6.98 Ratings5.947 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Contentstack and Joomla!
    Feature
    Contentstack
    8.1
    12 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Joomla!
    7.7
    54 Ratings
    2% below category average
    WYSIWYG editor8.12 Ratings8.353 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness10.01 Ratings8.551 Ratings
    Admin section7.712 Ratings8.349 Ratings
    Page templates7.78 Ratings7.052 Ratings
    Library of website themes10.01 Ratings6.350 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design6.69 Ratings7.650 Ratings
    Publishing workflow6.810 Ratings8.550 Ratings
    Form generator00 Ratings7.446 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Contentstack and Joomla!
    Feature
    Contentstack
    6.4
    12 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Joomla!
    7.5
    52 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Content taxonomy7.210 Ratings8.051 Ratings
    SEO support6.410 Ratings7.650 Ratings
    Bulk management5.79 Ratings8.049 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions6.58 Ratings7.052 Ratings
    Community / comment management6.16 Ratings7.150 Ratings
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    Score7.9 out of 10
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    Score7.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    ContentstackJoomla
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
    (12 ratings)
    8.2
    (75 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (28 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (14 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.9
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.8
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.2
    (9 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
    ContentstackJoomla
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Contentstack
    Contentstack has flexible functionality which opens up a lot of possibilities for businesses with proactive web development teams to create their own website builder app to compete with 3rd party agencies. This is especially useful in a large enterprise where non-technical teams often turn to expensive outside agencies which cost more in the long run than an up-front investment into an in-house application.
    Incentivized
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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
    Contentstack
    • Enables us to build and architect content through the use of their easy to use software and user interface.
    • Customer service has been by far the most reliable and responsive in any vendor i've dealt with.
    • Listens to feedback and builds features and technical improvements that helps customers usability and experience.
    Incentivized
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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
    Contentstack
    • In my opinion it's not very intuitive. I've found its difficult to understand how to best structure entries, especially if they are related
    • In my experience, entries can get difficult to understand if weren't the creator. It would be helpful to have some meta data around the entry itself and the fields within them in my opinion.
    • Integration with an A/B testing platform would be nice.
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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
    Contentstack
    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
    Contentstack
    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
    Contentstack
    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
    Contentstack
    They have an in-app chat with their support team, who is always quick to respond and provide helpful answers. I've never walked away from an interaction without my issue being solved quickly and easily. They're also very communicative over email and are sure to follow up after any changes are made to ensure we're seeing the desired result. They are always very professional and easy to work with.
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    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
    Contentstack
    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
    Contentstack
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Contentstack
    Contentstack has better international hosting support then Contentful and we found the presales and sales support people were MUCH more responsive than Contentful. The Sitecore sales process was very very slow and overly complex. We felt Sitecore had many features that were not valuable and the cost to benefit ratio was much lower compared to ContentStack
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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
    Contentstack
    • Saved significant amounts of money that would previously been spent on 3rd party agencies to build websites
    • Empowered Comms teams to create and edit the design and content of their own websites on demand rather than relying on the Dev team
    • Allowed the Development team to concentrate on building functionality rather than websites, so we can focus on improvement rather than BAU work.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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