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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Google Domains

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AN/A

    $12

    per year

    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
    Google DomainsJoomla
    Editions & Modules
    .com
    $12.00
    per year
    .net
    $12.00
    per year
    .org
    $12.00
    per year
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google DomainsJoomla
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Google DomainsJoomla
    Considered Both Products
    Google
    No answer on this topic
    The Joomla Project
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    7 Answers
    93%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    7 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
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
    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
    Google DomainsJoomla
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Google Domains and Joomla!
    Feature
    Google Domains
    -
    Ratings
    Joomla!
    8.3
    51 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.351 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Google Domains and Joomla!
    Feature
    Google Domains
    -
    Ratings
    Joomla!
    6.6
    48 Ratings
    17% below category average
    API00 Ratings7.246 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings6.047 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Google Domains and Joomla!
    Feature
    Google Domains
    -
    Ratings
    Joomla!
    7.7
    54 Ratings
    2% below category average
    WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings8.353 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings8.551 Ratings
    Admin section00 Ratings8.249 Ratings
    Page templates00 Ratings7.052 Ratings
    Library of website themes00 Ratings6.350 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings7.550 Ratings
    Publishing workflow00 Ratings8.450 Ratings
    Form generator00 Ratings7.546 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Google Domains and Joomla!
    Feature
    Google Domains
    -
    Ratings
    Joomla!
    7.6
    52 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Content taxonomy00 Ratings7.951 Ratings
    SEO support00 Ratings7.650 Ratings
    Bulk management00 Ratings8.049 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings7.052 Ratings
    Community / comment management00 Ratings7.150 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Google DomainsJoomla
    Small Businesses
    Namecheap
    Score6.2 out of 10
    Umbraco CMS
    Score7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    No answers on this topic
    Square Online
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    No answers on this topic
    RWS Tridion Sites
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Google DomainsJoomla
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (25 ratings)
    8.2
    (75 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (28 ratings)
    Usability
    9.4
    (6 ratings)
    8.0
    (14 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.9
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.8
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (3 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
    Google DomainsJoomla
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    [Google Domains is] very simplistic and easy to use, so it's very straightforward to register a new domain but it doesn't have some features that other services provide. Also, the integration with other Google Services and domain search tool is amazing.
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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
    Google
    • Process of buying a domain with Google Domains is easy
    • Payment was simple - can use Google Wallet and other forms of payment.
    • After purchase, you can quickly build a website with one of their partners.
    • Email forwarding add-on for free.
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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
    Google
    • Google Domains is pretty good at pre-solving email faux pas such as reply all mishaps. Perhaps a built-in email monitoring tool such as knowing when a customer opens up an email would be good. You can get these features with integrations, but what if it was an internal Google product? Might be nice
    • Email masking was a bit difficult to figure out, but nothing you can't discover with a few Google sessions.
    • I wish I could see more insight into time zones that my customers are in, or scheduling calls on Gcal with timezone awareness. I know this is super hard to code around though.
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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
    Google
    Unless the product goes away, I'll continue using it.
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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
    Google
    Because it is intuitively easy to use, like all of their products. The integration with other apps works seamlessly, and you can have a professional website within hours, rather than days, as with most hosting companies. The templates on the website builder for just about every business make it so simple that even I can do it!
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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
    Google
    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
    Google
    I've never actually had to use support because everything has been very straightforward and I have not had a glitch. I have used Google's support for other items so I can only imagine that it's probably the same support which is decent. They do take a while to get back to you.
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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
    Google
    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
    Google
    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
    Google
    GoDaddy is great, but what I really like about Google Domains when compared to GoDaddy is the ease of centralization. Our email, calendar, accounts, domain, etc was all handled in one place and that made things really easy. You could also access domains easily and quickly by being logged into your email, instead of worrying about yet another log in.
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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
    Google
    • Being able to host my URL with Google Domains is one less thing I have to worry about in my writing career.
    • I'm sure having my URL, which is my name, with Google Domains also helps people find me via Google's search engine.
    • Its ease of integration with other Google products, especially Google Apps for Business, is a huge plus for marketing and day-to-day work.
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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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