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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Surfer SEO

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/ASurferSEO, from Polish company Surfer, is presented as a modern tool for SEOs and marketers for efficient and comprehensive on-page SEO optimization.

    $119

    per month

    Pricing
    JoomlaSurfer SEO
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Standard
    $119
    per month
    Pro
    $219
    per month
    Peace of Mind
    $359
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    JoomlaSurfer SEO
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Discount available for annual billing.
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    Community Pulse
    JoomlaSurfer SEO
    Considered Both Products
    The Joomla Project
    No answer on this topic
    Surfer
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    13 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    87%
    Happy with the feature set
    13 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    JoomlaSurfer SEO
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Joomla! and Surfer SEO
    Feature
    Joomla!
    8.3
    51 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Surfer SEO
    -
    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions8.351 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Joomla! and Surfer SEO
    Feature
    Joomla!
    6.6
    48 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Surfer SEO
    -
    Ratings
    API7.246 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language6.047 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Joomla! and Surfer SEO
    Feature
    Joomla!
    7.7
    54 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Surfer SEO
    -
    Ratings
    WYSIWYG editor8.353 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness8.551 Ratings00 Ratings
    Admin section8.249 Ratings00 Ratings
    Page templates7.052 Ratings00 Ratings
    Library of website themes6.350 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design7.550 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publishing workflow8.450 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form generator7.446 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Joomla! and Surfer SEO
    Feature
    Joomla!
    7.6
    52 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Surfer SEO
    -
    Ratings
    Content taxonomy7.951 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO support7.650 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk management8.049 Ratings00 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions7.052 Ratings00 Ratings
    Community / comment management7.150 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO
    Comparison of SEO features of Joomla! and Surfer SEO
    Feature
    Joomla!
    -
    Ratings
    Surfer SEO
    8.1
    3 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Keyword analysis00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Backlink management00 Ratings4.01 Ratings
    SERP ranking tracking00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Page grader00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Competitive analysis00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Site audit / diagnostics00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Site recommendations00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Task management00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    SEO Channels
    Comparison of SEO Channels features of Joomla! and Surfer SEO
    Feature
    Joomla!
    -
    Ratings
    Surfer SEO
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Local SEO00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Mobile SEO00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Global SEO00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    SEO Platform & Account Management
    Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of Joomla! and Surfer SEO
    Feature
    Joomla!
    -
    Ratings
    Surfer SEO
    8.0
    2 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Multi-domain support00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Integration with web analytics tools00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    JoomlaSurfer SEO
    Small Businesses
    Umbraco CMS
    Score7 out of 10
    Serpstat
    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Square Online
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Yoast
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    RWS Tridion Sites
    Score9 out of 10
    Google Trends
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    JoomlaSurfer SEO
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (75 ratings)
    9.6
    (3 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (28 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (14 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    9.9
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    7.8
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.7
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.9
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    JoomlaSurfer SEO
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Surfer
    Surfer is well suited for:
    • Creating (and resisting) articles and web pages to increase their SEO relevancy for a keyword.
    • To identify NLP terms and the frequency of terms to be added to the page
    • To find internal linking opportunities
    • To plan pillar pages/topic clusters
    Surfer is not a tool for
    • Technical SEO
    • Crawl Audits
    • Serp / Keyword Tracking
    • Project Management
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    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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    Surfer
    • Analysis for on-page ranking factors
    • Competition analytics
    • NLP Analysis for webpage content
    • Content SEO scoring
    • Content editor with details about what to rank for
    • Plugin that helps with search data on Google
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    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
    Incentivized
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    Surfer
    • Can improve their algorithm to serve better for technical articles
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Surfer
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    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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    Surfer
    Because, I've been using this tool since many years and I haven't looked for any other tool when it comes to content optimization
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    Performance
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Surfer
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Surfer
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    The Joomla Project
    It is good if you know Joomla! if not it can get a bit confusing
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    Surfer
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Surfer
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Surfer
    Semrush's content and page optimisation tool is quite poor; it's not in the same bracket as Surfer. Frase is a good alternative from a cost perspective (if not paying the AI writing functions), it's cheaper, and Frase's keyword/topic heatmaps are quite unique. Sufer has a better UI and a shorter learning curve. It has an advantage in that it offers internal linking recommendations, which Frase lacks. Surfer also has limited competitor analysis (backlinks and page speed), which Frase does not. Both tools allow you to choose the number of competitors on the SERPS
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Surfer
    • SuferSEO has helped us rank in the top 10 for results that are over 1M in search volume
    • SurferSEO gives our team the ability to rank quicker than without the tool
    • SurferSEO helps us close prospects by showing them the depth of our analysis and knowledge.
    • SurferSEO makes our agency look and feel like a professional that knows what they are doing
    Incentivized
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