Hi all! I have recently just been toying around with Joomla for the first time and wondered what other people's honest opinion was of this CMS. Has anyobody obtained good SE positioning with this dynamic CMS?
I love it, it's extremely flexible. I've used it on websites of very different sizes and traffic levels
That sounds positive - could u pm me a few of your site links so that I can take a look? How are your google positions? I find a number of pages seem to find their way onto Googles supplemental index as soon as they are published.
Joomla is awesome! and It is supported with lots of components , modules etc and backed up with large community of its users.
I hear lots of positive feedback. All very good news. Out of interest do you do any 'adult' based work with your autoupdated blogs?
I've worked a lot with Mambo, which of course you know, is very very similar. There are so many modules and components that you can do whatever you want with it. It makes content sites so much easier and well organized. Requires some work to optimize for SE's though. Overall, it's recommended.
it's one of big open source cms and one of the best side of joomla is many extension. when you look http://extensions.joomla.org/ and http://forum.joomla.org/, you can have better idea about the joomla
Indeed, a very wide range of extensions and a huge community to support development. That would be my favourite choice if I were to pick one from what's available. I've heard Drupal is getting close, yet Joomla is only getting better
I have found that Joomla seems to execute slowly - page load times are very slow. Anybody else found this to be a theme running through Joomla? Other than that I would have to say Im really impressed with what Ihave seen, and your feedback all reflects my own experience.
Must be just a particular site. I use Joomla all the time for projects and clients and it works very smoothly and quickly. I have sites that get 3600 page view per day and no issues at all with page load times
I second that. All my sites are on Joomla, and all are running fast. At times, I come accross customers whose sites are slow, and it mostly the result of a particular extension. WYSIWYG editors, when enabled, and the user is logged in, may slow down the front end, that's yet another reason for speed issues.
i've used mambo/joomla on many number of sites.. my own and for clients... seo is not bad but it could use some code cleaning.. but this depends loads on the template you use on your installation. i've got a site.. http://www.sexycharlas.com which is based on mambo which does really well in google and gets thousands of visits per day just from that 1 search engine. about speed.. i've realized it also.. and it's due to the way mambo stores the users info into their temporary session table. this becomes more obvious when you have over 200 users online at the same time... but this can be sorted by enabling mambo caching(not the best out there) and upgrading to mysql5.... for some reason my load times have decreased 25 - 30% after upgrading to mysql5... and my next step is to get a better hardware... anyhow.. hope this helps.. just pm if you have questions about CMS.. as i've been developing over 4 years on whole bunch of different CMS's...
I have heard about this with Joomla also, you need to get one of the commercial caching addons on the market, and that will improve it significantly. Other than that, your right, dedicated server, dedicated db server etc.
Great - thanks for that. I have been reading many things about a commercial cache accelerator for the speed and it seems unanimous that this is the way forward. I shall definately be investing my money in this extension.