--- title: "Joomla: vendor profile | Agent Ready Checklist" description: "Joomla, a content management system: 0 of 6 checklist rows read are met by default, with 7 sourced facts, dated plans and what it does not do." canonical: https://agentreadychecklist.com/vendors/joomla site: "Agent Ready Checklist" last_updated: 2026-11-05 section: "Vendors" --- # Joomla: vendor profile | Agent Ready Checklist > Joomla, a content management system: 0 of 6 checklist rows read are met by default, with 7 sourced facts, dated plans and what it does not do. Source: https://agentreadychecklist.com/vendors/joomla Site: Agent Ready Checklist Last reviewed: 2026-11-05 Agent endpoints: https://agentreadychecklist.com/llms.txt (index), https://agentreadychecklist.com/openapi.json (API), https://agentreadychecklist.com/mcp (MCP server), https://agentreadychecklist.com/ask (search) Access: https://agentreadychecklist.com/auth.md (no key). Pricing: https://agentreadychecklist.com/pricing.md (free). # Joomla Joomla's robots.txt.dist keeps content paths open but closes /api/ and the system folders to every agent, so AR-FIND-01 is only partly met, and a site has to rename the file before it takes effect. The robots.txt can then carry Content-Signal lines. The pages read confirm no core sitemap, llms.txt feature or markdown negotiation, and state no rendering mode. ## At a glance Type [CMS](https://agentreadychecklist.com/vendors/by-type/cms/) Homepage [joomla.org](https://www.joomla.org), answered HTTP 200 on 2026-11-05 Checklist rows 6 of 31 read: **0** supported, 2 partial, 4 no statement In the crawl 3 of 5,897 home pages counted on 2026-11-04. Counted from the crawl's headers and generator tags, an undercount for hosted builders. Last read 2026-11-05 ## What it does for this layer - Joomla 6.2.0 was released on GitHub on 2026-10-13. primary source, 2026-10-13: [api.github.com/repos/joomla/joomla-cms/releases/latest](https://api.github.com/repos/joomla/joomla-cms/releases/latest), read 2026-11-05 - Joomla ships robots.txt as robots.txt.dist, which a site renames to robots.txt to put it in use. primary source: [raw.githubusercontent.com/joomla/joomla-cms/6.2-dev/robots.txt.dist](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/joomla/joomla-cms/6.2-dev/robots.txt.dist), read 2026-11-05 - The Joomla robots.txt.dist has one User-agent: \* group that disallows /administrator/, /api/, /cache/, /components/ and other system folders. primary source: [raw.githubusercontent.com/joomla/joomla-cms/6.2-dev/robots.txt.dist](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/joomla/joomla-cms/6.2-dev/robots.txt.dist), read 2026-11-05 - The Joomla robots.txt.dist disallows /api/ for every crawler, which also keeps agents away from Joomla's Web Services API path. observed: [raw.githubusercontent.com/joomla/joomla-cms/6.2-dev/robots.txt.dist](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/joomla/joomla-cms/6.2-dev/robots.txt.dist), read 2026-11-05 - Joomla's joomla-cms repository opened on GitHub on 2011-09-27 and showed 5,165 stars on 2026-11-05. observed: [api.github.com/repos/joomla/joomla-cms](https://api.github.com/repos/joomla/joomla-cms), read 2026-11-05 - The Joomla robots.txt.dist on the 6.2-dev branch has 15 Disallow lines, ending with /modules/, /plugins/ and /tmp/. observed: [raw.githubusercontent.com/joomla/joomla-cms/6.2-dev/robots.txt.dist](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/joomla/joomla-cms/6.2-dev/robots.txt.dist), read 2026-11-05 - The joomla/joomla-cms repository on GitHub is licensed under GPL-2.0. primary source: [api.github.com/repos/joomla/joomla-cms](https://api.github.com/repos/joomla/joomla-cms), read 2026-11-05 ## Products and plans | Product | What it is | Price | As of | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Joomla | Open-source PHP content management system. | Free, open source; GPL-2.0 licence; api.github.com/repos/joomla/joomla-cms | 2026-11-05 | ## Standards | Row | What it asks | Status | What the vendor's pages say | Source | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AR-FIND-01 | Do not block agents | partial | robots.txt.dist allows content paths for all agents but disallows /api/ and system folders. | raw.githubusercontent.com/joomla/joomla-cms/6.2-dev/robots.txt.dist | | AR-FIND-03 | Sitemap listed in robots.txt | no statement | Core sitemap support was not confirmed; extensions usually provide it. | none | | AR-READ-01 | Answer in the initial HTML | no statement | The pages read today do not state the rendering mode. | none | | AR-READ-07 | Ship llms.txt | no statement | No llms.txt feature was found. | none | | CF-CONTENT-SIGNALS | Content-Signal line | partial | robots.txt is a plain file the site can edit to add Content-Signal lines. | raw.githubusercontent.com/joomla/joomla-cms/6.2-dev/robots.txt.dist | | CF-MARKDOWN-NEGOTIATION | Markdown by Accept | no statement | No markdown negotiation was found. | none | ## Checks on its own site | Reading | Result | Date | Source | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Cloudflare scan of joomla.org | 20 of 100, band L1 Basic Web Presence | 2026-11-05 | isitagentready.com | | Crawl row for joomla.org | 4 of 10 checks pass; Tranco rank 3,146 | 2026-11-04 | agentreadychecklist.com/data/ | | Home pages counted in the crawl | 3 of 5,897; Counted from the shared crawl of 2026-11-04 by generator meta tag in the home page HTML; the generator rule only sees tags whose name attribute comes first, so it undercounts | 2026-11-04 | agentreadychecklist.com/data/ | | Check | Result | Verify Kit check | | --- | --- | --- | | robots.txt allows all 17 agent tokens at / | pass | robots-verdicts | | robots.txt blocks no search or user-fetch token | pass | robots-verdicts | | Home page has an h1 and 50 words in the initial HTML | pass | initial-html | | A missing path returns 404 or 410 | pass | status-codes | | /llms.txt exists | fail | llms-linked | | Home page links to llms.txt | fail | llms-linked | | Accept: text/markdown returns text/markdown | fail | markdown-negotiation | | Home page carries JSON-LD that parses | fail | json-ld | | OpenAPI linked from the home page or served at /openapi.json | fail | openapi | | /.well-known/mcp.json serves JSON | fail | mcp-or-cli | ## What it does not do - Joomla does not put robots.txt in place by itself; the shipped file is named robots.txt.dist. - Joomla's shipped robots rules do not leave its /api/ path open to agents. ## Reading notes docs.joomla.org was not fetched because its robots.txt disallows the crawl user agent. ## Related pages on this site Same type [CMSs](https://agentreadychecklist.com/vendors/by-type/cms/), [all vendors](https://agentreadychecklist.com/vendors/) ## Sources - [joomla.org](https://www.joomla.org)read 2026-11-05 - [api.github.com/repos/joomla/joomla-cms/releases/latest](https://api.github.com/repos/joomla/joomla-cms/releases/latest)read 2026-11-05 - [raw.githubusercontent.com/joomla/joomla-cms/6.2-dev/robots.txt.dist](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/joomla/joomla-cms/6.2-dev/robots.txt.dist)read 2026-11-05 - [api.github.com/repos/joomla/joomla-cms](https://api.github.com/repos/joomla/joomla-cms)read 2026-11-05 - [isitagentready.com](https://isitagentready.com/)read 2026-11-05 - [agentreadychecklist.com/data/](https://agentreadychecklist.com/data/)read 2026-11-04 Edition Data 2026-11-04 Reviewed 2026-11-05 Spec AgentReady v2.0, 273d2d7 Crawl 13,071 rows, 2026-11-04 Ora 132 checks, contract 1.38.0, 2026-11-05 Verify with Ora The scanner this site recommends for the whole checklist. 132 checks, a score out of 100, no account. `npx ax@0.10 audit --min-score ` [Why Ora, and its limits](https://agentreadychecklist.com/verify-with-ora/) Method - [How rows, commands and rates are made](https://agentreadychecklist.com/method/) - [How an Ora check is matched to a row](https://agentreadychecklist.com/checklist/ora-checks/) - [Pass rates by rank band](https://agentreadychecklist.com/data/by-rank/) Sources and read dates sit at the foot of the page. Last reviewed 2026-11-05. AgentReady v2.0, read 2026-11-04.