Drupal runs three times as many top sites as the next CMS
Here's a statistic I haven't seen bandied about much. Drupal runs three times as many of the Alexa 10,000 top sites as the next CMS, according to backendbattles.com.
This figure was extracted using Wappalyzer. It's not perfect: The Onion doesn't show up as a Drupal site, for example, probably because it runs an old or heavily hacked version.
It's nice to have this statistic at hand when Drupal supporters feel disheartened by popularity comparisons to Joomla. There are many ways to be successful; capturing the attention of the world's biggest sites is a pretty good one.
Having said that: WordPress is found on nearly three times as many big sites as Drupal. (Backendbattles.com categorizes it as "blog software" rather than a CMS, so it doesn't show up in the comparison.)
The Onion is not figuring out in Drupal site because they have been rewriting stuff in Python since a long time
Really? That's intriguing, since it's long been a feather in the Drupal community's cap. How did you find this out? Do you have any more information?
Or see http://djangositeoftheweek.com/av-club/
Thanks for the link!
From a quick skim of the article, it's not clear that The Onion's *main* site has moved to Django. But if the A.V. Club portion moved successfully, there's every reason to believe the rest would follow. Ah, well.
Anyway: I'll stop using theonion.com as a Drupal bragging point. :(
theonion IS actually running on Drupal. They're just running it from subdirectory content. You can try to use /user or /taxonomy/term/1 or feed.xml and you can see the results. So yes, they sure have done some work there, but it's still Drupal ,)
I complied a list of some of the top and notable sites running on drupal. It's a good read. It's impressive to see how different these sites are, yet all powered by drupal.
Thanks for the link, Steve. Just to add one to the mix: http://groups.drupal.org/node/5100 has a MASSIVE list of media sites using Drupal. Sadly, it's 2-1/2 years old, so caveat emptor.
The numbers from backendbattles.com differ greatly from those provided by trends.builtwith.com. According to BuiltWith, Drupal runs on 1.57% or 15,835 of the top 10,000 web sites. Note they don't mention Alexa top sites so I'm not sure to which top 10,000 web sites they refer. It's still far and away the most frequently used CMS.
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