By Steven on

If my timing is right, you are now reading the 10000th item posted on Drupal.org! This count includes everything except comments, which means forum topics, project issues, book pages, images and stories.

The Drupal.org website was started on April 26, 2001. These last three years, the website has been growing steadily.

Some statistics and other tidbits:

  • We had over 1200 active users the last 30 days, not including anonymous visitors.
  • On average, we get about 78 posts per day (nodes and comments).
  • In July 2004 a total of 26GB in data was served, spread over 2.2 million hits (for 218979 unique visitors).
  • A total of 15136 comments have been posted.
  • The SQL database for Drupal.org is 170MB.
  • We are the #1 hit on Google for creating romance in marriage :D.

Work is going on behind the scenes to improve the Drupal.org website, so we can serve you even better in the future.

Let's hope we reach the 20000 mark soon!

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SupaDucta’s picture

SupaDucta commented

Compliments and all the best wishes to all Drupal people worldwide!

bertboerland’s picture

bertboerland commented

Cool to see drupal.org go gold. Still remember the day we moved the development from drop.org to drupal.org. However, drop.org seems to be a abandoned dorp.org nowadays.

And thanks for doing a good job with the uptime of drupal as well.

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ax commented

this might be a good time to upgrade drop.org to a slightly more modern version of drupal ...

moshe weitzman’s picture

moshe weitzman commented

i see the best fit line in the graph but don't know how to interpret the equation. can anyone help reprase our growth pattern?

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Steven commented

The horizontal axis (x) shows Unix timestamps divided by 109. The vertical axis (y) is the amount of nodes.

The equation is the mathematical description of the red curve. Exp is the exponential function, ex (~2.718 to the power of x). For any purely exponential process, it means that if you step along the curve at regular intervals, then the next value is the previous value multiplied by some constant (e.g. x 1.05 = 5% extra every time). It means that our growth is accelerating.

Using derivation, you can find the slope of the curve at any point. This will tell you how many nodes per second there are.
d(-977.318 + 2.53684e-13*exp(35.1088*x))/dx
= 2.53684e-13 * 35.1088 * exp(35.1088*x)

If I fill in my current timestamp on the right scale (1.092391549):

= 403657.1808 nodes per 109 seconds
= 0.0004036571808 nodes per second
= 34.87598042112 nodes per day.

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njivy commented

I had a similar problem understanding the chart, especially with the units and labels. Here is my proposed chart tweak. It would also be helpful to know on what day this data was collected. Obviously we have more nodes now!

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blewtooth-at-visa.com.my commented

Congratulation and my best wishes to the developers and users of Drupal.

Bèr Kessels’s picture

Bèr Kessels commented

It might be nice place to mention the amoutn of drupal downloads too, I thought.
According to Kjartan the 4.4.2 release tarball was downloaded 10000 times in july. And on average every latest release gets 10000-15000 downloads per month. These are only the dowloads of the core drupal as tarball. A lot of developers and users download drupal via anonymous CVS. Those CVS downloads are not included in the above-mentioned 10000 downloads.

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laxman2021 commented

It was happy to have a good Supporting community for the beginners like me.

Thank you so much.