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I'm looking into using drupal for my own site and am interested in seeing how "the big boys" do drupal.

I am looking for the biggest, best, most popular, and most professional drupal based sites.

I'll start:

1. SpreadFirefox.com

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Ian Ward commented

In the case of www.NextBillion.net we have helped bring together a community of business leaders, social entrepreneurs, NGOs, policy makers, and academics from 60 different countries who want to explore the connection between development and enterprise. Each audience can control the content and news uniquely appropriate to their interests. This website serves as a separate campaign site for the World Resources Institute (WRI). Nextbillion.net is critical to helping promote and expand WRI's central identity and mission to the large diverse groups and businesses who interact on the site everyday.

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Marcio Bastos-1 commented

very nice your site!
i would like to inform also about a very nice drupal site i found: www.fashionata.be
100% cutomized layout
cheers
Marcio
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leotemp commented

Just wanted to point out that in all of my browsers on all of my machines your header is garbled. There are large patches of neon green pixles and all of the animated portion is black and chunky. I am sure it is not as intended as it looks like your flass application went through some bad TV static.

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freyquency commented

ourmedia.org

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kbahey commented

You don't say what you mean by biggest? Number of hits? Number of users? Most famous? Most innovative? Best looking theme?

Anyway, here are some off the top of my head:

2. http://kerneltrap.org is a technical site that receives a LOTS of hits.

3. http://ourmedia.org and http://www.nowpublic.com are some innovative sites that use Drupal in a different way than most

For themes, see the Drupal showcase for some unique looking ones.

The http://drupal.org/drupal-sites page has 739 sites, but that is not all Drupal sites. Some (like my sites) choose not to enable the ping module.

It would be really nice if the above page has some of that info (however, how do we prevent a site from claiming absurd numbers?)

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freyquency commented

http://art.gnome.org/

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killes@www.drop.org commented

I don't think that is a Drupal site.
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Ian Ward’s picture

Ian Ward commented

This is also a great looking site: http://www.terminus1525.ca/

This thread also lists a lot of great looking sites: http://drupal.org/node/7443

Of course, I always reference Drupal.org as one of the "best" and "biggest" Drupal sites.

Yeah it really depends. A really small site could serve a huge need and serve the need very well...and so does that make it better than a really big site? Maybe for those to who it serves. But then, if you're talking about biggest and best in terms of handling lots of traffic and new content creation, that is more specific...

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venkat-rk commented

www.linuxjournal.com and the Doc Searls site.

They are big enough, I guess

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kbahey commented

Linux Gazette too.

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kbahey commented

Not really big, but ...

Leo Laporte's This Week in Technology.

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pamphile commented

http://mbr.org/ - New england basketball resource
http://www.performancing.com - blog resource + blog statistics service

Marcel
http://01wholesale.com
http://www.acmetutorials.com - photoshop tutorials

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hjuan99 commented

WritingUp.com

My blog

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abqaria commented

http://www.SmartTowns.com
http://www.independentbloggers.com
http://www.i-bloggers.com
http://www.abqaria.com

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teyoo commented

Is there any alexa top1000 sites using drupal?

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killes@www.drop.org commented

You just made a comment on one.
http://alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=drupal.org
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ajevans85 commented

Heres a nice property website which looks to be running drupal http://www.wowproperty.co.uk

Another clean one I spotted http://www.manchestersportandleisure.org

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Jeff Burnz commented

its a big one, very popular - http://teamsugar.com/

Pimp your Drupal 8 Toolbar - make it badass.
Adaptivetheme - theming system for people who don't code.
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anilrgowda commented

http://www.strod.com

http://www.dapx.com

Built on drupal

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utzjohn commented

Here is a site that I have been working on for some time. I used a few different themes and combined them. It includes the basic content functionality as well as a forum and many other add ons. It is currently not that big but its getting bigger. Id appreciate any feedback. Its targeted at small business owners looking to learn how to market online.

www.sbimonline.com

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roexae commented

Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE uses Drupal as its content management system. The site was the 6th visited site in Finland last week (http://www.gallupweb.com/tnsmetrix/site.aspx). Their use of Drupal is expanding all the time and many of company's subsites are based on Drupal, like:

I consider YLE's usage of Drupal as their CMS as a great job!

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EkaMei commented

What about http://news.fedex.com ?

Referecnes: jeffwhatcott.com/drupal/content/fedexcom-drupal

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Mike Kennedy commented

http://www.fox-locks.com is a site dedicated to sports, poker, horse racing, and casino articles written and submitted by amateur sports writers, professionally edited, and published for millions of sports fans to read.

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Jeff Burnz commented

Not one of the biggest Drupal sites at all, and FYI, pretty broken.

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blueflowers commented

http://www.chartattack.com

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sstern-at-ccim commented

We just moved our site to Drupal, http://www.ccim.com

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babettelafox commented

Ian, how much does a site like that cost to design and develop (time and money)? I'm getting together some financial specs for a client I'm working with as a project manager, and I'd like to get them a ballpark figure.

Thanks much,
Carrie

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bokswagen commented

http://www.piecesofyoga.com

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cynthiam commented

http://www.mothering.com

We launched our new design using Drupal in June. So far so good. There have been some problems but we usually find a way around them.

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olbion commented

I've created a system that detects what backend is behind websites and joins this with information on Alexa ranks. One result is a continously updated list of Drupal-based websites. You might know some of them already, but there may be some surprises! :)

http://www.backendbattles.com/top-drupal-sites

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Lios commented

Whitehouse.gov? Really? Wow :-)

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Adam S commented

http://www.economist.com/
http://www.tnr.com/
http://www.motherjones.com/
http://www.france24.com/en/

Lots of good online publications using Drupal.

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project6 commented

Hello, we launched this site a few months ago. It's one of 9 sites all using one multi-install of Drupal. The other sites are rolling out as they are complete. Let us know what you think!

http://studenthealth.ucsf.edu/

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kobestarr commented

which sites are made with drupal?

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lawrence commented

Here's some awesome sites that use Drupal.

Grammy Awards - http://www.grammy.com/
White House - http://www.whitehouse.gov/

And mine - http://www.iommo.com

I can usually tell when a site uses Drupal by viewing page source and see "sites/all/files/etc..." :)

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sos4nt commented

Check out Drupal Detection Test.

Cheers, Stefan

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CardEra commented

Google Chrome Sniffer extension detects frameworks

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pigtailpundits commented

Hey guys, i came across this website.. nice use of colors and lot of attention paid to details. Its a drupal 6 website..
the Url is: http://www.webnirvanatrail.com/

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algorion commented

http://www.gimmie.se

An advanced web 2.0 community driven golf guide. Built on Drupal 6 tightly integrated with the Google Maps API. An advanced search, searching both nodes and Google Maps geo search. The results are presented on a map with live filtering, everything for a smoother user experience!

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jainmca4444 commented

;)

drupal is superb cms.` i have developed college website using drupal.
its was really fun , exploring the modules of drupal and experimenting with them.

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marlabalzan commented

Check out this one:

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nikhilesh.mr commented

Here is one from me.
http://www.mallumovies.org

It is a malayalam movie database created using cck and views.

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surajdeshmukh commented

You can also consider (recovery.org) as it is also a drupal made website.

We provide best Open source development services.

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etopmost commented

You have used the features of Views extensively . I am not sure, Wordpress has this feature.
Any comments ?

http://etopmost.com/

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sp_key commented

Don't know if it's "big boys" or whatever.
I just love the feel of this site: http://www.breathtakingathens.com/

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Adam S commented

http://pga.com

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malgini commented

rb7.ru has more than 15000 visitors per day (up to 20 000) - that makes this project one of the most interesting regional drupal websites.

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moreonion commented

actually pretty sad to see that this simple question ended up being a stage for showing off your own websites...

thx to those who actually contributed interesting links ;-)

Adam S’s picture

Adam S commented

Rather than spamming forum threads like this people would do so much better by putting their website's URL in the signature and respond to questions and needs of the other Drupalers in the forums. See below :)

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Rakhi commented

Professional website design and development website (Open Source Development) is Drupal website, Drupal has simplified its content management at the same has provided interactivity. My website mentioned in my signature is the Drupal website.

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Stan.Ezersky commented

http://drupalogy.ru — showcase of Drupal-developers

Amazing Russian Drupal-based sites: http://drupalogy.ru/gallery/editors_choice

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macellan commented

http://www.sol.org.tr is a news portal in Turkish.

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Shailesh76 commented

Divine Heart Center teaches Reiki and Raja Yoga and uses drupal www.divineheartcenter.com
Feature rich -uses many drupal modules and integrates with amazon.

DHC team

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killerbeeprinting commented

I'm looking at starting my own blog site so I'm interested in looking at some successful blogs made with Drupal.

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jmachete commented

This one have millions of users worlwide...

www.soundsnap.com

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m@ster commented

Biggest information portal in Belarus
http://www.interfax.by
has more than 280 000 visitors per day (up to 350 000)

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silverlite commented

Check http://drupalogy.com too.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

http://emigrez.info <- Articles and informations about immigration (Romanian)

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dennisyd commented

http://www.club30andover.com is a great new site -> a social networking site where you won't run into your kids

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sportch commented

TSHAonline.org includes the Handbook of Texas, which has over 25,000 entries and gets 10,000,000 pageviews a year.

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popzkg commented

http://www.ubuntu.com

a big drupal site..

Stan.Ezersky’s picture

Stan.Ezersky commented

DrupalSN Russia — Social network of ex-USSR drupal-developers

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vadim.eremeev commented

Registration doesnt work on your web-site ...

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Stan.Ezersky commented

Invites only

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filoexs commented

www.ubuntu.com

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jcuello commented

elespectador.com, Alexa Traffic Rank: 3,930
caracoltv.com, Alexa Traffic Rank: 9,558

Just my 2 cents..

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martysharkey commented

Hi Guys,

I was interested in finding out what the largest drupal deployment was. I saw a similar question in this post but it seemed to demostrate websites and not numbers. I am interested in deploying drupal but i was looking to see if anyone knew what the largest number of registered users in a single drupal deployment were???? What can drupal support (transactions) or is this more driven by LAMP or MySQL???

I'm quite new to Drupal so be kind please...

Thanks

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WorldFallz commented

Depends on what you mean by 'largest'. Largest amount of registered users? Largest amount of anonymous viewers? Largest number of page views? Largest number of unique visitors?

Right here on drupal.org, you yourself are user #1,411,324. http://examiner.com is probably another 'large' site.

See http://showcase.acquia.com for some other candidates.

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j.huffy commented

This site has quite a lot of complicated relationships between data, for a job/user searching recruitment site.

www.maxwork.it

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JonisJon commented

I'm surprised no one has mentioned www.whitehouse.gov

Lios’s picture

Lios commented

I did actually, in 2009 :)

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timr commented

http://www.slovenskenovice.si/