Popularity of modules

The project usage overview page reports week-by-week usage of Drupal core and of contributed modules and themes. The results shown give an idea of how popular the different projects are and may help you choose modules and themes for your own site.

As ever with statistics of this sort, they don't tell the whole story. For example, the results shown for "Drupal" are a poor estimate of the number of Drupal sites on the internet. This is because only sites running the Update Status module report data back to drupal.org. Update Status has been included in the Drupal download since the 6.0 release (and the installer prompts the user to allow it to be enabled when the site is first installed). In Drupal 5.x it is only available as a contributed module. This means that firstly the actual number of sites running Drupal is higher than the figures would suggest, and secondly, the results are heavily biased towards sites running Drupal 6.x and later.

Even so, the usage figures reported are a really useful indicator of what other people are using on their sites, and may suggest some modules or themes that you should investigate.

At present, translations, theme engines and installation profiles are not monitored by Update Status and so their usage data is not recorded.