Google Trends: Drupal vs. Wordpress Searches

Posted by Simon Pole on May 12, 2006 at 3:35am

Google just released a new tool called Google Trends that charts the popularity of keyword searches over time.

A blogger has compared searches for the major blogging cms packages (including Drupal, which is not exactly in the same category).

The results are interesting though, with Wordpress the clear favourite, with Drupal next (both increasing over time), and Moveable Type declining since they went to a commercial license,

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Austin?

Posted by Ben Finklea on May 12, 2006 at 3:43am

It's interesting that the #1 USA city for "drupal" is Austin. I'm in Austin, anybody else out there? Is there an Austin drupal user group? It could just be me searching for 1000 different drupal things everyday. :-)

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I'm in Austin as well

Posted by Walt Esquivel on May 12, 2006 at 6:16am

I tried a similar search: drupal, number one city

...and came up with similar results, i.e., Austin as the top U.S. city followed closely by San Francisco. I can understand Vancouver being #2 due to Bryght, but why is Budapest #1?

I think Google's explanation helps clarify this a bit. Austin's high ranking might also be due to the fact that back in March we had the South by Southwest Festival (SXSW) which includes a huge web interactive portion and just last week we had the World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT). Perhaps many participants were interested in Drupal?

Hmmm. Well, there are at least a few of us here in the Live Music Capital of the World. :) And yes, of course there is a Austin Drupal group. Recently, the Austin group doubled when I joined, meaning we're now at a membership of two. ;) So please join & spread the word!

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Hey, I'm in Vancouver too,

Posted by Simon Pole on May 12, 2006 at 7:34am

Hey, I'm in Vancouver too, ;-).

And, I do usually google to get to Drupal, much easier than bookmarks.

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Thanks for being interested

Posted by cre8d on May 12, 2006 at 7:26am

Thanks for being interested in my quick post. Just so you know, I included the tools I'm designing sites for and my experience reflects the google search trends. I'm doing more and more sites in Wordpress and Drupal, and hardly any in MovableType.

Cheers!

drupal and wordpress

Posted by atishnis on September 9, 2011 at 10:21am

I would be inclined to say no. Other factors must be contributing to you increased hits. Matt Cutts says that google does not care what you use to build the site.

I suspect that the drupal site was indexed and and its mere coincidence that this occurred when you migrated to wordpress. Though this is just my suspicion.

How long has the site been going?
Was it drupal only before wordpress? Are you certain that drupal was set with all the various SEO tweaks you have in WP? (I thought that it was drupal lacked the plethora of SEO plugins such as All-in-one seo pack etc that you use – canonical et)
Did you have the same socialization buttons and twitter features then as now?

I hope you have Google Analytics of then and now also so you can see where these links referred from.

I for example came here from cake bakery after reading a splendid article (table-less passwords) then read 2 more posts whilst here.

Anyway it will be interesting to see what you find. (I had always written off drupal myself- but that is just me being judgemental :})

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