By jayhawksean on

i wrote in my blog recently a post about Moodle versus Drupal for education. One of my comments was that the Drupal development community far exceeds Moodle's. Someone questioned my comments and directed me to this Moodle link:
http://moodle.org/stats/ -- stats on downloads and number of users. This isn't exactly what I was talking about, but I was wondering if anything like this for Drupal exists, but I'd also like to know how many developers Drupal has an whether there's any sort of accurate count for number of modules.

I realize this is a lot, but I am trying to promote Drupal and it's difficult when I can't even produce evidence that Drupal is larger than Moodle.

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pwolanin commented

http://buytaert.net/drupal-download-statistics

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sepeck commented

is a recent feature. If you turn on the Drupal module we can gather some stats but we haven't advertised it yet. People need to turn on Drupal module then turn on stats collection.

Drupal is 5 years old. it has over 63,000 users on the site.

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jayhawksean commented

thanks guys, that's helpful. much appreciated.

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A user last summer searched on Drupal's "footprint" and discovered there were 54,700 Drupal sites. If you perform that same search today, you end up with 166,000 sites. While this is not an exact count, since it both includes some irrelevant links as well as misses any Drupal site which is using translation (and there are a lot), it is one fairly accurate and non-biased way of measuring this figure. If you go by these numbers, it means that the number of Drupal sites has more than tripled in the past 12 months.

You can see this same trend with total number of registered users. I registered to the site one year ago today, and was user #24967. The most most recent user is #63276. Again, we see huge growth, as the number of Drupal.org users has more than doubled in the past 12 months.

Finally, let's look at developer statistics. An excerpt from Dries's 4.7.0 announcement:

There have been over 338 contributors to this latest release with over 1500 patches which is almost triple our previous record with Drupal 4.6 of 523 commits by 50 developers.

So again, in the space of about a year, we see exponential growth, this time in the number of contributors to the project (which one could argue is the most important number of all ;)).

There are about 800 contrib modules, although they are of varying levels of quality/completeness and may or may not be tagged for the current releases of Drupal. The 4.7 contrib contains about 400, and the 4.6 contrib about 300.

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lzfranc commented

I think numbers (users or developers) is not only references to choice a good CMS thinking in specifical applications, but if we see to the trends, at least we notice which of them can to have a right to participate our studies.

An interesting reference is Google Trends.

Today (04-june-2006) it shows booth Drupal and Moodle are growing. See comparison here

I did comparisons between Drupal and others important (Open) CMS. The most part of others are "stable" or "decreasing". Typo3 is growing as well.

See:

drupal x xoops
drupal x phpnuke
drupal x plone
drupal x typo3 (both are growing)
drupal x ezpublish

And so on...