Our Google Analytics go back 15 years and kgov.com, with 6,000 pages of content, is now running on Drupal 9 with many high google rankings. We're very happy and this site is only one of our half-dozen running Drupal.
Hi! I'm just starting a Drupal site, yes, it says test, but it's really not. I'm going to be developing some vacation information on the site. I just started so it's light. Open to suggestions!
If you are curious how a Drupal site turns out when you favour custom modules over contrib - here is a simple example. If you take a look under the bonnet at the source, you'll see it is pretty clean and the site whips along nicely (granted this is a wee example, but it will scale up well).
Build process is Webpack 5 and I go a decent distance off off-piste to deliver a monolithic platform which is very much tailored to my own preferences eg.