by Matt Rogers
Drupal is a market leading content management system (CMS). For anyone new to Drupal, we’ve prepared a brief fact sheet to give you a very bird’s eye view of what the Drupal community has achieved.
Drupal statistics:
- 1,200,000+ sites worldwide
- 32,000+ modules
- 2100+ themes
- 1,000,000+ users and developers
- 220+ countries speaking
- 180+ languages
- 1000+ US government websites including The White House and NASA
Facts:
- Controlled by community
- One release per month on average
- Open Source under GNU, no licensing cost
- Platform independent
- Drupal can be integrated with almost any application that provides an API
- Dedicated security team
- 71 out of the world’s top 100 Universities use Drupal-powered websites – 28% of all .edu sites run on Drupal
Who’s Using Drupal:
From local businesses to global corporations, diverse organizations use Drupal.
News Publishing
The BMJ, The Economist, New Republic
Intranet/Corporate Websites
SpaceX, Lush, Danone, Tesla Motors, Peugeot
Education
Stanford Law, Harvard, Oxford, MIT Media Lab
Art, Music, Multimedia
The Beatles, MTV UK, The Weather Channel, NBC,BBC, Grammy.com, Musée du Louvre
Government
Whitehouse.gov, London.gov.uk,Gouvernement.fr, New Zealand Government, The Prince of Wales
Non-profit/NGO
Oxfam, British Council EAL, Amnesty International
Transportation
Gatwick Obviously, NYC Metropolitan Transportation Authority
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