Drupal Economic Indicators
So how big is the Drupalsphere? Is it healthy and growing? How does it compare to other similar communities? These are the questions this page seeks to answer with live, up to the minute data.
How Often Do People Search for Drupal on Google?
Here's live data from Google Trends.
This chart shows the overall Google Search and Google News query volume for Drupal (blue), Typo3 (red), Joomla (orange), and Wordpress (green).
How Often Do People Mention Drupal on Twitter?
How Often Do People Mention Drupal on Blogs?
Here are live Technorati charts showing blog mentions for Drupal and others.
How Many People Are Visiting Drupal.org?
Here's a live chart from Alexa showing daily reach for Drupal.org relative to some other relevant open source projects. Here's the methodology.
How Many Job Postings Mention Drupal?
The number of relative job listings can be viewed as a proxy for how much budget is being spent on paid development for each technology. Here's a live chart from the Indeed.com jobs metasearch engine showing occurences of different technologies in job postings over time.
Here's a live chart from the Simplyhired.com jobs metasearch engine showing occurences of different technologies in job postings over time.
| Wordpress, Drupal, Plone, Dotnetnuke, Phpbb, Joomla trends | Wordpress jobs | Drupal jobs | Plone jobs | Dotnetnuke jobs | Phpbb jobs | Joomla jobs |
How Many Jobs Postings Mention PHP?
Drupal is built on PHP, so tracking the health of the PHP job market relative to other alternatives may be interesting. Here is a live chart showing the trends from Indeed.com.
Here is the same query against a diff a live chart showing the trends from Simply Hired, an alternative to Indeed.com
| Asp, Jsp, Php, Ruby, Python, Coldfusion trends | Asp jobs | Jsp jobs | Php jobs | Ruby jobs | Python jobs | Coldfusion jobs |
How Do Drupal Jobs Pay Relative to Others?
Developers generally run in tribes. There is the LAMP Tribe, the Microsoft Tribe, and the Java Tribe. Here's live data from Indeed.com showing how each tribe gets paid.
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drupal $64,000 |
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joomla $66,000 |
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wordpress $54,000 |
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php $64,000 |
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dotnetnuke $70,000 |
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.NET $71,000 |
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Flash Flex $78,000 |
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jsp $80,000 |
How Are Drupal Books Selling?
Book sales are an indicator of developer interest in learning new technologies (possibly to get one of those jobs listed above). The Pro Drupal Development book is the best selling Drupal book on Amazon.com. Here are live Amazon sales rankings for that book and top books on other technologies.
There are probably lots of other statistics that could be on this page. Add a comment if you know of a data source, preferably one with time series data and an API that allows live data to be posted.
Ooh, this is awesome! Thanks!
What about downloads of Drupal? Number of drupal.org postings? Registered accounts? I know these kinds of metrics are accessible but not quite as grabbable as the things you have above.
Google News mentions? Inbound links to drupal.org?
Compete is another place to check for traffic and other graphs, and comparisons: http://www.compete.com/
I agree, seemingly a nice complement to Alexa's stats ... and considerably more favorable to Drupal vs. Joomla:
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/drupal.org+joomla.org+wordpress.org?metric=uv
Cheers!
Shawn
This is great information, Jeff!
is there a way we can poll the number of developer resources around Drupal, then plot it on a graph over time? This would be an important set of data since companies that are considering Drupal will want to know the considerable number of resources available as well as the rate of developers joining the project.
-Joe Bachana
DPCI
This is great stuff. Very helpful and good of you to compile.
Re: google trends chart. I have run that same chart myself. but why not do that as you’ve done many of the other - with joomla, et al plotted as well?
Now added.
Nice economic indicators! Heres a google trends graph that depicts Drupals popularity in relation to other open source softwares:
http://google.com/trends?q=joomla%2Cwordpress%2Cdrupal%2Ctypo3%2Cmagento&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
Now added. Unfortunately, Google doesn't provide the color key to the chart on the image itself, so I've added it via text.
I must say I like Drupal and it is good to see it is doing good. For those Drupal users interested in trying an alternative I can surely suggest giving Dotnetnuke a try.
You might consider adding Ohloh stacks:
http://www.ohloh.net/projects/compare?metric=Codebase
&project_0=Drupal+%28core%29&project_1=Joomla%21
&project_2=WordPress
Note: the graph at the top is not as meaningful, but the number of stacks from registered developers who say they are using Drupal (vs. Joomla and WordPress) is interesting.
I believe this data is also available through their API at:
http://www.ohloh.net/api/getting_started
Thank you for collecting these. I've been trying to collect data like this myself ... but you've found some excellent indicators that I had never heard of!
Cheers,
Shawn
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