Who is the fairest of them all? Which CMS has the most talent, looks best in a swimsuit and can answer questions about world peace eloquently? Well, according to this Alexaholic chart of site traffic for the main sites for each OSS CMS, it looks like the Joomla/Mambo combination is faring quite well. Drupal comes in a close second, a rising star in the OSS CMS world. Plone and Zope seem to be plodding along but it looks like the technology is no longer experiencing positive growth in the number of visits to their site. This bodes badly for the future of Plone and Zope. I’m definitely not surprised by the information below as you can certainly sense this when you visit the Plone and Zope sites. They’re infrequently updated and the documentation for the both OSS techs tends to break very quickly.
What’s the upshot for me? I think I’m going to take a harder look at Drupal, just on it’s own merits and because Drupal intrigues me with its CiviCRM package.
alexa website statistics by alexaholic
Confessions
I fully expected Joomla and Mambo to do well in this battle but I didn’t know Drupal was so hot! This is the kind of information I hope to provide for non-profit IT directors out there. It’s not only important to know what technology is currently popular but also to know what is moving up quickly. It’s not so you can adopt the quickly moving technologies right off the bat but to understand that every year the Internet seems to coalesce around some new technology for whatever reason. Just so you know, I wouldn’t just throw away Plone and Zope just yet, it still has a fairly substantial developer population.
Alexaholic is wicked isn’t it?.
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