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Joomla Keeps on Growing in Popularity
Friday, July 22, 2011
What do the NASA Virtual Magnetospheric Observatory, UN’s Regional Information Centre Europe, and EU’s Delegation to the United States have in common?
Besides all being government institutions, they have chosen to implement their web sites on the very popular open source content management system (CMS) Joomla. As we speak, Joomla is used by more than 2,700 government institutions in more than 200 countries throughout the world. These numbers speak volume about the wide adoption and approval of Joomla’s platform for creating safe and easily maintainable web sites.
Joomla is popular not just among government organizations. In a 2010 survey done by Water & Stone, where 4,000 webmasters were asked about their choice of CMS, Joomla came out as the most popular, ahead of the otherwise ultrapopular blogger CMS WordPress. Drupal and DotNetNuke came in a distant third and fourth in that survey. Water & Stone also measured the number of downloads in 2010, and Joomla ranked as the second most downloaded CMS. Joomla was downloaded three times as much as Drupal and almost ten times as much as DotNetNuke. WordPress was the most downloaded CMS; this is thought to have a lot to do with the popularity among bloggers.
Water & Stone also in their survey measured how many got converted to a particular CMS by trying it out. Joomla had a stunning 70 percent conversion rate. Only WordPress had a conversion rate that is close to that. Other popular CMSs such as DotNetNuke, Drupal, and TYPO3 had conversion rates well below 50 percent.
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