Talk:Drupal/Archives/2010/January

.71% of top 10,000 sites?

So there's a statistic in the lead now sourced from backendbattles.com that of the top 10,000 web sites as ranked by Alexa, only 70 are running Drupal. The factoid itself seems to be shoved in there without any context. You can draw your own conclusions about what is being implied (but not supported) about Drupal's popularity or capability. But more important than NPOV is accuracy. Backendbattles is wrong, missing obvious sites like TheOnion.com, which Alexa ranks as #1864 and economist.com (#2197) [Correction. That one's there. --Replysixty (talk)] and others. It also doesn't take into account 3rd level domain names. Example-- about.zappo.com uses Drupal. Alexa lists zappo.com as site #845. news.fedex.com uses drupal. Fedex.com is 427. france24.com/en/ (4643) and other subdirectories like www.warnerbrosrecords.com/artists or research.yahoo.com or flex.org/showcase or musicbox.sonybmg.com won't show up on the list. Final question-- how does backendbattles.com know what is or isn't running Drupal when Drupal can be themed and urls crafted so that no one has any idea what the back end is. The answer is that wappalyzer, a client-side Firefox plugin is used to detect the back end. Is this really a reliable source? Anyone else think this should be up in the lead? My answer: nope. --Replysixty (talk) 10:42, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

FWIW a similar statistic regarding Joomla from the same IP was rolled back as vandalism. --Replysixty (talk) 10:58, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

According to alexa.com graphs, it seems that backendbattles.com was born in November of last year. Quality source? Probably not. Were these stats inserted by the website to drive more traffic to it? Probably so. ...but what do you think? ~BFizz 19:14, 23 January 2010 (UTC)