How many joomla sites are there in the world?
How many joomla sites are there in the world? Or perhaps of more interest what percentage of successful web sites are created with joomla? And what are the Top 10 joomla sites.
The number of downloads
of joomla is interesting but it doesn't really give a true figure of installations, especialy as you could use one download 100 times or just install it directly from your host.
The only way to tell is to actually sit down and count them all.
And that is exactly what AlexRed and the team at http://www.joomla.it have done.
There might be millions of blogs created at wordpress.com etc but as the vast majority of these are never really used I am only interested in successful web sites. We're only interested in successful web sites so they started with the "Top 1 million" web sites, as ranked by traffic, according to Alexa.com. With that list, here, they were then able to "scan" those sites to produce a list of joomla sites.
Multiple techniques were used, to remove false positives, sites were first identified by the robots.txt and then the presences of certain images and other indicators.
After all that "counting" they were left with a list of 25,000 sites from the original one million.
So 2.5% of "successful" web sites are running joomla.
As I'm fond of saying there are lies, dam lies and statistics so can the figure of 2.5% be extrapolated across "all web sites"? Probably not, but the graph below shows an increased prevalence of joomla sites as the Alexa traffic rank reduces so "perhaps" a more accurate figure would be 3%.
There is no point in counting the pennies in the jar if you don't do something with them.
Alex, and his team, have thought of that. Joomla.me is a new site, luanched today, that is a directory of "all" the joomla sites that they found, together with various other information about those sites.
The fun bit is that we can now use that site to search for joomla usage by TLD etc.
And now for the Joomla Top 10
No suprises who is at Number 1 but some of the others i hadn't heard about.
- 1 www.joomla.org
- 2 www.sabq.org
- 3 www.alef.ir
- 4 www.infusionsoft.com
- 5 www.rockettheme.com
- 6 www.telkomspeedy.com
- 7 www.cricbuzz.com
- 8 www.gazzetta.gr
- 9 www.thaindian.com
- 10 www.kontera.com
Congratulations and thanks to AlexRed and the rest of the team for producing this data - if you find any errors don't tell me, tell Alex ;)
Driving joomla to the edge
I can not think of a better site to start this new series showcasing some of the original web sites I have come across all powered by Joomla.
"Our Transport Heritage" not only features a clean, tableless design, with stunning imagery but it also uses some of the more familiar third party joomla extensions to truly inspire you.
The site has been designed by Green Jersey and created in joomla by ToolboxCreations and together they have really pushed out the boat. It looks as if the site is still on the road to completion with plenty more content to be added but they have certainly had a successful launch.
Sobi2 has been used as the basis for an extensive database of Heritage locations, which if you are considering visiting include map data and weather forecasts so you won't get wet whilst cycling. (I've built several geo-dispersed databases using Sobi2 myself and it really is an ideal departure point)
JCal Pro (which is, in my opinion, the best calendar solution for joomla, and soon to get even better) acts as the event calendar - although it doesnt look like anything as happening at the moment.
And it looks as if they might share the same views as myself about building a shop in joomla and have chosen to simply wrap an "Amazon store" inside the site.
It really is not possible in words to do justice to the full beauty of this site so I encourage you to spend a few minutes exploring it for yourselves. Not only is it a beautfiuly designed web site it's an interesting one as well, you won't be disappointed.
