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Joomla showing heavy growth in 2011

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Over the last week Joomla (see our joomla review), the enormously popular open source CMS, was downloaded for the 22 millionth time.

22 million. That’s an incredible number to achieve, but that’s not the only impressive number they’ve been able to boast about.

Screenshot taken from Joomlacode.org as of 3/24/2011 9:48AM MST

Screenshot taken from Joomlacode.org as of 3/24/2011 9:48AM MST

Here are some others:

  • The number of extensions (essentially applications for Joomla) has grown nearly 20% in a little over 4 months.
  • 2 months after the launch of Joomla 1.6, the new CMS has already been downloaded almost 1 million times
  • Joomla.org reached 7.5 million visitors in February, representing a 25% growth in Web traffic over a 4 month period

Impressive stats indeed. Joomla currently powers about 2.7 % of all websites on the net and has seen huge growth since the release of 1.6.

What are you experiences with Joomla? Do you consider it the #1 choice for content management? We’d love to hear your experience and thoughts in the comments below.

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  • http://www.kimalcorp.org W. Anderson

    I have installed and recommended in most instances of Website deployment Joomla for small businesses and organizations. However, all the gloriously quoted statistics – representing enormous "popularity", do not address fundamental issues that are critical in a Website software decision that have absolutely nothing to do with the quantity of downloads, extensions or any other superficial criteria.

    Recently I recommended Plone CMS for a smaller 3-office Dental Practice management, for several reasons, but "high level security" is one that is paramount in how the Website needs to communicate with the practice back end. I am aware that many if not most Web designers would be much more familiar with PHP/MySQL and Apache (AMP) than with Python programming language and an "application Server" that makes up Plone/Zope. Therefore a superior selection – particularly for vital security – maybe rejected by these AMP "only" experienced developers.

    This very important aspect of CMS/Web development is hardly ever if at all addressed by publications like this.

    • http://www.cmscritic.com Mike Johnston

      Actually, that would make sense because when you are quoting stats about popularity, mentioning security wouldn't be a logical transition. The article mentions that it is popular, yes. I think you are generalizing far too much by making the statement that Security is hardly ever addressed by publications such as this. Read this article for instance: http://www.cmscritic.com/what-everybody-ought-to-…

      The fact remains that Joomla is popular, whether you or others feel it is deserving or not is not going to take away from this fact. Sure, there are much better CMS platforms when it comes to security and I would agree that Plone is a great option, but I think that your comment would be more suitable on our reviews as opposed to this article imho.

      Thanks,
      Mike

  • Chris

    I dropped joomla ant went to wordpress…

    • http://www.cmscritic.com Mike Johnston

      Mind if I ask your reasoning behind this decision?

  • http://www.meds.fi Mirko Erkkila

    WOW! Joomla reaylly deserves this! It´s free and the most working CMS on the market. Just love it!