http://top-sa-drupal-sites.burtronix.co.za
Looks like Drupal grew the tiniest bit (not significantly) in SA as a percentage of the sites analyzed. Joomla! dropped a bit and Wordpress usage increased noticeably from 56.1% 58.7%.
Internationally, Drupal remained stable for per-site usage but lost out a bit to Wordpress' growth in pages served. We really need D8 to come now ;-) Joomla! lost a tiny bit in sites (probably mostly due to WP's growth in that area) and notably more in pages served (just not up to the task).
No www adoption gained 2% (bonus), Windows server usage gained a bit (bust), though IIS lost a bit to Apache for web servers (bonus).
westerncape.gov.za jumped a place to become the top SA Drupal site. A very pretty site... who built it? Can do with primary navigation that isn't hidden in drop-downs.
nwu.ac.za is at #2. Multilingual (cool). Developers who are you? Front page works without JS but also has primary navigation hidden in drop-downs.
whoswho.co.za dropped to 3rd place, also quite a good looking website, who built this one? The front page feature even gracefully degrades when JS is switched off.
Congratulations guys!
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Westerncape.gov.za is run by
Westerncape.gov.za is run by the directorate e-Government for Citizens (http://www.westerncape.gov.za/about). We love Drupal. Right now our primary focus for the site is to complete migrating over to Drupal from a bespoke CMS. We are also incubating ideas for a major revamp of the site that will include information architecture and navigation changes. Two members of our team regularly attend the Cape Town Drupal meetups.
I'd love to get in touch with the team behind NWU site. Learning about their experience of running a multilingual site would be really interesting.
nwu.ac.za
Our current Drupal installation at the NWU was done by myself and other members of our IT team at the university. We are currently still running on Drupal 6 (after migrating from OpenCMS 7 in 2011). We migrated almost 13000 pages and have almost 17000 nodes presently (but that includes the other two languages). We have one drupal installation and just over 200 publishers. We faced a few challenges during the migration in 2011 (e.g. the management of content permissions and some performance issues) but we also still absolutely love Drupal!
We used eConsultant to do some improvements on our theme during December 2012 and January 2013 and will probably use their drupal expertise again.
I had a look at your site at westerncape.gov.za (which looks great) and was thrilled to see that you are trying to reach us here. We would also very much like to get into touch with you to exchange ideas and advice!
Congrats on the NWU site. I'm
Congrats on the NWU site. I'm happy to hear your positive opinion on Drupal involving so many publishers and languages!
Thank you :-)
Hi George. Yes it is still a work in progress though :-) Thank you for your role in my training ;-)
NWU.AC.ZA Proof SA Drupal chicks rock
As a representative of eConsultant I can honestly say that all credit should go to the internal team at NWU and in particular to itbgt, an active member of our community, an evangelist of drupal and the driving force behind one of SA's most influential Drupal sites. What we did over the last couple of months was standard Drupal BUT what she did over the last 5 yrs was awesome for Drupal in SA and imho education all over.
I met this lady almost 4 years ago at our first Drupal camp jozi, passionate about drupal and ready to fix what was wrong with university cms' all over. I think the rest of us were on D 4,7 then. This recognition is sooo overdue. Thank you Gena and rock on! :)
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Thank you :)
Hi Willem! Thank you very much for the compliments! I’m a bit speechless actually...
Although we did work really long hours, learned a lot about Drupal the hard way and have MANY TALES to tell, our installation/configuration is still far from perfect as you know. But we’ve come a LONG way and really appreciate the advice and guidance that we’ve received from you (and your company) thus far (and hopefully) in the future :-).
Thank you also for the huge role that you’ve played and continue to do in the forming and sustaining of the South African Drupal community!
Thanks for getting in touch
Thanks for getting in touch @itbgt! Our brief conversation already sparked off some new ideas. Looking forward to similar informal interactions with you and others working with Drupal in South Africa. There's a lot we can learn from sharing our day-to-day technical tips and ideas.
Thank you :-)
Hi Johan, thank you too! It was great chatting to you and I totally agree that we could definitely benefit from each other day-to-day technical advice! Looking forward to talk again soon.
How to get your name on the list
I have several websites in Drupal, how can I get them on the list? I'm not sure if you are looking for volume of visitors, good design or if you should be told about any Drupal website in order to track volumes?
www.africabikeweek.co.za
www.claybrick.org (this has quite a lot of visitors)
www.timeclocks.co.za
www.clearlinestore.co.za
www.defsa.co.za
www.kindlebooks.co.za
www.hogafrica.com
www.mokwena.com
www.brantam.co.za
www.coliseumspa.com
www.osbornsa.co.za
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Hi, you can post your drupal sites here http://www.drupalshowcase.com/ under South Africa.
Awesome sites!
TopSites (by Usage)
Hey april26,
These aren't the top sites by looks and design principle but rather by how many people visit them. To get on the list, one's site simply needs to be popular (visited by a lot of people). If you have Google Analytics installed and you get a site up to around 1200 hits a day (real hits), that site should appear on this list.
For a site to become that popular, design certainly plays a role, and you have that part down easily (very pretty sites)! But the site should also serve a popular functional need. For essential service sites like government or bank sites, this is easier, it's not like someone can go to another site that looks or works better for the same service. Luckily we also have a few of those in the list that looks pretty damned good.
Congrats on your sites, they look very good.
Thank you :-)
The two e-commerce sites can get 500 a day, but they are only for local audiences so the total viewership tends to be limited. I think the Claybrick website gets that many. The Africa Bike Week event is this month, so for a short time they will get that kind of volume. I'll give it a try - it will be very cool to be listed!
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Was thinking I'll try to set aside a bit more time next time to run a side query to get a longer list of top Drupal sites so that more people can get an idea of how close they may be to entering the top 50. I'll post it here in text format then.