Top Drupal Websites in the Czech Republic

Hey guys,

I added the Czech Republic to our site that lists the top Drupal websites per country (cause DrupalCon is coming up there of course) ;-)

http://top-websites.burtronix.co.za/drupal/czech-republic/2013-08-05

For the technically inclined:

I'm now running the statistics gathering scripts as PHP CLI scripts that are much faster that the previous Drupal-based solution. I'm also storing data YAML format which is the new configuration file storage format for Drupal 8. The previous statistics gathering scripts ran for several days per chart, the new scripts finished the job for all the countries and CMSes in just a couple of hours.

Essentially, I obtain the list of top websites per country from Amazon through their web services, I then strip out all domains not in the ccTLD of the country and proceed with analysis. For analysis I grab the logic from the Wappalizer project and programmatically turn that into PHP logic; I then grab each top domain's http://, http://www, https:// and https://www versions and analyse the first that presents a 200 HTTP code. Finally, I run all of the found websites that were detected to run one of the CMSes past PhantomJS to get a screenshot for each.

The scripts aren't perfect, but since this was a weekend project, they can be made better in time.

Finally, the YAML files those scripts spit out are imported in one Drupal text field with a custom formatter to turn them into top charts. In time we'll gittify the source scripts, use Composer to get supporting libraries, base a lot more on Symfony (which supports newer YAML), write the scripts with more robust handling of sites (it simply skips a site if it can't connect to it the first try right now) and much more automation (still have a workflow around the generation of new charts right now).

The Amazon top list is based on usage of the Alexa toolbar, so if your site is not in the top list and you think it should be, simply install the Alexa toolbar for your browser.

Suggestions are very welcome!

Kind regards,
Riaan Burger