Hello Everyone,
Here's a list of the top .nz websites ranked by access statistics as supplied by Alexa as accessed by people in New Zealand. It uses the detection logic from the Wappalizer project.
http://top-websites.burtronix.co.za/drupal/italy/2013-09-02
Retweet: https://twitter.com/intent/retweet?tweet_id=375242560471437312
Share or +1 on Google: https://plus.google.com/105124241461962087866/posts/KpU4TZstHqb
Like or Share on FB: https://www.facebook.com/riaan.burger/posts/10151815553665813
This site combines Alexa data, Wappalizer logic and PhantomJS (for the screencaps) to present the top lists. Analytics is first run through some custom PHP CLI which creates YAML files that simply go into a long text field for each date and country and is presented through a custom field formatter.
I wrote the site over a weekend a couple of weeks ago and have been adding a few new countries every week, so I'm sure it can be made a lot better but it's already pretty useful and interesting, I think. There's also an international top list and the full index:
http://top-websites.burtronix.co.za/drupal/internationally/2013-08-05
http://top-websites.burtronix.co.za/drupal/
http://top-websites.burtronix.co.za/
Kind regards,
Riaan Burger
Comments
Does not look believable
The New Zealand site is actually here:
http://top-websites.burtronix.co.za/drupal/new-zealand/2013-09-02
I find it difficult to believe the accuracy of this list, as neither Stuff nor Trademe appear on it.
The significant margin Drupal sites have over Wordpress sites suggests that the capture process favours Drupal over other web site frameworks.
Cheers.
jlscott; I think you have
jlscott; I think you have misunderstood the content on the page:
It shows Wordpress as being more prevalent than Drupal. Pay careful attention to the legend; the pie chart's title distracts from the legend and easily confuses. And the Wordpress and Drupal colours are similar shades of blue.
TradeMe and Stuff.co.nz don't show up because they are not Drupal websites. All the websites listed below are Drupal websites. This is not clear from the page nor the context.
Riaan; Thanks for posting this. The data mashup is very interesting.
May I suggest you share this with the Drupal community a little more carefully so that it doesn't look like SEO spam (my first impression)? You may also like to reconsider the placement of your ads for sponsors to shift the focus to the interesting data you present on the website and put it on it's own domain name instead of a subdomain of your company.
Also, some of the content on the website is confusing, maybe even misleading, as per my comments to jlscott. You may like to consider making some changes and doing more testing with people.
Thanks again for sharing!
Bevan/
Quite true
I'm thinking of doing away with the sponsors altogether. The only two sponsors so far I just gave to Drupal shops that mean a lot to their local communities, and I'm quite happy to do that in the mean time until I redesign and just remove them.
I'll also have to work on that ambiguity that you guys just brought up.
It'll have to be a few months before I rebuild this, and a domain of it's own is a good idea at the time too. Perhaps also something that the guys in the 'States will find useful such as per-state stats pages.
With all the new TLDs coming I don't think limiting to TLD will be useful for much longer either, but keeping to a list of sites as accessed by a country's users should keep it rather local still.
Using it as a hobby learning project for D8 will be great, and perhaps also as a learning project to decouple Drupal and use it as a datastore only with an Angular/Foundation front-end.
The stats do work out quite expensive right now though, about a quarter of my salary.
You are right :~)
Your are right Bevan.
I was obviously not sufficiently awake this morning when I went through my alert emails. I swapped the two blue colours and failed to see that the listings were only for Drupal sites.
Cheers.
TopDrops.org
Hello Bevan,
I took your advice to heart, thanks. TopDrops.org is a new site that is now without branding and more focussed in support of the Drupal community. It parses the top 1 million websites (if all goes well, weekly) to find the top Drupal websites, ranks them and notes the people who built them (as well as their Drupal Association membership).
Retweet TopDrops.org:
https://twitter.com/intent/retweet?tweet_id=386829076364677121
Share or +1 TopDrops.org on Google:
https://plus.google.com/105124241461962087866/posts/WL3Ux4FaFpD
This time without sponsors solicitation ;-) Though that would still be terribly welcome of course.
That's pretty cool
Hi Riaan,
That's pretty cool.
I'm feeling pretty cool at the moment to look at some of those sites and say I had a part in them. Wow! humbling, I'm sure there's other developers out there who are looking at them, and saying "I remember that project".
I remember the police one we launched back in 2009. It's just being relaunched in D7 I understand (no involvement this time around from me).
cheers,
Ben
Community all the way
I find it is particularly useful in introducing people to each other in the community and helping with networking when people start mentioning here on GDo which sites they were involved in.
Others often then start asking questions about the site, discuss it and skills transfer and networks build. nearly as awesome to see as the data visualized... no, perhaps more so ;-)
Interesting but odd
Great idea Riaan and nice mash-up of tools. The Alexa data (or the algorithm you're using to capture rankings) are flawed though. There are a few sites in this list we've built (yay!) and the rankings don't match at all with the traffic analytics we get from Google. "f-buddy.co.nz" (not one of ours) at #13... hmmm.
Might be interested to note what heuristics they use to produce this data. Thanks for providing though and hope you continue to work on it.
Cheers,
Matt
Yes, flawed
The Alexa statistics as sold by Amazon Web Services isn't perfect. I also have several sites here in SA in the top list and I'm privy to their logs and Google Analytics. Around the top it is pretty accurate, but especially lower down it is much less accurate.
More interesting will be when you run this several months following and can perhaps note sites that migrated to and from Drupal. Hope to have time to implement that some time.
Thanks for this. Seems legit
Thanks for this. Seems legit to me!
Alexa data is always self-selected, so it can show some weird skews sometimes. But the list does look pretty representative overall. I've touched at least 16 of the sites on the front page, and some are out of the order I would expect, but I can also speculate why that may be.
And I learnt some interesting sites too! McDonalds? Golly.
Some are hidden too
Here in SA many sites, especially our banks, obfuscate the fact that they use Drupal. So while we know they do and know the developers that work on them, they do not appear on the top list.
It would be easy enough to write something that can detect them, but I feel that if they prefer to remain unknown as Drupal sites, that's their right. A bit of a pity.
Agreed on the self-selection. There's bound to be some people more or less likely to have the Alexa toolbar installed that would skew results. It's all still quite a bit of fun to see though right ;-)
:-) don't understand
Hey guys
What are the stats that are being used to rank? Is it unique web visitors?
We have quite a few come through our site regularly and are a drupal site but obviously we aren't at the calibre of NZpost, but I would've thought that perhaps our visitors might have beaten UN Youth for example?
Thanks
It's better to light a candle, than to curse the darkness
See
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexa_Internet#Toolbar
Alexa is certainly not comprehensive, but it's probably one of the more comprehensive global web stats aggregators out there.
Bevan/
It looks great!
It looks great!
Bevan/