Posted by douglaschoffman on March 6, 2017 at 5:19pm
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Hey Douglas, do you happen to
Hey Douglas, do you happen to easily know what the corresponding figure is for WordPress in the top 100,000 please? (Obviously I can work it out if not).
I often hear about 25% of web being powered by WP, but have long suspected that this is based on quantity of sites overall, as opposed to quality or volume of traffic.
For the right use cases, WP is a key part of our solution armoury, in that we'd build lower budget, less visited, shorter life span projects with it. That's not to say you can't do more with it, or that popularity equals complexity, but central to our Drupal vs WP argument is the extent to which Drupal suits more iterative builds where product owners make changes to their sites over a sustained period of time based on consumer demand etc. and so in general I'd expect to see Drupal better represented at the top 50k, 100k website mark versus WP than it is at say sites 100k-200k
Best of luck with the training
Alick
Looks like I need to update
Looks like I need to update this info based on the latest Built With data:
https://trends.builtwith.com/cms
I look at Drupal vs Wordpress as two tools that are good at different things:
Drupal - very good at complex websites that require a lot of custom functionality
Wordpress - very good at less complex websites that don't require a lot of custom functionality
So for me, it's not the size or scale of the website, but it's technical requirements along with client preferences. Some clients are comfortable in the WP admin backend and will insist it.
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Thanks for that link.
Thanks for that link. Surprised to see WP so high in top 10k of sites. You're right that primarily you should base your choice on requirements, just in our particular experience those tend to match lower budget, less visited sites, which are likely to remain functionally static other than their content.
Also, as far as we see it, WP might be a better choice for projects where clients are prepared to make trade offs which aren't just based on web functionality. e.g. if WP is a quicker win, lower budget option then we won't tend to try and make it more expensive by wrapping the same level of CI or TDD etc around it that we do with Drupal - but of course that has less to do with the capabilities of the two CMS per se and is just down to our own approach. We'd also look to have WP auto-update wherever feasible to keep support costs down.
Anyway - I'm conscious I'm digressing from the topic of your post (apols for that) - and the fact that newbies can get to grips with D8 in 4 hours shows how far it's come in competing with WP as far as ease and speed of use go, while at the same time improving, at the other end, its already proven ability to build much more complex experiences.