#1 most frequent
United States of America
30.4%39,878 installations of 130,988
What is Drupal?
Drupal is a free, open-source content management system written in PHP that competes primarily with Joomla and Plone. The standard release of Drupal, known as Drupal core, contains basic features such as account and menu management, RSS feeds, page layout customization, and system administration.
Categories & Use Cases
Videos
Top Performing Features
Mobile optimization / responsive design
The CMS helps users build webpages that work well on mobile devices – whether m-dot pages or responsively designed pages.
Category average: 8.5
Content taxonomy
Users can create multiple levels and types of content categories including tags.
Category average: 8.2
Bulk management
Users can change an attribute on a group of documents or sites all at once through features such as global search and replace, making bulk changes easier.
Category average: 7.8
Areas for Improvement
Community / comment management
Users can put post/page comments through an approval process, auto-approve commenters based on their email addresses, block commenters by IP address, delete comments, etc.
Category average: 7.4
WYSIWYG editor
What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get editing tool allows users to build pages without writing code.
Category average: 7.9
SEO support
The CMS helps users create the right website infrastructure (pagination, page headers, titles, meta tags, url structure, etc.) to increase the site’s visibility in search engine results.
Category average: 7.5
Who Buys & Uses Drupal
#2 most frequent
France
6.6%8,612 installations of 130,988
#3 most frequent
Germany
6.5%8,543 installations of 130,988
Drupal is a user-friendly software to help market your business.
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Drupal is our current CMS that we use to host our website for our financial services firm and it's subsidiary. I publish articles on our website to provide landing pages for our Weekly Newsletter email, publish media mentions and press releases, create tokens for rate changes, update website pages to keep up with content changes and upload PDFs to our website.
Pros
- Drag and drop functionality is easy to use
- Easy to switch between straight text and HTML content
- Ability to easily have multiple environments so that pages can be built in b/c-stage before they are approved and published
- Solid user experience where it's clear how to navigate the platform
Cons
- Content changes don't always update unless you clear cache in Aquia Cloud platform and Cloud Flare
- When you do clear cache in Drupal, the website temporarily runs a little slower
- Requires technical knowledge to build additional website features
Return on Investment
- We had +437.7 web visits YoY for our parent firm
- 2,108,357 web visits (78.1% of 2.7M goal – pacing to hit 100% of goal before EOY) for our parent firm
- We had +43% YoY increase in web visits to our subsidiary company
Usability
Alternatives Considered
WordPress, Salesforce Marketing Cloud and Asana
Other Software Used
Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Asana, Salesforce CMS
Robust and scalable solution for the enterprise.
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We have been working on Drupal as a team for over five years and have been providing solutions in the e-commerce space. We have found it somewhat complex for the clients, but at the same time, it offers great flexibility for the development team. We highly recommend Drupal to our potential clients.
Pros
- Robust and scalable.
- Highly secure.
- Highly customisable.
Cons
- Themes
- Setup
- Integration
Return on Investment
- Could Launch on time.
- Find difficult to explain to client to manage.
- Integration time issue.
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Adobe Commerce, Shopify and WordPress
Other Software Used
Adobe Commerce, Shopify, WordPress
Drupal Is A Solid Choice For Seasoned Programmers.
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Over the years, we've tried out a lot of different CMS systems to create marketing and e-commerce websites for various divisions of the company. Drupal has been around for a long time, and we've given their CMS a ride in hopes of creating a website to showcase some of our company's products and information to visitors from targeted pet groups in our industry.
Pros
- It has excellent security features and consistent updates.
- It allows for extensive customization with the integrated themes and core code, especially when you first install it. This allows our dev team to get creative with marketing initiatives.
- There is a large online community of Drupal users that consistently help answer any questions and issues
Cons
- This is not an easy CMS to work with if you don't have a good understanding of website development. It isn't "plug-and-play" like Wordpress or Shopify.
- Over time, doing major updates to the system can be taxing, especially if you aren't well-versed enough in doing system updates in line with your "child" theme and code.
- The CMS can become somewhat cumbersome with server resources if not carefully optimized while you build and customize it to your liking.
Return on Investment
- Drupal helped us launch a creative, marketing- and product-focused website with custom coding integrations tailored to our goals.
- Drupal allows us to rely on secure and consistently updated core code.
- Drupal's code taxing on the server does start to get a bit heavy as you go along with customizations, so at some point, we decided to stop. We want to ensure our Google Page Score remains high, including paying close attention to page load speed.
Usability
Alternatives Considered
WordPress, Shopify, Wix and Squarespace
Drupal is an amazing tool for dynamic web applications.
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I use Drupal for more complex web applications and sites. Drupal is a very dynamic tool that can fit many different projects, from a simple website with dynamic content or user access to more complex applications like multiuser social sites. Drupal is a great tool to learn how to apply, although it helps to know PHP and how to customize a website's design (HTML/CSS).
Pros
- Generate complex websites.
- Allow different level user roles.
- Create multi-site applications that have multiple mini-sites on one domain.
- Build a complex dynamic website for corporate use.
Cons
- Debugging can be difficult when modules conflict.
- Permissions can be confusing if you’re not sure of user roles and how they function.
- A better default image taxonomy and organization would be nice, sans dedicated module.
Return on Investment
- Drupal has streamlined complex web application creation.
- Drupal has minimized the need for our developers, allowing them to focus on more complex tasks.
- Drupal is a great way to quickly implement a custom project.
Usability
Alternatives Considered
WordPress, Concrete CMS, GoDaddy Digital Marketing Suite and Joomla!
Other Software Used
WordPress, Joomla!, Adobe PhotoShop, ShortPixel
Drupal, a hidden gem in the sea of the content management systems out there, a framework of it's own that goes beyond a common CMS
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Drupal daily, that's our main driver for any websites and apps we are developing, this has been the case for the past 12 years for me personally, the scope is as wide as a small local webshop to large enterprise organizations, connecting multiple websites as services to each other, we also use Drupal as a content hub as a headless CMS, or just fetching data off of it with exposed API
Pros
- Well structured entity definition
- Designed to be extended, everything can be extended/connected to each other
- API-first design with the latest versions
- Great developer experience
- Huge community, all driven off of open-source contributors
Cons
- Developer onboarding experience
- Better marketing materials
- Better out of box experience
- Faster innovations/integrations with Javascript ecosystem
Return on Investment
- Given the endless possibilities that Drupal can have, we tend to have great support going on when we get a website launched
- It has become much much faster and easier for us to launch a new project due to reusability
- Configuration management in Drupal helps greatly with CI/CD, saves us costs
Usability
Alternatives Considered
WordPress, Forestry CMS and Craft
