Drupal commands a 1.1% marketshare in the content management system space.
Benefits of using Drupal
Scalability
Drupal can handle large site volumes and massive databases to grow with your needs.
Customizable
With robust API features, Drupal allows for the creation of novel sites to fit your exact needs.
Security
Drupal is accepted to be the most secure CMS platform with rapid security patches and unmatched access controls.
Challenges of using Drupal
Learning curve
Drupal is a developer-oriented site that lacks the drag and drop functionality of other systems. Coding knowledge is needed to utilize the site.
Cumbersome updates
The rapid security update cycle comes with a price. Upgrading from one Drupal version to another also is complex and requires specialty skills.
Costly
Because it requires specialized skills to setup and maintain your site on Drupal, cost of development can quickly add up.
Drupal is a free and open-source web content management system (CMS) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. Drupal provides an open-source back-end framework for at least 14% of the top 10,000 websites worldwide and 1.2% of the top 10 million websites—ranging from personal blogs to corporate, political, and government sites. Drupal can also be used for knowledge management and for business collaboration.
As of March 2022, the Drupal community had more than 1.39 million members, including 124,000 users actively contributing, resulting in more than 50,000 free modules that extend and customize Drupal functionality, over 3,000 free themes that change the look and feel of Drupal, and at least 1,400 free distributions that allow users to quickly and easily set up a complex, use-specific Drupal in fewer steps.
The base of Drupal is known as Drupal core, which contains basic features common to content-management systems. These include user account registration and maintenance, menu management, RSS feeds, taxonomy, page layout customization, and system administration. The Drupal core installation can serve as a simple website, a single or multi-user blog, an Internet forum, or a community website providing for user-generated content.
Drupal also describes itself as a web application framework. When compared with notable frameworks, Drupal meets most of the generally accepted feature requirements for such web frameworks.
Although Drupal offers a sophisticated API for developers, basic Web-site installation and administration of the framework require no programming skills.[21]
Drupal runs on any computing platform that supports both a web server capable of running PHP and a database to store content and configuration.
In 2023/2024, Drupal received over 250,000 Euros from Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund.
Drupal is officially recognized as a Digital Public Good.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drupal
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