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Comparing Drupal with other content management systems

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Comparing Drupal with other content management systems

Whenever someone mentions Drupal, two other names are sure to be in the air: WordPress and Joomla! These certainly aren't the only three content management systems out there, but they are the biggest--at least when you look at statistics, such as the one on the site backendbattles.com. On the front page, you see a comparison of all of the backend tools: that is, things that are installed on the server to help support web sites. And by far the most popular one is Google Analytics. In fact, Google Analytics is often used on Drupal sites. If you look down these first seven, you don't see Drupal at all. But if you look at only the CMS category, you see that it shows up as number one. Now, quite honestly, the only reason that that's so is because this particular site classifies WordPress as blogging software. There you see that there is over 140 WordPress sites in the top 10,000 as compared to just a mere 39 for Drupal. In practice though, the three are really quite similar. This video…

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