[consulting] Report on Content Management Systems Powering Foundation Websites

[Gregory Heller]

Thanks for the feed back.  I'll consider it.

 I did play around with some different options and felt that the Pie
accurately represents the data series because we are talking about
percentages of a whole where the variability is so great (less than a
percent, to nearly 50%.  The scale of the bar graph made comparisons
challenging and adding the data values created visual clutter.


On 1/13/11 6:49 AM, Ted wrote:
>
> Thanks for the data (and work).
>
> One nitpick, if I may. Bar charts would probably serve your data better:
>
> http://www.chartgo.com/get.do?id=b66451cb2a
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_chart#Use.2C_effectiveness_and_visual_perception
>
> Ted
>
> On 1/12/2011 6:46 PM, Gregory Heller wrote:
>> CivicActions just released a report about Content Management Sytems
>> powering Foundation Websites.
>>
>> The full report is available on our blog (including tables and charts):
>> http://civicactions.com/blog/2011/jan/12/report_content_management_systems_powering_foundation_websites
>>
>> Highlights:
>>
>> When we look at all the Foundations in our sample, Drupal is the
>> front-runner among open source systems, but not by much. Wordpress
>> trails in second, and just over half as many sites are running Joomla
>> compared to Drupal. Most surprising to us is how few Foundation sites
>> (just five) are running Plone.
>>
>> When we look at the largest 500 Foundations, Drupal has double the
>> Wordpress instances, and Joomla is right on the heals of Wordpress
>> with just 3 fewer sites. In both samples, the proprietary web
>> framework ASP.net powers the highest number of sites, however the
>> lead is significantly smaller in the top 500 Foundation sample.
>> Similarly, Dreamweaver drops from 10.51% of the full sample,
>> remaining ahead of all the open source CMSs, to just 5% in the top
>> 500 sample, a few points behind Drupal at 7.6%.
>>
>> http://civicactions.com/blog/2011/jan/12/report_content_management_systems_powering_foundation_websites
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