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The Future of Drupal

According to the latest market share trends posted on W3Techs.com, Drupal is currently one of the most popular content management systems (CMS) in the market. Despite being used by a lesser number of websites than WordPress and Joomla, Drupal is still more popular than Magento, Blogger, Shopify, and Squarespace. At present, the CMS is being used by 2.3% of all websites, while having a worldwide market share of 4.6%. Also, Drupal is currently being used by a number of popular and high-traffic websites including Weather.com, AutoTrader.com, NBC.com, NBCUniversal.com, and Patch.com.

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The Future of Drupal

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  1. The Future of Drupal

  2. According to the latest market share trends posted on W3Techs.com, Drupal is currently one of the most popular content management systems (CMS) in the market. Despite being used by a lesser number of websites than WordPress and Joomla, Drupal is still more popular than Magento, Blogger, Shopify, and Squarespace. At present, the CMS is being used by 2.3% of all websites, while having a worldwide market share of 4.6%. Also, Drupal is currently being used by a number of popular and high-traffic websites including Weather.com, AutoTrader.com, NBC.com, NBCUniversal.com, and Patch.com

  3. The market share trends and statistics indicate that Drupal will remain one of the top 5 content management systems of 2018. As an open source CMS, Drupal will be used widely by small enterprises and start-ups to build and manage websites without paying licensing cost. At the same time, the themes and modules provided by the CMS will help developers to build custom websites rapidly according to varied business requirements. Drupal further simplifies custom website development by facilitating rapid prototyping, simplifying content management, and supporting advanced user management. There are also a number of reasons why the popularity of Drupal will remain intact in the long run.

  4. Reasons Why Drupal will be used widely by Web Developers in 2018 Open Source and Free • As noted earlier, Drupal is an open source content management system. Hence, developers can use the CMS without paying any licensing fees. At the same time, they have option to customize the CMS according to precise needs of individual projects. The developers can even extend Drupal through a wide range of themes, modules, libraries and installation profiles.

  5. Developer Friendl • Unlike other CMS, Drupal is designed specifically for developers. The users who are not proficient in various web technologies have to put extra time and effort to learn and use the CMS. But the skilled web developers can take advantage of Drupal to build complex websites rapidly and manage custom websites efficiently. Provides Enterprise Grade Security Features • Each website nowadays is vulnerable to targeted security attacks. While developing a website, developers have to explore ways to optimize security of business and customer data. Drupal enables Drupal developers to protect the website and data by taking advantage of security configurations. The official website of Drupal further helps developers to prevent emerging security threats by displaying information about emerging vulnerabilities.

  6. Supports Different Types of Digital Content • Drupal simplifies digital content management by using HTML5 as its default web markup language. HTML5 makes the website content look good on both computers and mobile devices. At the same time, the CMS simplifies digital content management by supporting different types of content — blogs, text, statistics and podcast. It even allows developers to organize, categorize, and reuse website content based on varied parameters. Provides Enterprise Grade Security Features • Each website nowadays is vulnerable to targeted security attacks. While developing a website, developers have to explore ways to optimize security of business and customer data. Drupal enables Drupal developers to protect the website and data by taking advantage of security configurations. The official website of Drupal further helps developers to prevent emerging security threats by displaying information about emerging vulnerabilities.

  7. Easy to Install and Configure • The web developers can install and configure Drupal without putting extra time and effort. They can even install Drupal without handling complex installation options. The developers can further add functionality to the websites quickly by choosing the appropriate modules through the distribution feature provided by the CMS. Also, the beginners can learn and use Drupal in a short amount of time if they are familiar with commonly used web technologies like HTML, CSS and PHP. • The market share data and trends posted on several websites indicate that Drupal will remain one of the top 10 content management systems of 2018. However, Drupal, like other CMS, has its own shortcomings. These limitations will affect Drupal’s popularity and adoption rate in the short run. For instance, often users find Drupal to be more difficult to learn, use, and upgrade than other CMS. Also, Drupal increases website deployment cost by consuming additional computing resources. But the web application

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