Why is Joolmla! so popular? Here are some interesting facts that you have never thought about!
INSIGHTS INTO JOOMLA!
1) Joomla! is 100% free to use
3) The first Joomla! website was Open SourceMatters.org in 2005
4) Joomla! was first released on August 17, 2005
5) Joomla! was founded by Alex Kempkens, Andrew Eddie, Andy Miller
7) Joomla! powers 6,7% of websites using CMS, with 2,010,708 active sites
8) Building Joomla! took 97 person-years of efforts estimated by COCOMO model
9) Joomla! fixed its 8-year critical vulnerability of LDAP authentication plugin in September, 2017
10) $75 is the average price for a Joomla! template
11) The average salary for “Joomla developers” in USA in about $90K in 2017
POPULARITY
USA 205,541
Germany 21,464
United Kingdom 10,104
13) Joomla! has been downloaded over 85M times
14) Joomla! now averages around 1M downloads every month
15) Around 5 new extensions are added to Joomla! extensions directory every day
16) 4M people have visited joomla.org in September. 2017
17) Joomla.org has more than 2TB of traffic per month
18) Joomla! has 7,932 Extensions
19) Top 5 most widely used Joomla! extensions
Google Maps by Reumer
JEvents
Acy Mailing
BreezingForms
Akeeba Backup
20) Top 5 free Joomla! templates in 2017
JSNAIR
Xeon – JoomShaper
Purity III – JoomArt
Magazine – GavickPro
Zenith II – ThermeXpert
21) Top 5 best selling Joomla! premium templates in 2017
Scope of Business: Investment Company Joomla Template
Jedi: Multifunctional Responsive Joomla Theme
Building Future: Construction Company Responsive Joomla Website
Guide to Consulting World Responsive Joomla Website
22) 5 most popular frameworks for Joomla!
Cavern T3
Helix
Vertex framework
Gantry
JOOMLA! WORLDWIDE
23) JOOMLA.ORG visitors demographics
USA-9,7%
Russia-5,45%
Germany-5,01%
24) The biggest Joomla! community in the world is in USA and consists of 21 groups
25) The biggest Joomla! community in Europe is in Italy and consists of 15 groups
26) Joomla! can create websites in 72 languages
27) There are 1101 Joomers around the world
28) There are more than 100 registered Joomla! user groups around the world
WEBSITE USING JOOMLA!
29) Most famous websites that are built on Joomla!
Business:
eBay
Holiday Inn
GE Transportation
The Fashion Spot
Yamaha
Lipton Ice Tea
Education:
MLA College
Heathfield International School
The Alliance for Catholic Education University of Notre Dame
Harvard University The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Knowledge Train
Rubicon English Language School
Technology:
Joomla!
Linux
innFactory – Cloud native Engineering and Consulting
Aflak Electronic Industries Co. – kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Highcharts
AWE instruments
Government:
The Swiss Federal Audit Office
ABV Metaal
CESC
UN Regional Information Centre for Western Europe UNRIC
U.K National Crime Agency
Warrington Schools Sports Partnership
Social:
MTV Greece
The Hill
The Wire
Guggenheim
Lost and found Australia
Alternate memories
Celebrity:
Leonardo DiCaprio
Steve Harley
COMMUNITY
30) The Joomla! project is organized into 7 departments
31) 397 volunteers participate in the teas forming Joomla! departments
32) 166 developers contributed new code to Joomla! in 2017
33) Joomla! team is in the top 2% of all project teams on Open Hub
34) Over the entire history 770 developers have contributed to Joomla!
35) Over 4K Joomla! developers are registered at Freelancer.com
36) There are more than 800K active registered users on the official Joomla! community forum
37) There are over 3,1M posts of the official Joomla! community forum
38) There are over 750K of topics of the official Joomla! community forum
39) There are 2,640 projects by third-part developers on joomlacode.org
40) There are 302,820 users in joomlacode.org
41) Official Joomla! events are:
JoomlaDay
JoomlaNight Pizza, Bugs and Fun Joomla Festival
42) The first event was JomlaDay in Brazil on 11-12 May 2012
INSTALLATION AND UPDATES
43) Joomla! size is 13.0 MB (compressed) and 32,1 MB (uncompressed)
44) Joomla! offers multilingual options from the very moment of the installation
45) Joomla! manual installation time is 10 min.
46) Joomla! update frequency is 36 days
47) There are 15 Joomla! version updates to date
48) Only 6% use the newest Joomla! version 3.8
49)LANGUAGES USED IN JOOMLA! SOURCE CODE
PHP – 73,4%
CSS – 8,7%
XML – 6,6%
HTML – 3,7%
Java Script – 4,3%
SQL – 3,3%
Source: Websitebuilder
