how many people use modx?

Hi

Question from a possible client - ’how many people use modx?’

Obviusly we can and did point to some of the high profile sites using the system, and I seemed to remember there used to be a downloads figure on the download page, but can’t find it on the new site.

Clearly getting accurate usage figures is difficult/impossible but does anyone have any pointers -
Any suggestions for a metric and a number to show how popular modx is?

Regards

Mark

How about "lots"

Jokes aside...I don’t have those figures and I have a feeling it will be hard to tell...I once read in the forums that some big Fortune 500? or was it 50? company also use MODx but they wouldn’t tell you about it.

Downloads figures may also not be an accurate way of telling how many use it, but it is obviously a rough indicator?

The only other thing I can think of are popularity ratings on CMS comparison sites? It does fare well, I think

If it is numbers your client will be basing his/her decision on....then they might end up using Drupal/Joomla/Wordpress....Have they indicated a "magic" number they are after, btw?

Sorry if I wasted your time and didn’t offer anything concrete

cheers/k

I would say tens- if not hundreds-of-thousands of websites are built on MODx. You’ll never get an accurate count until I can invest some time and dollars with a statistician, but here’s some bullet points:

[*] A Fortune 50 tech company uses it
[*] A ton of high profile charity sites in the UK use it (seems like His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales’ people are quite fond of it)
[*] One of the largest private companies in the US uses it (over $25B in annual revenues)
[*] It has a good track record of security reports on sites like secunia.com: 7 for MODx, 216 for Drupal, 139 for Joomla, 125 for Wordpress
[*] It’s been download over half a million times and for the current release at a rate of over 5000 times per week.
[*] More than a dozen releases over the last 5 years and there will be 2 more (or more!) this year
[*] It does great in comparison reviews, but it’s not always the right choice for everyone
[*] It imposes absolutely zero restrictions on what you can output—there’s no forced taxonomy and no heirarchy limits. Also, you don’t need a 600 page book to figure out how to create a completely custom look for your site or have to use a modified available theme—use whatever html, css and js you please.
[*] Hands down the best community anywhere!

Thanks Ryan!

Have sent on your points - thanks for taking the time to do that.

Hadn’t seen the Prince of Wales site, that’s a nice one!

Mark

Quote from: rthrash at Aug 12, 2009, 08:49 AM

...You’ll never get an accurate count until I can invest some time and dollars with a statistician...

No promises, but I can ask my wife if she can run some stats for you - She a demographer and statistician for our federal government. PM me what raw data you have and what your looking to pull from it and I’ll do a bit of sweet talking...

Cheers
Free

I read recently that modxcms.com gets about 60,000 visitors a day, but don’t know if that’s remotely accurate.

Some are bots, some are people looking for a CMS, but I’d guess the majority are people with a MODx website or two.

Is there any way to tell if a site is running under modx?

If you want to have a guess and you’re running firefox and firebug, take a peak at the source. Even if it’s not sure, a MODx site have all resources link in assets folder (header).

You can also go to domain.com/manager and see what you get

Hi Sottwell

Yes, that’s what I did too before posting!

(and in the back of my mind thought I wonder if I can change that because it might open me to possible attack)

Mark