Joomla today announces that its core files have been downloaded more
than 30 million times from Joomla.org. Joomla now averages around 1
million downloads every month.
The Joomla community attributes the continued growth in the number of
individuals, companies and organizations using the CMS to an aggressive
development road map that included the release of Joomla 1.7 in July
2011. The CMS also began adhering to a six-month release cycle meaning
more product enhancements being introduced more often. New features in
the latest version included multi-database support, one-click version
updating, predefined search options and language-specific font settings.
Another key factor in the growth in use of Joomla is that a
significant number of government agencies have adopted Joomla, which
powers about 3,100 government agencies’ Websites, blogs and intranets.
Some features that have driven government adoption include one-click
version updates, access control oversight, multilingual capabilities and
the Joomla Platform that enables developers to build multipurpose,
multi-device applications like mobile and cloud computing apps and
enterprise business systems that can run independent from the core CMS.
However, organizations using Joomla are not just isolated to government
agencies. Recently, an industry research firm reported that Joomla
powers at least 1.6 million Websites.
Moreover there has been an explosion in the number of Joomla
extensions. More than 2,000 Joomla extensions have been introduced since
March 2011. These extensions developed by Joomla’s community of
thousands of developers provide added features not found in the core
Joomla CMS. By providing compelling new features, these extensions drive
Joomla’s widespread adoption in every imaginable industry, from
nonprofits to some of the world’s largest financial institutions.
“It is an exciting time for Joomla given its strong position powering
2.7 percent of the Web, combined with its unique opportunity to
influence the next wave of mobile and cloud Web development,” Paul
Orwig, the new president and former treasurer of Open Source Matters, a
nonprofit created to provide organization, legal and financial support
to the Joomla project, said in a statement. “The platform split that
enables Joomla to be used for developing mobile and cloud computing apps
is a welcomed new wave of innovation for the Joomla community.”
As of the end of March 2011, Joomla was downloaded about 22 million
times, meaning its adoption rate has grown about 40 percent over the
last year. Joomla began keeping track of the number of CMS downloads in
2007. However, the Joomla CMS was first made available in 2005, which
means the real number of downloads is presumably much higher.
With 2.7 percent of the Web running on Joomla, it is used for
everything from small personal Websites and blogs to some of the largest
enterprise, highest trafficked Websites and Intranets, including those
operated by Citibank, eBay, General Electric, Harvard University, Ikea,
McDonald’s, Sony, many large nations and more. Due to its power and
elegance, the most inexperienced user to the most seasoned Web developer
can use it.
Joomla Has Been Downloaded Over 30 Million Times
