As we all know that Joomla has got a very niche place in terms of open source content management systems (CMS). It is of use for everything from small personal blogs and websites to a few of the large sized enterprise, intranets and the highest trafficked websites. The feature-packed CMS is so elegant & powerful that it can be used by seasoned web developers and the most experienced users. Since Joomla has been rolled out, there has been a continual growth in its community members. The community does not have reliance on contributions offered by large software development firms and the project is a true collaboration of thousands of open source developers and millions of daily users who allow its software to be downloaded over 27mln times up to now.
And taking into account this unprecedented growth Joomla has brought forth its downloading capacity that is the downloads of the CMS has grown up to 38% from Dec 2010 to Dec 2011. That means CMS , so far, has got the downloads of over 27mln. Therefore, it has now become one of the most downloaded CMS in the whole world.
Besides being increasingly downloaded, Joomla too noticed a growth of 2-digit in several other arenas that are as follows:
to 8,475 as of October 31, 2011
There were around 225,000 registered developers who took part in the joomlacode.org site where open source developers function in tandem with each other to create extensions and the core codebase. Over 852 individual developers and commercial development companies cater support for not less than the 8,000 extensions to be availed for Joomla. Around 3,000 individuals were also available there to make direct contribution to the core codebase development through project tools at joomlacode.org.
Joomla was also lately recognized for its constant escalation when it was honored by Packt Publishing with "Top Open Source Content Management System" award. The CMS has already got the prestige of this award in 2006 and the Packt Best PHP Open Source CMS Award 2007.
The major tech-giants now call it the "market pillar" of the Web content management market. They are of the opinion that Joomla provides power to over 1.5mln websites.
Joomla started keeping track of its CMS downloads in 2007, albeit it had its launch in 2005. Moreover, the open-source community of Joomla just keeps track of downloads from English versions.
Joomla can be availed as a minimum of around 64 languages. Taking into account these two factors, it can be said that Joomla downloads have real number that is expectantly more than 27 million.