Now that we are few weeks into 2015, we’d like to look back at 2014 and share some interesting numbers about Drupal.org.

Audience

Last year Drupal.org received almost 48.9 million visits from 21.2 million unique visitors. The spike around September/October is due to spam-related traffic, and, of course, DrupalCon Amsterdam.

Users

152,200 users logged in to Drupal.org at least once during the year. Out of those, 31,466 users performed at least one activity on the site, such as commented, created a node or committed code.

More than 21,500 people left a comment or more in the issue queues. More than 4,000 people commented in the Drupal core issue queue.

Commits

Overall 145,907 commits happened on Drupal.org, with more than 4,000 commits to Drupal core specifically.

More than 3,200 people committed code to contributed projects (not counting Drupal core), with an average of 37.43 commits per user.

More than 1,400 people got commit mention in Drupal core patches.

Comments & Issues

Our users left 569,217 comments, 94% of them were comments in the issue queues. 30% of all comments in the issue queues happened in Drupal core queue.

On average there were 22.4 comments per user, with 38.74 comments per user in the Drupal core issue queue.

Our users created 78,505 issues, with an average of 4.55 issues per user.

5,192 contributed projects were created on Drupal.org in 2014. 31% of those are sandbox projects.

Infrastructure

On the infrastructure side our uptime was 99.97% over 12 months, and the average full page load time for the year is 3.64 across Drupal.org. It improved throughout the year; we are down to 3.08 as an average for December. Our time to first byte response was 1,374ms in January; we are down to 441ms for December.

Drupal.org testbots tested over 33,300 patches. An average test queue and test duration times for Drupal 8 core were about 35 minutes each.

Support

On support front 82% of issues in Drupal.org-related issue queues got a response within 48 hours after being created.

An average response time (time between an issue was created and first comment not by issue author) across all issue queues on Drupal.org was 82.87 hours. For Drupal core issue queue this number was 60.68 hours. For Drupal.org related queues 34.19 hours.

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Full stats you can find in the 2014 stats spreadsheet.

Compared to 2013 some of the user activity numbers go down, which is directly related to the phase of the Drupal release cycle. Right after Drupal 7 release user activity peaked and then was slowly going down as Drupal 7 and contrib ecosystem matured. We are looking forward to Drupal 8 release! In the recent Drupal Association community survey about 80% of respondents said they have firm plans to adopt Drupal 8, suggesting that release will cause a huge boost in user activity on Drupal.org.

2014 was a great year, and thank you for spending some part of it on Drupal.org! We are excited to see what 2015 will bring.