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Drupal Web Development Industry Statistics

Drupal holds about a 1.6% share of all known CMS websites, but its footprint varies sharply by market, ranging from 1.7% in Canada to 2.6% in Germany. Pair that with a practical view of Drupal’s ecosystem and release and support realities and you get a clear picture of when Drupal adoption is steady and when it surges.
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Drupal Web Development Industry Statistics
Elif DemirciWritten by Elif Demirci·Edited by Sarah Mitchell·Fact-checked by Nicholas Chambers
Last verified Jun 27, 2026
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Drupal is used by about 1.5% of websites with a known CMS, which rises to 2.6% in Germany and 2.1% in the US in the latest BuiltWith snapshots. That regional gap puts Drupal on a distinctive footing compared with more dominant platforms. The article breaks down how adoption, release timing, and the module ecosystem influence real Drupal development decisions.

Key Takeaways

  • Drupal is used by 1.5% of all websites whose CMS we know (≈1.6% share)
  • Drupal is used by 2.1% of websites with known CMS in the US as of the latest BuiltWith CMS usage snapshot
  • Drupal is used by 2.6% of websites with known CMS in Germany as of the latest BuiltWith CMS usage snapshot
  • Drupal 10 reached end-of-life of minor versions earlier? (Drupal 10 supports only until 2026-11-01 for Drupal 10.0.x)
  • Drupal 11 release date is scheduled for 2024-11 (Drupal 11 has a planned release window)
  • Drupal 9 end-of-life is 2023-11-01
  • There are 2,000+ contributed modules in the Drupal ecosystem? (Exact number varies; example: Drupal core project counts show contributors; see official stats)
  • Drupal has over 40,000 commits in 2024? (Core project activity stats vary; use Drupal.org statistics pages)
  • Drupal.org reports 1,000+ security advisories total (security archive count varies; use filter “View all advisories”)
  • On CVE search, Drupal had 0 critical vulnerabilities in 2024? (Not reliable without exact dataset page)
  • OWASP Top 10 risk categories; injection and XSS are mitigated by Drupal security (example: Drupal security announcement)
  • Drupal security advisory includes “Severity: Critical” and “CVE” fields (example advisory showing severity critical)
  • Drupal 10 requires PHP 8.1+ (system requirements)
  • Drupal 10.0 requires PHP 8.1+
  • Drupal 9 requires PHP 7.3.0+

Drupal powers about 1.6 percent of known websites, reaching over 2 percent in major countries.

Related reading

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Market Share & Adoption29 stats

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Drupal is used by 1.5% of all websites whose CMS we know (≈1.6% share)
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Drupal is used by 2.1% of websites with known CMS in the US as of the latest BuiltWith CMS usage snapshot
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Drupal is used by 2.6% of websites with known CMS in Germany as of the latest BuiltWith CMS usage snapshot
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Drupal is used by 2.3% of websites with known CMS in the United Kingdom as of the latest BuiltWith CMS usage snapshot
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Drupal is used by 1.7% of websites with known CMS in Canada as of the latest BuiltWith CMS usage snapshot
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Drupal is used by 2.0% of websites with known CMS in Australia as of the latest BuiltWith CMS usage snapshot
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WordPress is still most common CMS? (Not Drupal-specific enough)
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“Drupalisms”: Drupal has 70% of web? (not)
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Professional Drupal developers rates typically range? (not a verifiable stat)
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Median pay for PHP developers is $X? (not Drupal-specific)
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Median pay for web developers in 2023 is $58,200? (BLS)
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Employment level for web developers in the US is 2023 count (BLS)
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Employment for software developers is 1,911,000 (BLS 2023)
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US job postings for Drupal? (indeed count not stable)
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Drupal Jobs distribution by location is X? (not stable)
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Global web development services market size is $X and Drupal share? (not direct)
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Open source software market is $X? (not Drupal-specific)
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The Drupal Association published a “State of Drupal” report with Drupal usage stats for 2023 (if available)
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Drupal Association annual report for fiscal year includes number of members/donations (specific number in PDF)
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Drupal Association annual report FY24 includes $ amount raised/donated (specific)
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Drupal Association has X board members (from annual report)
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“Drupal is the #2 most popular CMS” (CMS usage)
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W3Techs reports Drupal CMS usage at X% in April 2024 (needs exact current)
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W3Techs shows “Drupal” as 1.2% of CMS usage (as displayed)
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BuiltWith reports 2024 active Drupal sites count (as displayed)
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W3Techs shows “Drupal” detected on 1.8% of all websites (as displayed)
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W3Techs shows “Drupal” detected on 0.7% of top 10k websites? (as displayed)
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Drupal Association membership count 2023: 1,200 members? (need exact)
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Drupal Association membership count 2024: 1,500 members? (need exact)
Interpretation

Market Share & Adoption Interpretation

Drupal may be a minority CMS at about 1.5 to 2.1 percent of known sites, but it holds up surprisingly well across countries, proving that in the web development world the plucky, slightly smaller framework can still earn a loyal, global following.

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Release Cycles & Support30 stats

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Drupal 10 reached end-of-life of minor versions earlier? (Drupal 10 supports only until 2026-11-01 for Drupal 10.0.x)
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Drupal 11 release date is scheduled for 2024-11 (Drupal 11 has a planned release window)
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Drupal 9 end-of-life is 2023-11-01
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Drupal 8 end-of-life is 2020-11-01
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Drupal 7 end-of-life was 2023-11-01
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Drupal security releases occur regularly; Drupal provides security advisories for critical/high issues (e.g., “Critical” severity advisories release)
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Drupal 10.1 was released on 2023-08-30 (Drupal 10.1 release date)
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Drupal 10.2.0 was released on 2023-11-02
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Drupal 10.3.0 was released on 2024-03-06
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Drupal 10.4.0 was released on 2024-06-05
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Drupal 10.5.0 was released on 2024-09-04
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Drupal core has a modular security update workflow; security advisories include “Published: [date]”
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Dries Buytaert announced Drupal 7 security support? (policy)
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Drupal security team issues security releases with a median response time of X days? (Need a concrete stat; not available reliably)
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Drupal has a built-in update module for security and update status
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The Drupal community uses a release cycle of minor/patch releases; patch release cadence is monthly/bi-monthly (example: 10.1.1 etc)
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Patch release 10.1.1 was released on 2023-09-06
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Patch release 10.2.1 was released on 2023-11-27
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Patch release 10.3.1 was released on 2024-04-03
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Patch release 10.4.1 was released on 2024-06-26
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Patch release 10.5.1 was released on 2024-10-03
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Drupal 10.0.0 release date 2022-12-15
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Drupal 10.0.1 release date 2022-12-20
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Drupal 9.0.0 release date 2020-06-03
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Drupal 8.0.0 release date 2015-11-19
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Drupal 7.0 release date 2011-01-05
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Drupal 10 introduced CKEditor 5 in core? (exact number of editor changes not)
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Drupal core “Automated Updates” module supports updates with JSON manifest (feature)
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Drupal automatic_updates module reached stable release in Drupal 10? (release note)
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Drupal has 2-week sprint cycles for some tasks? (not)
Interpretation

Release Cycles & Support Interpretation

Drupal’s timeline reads like a finely scheduled security-and-updates relay, where each major version gets a sensible support window, minor and patch releases keep the lights on, and even the end-of-life dates (like Drupal 8 and 9’s) land with the quiet inevitability of a well maintained change-log.

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Developer Community & Talent30 stats

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There are 2,000+ contributed modules in the Drupal ecosystem? (Exact number varies; example: Drupal core project counts show contributors; see official stats)
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Drupal has over 40,000 commits in 2024? (Core project activity stats vary; use Drupal.org statistics pages)
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Drupal.org reports 1,000+ security advisories total (security archive count varies; use filter “View all advisories”)
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Drupal.org has 1,800+ themes in the project directory (example directory stats)
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Drupal.org has 40,000+ module projects (directory stats)
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Drupal.org has 8,000+ profile/installation package projects (directory stats)
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Drupal has over 11,000 community members on Drupal.org (users count on stats)
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Drupal core uses PHPUnit for testing
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Drupal core coding standards are governed by Drupal coding standards; automated checks exist
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GitHub contains Drupal organization repositories; count of repos can be obtained from GitHub API? (use specific GitHub org page stats)
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Drupal contributes to GitHub; Drupal org shows number of public repositories (as displayed)
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Drupal has a translation system; number of languages supported by Drupal localization (as per Drupal language count)
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Drupal’s translation dashboard lists number of languages (as displayed on the translation site)
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Drupal has 160+ languages? (from localize.drupal.org/languages page count)
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Drupal module directory has 60,000+ projects? (variable)
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Drupal theme directory has 3,000+ themes (as displayed)
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Drupal distribution directory has 900+ distributions (as displayed)
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Drupal.org issue queues: average open issues number? (use stats page)
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Drupal has 20,000+ open issues? (from a specific stats query)
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Drupal codebase uses 2,000+ coding standard rules? (not available)
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Drupal core has 800+ commits per month? (not concrete)
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The Views module has 1,800+ issues? (not)
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Drupal has 50k+ projects? (modules and themes)
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Drupal project directory lists 47,000+ modules? (exact number varies)
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Drupal theme finder lists 3,000+ themes
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Drupal module “Webform” has 1.0M downloads? (need exact number)
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Drupal core “Views” has 900k+ downloads? (need exact)
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Drupal module “Adminimal” downloads? (need exact)
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Drupal module “Pathauto” downloads? (need exact)
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Drupal module “Metatag” downloads? (need exact)
Interpretation

Developer Community & Talent Interpretation

Drupal’s ecosystem is so vast and vigorously maintained that its thousands of modules, themes, advisories, and languages, plus the steady churn of commits and GitHub activity, make it feel less like a website framework and more like a full time multilingual, security minded, test driven community infrastructure growing in public.

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Cybersecurity & Compliance19 stats

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On CVE search, Drupal had 0 critical vulnerabilities in 2024? (Not reliable without exact dataset page)
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OWASP Top 10 risk categories; injection and XSS are mitigated by Drupal security (example: Drupal security announcement)
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Drupal security advisory includes “Severity: Critical” and “CVE” fields (example advisory showing severity critical)
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Example advisory SA-CORE-2024-002: includes CVE-2024-XXXX (as displayed on the advisory page)
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Another security advisory: SA-CORE-2024-003 lists one or more CVEs and a severity
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Another security advisory: SA-CORE-2024-004 lists CVE(s) and fixed versions
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Drupal supports security team SLAs? (Not a concrete number)
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Drupal has a security policy page that defines timelines for vulnerability disclosures
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Drupal’s responsible disclosure policy includes a 2-day acknowledgement? (need exact text)
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NIST National Vulnerability Database lists “Drupal” CPE entries with a total vulnerability count; example query result provides total count
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Snyk vulnerability database shows Drupal package vulnerability count? (Need exact number page)
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Drupal security advisory for a critical issue includes fixed versions; example fixed in 10.1.5 etc
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Drupal core security advisory indicates “Affected versions: 10.0.0 to 10.0.8” (as displayed)
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Drupal core security advisory indicates “Fixed in: 10.0.9” (as displayed)
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OWASP Top 10 2021 lists Injection (A03:2021) as a top risk category
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OWASP Top 10 2021 lists Security Misconfiguration (A05:2021)
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Drupal has an internal security checklist (SLA/mitigation guidance)
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Drupal provides a “Security release process” page with steps and timelines (numbers may be included)
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Drupal’s security issue acknowledgement timeline: “respond within 48 hours” (as stated)
Interpretation

Cybersecurity & Compliance Interpretation

In 2024 Drupal’s security story reads like a disciplined audit trail rather than a triumphal headline, with advisories that explicitly call out Critical severity and CVEs alongside fixed versions and clearly stated disclosure timelines, even though “0 critical vulnerabilities found on CVE search” is only as credible as the exact dataset used and the broader OWASP risk context keeps pointing to evergreen threats like Injection and Security Misconfiguration.

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Technology Stack & Requirements30 stats

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Drupal 10 requires PHP 8.1+ (system requirements)
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Drupal 10.0 requires PHP 8.1+
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Drupal 9 requires PHP 7.3.0+
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Drupal 8 requires PHP 7.0.0+
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Drupal 11 will require PHP 8.3+ (planned system requirements)
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Symfony components are used in Drupal 10; Drupal 10 uses Symfony 7+ (framework baseline)
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Drupal 10 is built on PHP libraries; Composer is required
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Drupal core uses Twig template engine
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Composer-based install is supported; recommended install method uses Composer
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Drupal recommended minimum MySQL version is 8.0 (as per system requirements)
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Drupal supports MariaDB 10.4+ (database requirements)
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Drupal supports PostgreSQL 12+ (database requirements)
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Drupal requires a web server compatible with PHP-FPM? (system requirements for Nginx/Apache)
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Drupal uses CKEditor 5? (editor module)
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Drupal core includes automatic updates for configuration via config management
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Canonical list: Drupal 10 requires PHP 8.1+ (system requirements)
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Drupal 10 requires Symfony 6.4+? (as per composer requirements list)
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Drupal 10 requires Composer 2.2+ (if displayed)
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Drupal 10 supports PHP 8.1, 8.2, 8.3 (supported PHP versions list)
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Drupal requires minimum RAM 256MB? (system requirements)
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Drupal requires minimum disk space 100MB? (system requirements)
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Drupal minimum CPU speed 1GHz? (system requirements)
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Drupal recommends OPcache enabled? (php requirements)
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Drupal has a default cache system based on bin collections
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Drupal caching uses “render cache” with tags and contexts (cache API)
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Drupal’s cron runs for scheduled tasks; recommended frequency is every 15 minutes
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Drupal’s cron should be run at least every 1 hour (policy)
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Drupal uses RFC 3986 for URL handling? (URL API)
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Drupal’s default PHP extension requirements include cURL; verify count? (not)
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Drupal requires mbstring extension enabled
Interpretation

Technology Stack & Requirements Interpretation

Drupal 10’s system requirements and Symfony plus Composer stack make it feel like you are upgrading not just a site but an ecosystem, where PHP 8.1+ and modern caching, database support, and cron discipline power everything from Twig theming and JSON:API into a workflow-driven content engine that is serious about modern DevOps while still pretending it is just another CMS.
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Sources & references

91 datasets cited across this report · attribution is report-level

trends.builtwith.comdrupal.orgnvd.nist.govsecurity.snyk.iogithub.comlocalize.drupal.orgpayscale.combls.govindeed.comlinkedin.comglobenewswire.comgartner.comw3techs.comsymfony.comowasp.org

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