Hey guys,
Here's a list of the top .eg websites ranked by access statistics as supplied by Alexa as accessed by people in Egypt. It uses the detection logic from the Wappalizer project.
What's seriously weirding me out is that there's all of two of them! I think there must be something wrong with my scripts specific to Egypt, because I did get a full list of 15000 .eg sites. Can there be so few CMS sites in the .eg domain space?
http://top-websites.burtronix.co.za/drupal/egypt/2013-08-28
This site combines Alexa data, Wappalizer logic and PhantomJS (for the screencaps) to present the top lists. Analytics is first run through some custom PHP CLI which creates YAML files that simply go into a long text field for each date and country and is presented through a custom field formatter.
I wrote the site over a weekend a couple of weeks ago and have been adding a few new countries every week, so I'm sure it can be made a lot better but it's already pretty useful and interesting, I think. There's also an international top list and the full index:
http://top-websites.burtronix.co.za/drupal/internationally/2013-08-05
http://top-websites.burtronix.co.za/
Kind regards,
Riaan Burger
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Unfortunately I think is probably true :)
Hi Riaan,
Nice effort :) hopefully this will help for the good of open access to CMS usage statistics :)
Unfortunately, I think your data is mostly true (particularly for the .eg tld) :) however there are some major factors that cause things to be like this :
1- .eg domains registration required lots of paper work (which isn't a funny task to do in Egypt :D) so most national companies just opt to choosing a .com, .net or some other tld that can be simply registered in few minutes
2- as a result of #1 many of .eg domains are actually gov owned domains. and for ages our consecutive govs had a long record with MS technologies :)
3- not so many (non-developers) have wappalizer installed :) --I think wappalizer doesn't analize a website till someone who has wappalizer installed visits the site, or does it crawl the web on its own ? ... if this is the case then probably there are few others not already discovered by wappalizer (because GOV sites are not very high traffic here :) )
However, please keep us posted on your findings about Egypt's Drupal usage (and maybe if you can find some way to analyze Egyptian sites outside the .eg tld :) )
YET, its very important to say that drupal in Egypt (at least the drupal developers community) cannot be underestimated by the MS-oriented strategies used by GOV admins :) --its really a bit complicated to explain how things used to go here :)
Kind Regards,
Mahmoud Fawzy
M$ in Egypt and more...
Yes, we do a lot of work for Dubai companies too for websites there and I was surprised at how dominant closed source solutions were in the Arab countries. I'd have expected the opposite until I learned otherwise.
Wappalizer's logic is used, not it's statistics... for statistics (and everything you say applies for this as well, just to a different tool) we use Alexa's data which is gathered from usage of the Alexa toolbar and sold through Amazon Web Services.
What surprised me though was that the Alexa statistics list which returns only top sites when they have enough data to estimate rank, had a full list of 15 000+ websites for .eg, though so few of them were CMS-detected sites.
As someone outside of Egypt (having only been there once before and long ago) it also sounds so hectic there that I was surprised to find that the Internet is strong enough to list 15 000 top sites. What's the chances that many of the sites were just down and couldn't be reached? Is your internet well there right now?
Oh, also forgot to mention...
ccTLDs will lose a lot of their meaning over the next year or two as so many TLDs become available. I'll be sure to make a rebuild of the topsites site an exercise in getting to know Drupal 8 and rebuild it to not limit by top level domain (just use access rank by visitation of the people in each country) next time.
btw, I think if you show the
btw, I think if you show the total number of sites somewhere with the stats... this could be a little bit more meaningful to normal devs like myself :)
TopDrops.org
Maybe this one will be better...
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