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Do you plan to do some analysis/interpretation of the results? It looks interesting, but unfortunately most people will look at your PDF which does not cover all the survey questions and answers. The main problem with that is it omits the most important material.

Someone who just reads the PDF will think you must have assumed that a survey respondent could be either a "Joomla user" or a "Drupal user" but not both, and that you forced respondents to take "a side" by identifying with only one.

But in fact you asked questions that positioned respondents on their level of experience with one or *both* platforms. (Did you also give the option to select "I don't know enough to say" for every platform-related question?)

If one were to go just by your PDF stats, it would not be possible to differentiate ignorance-based perceptions versus the perceptions of people with limited to moderate to advanced experience with both or either platform. People who really can't evaluate one (or both) CMS for lack of experience are relevant as a category of opinionated users with perceptions they have gotten from someone else, but to be relevant in simply that way, you have to be able to isolate them in your survey group.

It is interesting to see where there is strong disagreement--and more so, where there is strong agreement!

So what is the bottom line. Is one of them a clear winner over the other?

@Dan

Thanks for your comments, you make some very good suggestions. We tried include the most important questions in the PDF, but we will now be adding the ones that were not previously included. Of course, any personally identifying information will be left out.
In our survey we did give the option for people to respond "Don't Know." So the results reported in the PDF are only from those respondents that expressed an opinion.

We asked people what CMS they are most familiar with exacly for the reason you mention. We wanted to know what kind of experience they based their opinion on. We see that people more familiar with Drupal are much more likely to answer Drupal realted questions than Joomla related questions, and vice versa. So it appears respondents are basing their opinions on their own experience.

Your comments about how we labeled some of the tables and organized the PDF are well taken. We will work to eliminate some of the ambiguities you mention. Thanks for your thoughtful comments.

@Uri
We can’t really say whether Joomla or Drupal is better overall. We are trying to answer what CMS is best for certain situations. If you have a specific project or problem you are facing let us know in this comment section. We’ll look at the survey responses and provide you with relevant information.

Thnak for nice survey. I like Drupal much more than Joomla.

Nice results in your survey.Most of the people both developer and end user like drupal more than joomla because of it's simplicity and user friendly. I accept that the add on modules are very not much in drupal when compare to joomla.

Joomla is definitely superior in usability. If you are serious about getting a site up and running that not only looks nice, but has plenty of documentation to back it up. Joomla is the way to go. I am totally frustrated with drupal. There is essentially no help docs to assist. Its admin site is chaotic. It might be smaller in file size than joomla, but by the time you load even some of the basic modules to make it functional, you will catch up to joomla in a short amount of time. I could keep venting here. Before you make your decision.. remember this.. With Joomla, you will have a site up and running in about two or three days. Drupal will take you two weeks if you want a site that looks nice and professional. Forget the clean code comments, you can throw that out once you load the program.. I've wasted so much time on this program..Time has cost me a crap load of money..

Doing a web search for "Joomla vs Drupal" is frustrating because most information on the web is out of date - an increasing problem with the web in its current form.

Although I can assume that your survey was carried out sometime not too long before you posted it on here, I cannot know exactly when it was carried out. Unfortunately even your pdf doesn't appear to have any dates in it.

Stuff like this gets less and less relevant as time goes on, so it *must* be clearly dated.

Such a basic error devalues the whole thing.

Tim,

You make a very good point. We should make it clearer when the survey was taken. Responses were collected between January 2009 and March 2009.

We do have two posts announcing the beginning and end of the survey. So the date information could be found there. However we should have made these dates much more clear and easy to refer to. Thank you for your feedback.

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