Who uses Drupal?

Quite a few people have never heard of Drupal. That's ok, though, because chances are good that if they browse websites on a daily basis, they're probably visiting a Drupal site every day. Although it's impossible to say for sure how many Drupal sites exist on the internet, this comprehensive analysis estimates the number of live Drupal sites at 7.19 million (as of 19 July, 2010), with the numbers increasing exponentially. Few, if any, other web content management systems can claim even a tiny fraction of that market share.

There are probably thousands of NZ-based Drupal sites (Egressive is responsible for about 100 of them), but here are some you might've heard of or used...

High profile Drupal sites in NZ

• Sorted.org.nz (Retirement Commission)
• The Nat'l Business Review
• The Otago Daily Times
• NZ Biosecurity
• NZ History
• The Foundation for Arable Research
• The NZ Bio-protection Research Centre
• The NZ Green Party
• The NZ Labour Party
• The NZ ACT Party
• The Beehive (NZ's parliament website)
• The NZ Transport Agency (NZTA)
• The IRD's new Making Tax Easier help site
• The NZ Drug Foundation and their DrugHelp sites
• The new Ministry of Science and Innovation's interim website
• The financial analysis site Interest.co.nz
• The NZ Institute of Economic Research
• The NZ Council of Trade Unions

Other noteworthy Drupal stories from abroad

• The Whitehouse uses Drupal - see Drupal founder Dries Buytaert's blog entry and TechPresident post (TechPresident also a Drupal site).
• In 2011, the US House of Representatives launched 520 Drupal sites, one for each representative.
• Foreign Affairs uses Drupal
• The BBC uses Drupal
• The Fiancial Times uses Drupal
• Ubuntu and Canonical use Drupal
• Die Zeit (major German newspaper) uses Drupal
• Die Welt (another major German newspaper) uses Drupal
• The Cable News Network (CNN) uses Drupal
• Amnesty International uses Drupal
• Greenpeace uses Drupal
• The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) uses Drupal
• The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation(NATO) uses Drupal
• The United Nations uses Drupal
• IBM recommends Drupal
• Popular Science tears out Vignette and replaced it with Drupal
• Fast Company uses Drupal
• America Online (AOL) uses Drupal
• Sun Microsystems uses Drupal (here, too)
• Novell uses Drupal
• Harvard University uses Drupal
• In fact, many universities use Drupal
• Fedex uses Drupal
• Nike uses Drupal
• Forbes uses Drupal
• Warner Bros uses Drupal
• 20th Century Fox uses Drupal
• MacWorld uses Drupal
• Adobe uses Drupal (here too)
• Java.net uses Drupal
• RackSpace (major web hosting provider) uses Drupal
• New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg uses Drupal
• Former first lady and (unsuccessful) contender for the US Democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton uses Drupal

And if you're more worried about popularity than prestige, these guys all use Drupal, too:

• The NZ Brewers Guild
• MTV uk
• Sony Music
• Universal Music
• Led Zeppelin
• Electronic Arts (Game producer)
• Metallica
• REM
• Pink
• Rock Band (XBox game)
• Avril Lavigne
• J-Lo
• Britney Spears
• Tori Amos
• The Grateful Dead
• Ozzy Osbourne
• Heck, Playboy (Germany) uses it
• Even Barbie® manufacturer Mattel use Drupal

Some Google Trends insights into Drupal, and some other interesting statistics.