A content management system (CMS) is an essential component of your online experience. As the digital landscape expands to include additional channels and touchpoints, a CMS must provide flexibility, robust content production tools, and efficient workflows to fuel customer journey content. Drupal is the CMS of choice for over a million websites worldwide, and it continues to be a market leader in providing ambitious digital experiences.
If you want to revolutionize your organization’s digital strategy with a CMS that can meet demand at any size and scale, it’s time to think about Drupal. See why we believe Drupal has a competitive advantage over all other CMSs on the market today.
Community
Through the support and passion of the Drupal community, Drupal’s open source model stimulates continual progress and innovation. There are currently over 1.4 million Drupal users in 230 countries that are dedicated to seeing Drupal succeed. With such a varied group of specialists continually striving to improve Drupal, the possibilities of creating amazing digital experiences extends far beyond anything a single team of proprietary software developers could imagine.
Individuals and organizations from all around the world volunteer their time and resources to review code, create documentation, test, and incorporate feedback directly from users to ensure the greatest possible experience.
User Experience
The modern Drupal is a digital experience platform that can be used by both developers and marketers to build outstanding consumer experiences. Drupal has stressed user experience (UX) in recent editions to empower everyone from site editors to content creators to create strong consumer experiences. Among the improvements to Drupal’s user interface are:
- Layout builder. Offers content authors an easy-to-use page building experience that lets editors control the appearance of their content without having to rely on a developer.
- The Claro administrative theme. Provides a cleaner, easier-to-use interface for site administration, configuration, and authoring.
- Mobile responsive web features. Delivers out-of-the-box mobile responsive themes, responsive images, and mobile administration.
Organizations searching for the easiest and fastest way to design and launch their sites can also use Acquia Cohesion, a low-code site builder tool with a dynamic UI that makes it easier than ever for non-developers to shape front-end experiences. The reusable components of Cohesion can be utilized to implement new features across all of their digital properties in a single step. In less than a year, a major consumer-health pharmaceutical company used the combined power of Cohesion and Acquia Cloud Site Factory to relaunch over 1,500 websites in several languages to a single digital platform!
Scalability
Drupal is a sophisticated and future-ready CMS that allows brands to scale in accordance with their needs. Drupal’s adaptable API architecture enables rapid content expansion across a worldwide multisite ecosystem. Drupal is optimized for a variety of caching plugins, which provide faster page loading, efficient bandwidth, and overall more robust web performance even under high-pressure conditions. When the Drupal-powered Justice.gov website revealed Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s long-awaited findings on Russian election meddling last year, traffic increased by 7,000%. Fortunately, there were no outages or problems with accessibility. Choosing Drupal gives web teams the confidence that their sites can withstand even the most intense traffic spikes – even when the entire world is watching.
Security
When it comes to creating digital experiences that consumers can rely on, security is the first priority. Noncompliance with digital security standards can harm consumer connections while also costing organizations a lot of money in legal fees, especially in highly regulated and public-facing areas like government and healthcare. Drupal prioritizes security over all other CMSs. That is why businesses like the State of Georgia, Steward Health Care, and Fannie Mae rely on Drupal to secure their websites and preserve audience trust.
The Drupal Security Team is comprised of security specialists from all over the world who are committed to analyzing and detecting potential issues in both Drupal core and contributed Drupal modules. Before it is made public, every new contributed model must be rigorously reviewed by a team of Drupal core maintainers. Despite the popular notion that open source software is more vulnerable than proprietary models, Drupal’s big, dedicated open source community gives it an edge by enabling millions of developers to find and report bugs in the code.
Accessibility
Drupal’s dedication to accessibility standards places a premium on providing an inclusive web experience for all users. Accessibility is a prerequisite for any new module or feature added to the core.
Drupal assures that all of its features and functions are out-of-the-box compliant with the World Wide Web Consortium guidelines WCAG, WAI-ARIA, and ADA. Some of the accessibility features in Drupal 8 and the upcoming Drupal 9 are as follows:
- Optimized Color Contrast Themes and Font Sizes
- Alt Tag Defaults
- Control Tab Order
- Mobile Responsiveness
- Aural Alerts
Accessibility is a crucial challenge for verticals such as higher education, which is responsible for offering chances and knowledge to students from diverse backgrounds. Drupal is now used by over 70% of higher education institutions, including North Dakota State University. Drupal remains committed to providing everyone, regardless of condition, with accessible information and enjoyable digital experiences.