Fear is expensive, especially when it's based on a chart nobody bothered to read past the headline.
“Drupal is losing market share.” Yes. True. I'm not arguing with the numbers.
But here's what that chart doesn't show you. Small businesses are leaving Drupal, moving to WordPress, Webflow, Squarespace. That segment is shrinking — not because Drupal can't handle it, but because those sites don't need what Drupal actually does best.
Look at what's happening at the top. Overall usage sits at around 2.5% of the top million sites. Concerning, right? Now zoom in. Among the top 100,000 sites by traffic, Drupal is at 5.6%. Among the top 10,000, nearly 7%. The higher the stakes, the more Drupal shows up.
The platforms that remain are more complex, more critical and more expensive to replace than ever. Nobody migrates a 183-module multilingual news platform easily. That isn't lock-in — it's genuinely solving problems the alternatives still can't touch.
The market share chart looks terrifying if you count every abandoned five-page site. It looks completely different if you count the ones that actually matter.
Next time someone walks into your meeting with that printout, ask them to scroll down.