August 2014 – Joomla!® numbers

Where are we? The Joomla!® 2.5.x version had significantly surpassed the now well-known 1.5.x. We remind you that official support for the latter (1.5.26) ended last April 2012 and it is therefore no longer recommended to install this version. The newborn 3.x continues to increase, while the 1.0.x, 1.6.x and 1.7.x versions follow closely in low percentages

Joomla! version usage data April 2014 The latest research carried out by JoomlaHost is recent and has highlighted results that deserve reflection and which we will analyze below.

We took around 30 thousand sites as a sample and noted, compared to the latest published statistics, some important variations shown in the graph below:

Joomla! usage data - August 2014

Version 3 advances The data extracted is encouraging: compared to the last survey, the percentage of users using version 1.5.

The percentage of versions 1.0, 1.6 and 1.7 is decreasing, we remind you that their use is highly discouraged as they contain known security flaws and exploiting the vulnerabilities of an outdated Joomla!® site is relatively simple, paradoxically the instructions are easily found online.

For those who use a previous version, JoomlaHost intends for its users to maintain all versions of the CMS, without any forced migration operations, allowing planning for subsequent versions with complete peace of mind.

For all those using versions such as 1.0-1.5.x- 1.6- 1.7 and for production sites we recommend planning the migration to version 3.3.X (STS "short term support", short term support) and then moving to version 3.4 (LTS "long term support", long term support) next autumn.

We remind you that we will have updates for the current version 2.5.x until the end of 2014, after which support will be discontinued and no more updates will be released, not even due to security flaws.

Before each migration, we advise you to check that the templates and components are compatible with the new installation and to perform a preventive data backup so that you can immediately restore the website contents in case the operation fails.

In the hope of seeing a percentage increasingly close to zero for versions 1.0, 1.6 and 1.7 and an ever-increasing growth in version 3.x, we'll meet you in about 3 months for a new statistics and analysis on the versions of Joomla!® installed by our users.