Wheels Is Hanging with the Big Boys Just Fine

Well, my first blog post for Wheels. I am Mike Henke. I fell in love with Wheels after I asked my friend Ryan Stille what ColdFusion framework he thought looked interesting and would like to learn. I always wanted to implement a CF framework at work, but business constraints (time, complexity, learning curve, priority) never worked until I found Wheels.

In this entry, I will be providing some surprising and interesting stats showing how Wheels has grown over the past couple years. Here are a couple to start with: CFWheels.org had a spike of over 500 unique visitors and 42 downloads in one day last month.

Traffic from past couple years (Google Analytics)

Here Are the (Surprising) Stats

I mentioned the entry would be about stats.

Alexa data as of 12/08/2009:

Here are definitions of these metrics in case you aren't familiar:

Alexa Traffic Rank

A measure of a website's popularity.

The rank is calculated using a combinatino of average daily visitors and pageviews over the past 3 months. The site with the highest combination of visitors and pageviews is ranked #1.

Updated Daily.

Traffic Rank in Country

A measure of a website's popularity in a specific country.

The rank by country is calculated using a combination of average daily visitors and pageviews from users from that country over the past 3 months. The site with the highest combination of visitors and pageviews is ranked #1 in that country.

Updated Daily.

Take Away

Take away what you may from these, I think it shows how Wheels is growing and filling an area in the ColdFusion framework world.

Here are some stats from Complete.com (amongst top 3 ranking framework sites):

Clearly, in combination with the Alexa rankings listed earlier, CFWheels.org is being looked at, used, and is hanging with the big boys just fine.

Finally

Finally, I would like to mention Wheels's Google Group. It is a great resource.

Well, wrapping up my first post for Wheels. I would like to point people towards joining the Google Group for ColdFusion on Wheels and getting in on the fun.