In this list of popular Drupal Themes in the Alexa Top 1 million, I have tallied the number of Drupal themes based on the path of the theme installation.
Drupal theme counts were determined by analysing the html of the root pages in the top 1 million websites and extracting the default Drupal theme path (/all/themes/*/). Drupal installations using paths other than the one noted will not be among this list.
Related analysis was performed of the Top WordPress Themes in the Alexa 1 million, and the infographic of the WordPress Top 100K websites.
Table of the Top 30 Drupal Themes
| Rank | Drupal Theme | Count in Top 1M | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | zen | 569 sites | |
| 2 | fusion | 303 sites | |
| 3 | custom | 230 sites | |
| 4 | framework | 90 sites | |
| 5 | basic | 86 sites | |
| 6 | adaptivetheme | 79 sites | |
| 7 | marinelli | 75 sites | |
| 8 | omega | 68 sites | |
| 9 | zeropoint | 66 sites | |
| 10 | acquia_marina | 62 sites | |
| 11 | sky | 60 sites | |
| 12 | danland | 52 sites | |
| 13 | newsflash | 49 sites | |
| 14 | pixture_reloaded | 47 sites | |
| 15 | drigg_theme | 45 sites | |
| 16 | newswire | 42 sites | |
| 17 | openpublish_theme | 39 sites | |
| 18 | mayo | 38 sites | |
| 19 | blueprint | 38 sites | |
| 20 | acquia_prosper | 38 sites | |
| 21 | cti_flex | 34 sites | |
| 22 | waffles | 31 sites | |
| 23 | corolla | 31 sites | |
| 24 | genesis | 29 sites | |
| 25 | contrib | 29 sites | |
| 26 | analytic | 28 sites | |
| 27 | corporateclean | 26 sites | |
| 28 | yaml | 24 sites | |
| 29 | ninesixty | 24 sites | |
| 30 | clean | 24 sites |
As this list is based on the default theme path, there will be themes and sites missed in this quick dump. However this is still a good indication of the themes that are being by the most popular Drupal installations in the world.
When I performed the analysis of the WordPress themes, it was very interesting to note the difference between the total download counts of themes compared with those that were in production use.
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7 foliage
7 free_tv
7 newspro
7 nitobe
7 orange
7 qualitynews
7 simple_custom
7 swi_images
8 addari
8 ami
8 business
8 custom_sp
8 drupal-contrib
8 fever
8 fxpro
8 joomlart
8 magazeen
8 pisces_core
8 salamanderskins
8 sttheme
8 vsct
8 wabi
8 whitelabel
9 ability
9 amadou
9 casamundo2′,
9 endless_news
9 global
9 kanji
9 skel
9 uof
9 whitejazz
10 deco
10 mix_and_match
10 _multisite
10 socialeabase
10 vanilla
11 fervens
11 foundation
11 garland
11 surveycompare
11 tao
12 cn_base
12 emv
12 fiercetheme
12 main
12 questexbaseline
13 bartik
13 base
13 tendu
14 default
14 pixture
15 tapestry
16 acquia_slate
16 frontend
17 blueprint2
18 amity_island
18 blogbuzz
18 csm2
18 fourseasons
18 thedailymeal
20 fusion_core
20 zen_ninesixty
21 arthemia
21 cdate2
21 simply_modern
22 litejazz
24 about
24 clean
24 ninesixty
24 yaml
26 corporateclean
28 analytic
29 contrib
29 genesis
31 corolla
31 waffles
34 cti_flex
38 acquia_prosper
38 blueprint
38 mayo
39 openpublish_theme
42 newswire
45 drigg_theme
47 pixture_reloaded
49 newsflash
52 danland
60 sky
62 acquia_marina
66 zeropoint
68 omega
75 marinelli
79 adaptivetheme
86 basic
90 framework
230 custom
303 fusion
569 zen
7 free_tv
7 newspro
7 nitobe
7 orange
7 qualitynews
7 simple_custom
7 swi_images
8 addari
8 ami
8 business
8 custom_sp
8 drupal-contrib
8 fever
8 fxpro
8 joomlart
8 magazeen
8 pisces_core
8 salamanderskins
8 sttheme
8 vsct
8 wabi
8 whitelabel
9 ability
9 amadou
9 casamundo2′,
9 endless_news
9 global
9 kanji
9 skel
9 uof
9 whitejazz
10 deco
10 mix_and_match
10 _multisite
10 socialeabase
10 vanilla
11 fervens
11 foundation
11 garland
11 surveycompare
11 tao
12 cn_base
12 emv
12 fiercetheme
12 main
12 questexbaseline
13 bartik
13 base
13 tendu
14 default
14 pixture
15 tapestry
16 acquia_slate
16 frontend
17 blueprint2
18 amity_island
18 blogbuzz
18 csm2
18 fourseasons
18 thedailymeal
20 fusion_core
20 zen_ninesixty
21 arthemia
21 cdate2
21 simply_modern
22 litejazz
24 about
24 clean
24 ninesixty
24 yaml
26 corporateclean
28 analytic
29 contrib
29 genesis
31 corolla
31 waffles
34 cti_flex
38 acquia_prosper
38 blueprint
38 mayo
39 openpublish_theme
42 newswire
45 drigg_theme
47 pixture_reloaded
49 newsflash
52 danland
60 sky
62 acquia_marina
66 zeropoint
68 omega
75 marinelli
79 adaptivetheme
86 basic
90 framework
230 custom
303 fusion
569 zen
