Drupal is written in PHP and works with various relational databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL and others. The system is distributed as open source, so it can be studied, modified and scaled to project requirements.
Drupal is supported by a large community of developers and users who continuously develop the platform and its ecosystem.
The flexible modular architecture allows the system to be adapted to different business tasks. Drupal also supports a wide range of themes that help build the desired look and style of the site.
Drupal natively supports multilingual capabilities, so a site can have an unlimited number of language versions with separate content and settings.
The platform also allows the use of friendly URLs for each language version. This helps improve SEO optimisation and increase the quality of organic traffic.
Different versions of the site can be managed from a single administrative panel, which significantly simplifies project maintenance and development.
Drupal provides a high level of security thanks to its platform architecture and tools that enable the development of secure applications. The system includes built-in protection against CSRF, XSS and SQL injection.
The platform supports many security modules that help further protect the site from hacking. Government websites of the USA, France, Italy, Estonia and Latvia use Drupal thanks to its reliability.
Drupal is also used on the websites of Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, Princeton and MIT universities. The official Tesla website is also built on Drupal.
Drupal provides many modules that help improve website performance. Some of them:
- Advanced CSS/JS Aggregation: speeds up page loading by reducing the number of HTTP requests.
- CDN: using a content delivery network helps noticeably speed up page loading.
- CloudFlare: provides tools for caching, minification and resource compression.
Blazy, Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP), Image Optimize, Image API Optimize, Search 404 and Internal Dynamic Page Cache are also used to improve performance.