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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Drupal

    Score7.1 out of 10
    N/ADrupal is a free, open-source content management system written in PHP that competes primarily with Joomla and Plone. The standard release of Drupal, known as Drupal core, contains basic features such as account and menu management, RSS feeds, page layout customization, and system administration.N/A

    HiConversion

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AHiConversion is an online optimization platform that allows you to test multiple changes to your website's look, feel, and functionality across multiple pages, segments, targeting rules, and devices. It then automatically displays the top performing versions of your site to each of these groups.N/A
    Pricing
    DrupalHiConversion
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Community Edition
    Sponsored Trial
    Per website
    Enterprise
    Custom Quote
    Based on revenue and traffic volume
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    DrupalHiConversion
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    DrupalHiConversion
    Considered Both Products
    Open Source
    No answer on this topic
    HiConversion
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    76%
    Would buy again
    13 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    14 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    76%
    Happy with the feature set
    13 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    DrupalHiConversion
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Drupal and HiConversion
    Feature
    Drupal
    8.3
    74 Ratings
    1% above category average
    HiConversion
    -
    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions8.374 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Drupal and HiConversion
    Feature
    Drupal
    7.8
    69 Ratings
    0% below category average
    HiConversion
    -
    Ratings
    API7.364 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language8.260 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Drupal and HiConversion
    Feature
    Drupal
    6.5
    78 Ratings
    19% below category average
    HiConversion
    -
    Ratings
    WYSIWYG editor6.371 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness8.275 Ratings00 Ratings
    Admin section7.078 Ratings00 Ratings
    Page templates5.677 Ratings00 Ratings
    Library of website themes5.568 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design6.572 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publishing workflow6.776 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form generator6.672 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Drupal and HiConversion
    Feature
    Drupal
    6.6
    77 Ratings
    13% below category average
    HiConversion
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    Ratings
    Content taxonomy6.971 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO support6.472 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk management6.467 Ratings00 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions6.670 Ratings00 Ratings
    Community / comment management6.869 Ratings00 Ratings
    Testing and Experimentation
    Comparison of Testing and Experimentation features of Drupal and HiConversion
    Feature
    Drupal
    -
    Ratings
    HiConversion
    8.6
    2 Ratings
    2% above category average
    a/b experiment testing00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Split URL testing00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Multivariate testing00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Multi-page/funnel testing00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Cross-browser testing00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Mobile app testing00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Test significance00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Visual / WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Advanced code editor00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Preview mode00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Test duration calculator00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Experiment scheduler00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Experiment workflow and approval00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Dynamic experiment activation00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Client-side tests00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Mutually exclusive tests00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Audience Segmentation & Targeting
    Comparison of Audience Segmentation & Targeting features of Drupal and HiConversion
    Feature
    Drupal
    -
    Ratings
    HiConversion
    8.3
    2 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Standard visitor segmentation00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Behavioral visitor segmentation00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Traffic allocation control00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Website personalization00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Results and Analysis
    Comparison of Results and Analysis features of Drupal and HiConversion
    Feature
    Drupal
    -
    Ratings
    HiConversion
    8.5
    2 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Heatmap tool00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Click analytics00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Scroll maps00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Form fill analysis00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Conversion tracking00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Goal tracking00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Test reporting00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Results segmentation00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    CSV export00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Experiments results dashboard00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
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    DrupalHiConversion
    Small Businesses
    Umbraco CMS
    Score7 out of 10
    Google Optimize
    Score6.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Square Online
    Score7.7 out of 10
    AB Tasty
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    RWS Tridion Sites
    Score9 out of 10
    Google Content Experiments (discontinued)
    Score7.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    DrupalHiConversion
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.8
    (87 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    1.0
    (19 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    6.9
    (20 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    9.7
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.9
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    1.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    5.1
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DrupalHiConversion
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Open Source
    If you want to set up a basic Not For Profit (NFP) Membership system and content base, Word Press is easier than Drupal. However, if you have specific needs that require a fair bit of customisation then Drupal is the best CRM available. If the webmaster is confident with PHP and SQL, Drupal allows a lot of creativity.
    Incentivized
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    HiConversion
    HiConversion is a great tool for checking your A/B landing pages and sales pages. With the click of a button, you can check your sales forecast page to see any text, images, pages, etc. which converts better. This is a great way to explore different ways of selling and see which one brings you the most sales. The interface is simple and easy to use.
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    Pros
    Open Source
    • Drag and drop functionality is easy to use
    • Easy to switch between straight text and HTML content
    • Ability to easily have multiple environments so that pages can be built in b/c-stage before they are approved and published
    • Solid user experience where it's clear how to navigate the platform
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    HiConversion
    • Allow us to do A/B and multivariate testing of various treatments on our website. We can see how individual changes perform and how they perform in conjunction with other tests on the site.
    • Provide data to see where in the sales funnel there is room for improvement and how tiny incremental changes at each stage can have a dramatic affect on our total sales.
    • Using their years of experience and knowledge of industry best practices, they help come up with both UX and UI suggestions for us to test for our specific site, audience and use cases.
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    Cons
    Open Source
    • This is not an easy CMS to work with if you don't have a good understanding of website development. It isn't "plug-and-play" like Wordpress or Shopify.
    • Over time, doing major updates to the system can be taxing, especially if you aren't well-versed enough in doing system updates in line with your "child" theme and code.
    • The CMS can become somewhat cumbersome with server resources if not carefully optimized while you build and customize it to your liking.
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    HiConversion
    • Nothing but Increase marketing to better explain the technology.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Open Source
    The time and money invested into this platform were too great to discontinue it at this point. I'm sure it will be in use for a while. We have also spent time training many employees how to use it. All of these things add up to quite an investment in the product. Lastly, it basically fulfills what we need our intranet site to do.
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    HiConversion
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Open Source
    As a team, we found Drupal to be highly customizable and flexible, allowing our development team to go to great lengths to develop desired functionalities. It can be used as a solution for all types of web projects. It comes with a robust admin interface that provides greater flexibility once the user gets acquainted with the system.
    Incentivized
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    HiConversion
    No answers on this topic
    Reliability and Availability
    Open Source
    Drupal itself does not tend to have bugs that cause sporadic outages. When deployed on a well-configured LAMP stack, deployment and maintenance problems are minimal, and in general no exotic tuning or configuration is required. For highest uptime, putting a caching proxy like Varnish in front of Drupal (or a CDN that supports dynamic applications).
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    HiConversion
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Open Source
    Drupal page loads can be slow, as a great many database calls may be required to generate a page. It is highly recommended to use caching systems, both built-in and external to lessen such database loads and improve performance. I haven't had any problems with behind-the-scenes integrations with external systems.
    Incentivized
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    HiConversion
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Open Source
    As noted earlier, the support of the community can be rather variable, with some modules attracting more attraction and action in their issue queues, but overall, the development community for Drupal is second to none. It probably the single greatest aspect of being involved in this open-source project.
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    HiConversion
    No answers on this topic
    In-Person Training
    Open Source
    I was part of the team that conducted the training. Our training was fine, but we could have been better informed on Drupal before we started providing it. If we did not have answers to tough questions, we had more technical staff we could consult with. We did provide hands-on practice time for the learners, which I would always recommend. That is where the best learning occurred.
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    HiConversion
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Open Source
    The on-line training was not as ideal as the face-to-face training. It was done remotely and only allowed for the trainers to present information to the learners and demonstrate the platform online. There was not a good way to allow for the learners to practice, ask questions and have them answered all in the same session.
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    HiConversion
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Open Source
    Plan ahead as much you can. You really need to know how to build what you want with the modules available to you, or that you might need to code yourself, in order to make the best use of Drupal. I recommend you analyze the most technically difficult workflows and other aspects of your implementation, and try building some test versions of those first. Get feedback from stakeholders early and often, because you can easily find yourself in a situation where your implementation does 90% of what you want, but, due to something you didn't plan for, foresee, or know about, there's no feasible way to get past the last 10%
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    HiConversion
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Open Source
    Drupal can be more complex to learn, but it offers a much wider range of applications. Drupal’s front and backend can be customized from design to functionality to allow for a wide range of uses. If someone wants to create something more complex than a simple site or blog, Drupal can be an amazing asset to have at hand.
    Incentivized
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    HiConversion
    We have not used or fully evaluated any competitors. Our free trial with HiConversion was enough to convince us to move forward with them. They platform will easily pay for itself
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Open Source
    Drupal is well known to be scalable, although it requires solid knowledge of MySQL best practices, caching mechanisms, and other server-level best practices. I have never personally dealt with an especially large site, so I can speak well to the issues associated with Drupal scaling.
    Incentivized
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    HiConversion
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Open Source
    • Given the endless possibilities that Drupal can have, we tend to have great support going on when we get a website launched
    • It has become much much faster and easier for us to launch a new project due to reusability
    • Configuration management in Drupal helps greatly with CI/CD, saves us costs
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    HiConversion
    • I was losing sales because I was not reaching out to all my potential customers, and HiConversion was able to help me improve my sales by using their test tool to create new predictive pages that work better.
    • The tool makes it easy to create pages, and the results are real-time, so I can see how I do and make changes in my campaigns as I go.
    • The tool was easy to get started with, and I see results, which is important to me.
    Incentivized
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