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CH 07The Drupal 7 censusupdated 2026-08-16, from drupal.org's own counters

174,517 sites are still running Drupal 7.

End of life came in January 2025. The sites didn't get the memo — and counting them turns out to be easy, because they report themselves.

174,517
sites reporting Drupal 7, 2026-08-16
279,068
total sites on end-of-life versions (5–9)
42.6%
share of all reporting Drupal with zero security support
CH 07.1The chartred means unsupported
Drupal 7 · end of life174,517
Drupal 8 · end of life44,026
Drupal 9 · end of life52,270
Drupal 10212,834
Drupal 11163,518

Drupal 5: 156 · Drupal 6: 8,099 — the long, long tail

Where these numbers come from

Drupal core phones home: sites with the update-status module enabled report their version weekly, and drupal.org publishes the per-branch counts. This page reads that public data and aggregates branches into major versions on every deploy — no estimates, no scraping, just the project's own telemetry. Undercount caveat: sites with update-status disabled (common on locked-down D7 installs) aren't in these numbers, so the true D7 population is higher.

Citing this page

Journalists and researchers: help yourself. Suggested line — “174,517 sites still reported running Drupal 7 as of 2026-08-16, per drupal.org usage data aggregated by Dead North, a Minneapolis Drupal studio.” The number refreshes with each site deploy; the methodology doesn't.

Running one of the 279,068? That's what the upgrade assessment and the rescue practice are for — and yes, the trip is survivable.