Template Survey

This template survey was inspired by the plugin survey, but is not as detailed and was manually gathered.

The bulk of the survey is available in a Google Spreadsheet. The following is an excerpt of some statistics of each year.

August 2014

template attribute	amount	percentage
number of all templates	124	100%
downloadable	103	83.06% ¹⁾
has a repo	65	52.42% ²⁾
updated within the last 2 years	54	43.55% ³⁾
non-mods	95	76.61% ⁴⁾
up-to-date + downloadable + non-mod	38	30.65% ⁵⁾
never updated	55	44.35% ⁶⁾
number of templates available	117	94.35% ⁷⁾
has LESS errors	10	11.11% ⁸⁾
has fatal errors (incl. LESS errors)	19	21.11% ⁹⁾
number of templates analysed	90	72.58% ¹⁰⁾
uses config	45	50.00% ¹¹⁾
includes JavaScript	39	43.33% ¹²⁾
uses TPL_INC*	69	76.67% ¹³⁾
includes info.txt	32	35.56% ¹⁴⁾
broken TOC	44	48.89% ¹⁵⁾
wrong base	4	4.44% ¹⁶⁾
supports sidebar setting	17	18.89% ¹⁷⁾
uses CSS framework	9	10.00% ¹⁸⁾

template attribute	amount	percentage
number of all templates	108	100%
downloadable	82	75.93% ¹⁹⁾
has a repo	38	35.19% ²⁰⁾
updated within the last 2 years	40	37.04% ²¹⁾
non-mods	82	75.93% ²²⁾
up-to-date + downloadable + non-mod	29	26.85% ²³⁾
never updated	47	43.52% ²⁴⁾
number of templates available	96	88.88% ²⁵⁾
number of templates analysed	75	69.44% ²⁶⁾
uses config	38	50.67% ²⁷⁾
includes JavaScript	30	40.00% ²⁸⁾
uses TPL_INC*	64	85.33% ²⁹⁾
includes info.txt	17	22.67% ³⁰⁾
broken TOC	44	58.67% ³¹⁾

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of all templates

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of available templates

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of analysed templates