VuFind Usage Survey 2017
The following results were gathered from a survey posted in early 2017 and left open for 6 weeks. There were 37 responses.
What version of VuFind do you use?
| 1.x | 7.69% |
| 2.x | 43.59% |
| 3.0 | 10.26% |
| 3.1 | 38.46% |
Do you run multiple public instances of VuFind?
Which ILS Driver(s) do you use?
| No ILS | 21.62% |
| DAIA | 19.05% |
| Koha | 16.67%+ |
| PAIA | 14.29%++ |
| Aleph | 11.90% |
| Horizon | 4.76% |
| HorizonXMLAPI | 4.76% |
| KohaILSDI | 4.76% |
| NoILS | 4.76% |
| VoyagerRestful | 4.76% |
| Adlib | 2.38% |
| Allegro-C | 2.38% |
| Horizon Restful API | 2.38% |
| Innovative | 2.38% |
| MultiBackend | 2.38% |
| Symphony | 2.38% |
+ = one custom driver
++ = One for Alma access
What PHP version do you run VuFind with?
| 5.3 | 10.81% |
| 5.4 | 13.51% |
| 5.5 | 18.92% |
| 5.6 | 35.14% |
| 7.0 | 18.92% |
| 7.1 | 2.70% |
| MySQL / MariaDB | 94.59% |
| PostgreSQL | 5.41% |
What install method did you use?
| GitHub | 48.65% |
| Package | 45.95% |
| Custom | 5.41% |
What OS do you use to serve VuFind?
| Ubuntu | 51.35% |
| Debian/Redhat | 29.73% |
| Centos | 8.12% |
| Opensuse | 5.40% |
| SLES | 5.40% |
| Windows | 2.70% |
Do you use analytics or tracking in your VuFind instance?
| Piwik | 51.35% |
| Google Analytics | 27.03% |
| No | 27.03% |
| ELK | 2.70% |
Text-based Questions
A few most-mentioned from the text answers.
What made you choose VuFind over other discovery layer options?
Open source
PHP
Solr Backend
Supports desired ILS
Made by Librarians!
Which configurable options/modules do you find most useful?
Have you made any customizations to VuFind? If so, please share your most significant one.
There were other cool ideas. A roadmap based on these ideas is forth-coming.
