Key points
- Our expenditure was higher this month due to travel and legal expenses, income is growing from memberships and sponsorships.
- We’re still seeing a strong growth in adoption of Mautic, including a promising start to the free trials program at the end of the month.
- There has been a surge in new members joining the community and a continued onboarding of new contributors.
- Mautic 5.1 is imminent with a large number of new bug fixes, features and enhancements.
Finances
Income
This month we had four new individual members and a stable continuation of our monthly sponsors through Open Collective and GitHub.
While we have not received funds for any corporate memberships, we have an invoice out for a Gold Tier membership and also several Community Tier memberships in the final stages of completion. These should be represented in next month’s report.
|
Description |
Amount |
|---|---|
|
Sponsorship - Open Collective |
$1,805 |
|
Sponsorship - GitHub Sponsors |
$736 |
|
Membership - Individual |
$400 |
|
Total |
$2,941 |
Expenditure
This month saw the last of the travel expenses for the recent conferences and events, and also further legal expenses in respect of defending a Trademark claim and renewing one of our existing trademarks (required every five years). There was a small increase in infrastructure costs which was due to an invoice being paid late, just into March instead of in February.
|
Description |
Amount |
|---|---|
|
Employment |
$8,922.40 |
|
Travel and expenditure |
$1,582.82 |
|
Legal |
$975 |
|
Infrastructure |
$459.40 |
|
Host fees |
$254.10 |
|
Payment processor fees |
$97.13 |
|
Total |
$12,290.85 |
Contributions
A big thank you to all the organisations who have contributed to Mautic in March!
These organisations are making Mautic and helping to grow our awesome community!
🔎 You can always take a look at the data for the last 90 days via this link: https://savannahcrm.com/public/overview/2b4590bf-cad0-4c71-870a-6f942a25f8fe and you can now view this month’s report here: https://savannahcrm.com/public/report/4d47fd2a-89f3-47b5-acc5-5dfafa3554c3/
⬆️ = Increase from last month
⬇️ = Decrease from last month
Organizations
Most active companies
Dropsolid 404 (⬇️ 6.48%)
Acquia 184 (⬇️ 41.21%)
Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 109 (⬆️ 57.97%)
Webmecanik 99 (⬆️ 33.78%)
Bluespace 66
Friendly 63 (⬇️ 13.70%)
Codefive 57 (⬇️ 12.31%)
Leancept 56
Comarch 33
Blacksmith 24
Top contributing companies
Acquia 35 (⬇️ 80.87%)
Dropsolid 25 (⬇️ 77.48%)
Comarch 14 (⬆️ 7.69%)
Webmecanik 11 (⬇️ 56%)
Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 6 (⬇️ 68.42%)
Devsadda 5 (⬇️ 84.38%)
Aivie 4
Bluespace 4 (⬆️ 300%)
octree-gva 2
Friendly 1 (⬇️ 50%)
Contributions are as defined here with the addition of Jira issues being closed as completed, GitHub Pull Request reviews and Knowledgebase articles being written or translated, which we track through Savannah’s API.
Want to appear on this list? Get contributing, and drop me a line with your company name, domain and the folk who work for you and we’ll make sure that you are attributed correctly!
Individuals
Most active contributors
Anderson José Eccel 215
Jan Linhart 160
Mike Van Hemelrijck 109
Ekke Guembel 71
Norman Pracht 66
Oluwatobi Owolabi 66
Joey Keller 63
Ricardo Freire 57
Jakob Persson 56
Rembrand 42
Top contributors
Jan Linhart 28
Anderson José Eccel 14
Patryk Gruszka 11
Zdeno Kuzmany 8
Priyanshi Gaur 7
Tim Mallezie 5
Mike Van Hemelrijck 5
Rahul Shinde 5
Saurabh Gupta 4
Adrian Schimpf 4
Welcome to our new contributors this month 💖
ar84
Esther Okafor
Joseph2001-braganza
Markus Heinilä
gauravaxl
Martin Stadelmann
Priyanshi Gaur
firyx
Vibhuti
Ismail MHIRI
bob99
Thomas Wijnands
nishant-s7
gbm_admin
Ketu Patel
tomfriedhof
Top supporters
Jan Linhart 3
bob99 1
Norman Pracht 1
Joey Keller 1
firyx 1
Esther Okafor 1
Ricardo Freire1
Ismail MHIRI 1
gbm_admin 1
ar841
Usage of Mautic
We continue to see relatively stable numbers when it comes to downloads via mautic.org/download, with just over 2,000 unique downloads and just over 4,300 in total.
We’re seeing a marked increase in downloads of the main packages Mautic uses via Composer, as demonstrated by the core-lib and recommended-project packages in the chart below which have more than doubled in monthly downloads between March and all previous months.
We continue to see a strong quarter-on-quarter growth rate of sites with Mautic tracking deployed, with the data retrieved via builtwith.com. After a strong spike in growth in the middle of 2023 due to a large company deploying tracking on many domain holding pages, growth continues to be above 10% per quarter, compared with previously between 4-10% on average.
As well as sites adding tracking, we also need to keep an eye on sites that are removing Mautic tracking - suggesting that they’re no longer using Mautic. While this is not an exact science it does allow us to keep tabs on the general trend.
We know that there were a lot of folks removing Mautic tracking from 2020 - more than those who were adding it - however this trend has started to reverse since Q2 2023 where, aside from Q4 we’ve had more people adding tracking than removing it. We’ll continue to monitor this important metric going forward.
Despite only launching the trials at the end of the month, we’re already seeing strong results. Between the 26th March and the time of writing we’ve had 135 signups in total and although there have been a few small bumps in the road, mostly everything is running smoothly.
We already have some conversions into paid accounts coming through, each of which results in a 40% revenue share coming back to the Mautic project every month.
Community Health
We’re seeing a rebound in the number of visitors to our web properties, which was slightly impacted when we switched to Google Analytics 4 and by some sampling which had previously been applied on our calculations sheet..
We’ve also seen a continued strong surge in new members joining our community over the past month - 110 people in total - with 17 new contributors which is awesome to see! We’ve also exceeded 7,900 members this month - not long until we hit 8,000! While the growth is starting to slow somewhat, it’s still a positive sign that the community is continuing to welcome new members.
March saw a whopping 170 contributions which is fantastic, with over two-thirds being pull requests created (60) or reviewed (71) and the rest divided between forum support (24), blog posts (7), providing feedback (4), Jira issues (2), speaking (1) and hosting (1) events or meetings.
As a result of the surge in activity on GitHub, the upcoming release of Mautic 5.1 is going to have a LOT of new features, enhancements and bug-fixes.
A big thank you to everyone who has helped by contributing in some way this month, you’re helping make Mautic one contribution at a time!
Conclusion
It’s great to see that we’re continuing to grow a wide, diverse base of organizations and individuals who are supporting Mautic, both practically and financially. This will be vital for the longer term sustainability of the project. Although income was outweighed by expenditure this month, we have a strong pipeline of future memberships and with the launch of the new trials, a potential new revenue stream coming on line soon, giving us confidence in future financial growth.
In terms of adoption, Mautic continues to see steady growth in the number of people downloading, installing and using Mautic on their web properties and the trend is shifting into a more positive direction, with more users installing and adopting Mautic than removing their tracking. This growth, along with the expanding community of contributors and the anticipation of new enhancements for the upcoming Mautic 5.1 release, is a promising indication of Mautic's potential for future development and expansion.
Credits
A big thank you to Peculiar C Umeh who has taken on the unenviable task of helping me to update the Open Startup Reporting spreadsheet each month!
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.mautic.org/blog/community/open-startup-report-12-march-2024