Key points
- The income this month as quite low at $4,250 with additional unplanned expenses relating to defending a trademark case
- June has been a strong month for contributions, with the 5.1 release being made which had 10 new features, 130 bug fixes, and 156 enhancements.
- A large domain name parking company which added tracking to all their parked sites back in Q3 2023, removed that tracking which resulted in a large drop of sites that are using Mautic tracking. There was however a large increase in the number of new sites deploying Mautic tracking.
- Despite a quiet month with the fundraising, the community's energy and excitement are high, especially with preparations for Mautic Conference Global 2024 well underway!
Finances
Income
This month has been quite low when it comes to income, with only one new Community Tier member and the regular monthly sponsors. We have, however, had quite a few last-minute Mautic Conference Global sponsors coming on board which helped to boost the income.
| Description | Amount |
|---|---|
| Monthly sponsors | $1,800 |
| Event sponsors | $1,250 |
| Community Tier membership | $1,200 |
| Total: | $4,250 |
Expenditure
This month we saw an additional legal fees invoice owing to having to defend a trademark claim notice against Mautic. The rest of the fees are as expected.
| Description | Amount |
|---|---|
| Employment | $8,778.39 |
| Legal | $3,394.50 |
| Host fees | $385 |
| Infrastructure | $363.59 |
| Payment processor fees | $166.44 |
| Total: | $13,087 |
Contributions
Organizations
A big thank you to all the organisations who have contributed to Mautic in June!
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: Mautic in the last 90 days and you can now view this month’s report here: Mautic | Monthly Report for June 2024!
⬆️ = Increase from last month
⬇️ = Decrease from last month
Most active companies
Dropsolid 326
Acquia 168 (⬆️ 19.15%)
Moorwald | Sven Döring 67 (⬆️ 103.03%)
Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 53 (⬇️ 48.54%)
Webmecanik 31 (⬆️ 72.22%)
Devsadda 25 (⬇️ 7.41%)
Twentyzen 24
acolono GmbH 19
Matic Zagmajster s.p. 19
Comarch 18 (⬆️ 12.50%)
Top contributing companies
Dropsolid 70 (⬆️ 1650%)
Acquia 40 (⬇️ 2.44%)
Webmecanik 14
Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 5 (⬇️ 70.59%)
Devsadda 4 (⬇️ 75%)
Moorwald | Sven Döring 3 (⬇️ 25%)
Bluespace 3
Axelerant 3
Comarch 3 (⬇️ 57.14%)
Rated Original 1
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
A big thank you also to all the individuals who are helping us build this awesome community!
Most active contributors
Anderson José Eccel 168
John Linhart 154
Nick Vanpraet 76
Sven Döring 67
Mattias Michaux 46
putzwasser 37
Zdeno Kuzmany 28
Rahul Shinde 25
Dirk Spannaus 24
Bill F 24
Top contributors
Anderson José Eccel 43
John Linhart 36
putzwasser 21
Zdeno Kuzmany 14
Peculiar Umeh 12
Rembrand 12
Abhisek Mazumdar 7
Nick Vanpraet 5
Rahul Shinde 4
Simran Sethi 3
Welcome to our new contributors this month đź’–
EpicProv
A.Sagitov
ZegMaarManu
DJUserkent
Frettyl
alexander-nitsche-governikus
zwf
c-speed
jackwang
savrat
kleanth
Top supporters
savrat 2
John Linhart 2
jackwang 1
mneumann 1
kleanth 1
zwf 1
ZegMaarManu 1
Renato Carabelli 1
c-speed 1
Supporters are folks who have had conversations with people directly before they make a contribution, so most likely helping with that process.
This month we had 12 new contributors 🚀 (⬆️ 33.33%) and 81 new members joining the community !💖 (⬆️ 1.25%).
Usage of Mautic
We're seeing a minimal increase in the downloads via the mautic.org download page at the end of Q2, with around 650-700 downloads per month.
Mautic trials
We're continuing to see signups for the trial service at a rate of around 400 per month, however almost all of these have no interest in continuing to use the paid service we provide (which results in a revenue stream to the Community). We're attracting primarily micro businesses, solopreneurs and interested parties, rather than the small to medium sized businesses who we had hoped would be keen to continue hosting their accounts.
Of course, this is a great thing for Mautic given that all these people are getting to check out Mautic and take it for a spin with minimum friction, but we're also concerned that we're not reaching the rest of the market.
We're taking a multi-pronged approach to this, by kicking off a project to rebuild the website alongside improving the user experience and implementing tools like an interactive guide which helps the user explore Mautic's core features.
We're also investing more into developing the inbound marketing that we're doing as part of the Trials project, so that we can proactively reach people who might want to use Mautic and bring them in to the website and the trials.
With the new website we plan to make it much clearer the price associated with continuing the hosted provision post-trial, and also pointing people to the relevant resources for self-hosting or working with one of our partners.
Sites using Mautic tracking
We now have a new chart which allows us to track both the number of active sites with Mautic tracking, and all sites that have ever had tracking installed (as some have installed the tracking and then subsequently removed it).
This month we saw an uptick in the number of active sites, however there was also a concurrent substantial reduction in the total number of sites which had Mautic tracking deployed, which was demonstrated in the chart which tracks sites that have removed Mautic tracking.
On investigating this, it appears to be due to the large domain parking provider who implemented Mautic tracking on their 10,000+ parked domains back in Q3 2023, removing that tracking in Q2 2024.
This does highlight one of the shortcomings of monitoring websites which have Mautic tracking, as it's likely this was just one single instance of Mautic having the code deployed on 10,000+ websites.
We'd like to get a more accurate way of estimating the number of active Mautic instances - perhaps by updating the Stats App - so if anyone would be interested in digging into that, please get in touch.
All told, in Q2 2024 we saw 5,039 websites adding Mautic tracking, against 16,116 where tracking which had previously been detected was no longer present (this considers a rolling 90 days period for the 'last detected' date, to take into account transitory problems with websites not loading when the BuiltWith platform indexes them).
While we're seeing a large uptick in the number of sites that are using Mautic tracking, we also need to be conscious of those who are deciding to no longer using Mautic and better understand what leads to them moving away from tracking with Mautic.
Community Health
In June we've seen 11 new contributors taking the time to give something back to Mautic, whether that's helping to test bug fixes, writing a social media post, creating the newsletter or helping to run a meetup group.
We also saw the epic release of Mautic 5.1 Andromeda Edition, including 10 new features, 130 bug fixes and 156 enhancements, ensuring a more powerful and user-friendly experience for all Mautic users. Read all the details in the Release Notes.
Our videos for Mautic Conference Global 2023 were also rendered and uploaded to YouTube at the end of June, there are some absolute gems that you really should catch up with! Check out the playlist here.
Conclusion
It's been a quiet month on the fundraising side in June, however with the release of Mautic 5.1 and preparations well underway for Mautic Conference Global 2024, the energy and excitement within the community is palpable.
It's such a delight to see all the hard work that has gone into the 5.1 release finally getting into the hands of our users, and that it's inspiring others to step up and get involved as contributors to continue making Mautic even more awesome!
