3 Popular Websites Built With Django in 2021
Django is a high-level Python web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design (check out my article: https://gustavwillig.medium.com/is-django-in-2021-still-relevant-78848c5b8d59). For building highly scalable web applications with a constantly growing audience (e.g. content-based or news sites) is Django a good chose.
According to SimilarTech, there were 83,407 websites built with Django as of May 2021.
Famous websites using Django
Using the following list of websites built with Django. You can consider these sites maybe as examples, for next own projects.
Chaturbate
Chaturbate is a hugely popular site and rank on 62 worldwide. The website is able to handle thousands of concurrent livestream to a giant audience at any given moment. Chaturbate has approximately an average of 1,000 to 3,000 cam models online at any moment time. Each of those will have an audience size that ranges from a zero to over thousand.
Django perfectly works as is and provides users with a range of options to create Python-based web-applications including a user dashboard, various database supports (SQLite, PostgresSQL, MySQL), admin functions, and more.
BitChute
Launched in 2017 as an alternative to YouTube, BitChute joins an ecosystem of alternative, low content moderation platforms, like Gab, Voat, Minds, and 4chan. Uniquely, BitChute focus on video content and is growing fast in popularity.
Opera
Opera is web browser with a market share of 2.65% by May 2021 ( https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/worldwide)
Opera’s backend uses a Python and Django framework (see https://www.scylladb.com/2020/06/11/opera-syncing-tens-of-millions-of-browsers-with-scylla/)
Below we can see the their Django settings.py
