W3Techs - World Wide Web Technology Surveys
W3Techs provides information about the usage of various types of technologies on the web.
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In our web technology surveys you can see the most popular technologies in these categories.
Content Management Systems
Most popular content management systems
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1. | WordPress | 17.5% | +0.3% | 55.1% | +0.3% | |||
2. | Joomla | 2.8% | 8.7% | -0.2% | ||||
3. | Drupal | 2.2% | 7.1% | +0.1% | ||||
4. | Blogger | 1.1% | 3.5% | +0.2% | ||||
5. | vBulletin | 1.1% | 3.5% | |||||
percentages of sites |
Fastest growing content management systems since 1 November 2012
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1. | WordPress | 54 |
2. | Blogger | 11 |
3. | Drupal | 9 |
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million |
Server-side Programming Languages
Most popular server-side programming languages
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1. | PHP | 78.7% | +0.4% | |||||
2. | ASP.NET | 20.3% | -0.4% | |||||
3. | Java | 4.0% | ||||||
4. | ColdFusion | 1.1% | ||||||
5. | Perl | 0.8% | -0.1% | |||||
percentages of sites |
Fastest growing server-side programming languages since 1 November 2012
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1. | PHP | 81 |
2. | Java | 1 |
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million |
Client-side Programming Languages
Most popular client-side programming languages
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1. | JavaScript | 92.2% | +0.1% | |||||
2. | Flash | 21.2% | -0.8% | |||||
3. | Silverlight | 0.2% | ||||||
4. | Java | 0.2% | ||||||
percentages of sites |
Fastest growing client-side programming languages since 1 November 2012
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1. | JavaScript | 1 |
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million |
JavaScript Libraries
Most popular JavaScript libraries
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1. | JQuery | 54.0% | +1.5% | 90.1% | +0.6% | |||
2. | MooTools | 4.9% | -0.1% | 8.2% | -0.3% | |||
3. | Prototype | 3.7% | -0.1% | 6.2% | -0.3% | |||
4. | ASP.NET Ajax | 3.1% | +0.1% | 5.1% | ||||
5. | Script.aculo.us | 2.8% | -0.1% | 4.7% | -0.2% | |||
percentages of sites |
Fastest growing JavaScript libraries since 1 November 2012
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1. | JQuery | 329 |
2. | ASP.NET Ajax | 8 |
3. | Knockout | 1 |
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million |
Markup Languages
Most popular markup languages
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1. | XHTML | 62.3% | -0.9% | |||||
2. | HTML | 38.7% | +0.9% | |||||
percentages of sites |
Fastest growing markup languages since 1 November 2012
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1. | HTML | 187 |
2. | XHTML Mobile Profile | 1 |
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million |
Character Encodings
Most popular character encodings
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1. | UTF-8 | 74.5% | +1.1% | |||||
2. | ISO-8859-1 | 13.5% | -0.5% | |||||
3. | Windows-1251 | 2.8% | ||||||
4. | GB2312 | 2.7% | -0.3% | |||||
5. | Shift JIS | 1.5% | ||||||
percentages of sites |
Fastest growing character encodings since 1 November 2012
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1. | UTF-8 | 228 |
2. | ISO-8859-15 | 2 |
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million |
Image File Formats
Most popular image file formats
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1. | JPEG | 72.5% | ||||||
2. | GIF | 62.6% | -0.9% | |||||
3. | PNG | 61.3% | +1.2% | |||||
4. | BMP | 0.6% | ||||||
5. | ICO | 0.2% | ||||||
percentages of sites |
Fastest growing image file formats since 1 November 2012
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1. | PNG | 252 |
2. | JPEG | 5 |
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million |
Site Elements
Most popular site elements
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1. | CSS | 93.9% | -0.1% | |||||
2. | Compression | 51.7% | +1.3% | |||||
3. | Cookies | 50.5% | +0.2% | |||||
4. | ETag | 16.3% | -0.4% | |||||
5. | IPv6 | 3.1% | +0.3% | |||||
percentages of sites |
Fastest growing site elements since 1 November 2012
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1. | Gzip Compression | 277 |
2. | Compression | 270 |
3. | Persistent Cookies | 154 |
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million |
SSL Certificate Authorities
Most popular SSL certificate authorities
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1. | Symantec Group | 13.3% | -0.1% | 42.9% | -0.3% | |||
2. | Comodo | 8.0% | -0.4% | 25.8% | -1.3% | |||
3. | Go Daddy Group | 4.3% | 13.9% | -0.1% | ||||
4. | GlobalSign | 2.5% | +0.4% | 7.9% | +1.1% | |||
5. | Entrust | 1.0% | 3.1% | |||||
percentages of sites |
Fastest growing SSL certificate authorities since 1 November 2012
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1. | GlobalSign | 79 |
2. | SwissSign | 19 |
3. | StartCom | 11 |
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million |
Social Widgets
Most popular social widgets
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1. | 21.3% | +1.8% | 63.4% | +3.3% | ||||
2. | Google +1 | 14.1% | +0.1% | 42.1% | -1.2% | |||
3. | 9.5% | +0.5% | 28.4% | +0.5% | ||||
4. | AddThis | 5.4% | 16.2% | -0.5% | ||||
5. | ShareThis | 1.9% | 5.8% | +0.1% | ||||
percentages of sites |
Fastest growing social widgets since 1 November 2012
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1. | 394 | |
2. | 107 | |
3. | 32 | |
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million |
Web Servers
Most popular web servers
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1. | Apache | 64.1% | -0.5% | |||||
2. | Microsoft-IIS | 16.9% | -0.4% | |||||
3. | Nginx | 13.8% | +0.8% | |||||
4. | LiteSpeed | 1.8% | +0.1% | |||||
5. | Google Servers | 1.3% | +0.1% | |||||
percentages of sites |
Fastest growing web servers since 1 November 2012
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1. | Nginx | 160 |
2. | LiteSpeed | 27 |
3. | Google Web Server | 12 |
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million |
Operating Systems
Most popular operating systems
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1. | Unix | 64.7% | +0.5% | |||||
2. | Windows | 35.4% | -0.5% | |||||
percentages of sites |
Fastest growing operating systems since 1 November 2012
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1. | Unix | 110 |
2. | Ubuntu | 49 |
3. | Debian | 40 |
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million |
JavaScript Content Delivery Networks
Most popular JavaScript content delivery networks
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1. | Google Libraries API | 15.3% | +0.7% | 93.6% | -0.6% | |||
2. | jQuery CDN | 1.0% | +0.1% | 6.0% | +0.2% | |||
3. | Microsoft Ajax CDN | 0.3% | 1.7% | -0.1% | ||||
4. | Yahoo API CDN | 0.2% | +0.1% | 1.1% | +0.4% | |||
percentages of sites |
Fastest growing JavaScript content delivery networks since 1 November 2012
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1. | Google Libraries API | 135 |
2. | jQuery CDN | 19 |
3. | Yahoo API CDN | 16 |
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million |
Traffic Analysis Tools
Most popular traffic analysis tools
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1. | Google Analytics | 57.2% | +0.2% | 82.3% | +0.3% | |||
2. | LiveInternet | 3.8% | +0.1% | 5.4% | +0.1% | |||
3. | Yandex.Metrika | 2.9% | +0.2% | 4.2% | +0.3% | |||
4. | WordPress Stats | 2.5% | +0.1% | 3.6% | +0.1% | |||
5. | StatCounter | 2.5% | 3.6% | |||||
percentages of sites |
Fastest growing traffic analysis tools since 1 November 2012
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1. | Google Analytics | 48 |
2. | Yandex.Metrika | 40 |
3. | LiveInternet | 17 |
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million |
Advertising Networks
Most popular advertising networks
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1. | Google AdSense | 18.5% | 74.4% | -0.5% | ||||
2. | DoubleClick | 2.6% | +0.5% | 10.5% | +2.1% | |||
3. | OpenX | 1.0% | +0.1% | 3.8% | ||||
4. | Infolinks | 0.8% | 3.1% | |||||
5. | Commission Junction | 0.6% | 2.3% | -0.1% | ||||
percentages of sites |
Fastest growing advertising networks since 1 November 2012
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1. | DoubleClick | 116 |
2. | Casale Media | 14 |
3. | AdRoll | 11 |
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million |
Top Level Domains
Most popular top level domains
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1. | .com | 53.2% | -0.5% | |||||
2. | .net | 5.9% | -0.1% | |||||
3. | .org | 4.1% | ||||||
4. | .ru | 4.1% | +0.1% | |||||
5. | .de | 3.9% | ||||||
percentages of sites |
Fastest growing top level domains since 1 November 2012
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1. | .ru | 21 |
2. | .pl | 16 |
3. | .fr | 12 |
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million |
Content Languages
Most popular content languages
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1. | English | 54.9% | -0.1% | |||||
2. | German | 6.5% | +0.1% | |||||
3. | Russian | 5.4% | +0.2% | |||||
4. | Japanese | 4.7% | -0.1% | |||||
5. | Spanish, Castilian | 4.6% | ||||||
percentages of sites |
Fastest growing content languages since 1 November 2012
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1. | Russian | 32 |
2. | French | 27 |
3. | German | 23 |
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million |