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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

© W3Techs.comusagechange since
1 January 2016		market
share		change since
1 January 2016
1.WordPress26.0%+0.4%59.2%+0.4%
2.Joomla2.7%-0.1%6.2%-0.2%
3.Drupal2.2%+0.1%4.9%
4.Magento1.3%+0.1%2.9%
5.Blogger1.2%2.8%+0.1%
percentages of sites


Fastest growing content management systems since 1 January 2016

© W3Techs.comsites
1.WordPress839
2.Blogger59
3.Bitrix54
daily number of additional sites
in the top 10 million

Find more details in the content management surveys


Server-side Programming Languages

Most popular server-side programming languages

© W3Techs.comusagechange since
1 January 2016
1.PHP81.9%+0.2%
2.ASP.NET15.8%-0.2%
3.Java3.1%+0.1%
4.static files1.5%-0.1%
5.ColdFusion0.7%
percentages of sites


Fastest growing server-side programming languages since 1 January 2016

© W3Techs.comsites
1.PHP324
2.JavaScript28
3.Java27
daily number of additional sites
in the top 10 million

Find more details in the server-side language surveys


Client-side Programming Languages

Most popular client-side programming languages

© W3Techs.comusagechange since
1 January 2016
1.JavaScript92.9%+0.8%
2.Flash9.1%-0.4%
3.Silverlight0.1%
percentages of sites


Fastest growing client-side programming languages since 1 January 2016

© W3Techs.comsites
1.JavaScript1,397
daily number of additional sites
in the top 10 million

Find more details in the client-side language surveys


JavaScript Libraries

Most popular JavaScript libraries

© W3Techs.comusagechange since
1 January 2016		market
share		change since
1 January 2016
1.JQuery69.3%+1.0%95.9%+0.1%
2.Bootstrap11.2%+0.7%15.5%+0.8%
3.Modernizr10.1%+0.3%14.0%+0.2%
4.MooTools3.7%-0.1%5.2%-0.1%
5.ASP.NET Ajax2.3%3.2%-0.1%
percentages of sites


Fastest growing JavaScript libraries since 1 January 2016

© W3Techs.comsites
1.JQuery1,843
2.Bootstrap1,325
3.Modernizr507
daily number of additional sites
in the top 10 million

Find more details in the JavaScript library surveys


Markup Languages

Most popular markup languages

© W3Techs.comusagechange since
1 January 2016
1.HTML68.6%+1.2%
2.XHTML31.9%-1.2%
percentages of sites


Fastest growing markup languages since 1 January 2016

© W3Techs.comsites
1.HTML53,708
2.HTML2,111
3.XHTML Mobile Profile2
daily number of additional sites
in the top 10 million

Find more details in the markup language surveys


Character Encodings

Most popular character encodings

© W3Techs.comusagechange since
1 January 2016
1.UTF-886.4%+0.4%
2.ISO-8859-16.6%-0.3%
3.Windows-12511.9%
4.Shift JIS1.1%
5.Windows-12520.9%-0.1%
percentages of sites


Fastest growing character encodings since 1 January 2016

© W3Techs.comsites
1.UTF-8780
daily number of additional sites
in the top 10 million

Find more details in the character encoding surveys


Image File Formats

Most popular image file formats

© W3Techs.comusagechange since
1 January 2016
1.JPEG73.2%+0.6%
2.PNG70.7%+0.9%
3.GIF41.1%-0.4%
4.SVG1.6%+0.2%
5.BMP0.3%
percentages of sites


Fastest growing image file formats since 1 January 2016

© W3Techs.comsites
1.PNG1,604
2.JPEG1,051
3.SVG384
daily number of additional sites
in the top 10 million

Find more details in the image file format surveys


Site Elements

Most popular site elements

© W3Techs.comusagechange since
1 January 2016
1.CSS94.5%+0.8%
2.Compression65.4%+1.1%
3.Cookies49.6%+0.3%
4.ETag15.2%
5.SPDY6.7%+0.4%
percentages of sites


Fastest growing site elements since 1 January 2016

© W3Techs.comsites
1.Compression1,964
2.Gzip Compression1,934
3.HTTP/21,900
daily number of additional sites
in the top 10 million

Find more details in the site element surveys


SSL Certificate Authorities

Most popular SSL certificate authorities

© W3Techs.comusagechange since
1 January 2016		market
share		change since
1 January 2016
1.Comodo7.7%+0.5%40.9%+0.2%
2.Symantec Group5.1%27.3%-1.2%
3.GoDaddy Group2.3%12.2%-0.5%
4.GlobalSign1.8%+0.2%9.6%+0.6%
5.DigiCert0.6%3.1%
percentages of sites


Fastest growing SSL certificate authorities since 1 January 2016

© W3Techs.comsites
1.Comodo725
2.GlobalSign357
3.IdenTrust340
daily number of additional sites
in the top 10 million

Find more details in the SSL certificate authority surveys


Social Widgets

Most popular social widgets

© W3Techs.comusagechange since
1 January 2016		market
share		change since
1 January 2016
1.Facebook15.4%-0.4%56.7%-0.7%
2.Twitter10.7%39.2%+0.4%
3.Google +18.3%-0.1%30.5%-0.2%
4.AddThis4.1%15.0%
5.Pinterest2.2%8.2%+0.1%
percentages of sites


Fastest growing social widgets since 1 January 2016

© W3Techs.comsites
1.AddToAny47
2.WhatsApp26
3.Pinterest21
daily number of additional sites
in the top 10 million

Find more details in the social widget surveys


JavaScript Content Delivery Networks

Most popular JavaScript content delivery networks

© W3Techs.comusagechange since
1 January 2016		market
share		change since
1 January 2016
1.Google Hosted Libraries17.0%+0.1%84.7%-0.3%
2.jQuery CDN2.7%13.7%+0.1%
3.CDNJS1.1%+0.1%5.5%+0.5%
4.Microsoft Ajax CDN0.3%1.5%
5.jsDelivr0.2%0.9%
percentages of sites


Fastest growing JavaScript content delivery networks since 1 January 2016

© W3Techs.comsites
1.CDNJS202
2.Google Hosted Libraries174
3.jQuery CDN55
daily number of additional sites
in the top 10 million

Find more details in the content delivery surveys


Traffic Analysis Tools

Most popular traffic analysis tools

© W3Techs.comusagechange since
1 January 2016		market
share		change since
1 January 2016
1.Google Analytics54.0%+0.4%82.8%
2.Yandex.Metrika5.1%+0.2%7.7%+0.2%
3.WordPress Stats4.3%+0.1%6.6%+0.1%
4.LiveInternet3.4%5.3%+0.1%
5.New Relic1.7%2.6%
percentages of sites


Fastest growing traffic analysis tools since 1 January 2016

© W3Techs.comsites
1.Google Analytics711
2.Yandex.Metrika345
3.WordPress Stats248
daily number of additional sites
in the top 10 million

Find more details in the traffic analysis tool surveys


Advertising Networks

Most popular advertising networks

© W3Techs.comusagechange since
1 January 2016		market
share		change since
1 January 2016
1.Google Ads17.3%+0.2%84.0%+0.4%
2.Amazon Associates1.0%4.8%-0.1%
3.AdRoll0.7%3.5%
4.ExoClick0.4%2.0%
5.Infolinks0.3%1.4%-0.1%
percentages of sites


Fastest growing advertising networks since 1 January 2016

© W3Techs.comsites
1.Google Ads296
2.PopAds17
3.Casale Media4
daily number of additional sites
in the top 10 million

Find more details in the advertising network surveys


Tag Managers

Most popular tag managers

© W3Techs.comusagechange since
1 January 2016		market
share		change since
1 January 2016
1.Google Tag Manager4.3%+0.3%90.1%+0.5%
2.Adobe DTM0.2%3.6%-0.2%
3.Yahoo Tag Manager0.2%+0.1%3.2%-0.1%
4.Signal0.1%1.9%-0.1%
5.Tealium0.1%1.7%-0.1%
percentages of sites


Fastest growing tag managers since 1 January 2016

© W3Techs.comsites
1.Google Tag Manager540
2.Yahoo Tag Manager11
3.Adobe DTM7
daily number of additional sites
in the top 10 million

Find more details in the tag manager surveys


Web Servers

Most popular web servers

© W3Techs.comusagechange since
1 January 2016
1.Apache55.0%-0.5%
2.Nginx27.4%+0.7%
3.Microsoft-IIS12.2%-0.2%
4.LiteSpeed2.3%
5.Google Servers1.4%
percentages of sites


Fastest growing web servers since 1 January 2016

© W3Techs.comsites
1.Nginx1,298
2.Google Servers50
3.Node.js22
daily number of additional sites
in the top 10 million

Find more details in the web server surveys


Operating Systems

Most popular operating systems

© W3Techs.comusagechange since
1 January 2016
1.Unix68.0%+0.2%
2.Windows32.0%-0.2%
percentages of sites


Fastest growing operating systems since 1 January 2016

© W3Techs.comsites
1.Unix345
2.Ubuntu327
3.Debian65
daily number of additional sites
in the top 10 million

Find more details in the operating system surveys


Web Hosting Providers

Most popular web hosting providers

© W3Techs.comusagechange since
1 January 2016
1.GoDaddy Group5.3%-0.1%
2.Endurance Group4.3%-0.1%
3.Amazon4.1%+0.1%
4.OVH4.0%
5.Hetzner3.0%
percentages of sites


Fastest growing web hosting providers since 1 January 2016

© W3Techs.comsites
1.Amazon216
2.OVH137
3.Rackspace114
daily number of additional sites
in the top 10 million

Find more details in the web hosting surveys


Reverse Proxy Services

Most popular reverse proxy services

© W3Techs.comusagechange since
1 January 2016		market
share		change since
1 January 2016
1.CloudFlare4.2%+0.3%71.9%+1.1%
2.Akamai0.8%14.3%-0.6%
3.Incapsula0.3%4.7%-0.6%
4.Amazon CloudFront0.2%3.2%+0.2%
5.DOSarrest0.1%2.2%+0.1%
percentages of sites


Fastest growing reverse proxy services since 1 January 2016

© W3Techs.comsites
1.CloudFlare467
2.Amazon CloudFront34
3.Fastly27
daily number of additional sites
in the top 10 million

Find more details in the reverse proxy surveys


Top Level Domains

Most popular top level domains

© W3Techs.comusagechange since
1 January 2016
1..com49.6%-0.2%
2..ru5.1%+0.1%
3..net4.7%-0.1%
4..org4.4%
5..de3.1%-0.1%
percentages of sites


Fastest growing top level domains since 1 January 2016

© W3Techs.comsites
1..ru283
2..xyz94
3..ir79
daily number of additional sites
in the top 10 million

Find more details in the top level domain surveys


Server Locations

Most popular server locations

© W3Techs.comusagechange since
1 January 2016
1.United States42.7%-0.2%
2.Germany9.0%
3.Japan4.9%
4.Russian Federation4.7%+0.2%
5.France4.6%+0.1%
percentages of sites


Fastest growing server locations since 1 January 2016

© W3Techs.comsites
1.Russian Federation287
2.Singapore97
3.Turkey92
daily number of additional sites
in the top 10 million

Find more details in the server location surveys


Content Languages

Most popular content languages

© W3Techs.comusagechange since
1 January 2016
1.English53.7%-0.2%
2.Russian6.3%+0.1%
3.German5.7%-0.1%
4.Japanese5.0%
5.Spanish4.9%+0.1%
percentages of sites


Fastest growing content languages since 1 January 2016

© W3Techs.comsites
1.Russian327
2.Persian160
3.Turkish128
daily number of additional sites
in the top 10 million

Find more details in the content language surveys

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