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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

© W3Techs.comusagechange since
1 April 2012		market
share		change since
1 April 2012
1.WordPress16.4%+0.4%54.2%+0.4%
2.Joomla2.8%+0.1%9.2%
3.Drupal2.0%6.7%
4.vBulletin1.2%3.8%-0.4%
5.Blogger0.9%3.0%+0.1%
percentages of sites


Fastest growing since 1 April 2012

© W3Techs.comsites
1.WordPress102
2.Joomla13
3.Blogger12
daily number of additional sites
in the top 1 million

Find more details in the content management surveys


Server-side Programming Languages

Most popular

© W3Techs.comusagechange since
1 April 2012
1.PHP77.8%+0.4%
2.ASP.NET21.3%-0.3%
3.Java3.9%-0.2%
4.ColdFusion1.2%
5.Perl0.9%-0.1%
percentages of sites


Fastest growing since 1 April 2012

© W3Techs.comsites
1.PHP99
2.JavaScript1
daily number of additional sites
in the top 1 million

Find more details in the server-side language surveys


Client-side Programming Languages

Most popular

© W3Techs.comusagechange since
1 April 2012
1.JavaScript91.6%-0.2%
2.Flash24.0%-0.8%
3.Silverlight0.3%
4.Java0.2%
percentages of sites


Fastest growing since 1 April 2012

© W3Techs.comsites
1.Java1
daily number of additional sites
in the top 1 million

Find more details in the client-side language surveys


JavaScript Libraries

Most popular

© W3Techs.comusagechange since
1 April 2012		market
share		change since
1 April 2012
1.JQuery47.2%+1.8%86.8%+1.2%
2.MooTools5.2%9.5%-0.2%
3.Prototype4.1%-0.1%7.6%-0.4%
4.Script.aculo.us3.1%-0.1%5.7%-0.3%
5.ASP.NET Ajax2.9%5.3%-0.2%
percentages of sites


Fastest growing since 1 April 2012

© W3Techs.comsites
1.JQuery388
daily number of additional sites
in the top 1 million

Find more details in the JavaScript library surveys


Markup Languages

Most popular

© W3Techs.comusagechange since
1 April 2012
1.XHTML65.0%-0.2%
2.HTML36.0%+0.2%
percentages of sites


Fastest growing since 1 April 2012

© W3Techs.comsites
1.HTML51
2.HTML Strict1
daily number of additional sites
in the top 1 million

Find more details in the markup language surveys


Character Encodings

Most popular

© W3Techs.comusagechange since
1 April 2012
1.UTF-870.5%+1.2%
2.ISO-8859-115.7%-0.7%
3.GB23123.4%
4.Windows-12513.0%-0.2%
5.Shift JIS1.7%
percentages of sites


Fastest growing since 1 April 2012

© W3Techs.comsites
1.UTF-8269
2.GBK1
3.EUC-KR1
daily number of additional sites
in the top 1 million

Find more details in the character encoding surveys


Image File Formats

Most popular

© W3Techs.comusagechange since
1 April 2012
1.JPEG72.1%-0.4%
2.GIF66.3%-1.5%
3.PNG56.1%+1.0%
4.BMP0.7%
5.ICO0.2%
percentages of sites


Fastest growing since 1 April 2012

© W3Techs.comsites
1.PNG229
daily number of additional sites
in the top 1 million

Find more details in the image file format surveys


Site Elements

Most popular

© W3Techs.comusagechange since
1 April 2012
1.CSS93.7%-0.2%
2.Cookies49.9%+0.2%
3.Compression46.8%+1.2%
4.Frameset1.1%
percentages of sites


Fastest growing since 1 April 2012

© W3Techs.comsites
1.Gzip Compression281
2.Compression273
3.HttpOnly Cookies54
daily number of additional sites
in the top 1 million

Find more details in the site element surveys


SSL Certificate Authorities

Most popular

© W3Techs.comusagemarket
share
1.Symantec Group12.7%43.4%
2.Comodo8.1%27.8%
3.Go Daddy Group4.1%14.2%
4.GlobalSign1.7%5.9%
5.Entrust1.0%3.3%
percentages of sites

Find more details in the SSL certificate authority surveys


Social Widgets

Most popular

© W3Techs.comusagechange since
1 April 2012		market
share		change since
1 April 2012
1.Facebook15.9%-0.1%55.9%-2.8%
2.Google +112.4%+0.8%43.6%+1.0%
3.Twitter7.5%+0.6%26.5%+1.0%
4.AddThis5.2%18.5%-0.6%
5.ShareThis1.6%5.5%-0.3%
percentages of sites


Fastest growing since 1 April 2012

© W3Techs.comsites
1.Google +1181
2.Twitter131
3.LinkedIn34
daily number of additional sites
in the top 1 million

Find more details in the social widget surveys


Web Servers

Most popular

© W3Techs.comusagechange since
1 April 2012
1.Apache65.8%-0.2%
2.Microsoft-IIS18.0%-0.3%
3.Nginx11.2%+0.5%
4.LiteSpeed1.5%+0.1%
5.Google Servers1.1%+0.1%
percentages of sites


Fastest growing since 1 April 2012

© W3Techs.comsites
1.Nginx103
2.LiteSpeed20
3.Google Servers13
daily number of additional sites
in the top 1 million

Find more details in the web server surveys


Operating Systems

Most popular

© W3Techs.comusagechange since
1 April 2012
1.Unix63.8%+0.2%
2.Windows36.3%-0.1%
percentages of sites


Fastest growing since 1 April 2012

© W3Techs.comsites
1.Ubuntu40
2.Unix33
3.Debian22
daily number of additional sites
in the top 1 million

Find more details in the operating system surveys


JavaScript Content Delivery Networks

Most popular

© W3Techs.comusagemarket
share
1.Google Libraries API12.3%94.3%
2.jQuery CDN0.7%5.3%
3.Microsoft Ajax CDN0.2%1.8%
4.Yahoo API CDN0.1%0.7%
percentages of sites

Find more details in the content delivery surveys


Traffic Analysis Tools

Most popular

© W3Techs.comusagechange since
1 April 2012		market
share		change since
1 April 2012
1.Google Analytics55.6%-0.1%81.4%-0.8%
2.LiveInternet3.7%5.4%
3.CNZZ2.8%4.2%+0.1%
4.StatCounter2.6%3.9%
5.Yandex.Metrika2.4%+0.2%3.5%+0.2%
percentages of sites


Fastest growing since 1 April 2012

© W3Techs.comsites
1.Yandex.Metrika29
2.WordPress Stats15
3.Full Circle Studies14
daily number of additional sites
in the top 1 million

Find more details in the traffic analysis tool surveys


Advertising Networks

Most popular

© W3Techs.comusagechange since
1 April 2012		market
share		change since
1 April 2012
1.Google AdSense18.5%+0.1%77.6%-0.7%
2.DoubleClick1.5%6.2%-0.3%
3.OpenX1.0%4.1%-0.2%
4.Infolinks0.8%3.2%-0.1%
5.Commission Junction0.7%2.9%-0.2%
percentages of sites


Fastest growing since 1 April 2012

© W3Techs.comsites
1.Google AdSense23
2.AdRoll5
3.Clicksor1
daily number of additional sites
in the top 1 million

Find more details in the advertising network surveys


Top Level Domains

Most popular

© W3Techs.comusagechange since
1 April 2012
1..com54.3%-0.2%
2..net6.2%
3..org4.2%
4..ru4.0%
5..de3.8%-0.1%
percentages of sites


Fastest growing since 1 April 2012

© W3Techs.comsites
1..info13
2..br12
3..in11
daily number of additional sites
in the top 1 million

Find more details in the top level domain surveys


Content Languages

Most popular

© W3Techs.comusagechange since
1 April 2012
1.English55.8%-0.3%
2.German6.5%-0.1%
3.Japanese4.9%
4.Russian4.9%+0.1%
5.Spanish, Castilian4.7%+0.1%
percentages of sites


Fastest growing since 1 April 2012

© W3Techs.comsites
1.Russian24
2.French18
3.Spanish, Castilian12
daily number of additional sites
in the top 1 million

Find more details in the content language surveys

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