W3Techs - World Wide Web Technology SurveysW3Techs provides information about the usage of various types of technologies on the web. Our vision Provide the most reliable and most extensive source of information on web technology usage. In our web technology surveys you can see the most popular technologies in these categories.
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| © W3Techs.com | usage | change since 1 April 2013 | market share | change since 1 April 2013 | ||||
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| 1. | WordPress | 18.2% | +0.7% | 56.9% | +2.3% | |||
| 2. | Joomla | 3.0% | +0.3% | 9.3% | +0.8% | |||
| 3. | Drupal | 2.1% | -0.2% | 6.6% | -0.5% | |||
| 4. | Blogger | 1.2% | 3.9% | |||||
| 5. | vBulletin | 0.9% | -0.2% | 2.8% | -0.8% | |||
| percentages of sites | ||||||||
Fastest growing content management systems since 1 April 2013
| © W3Techs.com | sites | |
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| 1. | WordPress | 1,247 |
| 2. | Joomla | 464 |
| 3. | Weebly | 25 |
| daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million | ||
Most popular server-side programming languages
| © W3Techs.com | usage | change since 1 April 2013 | ||||||
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| 1. | PHP | 79.8% | +0.9% | |||||
| 2. | ASP.NET | 19.8% | -0.2% | |||||
| 3. | Java | 3.5% | -0.6% | |||||
| 4. | ColdFusion | 1.0% | -0.1% | |||||
| 5. | Perl | 0.7% | -0.1% | |||||
| percentages of sites | ||||||||
Fastest growing server-side programming languages since 1 April 2013
| © W3Techs.com | sites | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | PHP | 1,694 |
| 2. | JavaScript | 7 |
| daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million | ||
Most popular client-side programming languages
| © W3Techs.com | usage | change since 1 April 2013 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | JavaScript | 90.4% | -2.2% | |||||
| 2. | Flash | 18.6% | -1.2% | |||||
| 3. | Silverlight | 0.2% | ||||||
| 4. | Java | 0.1% | ||||||
| percentages of sites | ||||||||
Most popular JavaScript libraries
| © W3Techs.com | usage | change since 1 April 2013 | market share | change since 1 April 2013 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | JQuery | 55.5% | -1.2% | 91.7% | +0.5% | |||
| 2. | MooTools | 4.9% | +0.1% | 8.1% | +0.4% | |||
| 3. | Prototype | 3.1% | -0.4% | 5.2% | -0.5% | |||
| 4. | ASP.NET Ajax | 2.8% | -0.4% | 4.6% | -0.5% | |||
| 5. | Script.aculo.us | 2.4% | -0.3% | 3.9% | -0.4% | |||
| percentages of sites | ||||||||
Fastest growing JavaScript libraries since 1 April 2013
| © W3Techs.com | sites | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | MooTools | 266 |
| 2. | AngularJS | 10 |
| daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million | ||
Most popular markup languages
| © W3Techs.com | usage | change since 1 April 2013 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | XHTML | 57.7% | -2.4% | |||||
| 2. | HTML | 43.2% | +2.3% | |||||
| percentages of sites | ||||||||
Fastest growing markup languages since 1 April 2013
| © W3Techs.com | sites | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | HTML | 4,423 |
| 2. | HTML Transitional | 1,301 |
| 3. | XHTML Mobile Profile | 18 |
| daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million | ||
Most popular character encodings
| © W3Techs.com | usage | change since 1 April 2013 | ||||||
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| 1. | UTF-8 | 76.1% | +0.2% | |||||
| 2. | ISO-8859-1 | 12.1% | -0.5% | |||||
| 3. | Windows-1251 | 3.1% | +0.2% | |||||
| 4. | GB2312 | 2.6% | +0.3% | |||||
| 5. | Shift JIS | 1.4% | +0.1% | |||||
| percentages of sites | ||||||||
Fastest growing character encodings since 1 April 2013
| © W3Techs.com | sites | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | GB2312 | 498 |
| 2. | Windows-1251 | 272 |
| 3. | UTF-8 | 253 |
| daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million | ||
Most popular image file formats
| © W3Techs.com | usage | change since 1 April 2013 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | JPEG | 70.8% | -1.9% | |||||
| 2. | PNG | 60.6% | -2.8% | |||||
| 3. | GIF | 57.2% | -4.2% | |||||
| 4. | BMP | 0.6% | ||||||
| 5. | ICO | 0.2% | ||||||
| percentages of sites | ||||||||
Fastest growing image file formats since 1 April 2013
| © W3Techs.com | sites | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | SVG | 14 |
| daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million | ||
Most popular site elements
| © W3Techs.com | usage | change since 1 April 2013 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | CSS | 91.7% | -2.3% | |||||
| 2. | Compression | 52.6% | -2.0% | |||||
| 3. | Cookies | 48.7% | -2.4% | |||||
| 4. | ETag | 15.9% | +0.3% | |||||
| 5. | IPv6 | 3.3% | +0.2% | |||||
| percentages of sites | ||||||||
Fastest growing site elements since 1 April 2013
| © W3Techs.com | sites | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Strong ETag | 704 |
| 2. | ETag | 656 |
| 3. | Frameset | 639 |
| daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million | ||
Most popular SSL certificate authorities
| © W3Techs.com | usage | change since 1 April 2013 | market share | change since 1 April 2013 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Symantec Group | 12.6% | -0.9% | 41.9% | -1.0% | |||
| 2. | Comodo | 7.9% | -0.1% | 26.3% | +1.0% | |||
| 3. | Go Daddy Group | 4.1% | -0.2% | 13.7% | ||||
| 4. | GlobalSign | 2.6% | +0.1% | 8.6% | +0.6% | |||
| 5. | Entrust | 0.8% | -0.2% | 2.6% | -0.4% | |||
| percentages of sites | ||||||||
Fastest growing SSL certificate authorities since 1 April 2013
| © W3Techs.com | sites | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | GlobalSign | 108 |
| 2. | DigiCert | 36 |
| 3. | Starfield | 23 |
| daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million | ||
Most popular social widgets
| © W3Techs.com | usage | change since 1 April 2013 | market share | change since 1 April 2013 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 20.8% | -2.2% | 64.2% | -0.8% | ||||
| 2. | Google +1 | 12.7% | -1.9% | 39.1% | -2.1% | |||
| 3. | 9.5% | -0.8% | 29.3% | +0.1% | ||||
| 4. | AddThis | 5.0% | -0.5% | 15.5% | -0.1% | |||
| 5. | ShareThis | 2.0% | -0.1% | 6.2% | +0.1% | |||
| percentages of sites | ||||||||
Fastest growing social widgets since 1 April 2013
| © W3Techs.com | sites | |
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| 1. | Baidu Share | 78 |
| 2. | Yandex | 48 |
| 3. | Shareaholic | 10 |
| daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million | ||
Most popular web servers
| © W3Techs.com | usage | change since 1 April 2013 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Apache | 63.1% | +0.8% | |||||
| 2. | Microsoft-IIS | 16.0% | -0.6% | |||||
| 3. | Nginx | 15.6% | -0.1% | |||||
| 4. | LiteSpeed | 1.9% | ||||||
| 5. | Google Servers | 1.4% | ||||||
| percentages of sites | ||||||||
Fastest growing web servers since 1 April 2013
| © W3Techs.com | sites | |
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| 1. | Apache | 1,588 |
| 2. | LiteSpeed | 114 |
| 3. | Yahoo Traffic Server | 16 |
| daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million | ||
Most popular operating systems
| © W3Techs.com | usage | change since 1 April 2013 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Unix | 65.4% | +0.5% | |||||
| 2. | Windows | 34.7% | -0.4% | |||||
| percentages of sites | ||||||||
Fastest growing operating systems since 1 April 2013
| © W3Techs.com | sites | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Unix | 846 |
| 2. | Ubuntu | 137 |
| 3. | BSD | 15 |
| daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million | ||
Most popular JavaScript content delivery networks
| © W3Techs.com | usage | change since 1 April 2013 | market share | change since 1 April 2013 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Google Libraries API | 15.6% | -0.8% | 91.8% | -1.0% | |||
| 2. | jQuery CDN | 1.4% | +0.2% | 8.1% | +1.2% | |||
| 3. | Microsoft Ajax CDN | 0.3% | 1.6% | -0.1% | ||||
| 4. | Yahoo API CDN | 0.1% | -0.1% | 0.9% | -0.2% | |||
| 5. | CDNJS | 0.1% | 0.6% | +0.2% | ||||
| percentages of sites | ||||||||
Fastest growing JavaScript content delivery networks since 1 April 2013
| © W3Techs.com | sites | |
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| 1. | jQuery CDN | 329 |
| 2. | CDNJS | 57 |
| daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million | ||
Most popular traffic analysis tools
| © W3Techs.com | usage | change since 1 April 2013 | market share | change since 1 April 2013 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Google Analytics | 53.0% | -4.8% | 80.4% | -1.7% | |||
| 2. | LiveInternet | 4.3% | 6.5% | +0.5% | ||||
| 3. | Yandex.Metrika | 3.6% | +0.2% | 5.4% | +0.5% | |||
| 4. | WordPress Stats | 2.7% | 4.1% | +0.3% | ||||
| 5. | StatCounter | 2.4% | -0.1% | 3.6% | +0.1% | |||
| percentages of sites | ||||||||
Fastest growing traffic analysis tools since 1 April 2013
| © W3Techs.com | sites | |
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| 1. | CNZZ | 243 |
| 2. | Yandex.Metrika | 215 |
| 3. | Mixpanel | 127 |
| daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million | ||
Most popular advertising networks
| © W3Techs.com | usage | change since 1 April 2013 | market share | change since 1 April 2013 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Google AdSense | 16.8% | -2.3% | 74.6% | +0.5% | |||
| 2. | DoubleClick | 3.5% | -0.4% | 15.5% | +0.5% | |||
| 3. | OpenX | 0.7% | -0.2% | 2.9% | -0.5% | |||
| 4. | Infolinks | 0.7% | -0.1% | 2.9% | ||||
| 5. | Commission Junction | 0.5% | 2.2% | +0.1% | ||||
| percentages of sites | ||||||||
Fastest growing advertising networks since 1 April 2013
| © W3Techs.com | sites | |
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| 1. | Cubics | 1 |
| daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million | ||
Most popular top level domains
| © W3Techs.com | usage | change since 1 April 2013 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | .com | 53.0% | -0.1% | |||||
| 2. | .net | 5.9% | ||||||
| 3. | .ru | 5.0% | +0.5% | |||||
| 4. | .org | 4.2% | +0.1% | |||||
| 5. | .de | 2.9% | -0.4% | |||||
| percentages of sites | ||||||||
Fastest growing top level domains since 1 April 2013
| © W3Techs.com | sites | |
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| 1. | .ru | 885 |
| 2. | .info | 229 |
| 3. | .org | 197 |
| daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million | ||
Most popular content languages
| © W3Techs.com | usage | change since 1 April 2013 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | English | 55.1% | +0.4% | |||||
| 2. | Russian | 6.3% | +0.3% | |||||
| 3. | German | 5.3% | -0.3% | |||||
| 4. | Spanish, Castilian | 4.6% | -0.2% | |||||
| 5. | Japanese | 4.5% | +0.3% | |||||
| percentages of sites | ||||||||
Fastest growing content languages since 1 April 2013
| © W3Techs.com | sites | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | English | 801 |
| 2. | Russian | 741 |
| 3. | Japanese | 554 |
| daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million | ||
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