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W3Techs provides information about the usage of various types of technologies on the web.

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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.

Content Management Systems

Most popular content management systems

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 April 2013	market share	change since 1 April 2013
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
1.	WordPress	1,247
2.	Joomla	464
3.	Weebly	25
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.com		usage	change since 1 April 2013
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

Find more details in the server-side language surveys

Client-side Programming Languages

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

Find more details in the client-side language surveys

JavaScript Libraries

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

Find more details in the JavaScript library surveys

Markup Languages

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

Find more details in the markup language surveys

Character Encodings

Most popular character encodings

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 April 2013
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

Find more details in the character encoding surveys

Image File Formats

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

Find more details in the image file format surveys

Site Elements

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

Find more details in the site element surveys

SSL Certificate Authorities

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

Find more details in the SSL certificate authority surveys

Social Widgets

Most popular social widgets

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 April 2013	market share	change since 1 April 2013
1.	Facebook	20.8%	-2.2%	64.2%	-0.8%
2.	Google +1	12.7%	-1.9%	39.1%	-2.1%
3.	Twitter	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
1.	Baidu Share	78
2.	Yandex	48
3.	Shareaholic	10
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the social widget surveys

Web Servers

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
1.	Apache	1,588
2.	LiteSpeed	114
3.	Yahoo Traffic Server	16
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.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

Find more details in the operating system surveys

JavaScript Content Delivery Networks

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
1.	jQuery CDN	329
2.	CDNJS	57
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.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
1.	CNZZ	243
2.	Yandex.Metrika	215
3.	Mixpanel	127
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.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
1.	Cubics	1
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the advertising network surveys

Top Level Domains

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
1.	.ru	885
2.	.info	229
3.	.org	197
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the top level domain surveys

Content Languages

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

Find more details in the content language surveys

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