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W3Techs - World Wide Web Technology Surveys

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

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 December 2011	market share	change since 1 December 2011
1.	WordPress	15.7%	+0.2%	54.0%	-0.1%
2.	Joomla	2.7%		9.4%	-0.1%
3.	Drupal	1.9%	+0.1%	6.6%	+0.2%
4.	vBulletin	1.3%		4.4%	-0.2%
5.	Blogger	0.9%	+0.1%	3.0%	+0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing since 1 December 2011

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	WordPress	28
2.	Drupal	15
3.	ExpressionEngine	5
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.com		usage	change since 1 December 2011
1.	PHP	77.3%	+0.1%
2.	ASP.NET	21.7%	-0.1%
3.	Java	4.0%
4.	ColdFusion	1.2%	-0.1%
5.	Perl	1.0%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing since 1 December 2011

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	PHP	13
2.	Java	7
3.	Ruby	2
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.com		usage	change since 1 December 2011
1.	JavaScript	91.3%	+0.2%
2.	Flash	25.4%	-0.5%
3.	Silverlight	0.3%
4.	Java	0.2%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing since 1 December 2011

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	JavaScript	42
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million

Find more details in the client-side language surveys

JavaScript Libraries

Most popular

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 December 2011	market share	change since 1 December 2011
1.	JQuery	43.7%	+2.0%	84.6%	+1.2%
2.	MooTools	5.2%		10.1%	-0.4%
3.	Prototype	4.3%	-0.1%	8.3%	-0.5%
4.	Script.aculo.us	3.2%		6.2%	-0.3%
5.	YUI Library	2.9%	-0.2%	5.6%	-0.6%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing since 1 December 2011

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	JQuery	343
2.	ASP.NET Ajax	7
3.	Dojo	1
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million

Find more details in the JavaScript library surveys

Markup Languages

Most popular

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 December 2011
1.	XHTML	65.6%	+0.1%
2.	HTML	35.5%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing since 1 December 2011

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	XHTML	9
2.	XHTML Strict	8
3.	XHTML Transitional	1
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million

Find more details in the markup language surveys

Character Encodings

Most popular

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 December 2011
1.	UTF-8	68.5%	+1.2%
2.	ISO-8859-1	17.0%	-0.7%
3.	GB2312	3.5%	-0.1%
4.	Windows-1251	3.2%	-0.2%
5.	Shift JIS	1.7%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing since 1 December 2011

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	UTF-8	203
2.	EUC-KR	2
3.	GBK	1
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million

Find more details in the character encoding surveys

Image File Formats

Most popular

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 December 2011
1.	JPEG	72.4%	+0.3%
2.	GIF	68.3%	-0.8%
3.	PNG	53.8%	+1.6%
4.	BMP	0.8%
5.	ICO	0.2%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing since 1 December 2011

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	PNG	267
2.	JPEG	45
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million

Find more details in the image file format surveys

Site Elements

Most popular

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 December 2011
1.	CSS	93.6%	+0.2%
2.	Cookies	49.2%	+0.5%
3.	Compression	43.9%	+1.1%
4.	Frameset	1.1%	-0.2%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing since 1 December 2011

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Gzip Compression	182
2.	Compression	181
3.	External CSS	101
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million

Find more details in the site element surveys

Social Widgets

Most popular

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 December 2011	market share	change since 1 December 2011
1.	Facebook	15.7%	+0.3%	59.6%	-1.3%
2.	Google +1	10.6%	+1.4%	40.2%	+3.6%
3.	Twitter	6.3%	+0.8%	23.9%	+1.9%
4.	AddThis	5.1%	+0.1%	19.4%	-0.5%
5.	ShareThis	1.6%	+0.1%	6.0%	+0.2%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing since 1 December 2011

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Google +1	224
2.	Twitter	122
3.	Facebook	47
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million

Find more details in the social widget surveys

Web Servers

Most popular

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 December 2011
1.	Apache	66.5%	-0.5%
2.	Microsoft-IIS	18.4%	-0.1%
3.	Nginx	10.3%	+0.5%
4.	LiteSpeed	1.4%	+0.1%
5.	Google Servers	1.0%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing since 1 December 2011

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Nginx	77
2.	LiteSpeed	9
3.	Yahoo Traffic Server	7
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million

Find more details in the web server surveys

Operating Systems

Most popular

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 December 2011
1.	Unix	63.5%	-0.1%
2.	Windows	36.5%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing since 1 December 2011

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Debian	55
2.	Linux	39
3.	Ubuntu	33
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million

Find more details in the operating system surveys

Traffic Analysis Tools

Most popular

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 December 2011	market share	change since 1 December 2011
1.	Google Analytics	54.9%	+0.5%	81.8%
2.	LiveInternet	3.6%	-0.1%	5.4%	-0.1%
3.	CNZZ	2.9%	+0.1%	4.3%
4.	StatCounter	2.6%	-0.1%	3.9%	-0.1%
5.	Quantcast	2.2%	-0.1%	3.3%	-0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing since 1 December 2011

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Google Analytics	90
2.	Yandex.Metrika	20
3.	CNZZ	10
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million

Find more details in the traffic analysis tool surveys

Advertising Networks

Most popular

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 December 2011	market share	change since 1 December 2011
1.	Google AdSense	18.1%	-0.3%	77.8%	-0.1%
2.	DoubleClick	1.6%		6.7%
3.	OpenX	1.0%	-0.1%	4.4%	-0.1%
4.	Infolinks	0.8%		3.3%	-0.1%
5.	Commission Junction	0.7%	-0.1%	3.2%	-0.2%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing since 1 December 2011

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	AdRoll	4
2.	Adtech	1
3.	24/7 Real Media	1
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million

Find more details in the advertising network surveys

Top Level Domains

Most popular

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 December 2011
1.	.com	54.7%	-0.4%
2.	.net	6.3%
3.	.org	4.2%
4.	.ru	4.0%
5.	.de	3.8%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing since 1 December 2011

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	.fr	13
2.	.br	12
3.	.pl	8
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million

Find more details in the top level domain surveys

Content Languages

Most popular

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 December 2011
1.	English	56.5%	-0.2%
2.	German	6.5%
3.	Russian	4.7%	-0.1%
4.	Japanese	4.7%
5.	Spanish, Castilian	4.6%	+0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing since 1 December 2011

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	French	36
2.	Spanish, Castilian	13
3.	Japanese	13
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million

Find more details in the content language surveys

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