W3Techs.com went online exactly one year ago. Time for a little review.

CentOS is a well known Linux distribution with a strong focus on server machines rather than on desktop PCs. For the first time, CentOS is now leading the Linux distribution statistics on web servers with almost 30% of all Linux servers.

We start generating detailed breakdown reports for each technology. These new reports provide much more details than the overview breakdown reports, which we produced so far.

56% of the sites that use a content management system are using WordPress, and that percentage is even growing. For most users, WordPress seems to offer the best balance of features and easy-of-use.

As a by-product of analyzing the technologies of lots of websites, we classify them as adult-oriented or family safe. This gives us an estimate of the size of the adult web.

We offer all webmasters the possibility to show our website technology information on your own site by including a few lines of code in your pages.

This is a summary of a few remarkable and recently emerging changes in our statistics.

One more new way to get our website technology information is a Google subscribed link. If you use that feature, you can get that information inserted into the Google search results, so that you don't need to leave Google.

We created two browser extensions for Firefox and Google Chrome respectively, that enable you to see any website's technologies with just one mouse click while you surf the web.

We start publishing surveys on the usage of advertising networks on the web.

We add Javascript libraries to our list of monitored and published web technologies.

We publish now surveys on the usage of content languages of websites. Content languages are the natural languages of the text on a site, for example English or Chinese.

We provide a bookmarklet now, that enables you to see any website's technologies with just one mouse click.

Many people are interested to know when websites change the technologies they use. In a new section of our surveys, we show for each technology a list of sites that started using this technology recently. Additionally, we provide a free notification service, letting our users know when a top site switched to a particular technology.

The breakdown of our technology reports by site ranking enables us to see which technologies are used by highly successful sites compared to moderately successful ones.

Our breakdown reports now include a special technology usage evaluation by Alexa ranking.

We started analyzing the content languages of websites. It turned out that a large number of sites specify the language incorrectly, so that we introduced new types of quality alerts to indicate these problems.

We introduce a new type of reports that show the usage of web technologies broken down by any other technology. This allows a large set of evaluations to be performed, that were not possible before.

China is now the third most frequent country-specific top level domain amongst the top 1 million websites, ahead of Japan and UK.

We analyze lots of websites for our web technology surveys and doing so, we keep detecting potential technical problems on these sites. This is a summary of the most frequently encountered issues.

You can get the latest news from W3Techs now on Facebook and Twitter.

A new type of report shows the percentages of websites changing from any specific technology to competing technologies.

We start reporting changes of technologies used by individual websites.

Our newest survey shows the distribution of top level domains amongst the top 1 million websites.

We have - finally as some would say - added an RSS feed to our blog.

We start presenting historical data of our technology surveys. Sometimes, the changes of data over time is more interesting than the absolute value. We believe this adds a new dimension in our surveys.

Google dominates the search market, sure. But Google also dominates several other markets on the web, with the web analytics market being a quite significant one.

A new section of our web technology surveys shows the usage of content management systems.

Visitors of our site can now register as user and get quality alerts of their websites per email.

We start showing quality alerts for websites, indicating potential problems. We hope that this is a way to help webmasters to improve the technical quality of their sites.

We included a new section of web technologies to our surveys by reporting usage of client-side programming languages.

We report now the character encodings of websites.

On our site information pages non-English site descriptions are translated into English.

You can now see which technologies a particular site is using.

We have included some new tools in our traffic analysis tools survey.

Web standard advocates were complaining for years about the relatively low acceptance of XHTML. Now it looks like XHTML usage finally exceeds HTML usage. Probably not for very long.

W3Tech launches a new web technology blog on its site. Articles will mostly cover the results of the surveys provided here.

After researching the web and collecting data for some time, W3Techs goes online to present the first results.