.ru (Russia) is the most popular country code top level domain. .cn (China) is the most popular ccTLD among the top 1,000 sites.

Gentoo has become more popular than SuSE on web servers. It had less than half of SuSE's market share one year ago.

Websites tend to use several social widgets, except Baidu Share, which is used exclusively most of the time.

Due to its use on many Google sites, usage of Python on the top 1,000 sites is at 9.8%, compared to 0.2% overall.

More than 4 out of 5 websites use PHP.

We extended our website samples to include the top 10 million sites.

GlobalSign is the most popular SSL certificate authority in France.

The Indian top level domain (.in) is now used by more than 1% of all websites, up from 0.76% one year ago.

Yandex.Metrika from Russia is the fastest growing web traffic analysis tool at the moment.

Joomla is the most popular content management systems in El Salvador, just like in most of Central America.

Very long-term persistent cookies are 6 times more common on Windows-based websites than on Unix-based sites.

The LinkedIn share button is used by 1.5% of all websites, up from 1.1% one year ago.

Pligg is the most popular content management system on .asia websites.

Usage of HitTail almost doubled in the last year.

More than one year after its release, adoption of Apache version 2.4 is still quite marginal.

Pinterest is now used on more websites than Digg and Delicious put together.

Adtech is the most popular non-Google advertising network in Canada.

Usage of KISSmetrics increased by 88.3% in the last year.

WordPress Stats, a plugin to track visitors on WordPress sites, shows steady growth and became the #4 traffic analysis tool.

29 out of 30 websites don't support IPv6.

Usage of the Adzerk ad server has increased tenfold in the last year.

1 out of 6 websites use the Google Libraries API as JavaScript CDN. That was 1 out of 8 one year ago.

The top 15 content management systems are one hosted system (Blogger) and 14 PHP based programs.

TYPO3 is the most popular content management system in Switzerland.

After some security issues, usage of Java as client-side language has dropped from an already low level.

32.6% of .mil (US military) websites are IPv6-ready. More than on any other top level domain.

1% of all websites support SPDY.

For every website that switches from jQuery to Prototype, 8 make the switch in the other direction.

DigiCert is the fastest growing SSL certificate authority at the moment.

Usage of Gunicorn has quintupled in the last year.

BlueKai has become the traffic analysis tool with the highest share of top 1000 sites among its user base.

AdRoll is the most popular non-Google advertising network on .edu sites.

Effective Measure ranks second among the traffic analysis tools used in South Africa, only behind Google Analytics.

61.8% of .edu websites run on Windows, while 64.9% of all websites run on Unix-like systems.

While usage of AngularJS is still relatively low, the growth rate in the last months was spectacular.

62.7% of the websites that have a Pinterest Pin-It button are based on WordPress.

Just in time before officially reaching end-of-life, version 5.3 is now the most popular PHP version.

Russian surpassed German as language no 2 on the web, behind English.

South Korea is the only country in the world where UTF-8 is not the most used character encoding. It's EUC-KR instead.

HubSpot ranks second among the traffic analysis tools on .edu sites, way behind Google Analytics.

Usage of Flash on websites fell to 20%, down from 25.3% one year ago.

On an average day 200 of the top 1 million sites start using a Facebook social widget such as the like button.

SharePoint usage on public-facing websites has increased by 27.5% in the last year.

10 years after its release with Windows Server 2003, usage of Microsoft-IIS version 6 is finally below version 7.

Generic top level domains (.com, .net, .org, .info) are losing market share to country code top level domains.

Nginx is now used by 15% of all websites, and by 29.9% of the top 10,000 sites.

Histats is now used by more than 1.5% of all websites, bringing it to the top 10 traffic analysis tools.

Usage of JavaScript as server-side language has tripled in the last year.

With 5.7% of all websites (up from 4.7% one year ago), Russian is the fastest growing content language at the moment.

Most popular web servers on sites written in Python: 1. Zope, 2. Apache, 3. Gunicorn

Blogger is the most popular content management system on Indonesian language websites, clearly ahead of WordPress, Joomla and Drupal.

80% of all .edu websites use Google Analytics, that is a 96.7% market share.

A Tweet button is now used on 10% of all websites, up from 6.3% one year ago.

1.4% of all websites are in Turkish, up from 1.1% one year ago.

The PNG image file format has been created in 1995 as a response to some patent issues around the then-prevailing GIF format. PNG has gained popularity ever since, and it is now used on more websites than GIF.

Usage of the Knockout JavaScript library was growing by 460% in the last 10 months.

More than 75% of all websites now use UTF-8 as character encoding.

ExoClick, a fast growing ad network for entertainment industries, is now one of the top 10 advertising networks.

10.8% of all websites use a self-signed SSL certificate.

AddThis is the most popular social bookmarking service, ShareThis is also gaining popularity, AddToAny is losing ground.

33 of the top 1 million websites are still using jQuery version 1.0

Usage of CloudFlare's content delivery network CDNJS has quadrupled in the last 6 months.

Today we introduce a new type of report that allows to compare the usage of two or more technologies side-by-side

Bitrix ranks second in the content management systems survey for Russia, only behind WordPress.

PrestaShop is gaining CMS market share, primarily from osCommerce.

ETags may save bandwidth. Interestingly, popular sites are less likely to use ETags than average sites.

Changes in the usage of JavaScript libraries in 2012:
jQuery: +11.73%
Mootools: -0.33%
Prototype: -0.60%

After dropping Google AdSense, more websites start using Infolinks than any other advertising network.

We compiled the list of web technologies that saw the largest increase in usage in the last year.

The number of .su sites (Soviet Union, supposed to be phased out) among the top 1 million websites is actually rising.

Blogger is now the most popular content management system behind the "big 3" WordPress, Joomla and Drupal, taking rank #4 from vBulletin.

60% of all websites use a JavaScript library (most of them use jQuery), up from 50% one year ago.

SwissSign gained 80% of its SSL certificate sites in the last two months.

The share of Red Hat among Linux distributions on web servers has dropped to 10%.

High traffic sites tend to use cookies that expire in years or decades, whereas low traffic sites prefer shorter expiry periods.

After three years of catching up, Windows is now losing web server market share to Unix-like systems.

Microsoft-IIS is used only by 2.2% of all IPv6-ready website.

Usage of the Pinterest Pin-It button has doubled in the last 6 months.

72.8% of osCommerce sites use an SSL certificate, compared to 57.5% of PrestaShop sites.

4.9% of the websites that use jQuery also use MooTools, but 53.5% of the sites that use MooTools also use jQuery.

Webtrends ranks second among the traffic analysis tools used on SharePoint based websites, only behind Google Analytics.

Zanox is the most popular advertising network in Germany after the Google networks AdSense and DoubleClick.

Usage of Revolver Maps has increased by 33% in the last year.

Adoption rate of jQuery version 1.8 is much slower than it was for 1.7.

SharePoint is the most popular content management system in Egypt.

Adtech ranks second in the survey of advertising networks in Norway, only behind Google AdSense.

There seems to be no way around Facebook on the Internet these days. Even if you are not actively participating in that social network, you are more likely to find their Like Button on a website than ever before.

The Dojo JavaScript library is losing sites to jQuery, but is gaining from all other libraries.

Ubuntu is now used on 7% of all web servers, up from 5.5% one year ago.

ASP.NET is much more popular than Java for building websites, but not amongst the top 1000 sites.

StatCounter ranks second in the traffic analysis tools survey for the UK, only behind Google Analytics.

In the last year, generic tld's (.com, .org, .net, .info) lost popularity among the top 1 million websites to country code tld's.

Only 0.4% of Indian (.in) websites use Hindi. 92.3% use English.

Websites on the .mobi top level domain use twice as much Java and half as much ASP.NET than average sites.

85.1% of all websites are written in one of the top 7 languages: English, German, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, French.

Market shares of content management systems amongst the top 1000 sites:

1. WordPress, 2. vBulletin, 3. Drupal

85.1% of US Government (.gov) sites run on Windows, compared to 35.9% of all web sites.

After a long period of decline, usage of Gentoo for web servers is rising again.

Yandex.Metrika climbed to the #3 spot in our traffic analysis tools survey, only behind Google Analytics and LiveInternet.

AdRoll increased its advertising networks market share from 0.4% to 1.2% within a year.