Web Technology BlogPosted by Sam Soltano on 18 June 2013.ru (Russia) is the most popular country code top level domain. .cn (China) is the most popular ccTLD among the top 1,000 sites.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 11 June 2013Gentoo has become more popular than SuSE on web servers. It had less than half of SuSE's market share one year ago.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 5 June 2013Websites tend to use several social widgets, except Baidu Share, which is used exclusively most of the time.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 4 June 2013Due 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.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 29 May 2013More than 4 out of 5 websites use PHP.
We extended our website samples to include the top 10 million sites.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 27 May 2013Posted by Sam Soltano on 23 May 2013Posted by Sam Soltano on 17 May 2013Yandex.Metrika from Russia is the fastest growing web traffic analysis tool at the moment.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 16 May 2013Posted by Sam Soltano on 15 May 2013Posted by Sam Soltano on 14 May 2013The LinkedIn share button is used by 1.5% of all websites, up from 1.1% one year ago.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 13 May 2013Posted by Sam Soltano on 10 May 2013Usage of HitTail almost doubled in the last year.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 8 May 2013More than one year after its release, adoption of Apache version 2.4 is still quite marginal.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 7 May 2013Pinterest is now used on more websites than Digg and Delicious put together.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 6 May 2013Posted by Sam Soltano on 3 May 2013Usage of KISSmetrics increased by 88.3% in the last year.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 2 May 2013WordPress Stats, a plugin to track visitors on WordPress sites, shows steady growth and became the #4 traffic analysis tool.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 29 April 201329 out of 30 websites don't support IPv6.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 25 April 2013Usage of the Adzerk ad server has increased tenfold in the last year.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 24 April 20131 out of 6 websites use the Google Libraries API as JavaScript CDN. That was 1 out of 8 one year ago.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 23 April 2013Posted by Sam Soltano on 22 April 2013Posted by Sam Soltano on 19 April 2013Posted by Sam Soltano on 18 April 201332.6% of .mil (US military) websites are IPv6-ready. More than on any other top level domain.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 17 April 20131% of all websites support SPDY.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 15 April 2013Posted by Sam Soltano on 12 April 2013DigiCert is the fastest growing SSL certificate authority at the moment.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 9 April 2013Usage of Gunicorn has quintupled in the last year.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 8 April 2013BlueKai has become the traffic analysis tool with the highest share of top 1000 sites among its user base.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 3 April 2013Posted by Sam Soltano on 2 April 2013Posted by Sam Soltano on 28 March 201361.8% of .edu websites run on Windows, while 64.9% of all websites run on Unix-like systems.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 27 March 2013While usage of AngularJS is still relatively low, the growth rate in the last months was spectacular.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 26 March 2013Just 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.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 15 March 2013South Korea is the only country in the world where UTF-8 is not the most used character encoding. It's EUC-KR instead.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 12 March 2013Posted by Sam Soltano on 11 March 2013Usage of Flash on websites fell to 20%, down from 25.3% one year ago.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 8 March 2013On an average day 200 of the top 1 million sites start using a Facebook social widget such as the like button.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 5 March 2013SharePoint usage on public-facing websites has increased by 27.5% in the last year.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 4 March 2013Posted by Sam Soltano on 26 February 2013Generic top level domains (.com, .net, .org, .info) are losing market share to country code top level domains.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 25 February 2013Nginx is now used by 15% of all websites, and by 29.9% of the top 10,000 sites.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 22 February 2013Histats is now used by more than 1.5% of all websites, bringing it to the top 10 traffic analysis tools.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 21 February 2013Posted by Sam Soltano on 20 February 2013With 5.7% of all websites (up from 4.7% one year ago), Russian is the fastest growing content language at the moment.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 19 February 2013Posted by Sam Soltano on 15 February 2013Posted by Sam Soltano on 14 February 201380% of all .edu websites use Google Analytics, that is a 96.7% market share.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 13 February 2013A Tweet button is now used on 10% of all websites, up from 6.3% one year ago.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 11 February 20131.4% 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.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 29 January 2013Usage of the Knockout JavaScript library was growing by 460% in the last 10 months.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 25 January 2013More than 75% of all websites now use UTF-8 as character encoding.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 24 January 2013ExoClick, a fast growing ad network for entertainment industries, is now one of the top 10 advertising networks.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 23 January 2013Posted by Sam Soltano on 22 January 2013Posted by Sam Soltano on 18 January 2013Posted by Sam Soltano on 17 January 2013Usage of CloudFlare's content delivery network CDNJS has quadrupled in the last 6 months.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 15 January 2013Today we introduce a new type of report that allows to compare the usage of two or more technologies side-by-side
Posted by Sam Soltano on 14 January 2013Posted by Sam Soltano on 11 January 2013PrestaShop is gaining CMS market share, primarily from osCommerce.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 9 January 2013ETags may save bandwidth. Interestingly, popular sites are less likely to use ETags than average sites.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 8 January 2013Posted by Sam Soltano on 3 January 2013We compiled the list of web technologies that saw the largest increase in usage in the last year.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 21 December 2012The number of .su sites (Soviet Union, supposed to be phased out) among the top 1 million websites is actually rising.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 19 December 2012Blogger is now the most popular content management system behind the "big 3" WordPress, Joomla and Drupal, taking rank #4 from vBulletin.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 18 December 201260% of all websites use a JavaScript library (most of them use jQuery), up from 50% one year ago.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 17 December 2012SwissSign gained 80% of its SSL certificate sites in the last two months.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 14 December 2012Posted by Sam Soltano on 13 December 2012Posted by Sam Soltano on 12 December 2012Posted by Sam Soltano on 11 December 2012Microsoft-IIS is used only by 2.2% of all IPv6-ready website.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 10 December 2012Posted by Sam Soltano on 7 December 2012Posted by Sam Soltano on 5 December 20124.9% of the websites that use jQuery also use MooTools, but 53.5% of the sites that use MooTools also use jQuery.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 4 December 2012Posted by Sam Soltano on 3 December 2012Posted by Sam Soltano on 29 November 2012Posted by Sam Soltano on 27 November 2012Posted by Sam Soltano on 22 November 2012SharePoint is the most popular content management system in Egypt.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 20 November 2012There 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.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 16 November 2012The Dojo JavaScript library is losing sites to jQuery, but is gaining from all other libraries.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 15 November 2012Ubuntu is now used on 7% of all web servers, up from 5.5% one year ago.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 14 November 2012ASP.NET is much more popular than Java for building websites, but not amongst the top 1000 sites.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 13 November 2012Posted by Sam Soltano on 12 November 2012In the last year, generic tld's (.com, .org, .net, .info) lost popularity among the top 1 million websites to country code tld's.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 9 November 2012Posted by Sam Soltano on 7 November 2012Websites on the .mobi top level domain use twice as much Java and half as much ASP.NET than average sites.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 6 November 201285.1% of all websites are written in one of the top 7 languages: English, German, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, French.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 5 November 2012Posted by Sam Soltano on 1 November 201285.1% of US Government (.gov) sites run on Windows, compared to 35.9% of all web sites.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 30 October 2012After a long period of decline, usage of Gentoo for web servers is rising again.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 29 October 2012Yandex.Metrika climbed to the #3 spot in our traffic analysis tools survey, only behind Google Analytics and LiveInternet.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 26 October 2012AdRoll increased its advertising networks market share from 0.4% to 1.2% within a year.
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