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

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

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

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

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

At 2.5%, .jp (Japan) is the top level domain with the lowest percentage of English language websites.

Fastest growing languages on websites: 1. Chinese, 2. Russian, 3. Portuguese.

Ranking of content languages amongst the top 1,000 websites:

1. English, 2. Chinese, 3. Japanese

.jp (Japan) is currently the fastest growing top level domain within the top 1 million websites, and Japanese is the fastest growing language.

.fr (France) is currently the fastest growing top level domain within the top 1 million websites, and French is the fastest growing language.

Polish is now in the top 10 most used languages on the web.

Chinese is now the most popular Asian language on the Internet, ahead of Japanese and #4 overall.

Vietnamese is the fastest growing Asian language on the web, after Chinese.

Less than 10% of all Arabic websites use a country code top level domain.

.br (Brazil) is one of the 3 fastest growing top level domains, and Portuguese is one of the 3 fastest growing content languages.

More than 52% of Chinese language sites use .com as top level domain. Only 26% use .cn.

Spanish is the fastest growing language in the top 1 million websites, gaining 22 additional sites every day.

Russian is now the third most used language on the Web.

The Runet, the Russian Internet, is growing quickly. We have a closer look at what it looks like.

Chinese is now language #4 on the Internet, #2 amongst the top 10,000 sites.

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 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.