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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

97.0% of all web servers in Uzbekistan run on PHP. This is higher than in any other country of the world.

6 months after its release, PHP version 5.4 is used by less than 1% of all PHP sites.

Python is the server-side language with the highest share of high traffic sites in its user base.

43.8% of all PHP sites use a content management system, but only 9.4% of ASP.NET sites and 9.3% of Java sites.

77.8% of all websites that use ColdFusion additionally use another server-side language. Mostly ASP.NET.

Usage of JavaScript as server-side language has doubled in the last 6 months.

31 of the top 1 million sites still use PHP version 3.

13.9% of .gov sites use ColdFusion, compared to 1.2% of all sites.

Usage of Java on the top 1 million websites: 3.9%, on the top 1000 websites: 25.3%.

WordPress is used by 25% of all the websites that use PHP.

94 of the 100 most popular websites that use Python belong to Google. The first exception is Quora.com at rank 59.

ColdFusion is more popular than Java on websites that run on Windows servers.

At 75.8%, Egypt is the country with the highest usage of ASP.NET for websites.

Two and a half years after the release of PHP 5.3 it is used by 21.9% of PHP 5 sites (PHP 5.2 is still at 72.2%).

The popularity of Perl as a website scripting language is decreasing. Nevertheless we expect this language to be around for a long time to come.

.mil (US military) is the top level domain with the lowest usage of PHP on its servers (20%).

ColdFusion is more popular than Java on .edu websites.

58.4% of all websites that run on PHP don't use a content management system.

Python is used by 0.2% of all websites. but by 7.3% of the top 1,000 sites. Primarily due to the many Google sites.

PHP is the most popular server-side programming language in all big countries, except China, where it's ASP.NET.

81% of ColdFusion sites run on Windows.

The most popular version of Python on the web is 2.4. Version 2.5 was released in 2006.

More Russian websites are written in Perl than in Java.

Only 6% of the sites that use Java as client-side language also use it on the server.

Ruby is slowly gaining market share from all other server-side languages, except Python.

Java is the server-side language primarily preferred by high traffic sites.

53% of the sites from Turkey use ASP.NET as server-side programming language.

All of the top 10 most popular sites that use Python are various Google sites.

PHP is the server-side programming language that powers more websites than any other. There is not even a close second.