Breakdown of technology reports

Posted by Sam Soltano on 15 March 2010 in News

When we break down a technology report by another technology, we get a cross-technology report, that shows how often combinations of different technologies are used. Sometimes, the broken down reports are not much different to the overall reports, sometimes we get expected results, and sometimes we get surprising results and new insights.

These are a few examples of interesting reports¹:

• Content management systems broken down by top level domains: This shows the differences in popularity of the major content management systems in various countries. We see, for instance, that Joomla is quite popular in Russia and Italy, Typo3 is extremely popular in Germany, and Discuz (as expected) in China. We see also, that the share of Wordpress in Japan is only a bit more than half of the global average.
• Client-side programming languages broken down by web servers: Flash is used significantly more on IIS-based sites than on Apache or Nginx based ones.
• Markup language broken down by character encoding: Sites that use UTF-8 also tend to use XHTML, whereas sites that use Windows-1252 (West European characters) stick to HTML.
• Operating systems broken down by top level domains: Chinese sites overwhelmingly use Windows, whereas German sites almost exclusively use Unix.
• Linux distributions broken down by top level domain: German sites use mostly Debian and SuSE, Chinese use Red Hat (presumably, they like the name), Japanese sites use Red Hat or CentOS, and Russians use Fedora and Gentoo besides the overall leader Debian.

In order to ensure statistical significance of the results, these new cross-technology reports only include technologies with more than 1% usage.

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¹ Please note, that all statistics mentioned in that article are valid at the time of writing. Our surveys are updated frequently, and these statistics are likely to change over time.

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