Top-Site score report improvedPosted by Sam Soltano on 3 December 2010 in NewsSummary: We have redefined the definition of the top-site score of a technology, which makes this report easier to understand.
Recently, we introduces a survey which shows the usage of technologies by top sites. However, we got feedback from our users that there was one problem: the figures were difficult to understand. As a matter of fact, the way we calculated the numbers made it also hard for us to explain what exactly they mean. Therefore, we have redefined them now.
If you look for example at our server side programming language report now, you can see a score of 9.4 for Java. This figure simply means that it is roughly 9.4 more likely for a top 1.000 site to be developed in Java than it is for a top 1.000.000 site. When we calculate the score we take also other traffic levels (top 100.000 and top 10.000) into account, but that is the basic idea. A negative score indicates that the technology is less likely to be found in a top 1.000 site.
This redefinition has two advantages:
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It gives a clear meaning to the numbers.
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It is very easy and intuitive now to see which technologies are more "up-market" and which ones are more "mass-market".
We are confident that this change makes that particular type of report much more useful.
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