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Usage of content languages broken down by character encodings

This diagram shows the percentages of websites using various content languages broken down by character encodings. Cross-technology reports only include technologies with more than 1% usage to ensure statistical significance of the results. See technologies overview for explanations on the methodologies used in the surveys.

How to read the diagram:
English is used by 55.1% of all the websites whose content language we know.
English is used by 58.5% of all the websites whose content language we know and that use UTF-8 as character encoding.

English

55.1%

58.5%

59.5%

12.0%

4.9%

1.7%

68.3%

Russian

6.3%

5.4%

0.1%

85.4%

0.0%

0.1%

German

5.2%

4.7%

10.8%

0.1%

0.0%

7.0%

Spanish, Castilian

4.7%

4.6%

8.6%

0.0%

7.9%

Chinese

4.3%

3.0%

0.1%

0.0%

94.7%

0.0%

0.1%

Japanese

4.3%

3.3%

0.1%

0.0%

0.1%

98.2%

0.1%

French

4.1%

3.9%

8.6%

0.0%

4.5%

Portuguese

2.4%

2.2%

5.1%

0.0%

3.8%

Polish

1.8%

2.0%

0.0%

Italian

1.6%

1.5%

3.0%

0.0%

3.8%

Turkish

1.4%

1.3%

0.0%

0.1%

0.0%

0.1%

Dutch, Flemish

1.2%

1.6%

0.0%

1.6%

Arabic

1.1%

0.9%

0.1%

0.0%

0.8%

Persian

1.0%

1.3%

0.0%

0.3%

W3Techs.com, 19 May 2013

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Percentages of websites using various content languages broken down by character encodings

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