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Perl Market Report

How well do you know your market? Find out who your most promising prospects are, and how they look like. Discover in which parts of the market your competition thrives.

Our technology market report is a detailed monthly report on the usage of Perl as server-side programming language on websites. The report comes via email as a PDF file and has over 80 pages covering this information:

• Server-side Programming Languages Industry Reports
  • Usage Report
    How popular is each of the server-side programming languages? Shows percentages of usage for all server-side programming languages that we monitor. Also shows how much these figures changed compared to the last month and to the last year.
  • Historical Trend Report
    How did the popularity of the server-side programming languages change over time? Shows tables and diagrams of monthly trends of usage for all server-side programming languages since January 2011.
  • Growth Rate Report
    Which are the fastest growing server-side programming languages? Shows the current growth rates in the usage of all server-side programming languages both in absolute figures and percentages in the last month and in the last year.
  • Top Site Usage Report
    Which server-side programming languages are primarily used by high traffic sites? Shows for each server-side programming language the share of top sites amongst all the sites that use that specific server-side programming language.
• Perl Reports
  • Historical Trend Report
    How did the popularity of Perl change from month to month? Shows tables and diagrams of monthly trends of usage for Perl since May 2010.
  • Version Usage Report
    Which are the most popular versions of Perl? Shows the distribution of Perl versions.
  • Cummulative Version Distribution Report
    Which percentage of sites use a newer version of Perl than some specific version? Shows the cummulative distribution of Perl versions.
  • Historical Version Trend Report
    How did the distribution of various versions of Perl change over time? Shows tables and diagrams of monthly trends in the usage of Perl versions.
  • Change Report
    Which percentage of sites switched from another server-side programming language to Perl and vice versa? Shows the percentages of websites that recently changed between Perl and other server-side programming languages. It also shows examples of sites that made a change.
  • Ranking Breakdown Report
    Is the popularity of Perl higher amongst high traffic sites? Shows usage of Perl broken down by popularity ranges of the Alexa ranking, that is amongst the top 1 million sites, the top 100,000, the top 10,000 and the top 1,000 sites. Also shows the popularity rank of Perl amongst all server-side programming languages in these ranges and the most popular competing technology.
  • Market Position Report
    Where in the market diagram lies Perl? Shows the market position of Perl in terms of popularity and usage by high traffic sites, compared to the most popular server-side programming languages.
  • Multiple Server-side Programming Languages Usage Report
    How frequently are other server-side programming languages used together with Perl, and which ones? Shows statistics on the usage of Perl together with other server-side programming languages (if any). We identify here usage on the same site, not necessarily on the same page.

  • Cross-Technologies Breakdown and Segmentation Reports
    In which markets is Perl particularily strong and which one is the most popular competing technology in each market? A set of reports evaluating the combined usage of two categories of web technologies. This shows, for example, the usage of Perl on any top level domain compared to its usage on all websites and the most popular competing technology on each top level domain. Also shows the rank of Perl amongst all server-side programming languages for each top level domain, compared to its overall rank. Furthermore, this includes the ranking and percentages of all top level domains amongst all the sites that use Perl.

    These detailed reports are available not only for top level domains, but also for the usage of Perl broken down by

    • Content Management Systems
    • Client-side Programming Languages
    • JavaScript Libraries
    • Markup Languages
    • Character Encodings
    • Image File Formats
    • Site Elements
    • SSL Certificate Authorities
    • Social Widgets
    • Web Servers
    • Operating Systems
    • JavaScript Content Delivery Networks
    • Traffic Analysis Tools
    • Advertising Networks
    • Top Level Domains
    • Content Languages
  • Geographical Distribution Report
    How popular is Perl in each country? Shows a colored world map indicating the usage percentage of Perl by country.
  • List of the 300 most popular sites using Perl including their usage of other server-side programming languages (if any).
  • List of up to 170 popular sites that started using Perl in the last month (if there are that many sites in a month), including the server-side programming languages they were using before (if any).
  • List of up to 300 popular sites that discontinued using Perl in the last month (if there are that many sites in a month), including the server-side programming languages they are using now (if any).

Please see technologies overview for explanations on the methodologies used in the surveys, and read our disclaimer to learn about possible incompleteness and inaccuracy of our data.

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