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Technologies > Social Widgets > Reports Overview > Market Report

Social Widgets Market Report

Get all the information about social widgets in an extensive report.

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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 social widgets on websites. The report comes via email as a PDF file and has over 900 pages with hierarchical bookmarks that make it easy to navigate. It covers this information:

  • List of all social widgets
    Which social widgets are covered? Shows a list of all 34 social widgets monitored for our surveys, together with a short description and a link to the website.
  • Usage and Market Share Report
    How popular is each of the social widgets? Shows percentages of usage and market shares for all social widgets 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 social widgets change over time? Shows tables and diagrams of monthly trends of usage and market shares for all social widgets since January 2012.
  • Growth Rate Report
    Which are the fastest growing social widgets? Shows the current growth rates in the usage of all social widgets both in absolute figures and percentages in the last month and in the last year.
  • Change Report
    Which percentage of sites switched between social widget? Shows for each social widget the percentages of websites that recently switched to or from another social widget as well as the top three social widgets that were involved in such changes.
  • List of up to 300 sites that switched between social widgets
    Which popular sites changed their social widget? Shows the 300 most popular sites that switched from one social widget to another in the last month (if there are that many sites in a month). Also shows the involved social widgets.
  • Top Site Usage Report
    Which social widgets are primarily used by high traffic sites? Shows for each social widget the share of top sites amongst all the sites that use that specific social widget.
  • Market Position Report
    Where in the market diagram are the social widgets? Shows the market position of the 30 most popular social widgets in terms of popularity and usage by high traffic sites.
  • Ranking Breakdown Report
    Which social widgets are popular amongst high traffic sites? Shows usage and market shares and ranks of all social widgets amongst websites within 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.
  • Multiple Social Widgets Usage Report
    How frequently are more than one social widget used on one site, and which ones? Shows for each social widget statistics on the usage together with other social widgets. We identify here usage on the same site, not necessarily on the same page.
  • Cross-Technologies Market Segmentation Reports
    Which social widgets are particularly strong in which markets? A large set of reports evaluating the combined usage of two categories of web technologies. This shows, for example, the usage and market shares and ranks of all social widgets on any top level domain compared to the usage on all websites.

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

    • Content Management Systems
    • Server-side Programming Languages
    • Client-side Programming Languages
    • JavaScript Libraries
    • Markup Languages
    • Character Encodings
    • Image File Formats
    • Site Elements
    • SSL Certificate Authorities
    • Web Servers
    • Operating Systems
    • JavaScript Content Delivery Networks
    • Traffic Analysis Tools
    • Advertising Networks
    • Top Level Domains
    • Content Languages
  • Geographical Distribution Report
    Which social widget is the most popular one in each country? Shows a colored world map indicating the most popular social widget by country.

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.

Table of Content

This is a preview of the current report's table of content.

1. About this Survey 3
2. Social Widgets 5
3. Usage Overview 7
4. Historical Trends 8
4.1. Monthly Usage 8
4.2. Yearly Usage 10
4.3. Monthly Market Share 12
4.4. Yearly Market Share 14
5. Growth Rates 16
6. Top Site Usage 17
7. Changes 18
8. Sites with recent Technology Changes 21
9. Market Position 26
10. Ranking Breakdown 29
11. Multiple Social Widget Usage 34
12. Segmentation Reports 69
12.1. Content Management Systems 69
12.2. Server-side Programming Languages 193
12.3. Client-side Programming Languages 203
12.4. JavaScript Libraries 208
12.5. Markup Languages 226
12.6. Character Encodings 235
12.7. Image File Formats 274
12.8. Site Elements 282
12.9. SSL Certificate Authorities 308
12.10. Web Servers 347
12.11. Operating Systems 393
12.12. JavaScript Content Delivery Networks 416
12.13. Traffic Analysis Tools 423
12.14. Advertising Networks 536
12.15. Top Level Domains 611
12.16. Content Languages 831
13. Geographical Distribution 922

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Purchasing this report entitles you to use the information within your organization and in direct non-public communication with your business partners. The data may not be published or sold to third parties.

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