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W3Techs - World Wide Web Technology Surveys

W3Techs provides information about the usage of various types of technologies on the web.

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Provide the most reliable and most extensive source of information on web technology usage.

In our web technology surveys you can see the most popular technologies in these categories.

Content Management Systems

Most popular content management systems

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 February 2017	market share	change since 1 February 2017
1.	WordPress	27.7%	+0.3%	58.8%	+0.2%
2.	Joomla	3.3%		7.1%	-0.1%
3.	Drupal	2.2%		4.7%
4.	Magento	1.2%		2.6%
5.	Blogger	1.1%		2.3%	-0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing content management systems since 1 February 2017

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	WordPress	510
2.	Shopify	58
3.	Squarespace	54
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the content management surveys

Server-side Programming Languages

Most popular server-side programming languages

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 February 2017
1.	PHP	82.6%	+0.2%
2.	ASP.NET	15.2%	-0.1%
3.	Java	2.7%
4.	static files	1.5%
5.	ColdFusion	0.6%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing server-side programming languages since 1 February 2017

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	PHP	280
2.	JavaScript	37
3.	Python	1
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the server-side language surveys

Client-side Programming Languages

Most popular client-side programming languages

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 February 2017
1.	JavaScript	94.5%	+0.1%
2.	Flash	6.9%	-0.3%
3.	Silverlight	0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing client-side programming languages since 1 February 2017

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	JavaScript	108
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the client-side language surveys

JavaScript Libraries

Most popular JavaScript libraries

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 February 2017	market share	change since 1 February 2017
1.	jQuery	72.2%	+0.2%	96.6%	+0.1%
2.	Bootstrap	14.7%	+0.3%	19.6%	+0.3%
3.	Modernizr	10.9%	+0.1%	14.6%	+0.1%
4.	MooTools	3.1%		4.1%	-0.1%
5.	ASP.NET Ajax	2.2%		2.9%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing JavaScript libraries since 1 February 2017

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Bootstrap	674
2.	jQuery	478
3.	Modernizr	104
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the JavaScript library surveys

Markup Languages

Most popular markup languages

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 February 2017
1.	HTML	74.8%	+0.9%
2.	XHTML	25.7%	-0.9%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing markup languages since 1 February 2017

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	HTML5	2,378
2.	HTML	1,777
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the markup language surveys

Character Encodings

Most popular character encodings

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 February 2017
1.	UTF-8	88.8%	+0.4%
2.	ISO-8859-1	5.2%	-0.2%
3.	Windows-1251	1.7%
4.	Shift JIS	1.0%
5.	Windows-1252	0.8%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing character encodings since 1 February 2017

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	UTF-8	671
2.	Windows-1250	3
3.	UTF-7	1
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the character encoding surveys

Image File Formats

Most popular image file formats

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 February 2017
1.	JPEG	73.9%	-0.1%
2.	PNG	73.5%	+0.2%
3.	GIF	37.3%	-0.6%
4.	SVG	3.3%	+0.2%
5.	BMP	0.3%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing image file formats since 1 February 2017

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	SVG	499
2.	PNG	424
3.	ICO	2
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the image file format surveys

Site Elements

Most popular site elements

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 February 2017
1.	CSS	95.6%	-0.1%
2.	Compression	70.9%	+0.4%
3.	Cookies	50.4%	-0.1%
4.	ETag	14.5%
5.	HTTP/2	12.6%	+0.9%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing site elements since 1 February 2017

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	HTTP/2	2,140
2.	Compression	858
3.	Gzip Compression	835
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the site element surveys

SSL Certificate Authorities

Most popular SSL certificate authorities

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 February 2017	market share	change since 1 February 2017
1.	Comodo	14.5%	+0.6%	42.8%	-1.2%
2.	IdenTrust	8.0%	+1.5%	23.5%	+2.9%
3.	Symantec Group	5.3%	+0.1%	15.5%	-0.8%
4.	GoDaddy Group	2.6%	+0.1%	7.7%	-0.3%
5.	GlobalSign	1.7%	+0.1%	4.9%	-0.3%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing SSL certificate authorities since 1 February 2017

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	IdenTrust	3,206
2.	Comodo	1,371
3.	Symantec Group	232
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the SSL certificate authority surveys

Social Widgets

Most popular social widgets

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 February 2017	market share	change since 1 February 2017
1.	Facebook	12.9%	-0.3%	51.8%	-1.1%
2.	Twitter	10.0%	-0.1%	40.2%	-0.3%
3.	Google +1	7.0%	-0.2%	28.2%	-0.5%
4.	AddThis	3.8%		15.4%
5.	Pinterest	2.2%		8.6%	-0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing social widgets since 1 February 2017

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	AddToAny	56
2.	WhatsApp	28
3.	Tumblr	3
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the social widget surveys

JavaScript Content Delivery Networks

Most popular JavaScript content delivery networks

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 February 2017	market share	change since 1 February 2017
1.	Google Hosted Libraries	16.9%	-0.2%	71.0%	-0.9%
2.	CDNJS	4.3%	+0.3%	17.8%	+0.9%
3.	jQuery CDN	4.0%	+0.1%	16.6%	+0.1%
4.	jsDelivr	1.0%	+0.1%	4.1%	+0.3%
5.	Yandex Libraries Hosting	0.7%		3.0%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing JavaScript content delivery networks since 1 February 2017

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	CDNJS	484
2.	jsDelivr	136
3.	jQuery CDN	79
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the content delivery surveys

Traffic Analysis Tools

Most popular traffic analysis tools

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 February 2017	market share	change since 1 February 2017
1.	Google Analytics	54.4%	-0.2%	83.3%	-0.1%
2.	Yandex.Metrika	5.4%	+0.1%	8.2%
3.	WordPress Jetpack	4.6%	+0.1%	7.0%	+0.1%
4.	LiveInternet	3.2%		4.9%
5.	New Relic	1.9%		2.9%	-0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing traffic analysis tools since 1 February 2017

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	WordPress Jetpack	75
2.	Yandex.Metrika	54
3.	Full Circle Studies	37
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the traffic analysis tool surveys

Advertising Networks

Most popular advertising networks

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 February 2017	market share	change since 1 February 2017
1.	Google Ads	16.6%		84.4%
2.	Amazon Associates	1.1%	+0.2%	5.5%	+0.7%
3.	AdRoll	0.6%		3.2%	-0.1%
4.	ExoClick	0.5%		2.4%
5.	Skimlinks	0.2%		1.3%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing advertising networks since 1 February 2017

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Amazon Associates	339
2.	Casale Media	22
3.	ExoClick	16
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the advertising network surveys

Tag Managers

Most popular tag managers

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 February 2017	market share	change since 1 February 2017
1.	Google Tag Manager	6.6%	+0.3%	93.3%	+0.5%
2.	Adobe DTM	0.2%		3.3%
3.	Yahoo Tag Manager	0.2%		2.8%	-0.1%
4.	Signal	0.1%		1.6%	-0.1%
5.	Tealium	0.1%		1.4%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing tag managers since 1 February 2017

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Google Tag Manager	623
2.	Adobe DTM	19
3.	Yahoo Tag Manager	3
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the tag manager surveys

Web Servers

Most popular web servers

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 February 2017
1.	Apache	50.3%	-0.4%
2.	Nginx	32.8%	+0.4%
3.	Microsoft-IIS	11.4%	-0.2%
4.	LiteSpeed	2.5%	+0.1%
5.	Google Servers	1.3%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing web servers since 1 February 2017

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Nginx	945
2.	LiteSpeed	212
3.	Node.js	31
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the web server surveys

Operating Systems

Most popular operating systems

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 February 2017
1.	Unix	66.6%	+0.1%
2.	Windows	33.4%	-0.2%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing operating systems since 1 February 2017

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Ubuntu	765
2.	Linux	545
3.	Unix	273
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the operating system surveys

Web Hosting Providers

Most popular web hosting providers

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 February 2017
1.	GoDaddy Group	5.0%
2.	Amazon	4.7%	+0.1%
3.	OVH	4.3%
4.	Endurance Group	3.9%	-0.1%
5.	Hetzner	3.2%	+0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing web hosting providers since 1 February 2017

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Google	275
2.	Liquid Web	240
3.	DigitalOcean	192
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the web hosting surveys

Reverse Proxy Services

Most popular reverse proxy services

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 February 2017	market share	change since 1 February 2017
1.	CloudFlare	5.6%	+0.2%	71.7%	-0.3%
2.	Akamai	1.0%	+0.1%	12.8%	+0.2%
3.	Incapsula	0.4%	+0.1%	4.6%
4.	Amazon CloudFront	0.3%		3.7%	+0.1%
5.	Sucuri	0.2%		2.4%	+0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing reverse proxy services since 1 February 2017

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	CloudFlare	384
2.	Akamai	105
3.	Amazon CloudFront	40
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the reverse proxy surveys

Top Level Domains

Most popular top level domains

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 February 2017
1.	.com	48.0%	-0.3%
2.	.ru	5.1%
3.	.org	4.8%	+0.1%
4.	.net	4.5%	-0.1%
5.	.de	3.0%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing top level domains since 1 February 2017

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	.org	138
2.	.de	61
3.	.xyz	60
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the top level domain surveys

Server Locations

Most popular server locations

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 February 2017
1.	United States	41.5%	-0.2%
2.	Germany	8.8%	+0.1%
3.	Japan	5.5%
4.	Russian Federation	4.9%	+0.1%
5.	France	4.7%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing server locations since 1 February 2017

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Germany	250
2.	Netherlands	180
3.	Russian Federation	123
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the server location surveys

Content Languages

Most popular content languages

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 February 2017
1.	English	52.0%	-0.2%
2.	Russian	6.5%
3.	Japanese	5.6%	-0.1%
4.	German	5.5%	+0.1%
5.	Spanish	5.1%	+0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing content languages since 1 February 2017

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	French	128
2.	German	126
3.	Persian	92
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the content language surveys

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