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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 2019	market share	change since 1 February 2019
1.	WordPress	33.4%	+0.4%	60.3%	+0.3%
2.	Joomla	2.9%	-0.1%	5.3%	-0.1%
3.	Drupal	1.9%		3.4%	-0.1%
4.	Shopify	1.5%		2.7%
5.	Squarespace	1.5%		2.7%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing content management systems since 1 February 2019

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	WordPress	832
2.	WooCommerce	282
3.	Shopify	103
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 2019
1.	PHP	79.0%	+0.1%
2.	ASP.NET	11.5%	-0.1%
3.	Java	4.0%
4.	Ruby	2.5%	+0.1%
5.	static files	2.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing server-side programming languages since 1 February 2019

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	PHP	165
2.	Ruby	112
3.	JavaScript	57
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 2019
1.	JavaScript	95.1%
2.	Flash	3.7%	-0.1%
3.	Silverlight	0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing client-side programming languages since 1 February 2019

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	JavaScript	128
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 2019	market share	change since 1 February 2019
1.	jQuery	73.9%	+0.2%	97.3%
2.	Bootstrap	18.6%	+0.1%	24.6%	+0.2%
3.	Modernizr	11.3%		14.9%
4.	Underscore	3.0%	+0.1%	3.9%	+0.1%
5.	MooTools	2.2%	-0.1%	2.9%	-0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing JavaScript libraries since 1 February 2019

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Bootstrap	344
2.	jQuery	335
3.	Popper	283
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 2019
1.	HTML	85.7%	+0.5%
2.	XHTML	14.6%	-0.5%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing markup languages since 1 February 2019

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	HTML5	1,662
2.	HTML	1,118
3.	AMP	7
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 2019
1.	UTF-8	93.2%	+0.2%
2.	ISO-8859-1	3.4%	-0.1%
3.	Windows-1251	1.0%
4.	Windows-1252	0.6%
5.	Shift JIS	0.4%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing character encodings since 1 February 2019

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	UTF-8	439
2.	EUC-JP	3
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 2019
1.	PNG	74.9%	+0.1%
2.	JPEG	72.5%	-0.1%
3.	GIF	27.2%	-0.4%
4.	SVG	16.3%	+0.7%
5.	BMP	0.2%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing image file formats since 1 February 2019

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	SVG	1,494
2.	PNG	365
3.	WebP	21
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 2019
1.	CSS	95.8%
2.	Compression	78.1%	+0.6%
3.	Default protocol https	49.3%	+2.2%
4.	Cookies	46.1%	-0.2%
5.	Default subdomain www	42.8%	+0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing site elements since 1 February 2019

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Default protocol https	4,562
2.	HTTP/2	2,005
3.	Gzip Compression	1,368
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the site element surveys

Structured Data Formats

Most popular structured data formats

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 February 2019
1.	RDFa	45.6%	+0.6%
2.	Meta-tag-based formats	26.8%	+0.7%
3.	JSON-LD	23.7%	+0.6%
4.	Microdata	16.2%	+0.2%
5.	Microformats	0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing structured data formats since 1 February 2019

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Twitter Cards	1,583
2.	Meta-tag-based formats	1,555
3.	Open Graph	1,425
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the structured data surveys

SSL Certificate Authorities

Most popular SSL certificate authorities

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 February 2019	market share	change since 1 February 2019
1.	IdenTrust	32.9%	+1.0%	49.1%	+0.1%
2.	Sectigo	18.1%	+0.2%	27.0%	-0.5%
3.	DigiCert Group	8.1%	+0.5%	12.1%	+0.5%
4.	GoDaddy Group	4.5%	+0.1%	6.8%
5.	GlobalSign	1.9%		2.8%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing SSL certificate authorities since 1 February 2019

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	IdenTrust	1,961
2.	DigiCert	1,050
3.	DigiCert Group	990
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 2019	market share	change since 1 February 2019
1.	Facebook	8.5%	-0.2%	47.1%	-0.2%
2.	Twitter	7.9%		43.4%	+0.4%
3.	Google +1	4.6%	-0.2%	25.3%	-0.9%
4.	AddThis	2.8%		15.4%
5.	Pinterest	1.8%		9.8%	+0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing social widgets since 1 February 2019

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	AddToAny	33
2.	LinkedIn	18
3.	WhatsApp	5
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 2019	market share	change since 1 February 2019
1.	Google Hosted Libraries	15.4%	-0.1%	59.2%	-0.8%
2.	CDNJS	8.9%	+0.3%	34.2%	+0.8%
3.	jQuery CDN	4.1%		15.9%	-0.1%
4.	jsDelivr	2.1%	+0.1%	8.2%	+0.5%
5.	Yandex Libraries Hosting	0.6%		2.2%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing JavaScript content delivery networks since 1 February 2019

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	CDNJS	616
2.	jsDelivr	327
3.	unpkg	86
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 2019	market share	change since 1 February 2019
1.	Google Analytics	56.8%	+1.2%	85.6%	+0.2%
2.	Facebook Pixel	8.0%	+0.2%	12.1%	+0.1%
3.	Yandex.Metrica	5.1%		7.7%	-0.1%
4.	WordPress Jetpack	4.9%	+0.1%	7.3%	-0.1%
5.	Hotjar	2.5%	+0.1%	3.8%	+0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing traffic analysis tools since 1 February 2019

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Google Analytics	2,550
2.	Facebook Pixel	420
3.	Hotjar	233
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 2019	market share	change since 1 February 2019
1.	Google Ads	30.2%	+1.7%	95.2%	+0.5%
2.	Amazon Associates	0.8%		2.5%	-0.1%
3.	AdRoll	0.6%		1.8%	-0.1%
4.	Yandex.Direct	0.3%		1.0%	-0.1%
5.	ExoClick	0.3%		1.0%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing advertising networks since 1 February 2019

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Google Ads	3,572
2.	Yandex.Direct	9
3.	MGID	4
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 2019	market share	change since 1 February 2019
1.	Google Tag Manager	20.9%	+1.0%	98.5%	+0.1%
2.	Adobe DTM	0.2%		1.0%	-0.1%
3.	Yahoo Tag Manager	0.1%		0.6%
4.	Tealium	0.1%		0.4%	-0.1%
5.	Signal	0.1%		0.4%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing tag managers since 1 February 2019

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Google Tag Manager	2,275
2.	Matomo Tag Manager	3
3.	Tealium	2
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 2019
1.	Apache	43.9%	-0.4%
2.	Nginx	41.4%	+0.4%
3.	Microsoft-IIS	8.7%	-0.2%
4.	LiteSpeed	4.0%	+0.1%
5.	Google Servers	0.9%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing web servers since 1 February 2019

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Nginx	1,002
2.	LiteSpeed	360
3.	Node.js	52
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 2019
1.	Unix	69.5%	+0.3%
2.	Windows	30.5%	-0.4%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing operating systems since 1 February 2019

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Unix	640
2.	Scientific Linux	1
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 2019
1.	GoDaddy Group	6.5%	-0.1%
2.	Amazon	5.9%	+0.1%
3.	Endurance Group	4.9%
4.	OVH	4.2%
5.	Google	3.9%	+0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing web hosting providers since 1 February 2019

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Sedo	260
2.	United Internet	213
3.	Google	177
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 2019	market share	change since 1 February 2019
1.	CloudFlare	7.8%	+0.1%	75.8%	+1.2%
2.	Amazon CloudFront	0.7%		6.7%	+0.3%
3.	Akamai	0.6%	-0.2%	5.6%	-1.7%
4.	Fastly	0.5%	+0.1%	4.4%	+0.2%
5.	Sucuri	0.4%	+0.1%	3.4%	+0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing reverse proxy services since 1 February 2019

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	CloudFlare	324
2.	Amazon CloudFront	67
3.	Fastly	35
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 2019
1.	.com	46.8%	-0.1%
2.	.org	5.1%
3.	.ru	4.3%
4.	.net	3.7%
5.	.de	3.5%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing top level domains since 1 February 2019

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	.jp	70
2.	.it	66
3.	.gr	47
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 2019
1.	United States	43.4%	-0.1%
2.	Germany	9.4%	+0.2%
3.	Russian Federation	4.5%
4.	France	3.8%
5.	United Kingdom	3.6%	-0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing server locations since 1 February 2019

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Germany	457
2.	Canada	142
3.	Japan	139
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 2019
1.	English	53.9%	-0.1%
2.	Russian	6.0%
3.	German	5.9%
4.	Spanish	5.0%	+0.1%
5.	French	4.0%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing content languages since 1 February 2019

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Spanish	153
2.	Japanese	136
3.	Italian	73
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the content language surveys

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