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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, the most extensive and the most relevant source of information on web technology usage.

In our web technology surveys you can see the most popular technologies in these categories. We have no affiliation with any of the technology providers, which we cover in the surveys.

Content Management Systems

Most popular content management systems

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 September 2026	market share	change since 1 September 2026
1.	WordPress	40.2%	-0.5%	58.7%	-0.2%
2.	Shopify	5.4%	+0.1%	7.8%	+0.1%
3.	Wix	4.2%		6.1%
4.	Squarespace	2.4%	-0.1%	3.6%	+0.1%
5.	Joomla	1.1%		1.6%	-0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing content management systems since 1 September 2026

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Shopify	14.3
2.	Astro	7.8
3.	GitHub Pages	2.9
daily increase of number of sites per 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 September 2026
1.	PHP	69.8%	-0.4%
2.	JavaScript	7.6%	+0.4%
3.	Ruby	7.1%	+0.1%
4.	Java	5.5%
5.	Scala	5.0%	-0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing server-side programming languages since 1 September 2026

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	JavaScript	120.0
2.	Ruby	27.9
3.	Java	0.5
daily increase of number of sites per million

Find more details in the server-side language surveys

Client-side Programming Languages

Most popular client-side programming languages

© W3Techs.com		usage
1.	JavaScript	98.9%
2.	Flash	2.8%
percentages of sites

Find more details in the client-side language surveys

JavaScript Libraries

Most popular JavaScript libraries

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 September 2026	market share	change since 1 September 2026
1.	jQuery	65.5%	-0.9%	86.0%	-0.5%
2.	Bootstrap	14.8%	-0.3%	19.5%	-0.1%
3.	Underscore	7.0%	-0.1%	9.2%	-0.1%
4.	React	6.0%	-0.1%	7.9%
5.	Modernizr	5.0%	-0.1%	6.6%	-0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing JavaScript libraries since 1 September 2026

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Next.js	74.2
2.	Nuxt	2.6
3.	GSAP	1.9
daily increase of number of sites per million

Find more details in the JavaScript library surveys

CSS Frameworks

Most popular CSS frameworks

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 September 2026	market share	change since 1 September 2026
1.	Bootstrap	13.4%	-0.2%	74.8%	+0.1%
2.	Animate	7.5%	-0.2%	41.9%	-0.2%
3.	Foundation	0.4%		2.3%
4.	Tailwind	0.3%		1.8%	+0.1%
5.	UIkit	0.2%		0.9%
percentages of sites

Find more details in the CSS framework surveys

Web Servers

Most popular web servers

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 September 2026
1.	Cloudflare Server	31.2%	+1.4%
2.	Nginx	30.8%	-0.5%
3.	Apache	21.9%	-0.6%
4.	LiteSpeed	14.3%	-0.5%
5.	Node.js	7.2%	+0.2%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing web servers since 1 September 2026

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Cloudflare Server	441.1
2.	Node.js	71.8
3.	Google Servers	17.4
daily increase of number of sites per million

Find more details in the web server surveys

Web Panels

Most popular web panels

© W3Techs.com		usage	market share	change since 1 September 2026
1.	hPanel	4.4%	53.6%	+0.6%
2.	Plesk	3.5%	41.9%	-0.4%
3.	cPanel	0.2%	1.9%
4.	RunCloud	0.1%	1.1%	-0.1%
5.	GridPane	0.1%	0.7%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing web panels since 1 September 2026

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	hPanel	5.4
daily increase of number of sites per million

Find more details in the web panel surveys

Operating Systems

Most popular operating systems

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 September 2026
1.	Unix	92.1%	+0.1%
2.	Windows	8.1%	-0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing operating systems since 1 September 2026

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Linux	157.3
2.	Ubuntu	33.9
3.	Unix	28.4
daily increase of number of sites per million

Find more details in the operating system surveys

Web Hosting Providers

Most popular web hosting providers

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 September 2026
1.	Shopify	5.4%	+0.1%
2.	Hostinger	5.1%
3.	Amazon	4.5%
4.	Wix	4.2%
5.	United Internet	2.5%	-0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing web hosting providers since 1 September 2026

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Vercel	57.3
2.	Google	34.1
3.	Shopify	14.5
daily increase of number of sites per million

Find more details in the web hosting surveys

Data Center Providers

Most popular data center providers

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 September 2026
1.	Amazon	11.3%	+0.2%
2.	Google	7.8%	-0.7%
3.	Hostinger	5.2%	+0.1%
4.	OVH	2.7%	-0.1%
5.	United Internet	2.7%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing data center providers since 1 September 2026

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Amazon	51.7
2.	Hostinger	13.7
3.	Oracle	4.5
daily increase of number of sites per million

Find more details in the data center surveys

Reverse Proxy Services

Most popular reverse proxy services

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 September 2026	market share	change since 1 September 2026
1.	Cloudflare	26.3%	+1.3%	85.2%	+0.6%
2.	Amazon CloudFront	1.7%		5.5%	-0.2%
3.	Fastly	0.9%		3.0%	-0.1%
4.	DDoS-Guard	0.7%		2.4%	-0.1%
5.	Akamai	0.6%	-0.1%	2.1%	-0.2%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing reverse proxy services since 1 September 2026

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Cloudflare	436.9
2.	Amazon CloudFront	7.9
3.	Fastly	1.9
daily increase of number of sites per million

Find more details in the reverse proxy surveys

DNS Server Providers

Most popular DNS server providers

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 September 2026
1.	Cloudflare	18.5%	+0.4%
2.	GoDaddy Group	9.9%
3.	Hostinger	4.5%
4.	United Internet	3.7%	-0.1%
5.	Wix	3.7%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing DNS server providers since 1 September 2026

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Cloudflare	144.2
2.	Hostinger	14.3
3.	Vercel	13.2
daily increase of number of sites per million

Find more details in the DNS server surveys

Email Server Providers

Most popular email server providers

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 September 2026
1.	Gmail	17.5%
2.	Microsoft	13.6%	+0.1%
3.	Hostinger	4.1%	+0.1%
4.	United Internet	3.7%
5.	team.blue	2.4%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing email server providers since 1 September 2026

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Gmail	29.3
2.	Cloudflare Email Service	24.7
3.	Cloudflare	24.7
daily increase of number of sites per million

Find more details in the email server surveys

SSL Certificate Authorities

Most popular SSL certificate authorities

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 September 2026	market share	change since 1 September 2026
1.	Let’s Encrypt	64.2%	-0.2%	67.4%	-0.3%
2.	GlobalSign	20.9%	+0.5%	21.9%	+0.5%
3.	Sectigo	4.6%	-0.2%	4.8%	-0.2%
4.	GoDaddy Group	3.5%		3.6%	-0.1%
5.	DigiCert Group	1.6%		1.6%	-0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing SSL certificate authorities since 1 September 2026

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	GlobalSign	192.5
2.	Certum	10.0
3.	SSL.com	7.5
daily increase of number of sites per million

Find more details in the SSL certificate authority surveys

JavaScript Content Delivery Networks

Most popular JavaScript content delivery networks

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 September 2026	market share	change since 1 September 2026
1.	CDNJS	11.3%	-0.1%	48.0%	-0.2%
2.	jsDelivr	9.0%		38.2%	+0.2%
3.	Google Hosted Libraries	7.0%	-0.2%	29.7%	-0.4%
4.	jQuery CDN	3.8%	-0.1%	16.3%	-0.1%
5.	unpkg	2.7%		11.6%	+0.1%
percentages of sites

Find more details in the content delivery surveys

Traffic Analysis Tools

Most popular traffic analysis tools

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 September 2026	market share	change since 1 September 2026
1.	Google Analytics	47.2%	-0.4%	82.7%	-0.5%
2.	Meta Pixel	8.6%	-0.1%	15.0%	-0.1%
3.	Microsoft Clarity	4.1%	+0.1%	7.2%	+0.2%
4.	Yandex.Metrica	3.5%		6.1%
5.	WordPress Jetpack	3.4%		5.9%	-0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing traffic analysis tools since 1 September 2026

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Cloudflare Web Analytics	215.3
2.	Microsoft Clarity	29.9
3.	PostHog	2.5
daily increase of number of sites per million

Find more details in the traffic analysis tool surveys

Advertising Networks

Most popular advertising networks

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 September 2026	market share
1.	Google Ads	43.3%	-0.1%	99.3%
2.	Amazon Associates	0.6%		1.3%
3.	AdRoll	0.3%		0.6%
4.	Microsoft Advertising	0.1%		0.3%
5.	Awin	0.1%		0.2%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing advertising networks since 1 September 2026

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Infolinks	0.4
daily increase of number of sites per million

Find more details in the advertising network surveys

Tag Managers

Most popular tag managers

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 September 2026	market share
1.	Google Tag Manager	45.1%	-0.4%	99.6%
2.	Adobe DTM	0.2%		0.5%
3.	Matomo Tag Manager	0.1%		0.2%
4.	Tealium	0.1%		0.2%
percentages of sites

Find more details in the tag manager surveys

Social Widgets

Most popular social widgets

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 September 2026	market share	change since 1 September 2026
1.	WhatsApp	13.8%	+0.1%	60.5%	+0.6%
2.	Facebook	10.3%	-0.1%	44.8%	-0.5%
3.	Twitter/X	8.9%	-0.1%	38.8%	-0.6%
4.	Pinterest	4.3%	-0.1%	18.9%	-0.2%
5.	LinkedIn	4.2%		18.3%	-0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing social widgets since 1 September 2026

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Telegram	93.0
2.	WhatsApp	36.3
3.	Odnoklassniki	8.9
daily increase of number of sites per million

Find more details in the social widget surveys

Site Elements

Most popular site elements

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 September 2026
1.	CSS	99.4%	+0.2%
2.	Compression	93.3%	+0.2%
3.	Default protocol https	90.1%	+0.1%
4.	Cookies	42.3%	+0.4%
5.	HTTP/3	40.8%	+0.5%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing site elements since 1 September 2026

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	HttpOnly Cookies	524.8
2.	HTTP Strict Transport Security	174.8
3.	Secure Cookies	163.2
daily increase of number of sites per million

Find more details in the site element surveys

Structured Data Formats

Most popular structured data formats

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 September 2026
1.	Open Graph	72.2%	+0.3%
2.	Twitter/X Cards	58.5%	+0.5%
3.	JSON-LD	55.8%	+0.6%
4.	Generic RDFa	36.8%	-0.4%
5.	Microdata	21.3%	-0.3%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing structured data formats since 1 September 2026

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	JSON-LD	169.0
2.	Twitter/X Cards	150.0
3.	Open Graph	115.5
daily increase of number of sites per million

Find more details in the structured data surveys

Markup Languages

Most popular markup languages

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 September 2026
1.	HTML	97.7%
2.	XHTML	3.0%	-0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing markup languages since 1 September 2026

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	HTML5	28.2
2.	HTML	15.4
3.	AMP	0.4
daily increase of number of sites per million

Find more details in the markup language surveys

Character Encodings

Most popular character encodings

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 September 2026
1.	UTF-8	99.1%	+0.1%
2.	ISO-8859-1	0.8%
3.	Windows-1252	0.2%
4.	Windows-1251	0.1%
5.	EUC-JP	0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing character encodings since 1 September 2026

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	UTF-8	4.9
2.	UTF-16	0.1
daily increase of number of sites per million

Find more details in the character encoding surveys

Image File Formats

Most popular image file formats

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 September 2026
1.	PNG	75.4%	-0.5%
2.	JPEG	69.4%	-0.5%
3.	SVG	67.9%	+0.3%
4.	WebP	22.2%	+0.6%
5.	GIF	13.5%	-0.2%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing image file formats since 1 September 2026

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	WebP	191.4
2.	SVG	93.0
3.	AVIF	17.2
daily increase of number of sites per million

Find more details in the image file format surveys

Top Level Domains

Most popular top level domains

© W3Techs.com		usage
1.	.com	43.6%
2.	.org	3.9%
3.	.de	3.9%
4.	.br	3.1%
5.	.ru	2.8%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing top level domains since 1 September 2026

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	.app	6.4
2.	.ir	5.9
3.	.in	3.4
daily increase of number of sites per million

Find more details in the top level domain surveys

Server Locations

Most popular server locations

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 September 2026
1.	United States	33.0%
2.	Germany	15.6%	+0.6%
3.	Japan	6.1%
4.	France	5.2%
5.	Netherlands	3.7%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing server locations since 1 September 2026

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Germany	186.0
2.	Iran	14.9
3.	Cyprus	8.6
daily increase of number of sites per million

Find more details in the server location surveys

Content Languages

Most popular content languages

© W3Techs.com		usage
1.	English	49.5%
2.	Spanish	6.0%
3.	German	5.9%
4.	Japanese	4.9%
5.	French	4.5%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing content languages since 1 September 2026

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Indonesian	19.8
2.	Persian	10.4
3.	English	9.2
daily increase of number of sites per million

Find more details in the content language surveys

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