Highlights of web technology surveys, May 2010: Drupal, Ubuntu, Local Counter Services

Posted by Matthias Gelbmann on 3 May 2010 in News, Content Management, Drupal, Traffic Analysis Tools, Ubuntu

Although the most popular technologies in each category don't change frequently, we often see raising technologies worth a special mentioning. These are recent highlights:

• Drupal is now ranked #3 in the Content Management System survey. Is was actually a surprise that vBulletin had that position for a long time, because Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal are often referred to as the "big three". But Drupal slowly gained market share, or more precisely, it lost less than the others to Wordpress. Looking at the change report, we see that Drupal looses to Wordpress, but wins from most of the other systems, including Joomla.
• Ubuntu is a very popular desktop distribution (ranking first on Distrowatch). It is also gaining now as web server operating system, where it ranks #4 at the moment, ahead of Fedora now. Debian still holds the top position there, but CentOS is coming closer and closer.
• In the Traffic Analysis Tools report, we can see very strong positions of local counter services, most notably Rambler from Russia and CNZZ from China, but also LiveInternet and 51.la. These services cannot compete with full-fledged web analytics packages from a functionality point of view, but their strong presence in their local markets is quite remarkable.

On the other hand, it is sometimes also surprising when things don't change:

• Despite all the discussions around Adobe Flash in the last weeks, the percentage of websites using Flash is quite constant. Also, we don't see any trend yet of HTML 5 replacing Flash, good old XHTML is still doing very well in our Markup Language trend report.

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Please note, that all trends and figures mentioned in that article are valid at the time of writing. Our surveys are updated frequently, and these trends and figures are likely to change over time.

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