W3Techs.com - Cookies Blog https://w3techs.com/ W3Techs.com - Cookies Blog 2002-05-06T00:00:00Z <p><a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/ce-securecookies">Secure cookies</a> are still uncommon, but their usage has more than doubled in the last year.</p> https://w3techs.com/blog/entry/fact_20160426 https://w3techs.com/blog/entry/fact_20160426 Web technology fact of the day 2016-04-26T00:00:00Z Sam Soltano <p>Very <a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/breakdown/ce-persistentlongcookies/operating_system">long-term persistent cookies</a> are 6 times more common on Windows-based websites than on Unix-based sites.</p> https://w3techs.com/blog/entry/fact_20130515 https://w3techs.com/blog/entry/fact_20130515 Web technology fact of the day 2013-05-15T00:00:00Z Sam Soltano <p>High traffic sites tend to use <a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/market/ce-persistentcookies">cookies that expire in years or decades</a>, whereas low traffic sites prefer shorter expiry periods.</p> https://w3techs.com/blog/entry/fact_20121213 https://w3techs.com/blog/entry/fact_20121213 Web technology fact of the day 2012-12-13T00:00:00Z Sam Soltano <p>94.3% of <a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/breakdown/ce-httponlycookies/content_management">vBulletin sites use HttpOnly cookies</a>, compared to less than 3% of WordPress, Joomla and Drupal sites.</p> https://w3techs.com/blog/entry/fact_20120625 https://w3techs.com/blog/entry/fact_20120625 Web technology fact of the day 2012-06-25T00:00:00Z Sam Soltano <p>Top 1,000 sites are more than 6 times as likely than average sites to use <a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/breakdown/ce-persistentlongcookies/ranking">cookies that expire after more than 10 years</a>.</p> https://w3techs.com/blog/entry/fact_20120215 https://w3techs.com/blog/entry/fact_20120215 Web technology fact of the day 2012-02-15T00:00:00Z Sam Soltano <p>IIS based servers are 4 times as likely to use <a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/breakdown/ce-httponlycookies/web_server">HttpOnly cookies</a> than Apache based servers.</p> https://w3techs.com/blog/entry/fact_20110915 https://w3techs.com/blog/entry/fact_20110915 Web technology fact of the day 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Sam Soltano <p>Top 1,000 sites are more than twice as likely to use persistent cookies than average sites: <a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/breakdown/ce-persistentcookies/ranking">usage of persistent cookies broken down by ranking</a>.</p> https://w3techs.com/blog/entry/fact_20110826 https://w3techs.com/blog/entry/fact_20110826 Web technology fact of the day 2011-08-26T00:00:00Z Sam Soltano