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Sam Soltano — 2025-04-24T00:00:00Z

EnglishÂ Â 49.2%
Spanish Â Â 6.0%
GermanÂ Â Â Â 5.8%
JapaneseÂ Â 5.1%
French Â Â Â 4.5%

Sam Soltano — 2017-03-13T00:00:00Z

52% of all websites are in English, down from 57.6% six years ago.

Sam Soltano — 2016-11-18T00:00:00Z

5% of all websites are in Spanish, up from 3.9% six years ago.

Sam Soltano — 2016-09-23T00:00:00Z

Japanese has surpassed German as the third most used language on the web, behind English and Russian.

Sam Soltano — 2016-07-19T00:00:00Z

The share of Persian sites on the web has grown from 0.9% to 1.4% within a year.

Sam Soltano — 2016-03-14T00:00:00Z

Fastest growing content languages on the web:

Sam Soltano — 2015-09-28T00:00:00Z

1% of all websites are now in Persian, up from 0.8% one year ago.

Sam Soltano — 2014-10-20T00:00:00Z

.br (Brazil) is the fastest growing top level domain among the top 10 million websites, and Portuguese is the fastest growing content language.

Sam Soltano — 2014-03-25T00:00:00Z

The worldwide share of Korean language websites has increased by 58.3% percent in the last year.

Sam Soltano — 2013-11-26T00:00:00Z

There are over 120 languages spoken in the Philippines, yet 97.7% of its websites are in English.