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Community Platforms Market Report

This extensive report shows many detailed statistics of the community platform market.

Our technology market report is a detailed monthly report on the usage of community platforms on websites. The report comes via email as a PDF file and has over 4,450 pages with hierarchical bookmarks that make it easy to navigate. It covers this information:

• List of all community platforms
  Which community platforms are covered? Shows a list of all 35 community platforms monitored for our surveys, together with a short description and a link to the website.
• Usage and Market Share Report
  How popular is each of the community platforms? Shows percentages of usage and market shares for all community platforms that we monitor. Also shows how much these figures changed compared to the last month and to the last year.
• Historical Trend Report
  How did the popularity of the community platforms change over time? Shows tables and diagrams of historical trends of usage and market shares for all community platforms since January 2019. Please note, that we permanently keep adding more community platforms to our surveys, therefore not all of them cover the entire time frame.
• Growth Rate Report
  Which are the fastest growing community platforms? Shows the current growth rates in the usage of all community platforms both in absolute figures and percentages in the last month and in the last year.
• Trend Analysis Report
  Which market segments contributed most to usage changes of each community platform? Shows which geographical regions, identified by top level domain and content language, saw the most significant popularity gains or declines in the popularity of the various community platforms in the last 12 months.
• New Site Usage Report
  How popular is each of the community platforms among new sites? Shows percentages of usage and market shares for all community platforms among sites that were first visited in the last month, because they have only recently entered the relevant web.
• Top Site Usage Report
  Which community platforms are primarily used by high traffic sites? Shows for each community platform the share of top sites among all the sites that use that specific community platform.
• Page Speed Report
  What is the average speed when loading pages of different community platforms? Shows for each of the 16 community platforms, for which we have at least 100 measurements, the average Time to First Byte (TTFB) and Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) measurements, obtained from Google's Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX).
• Usage Pattern Report
  On which part of websites are community platforms being used? Shows for each community platform the percentages of websites that use it on the home page, on inner pages only, or on subdomains only.
• Change Report
  Which percentage of sites switched between community platform? Shows for each community platform the percentages of websites that recently switched to or from another community platform as well as the top five community platforms that were involved in such changes.
• List of up to 300 sites that switched between community platforms
  Which popular sites changed their community platform? Shows the 300 most popular sites that switched from one community platform to another in the last month (if there are that many sites in a month). Also shows the involved community platforms.
• List of sites that use specific community platforms
  For each of the 35 community platforms: which popular sites use it, which sites started or stopped using it recently? Shows up to 50 popular sites that use a specific community platform, and up to 50 sites that started using it in the last month, and up to 50 sites that stopped using it in the last month (if there are that many sites in a month).
• Market Position Report
  Where in the market diagram are the community platforms? Shows the market position of the 30 most popular community platforms in terms of popularity and usage by high traffic sites.
• Ranking Breakdown Report
  Which community platforms are popular among high traffic sites? Shows usage and market shares and ranks of all community platforms among websites within popularity ranges of the CrUX/Tranco ranking, that is among the top 1 million sites, the top 100,000, the top 10,000 and the top 1,000 sites.

• Cross-Technologies Market Segmentation Reports
  Which community platforms are particularly strong in which markets? A large set of reports evaluating the combined usage of two categories of web technologies. This shows, for example, the usage and market shares and ranks of all community platforms on any top level domain compared to the usage on all websites.

  These detailed reports are available not only for top level domains, but also for the usage of community platforms broken down by

  • Server-side Programming Languages
  • Client-side Programming Languages
  • JavaScript Libraries
  • CSS Frameworks
  • Web Servers
  • Web Panels
  • Operating Systems
  • Web Hosting Providers
  • Data Center Providers
  • Reverse Proxy Services
  • DNS Server Providers
  • Email Server Providers
  • SSL Certificate Authorities
  • JavaScript Content Delivery Networks
  • Traffic Analysis Tools
  • Advertising Networks
  • Tag Managers
  • Social Widgets
  • Site Elements
  • Structured Data Formats
  • Image File Formats
  • Top Level Domains
  • Server Locations
  • Content Languages
• Geographical Distribution Report
  Which community platform is the most popular one in each country? Shows a colored world map indicating the most popular community platform by country.

Please see technologies overview for explanations on the methodologies used in the surveys, and read our disclaimer to learn about possible incompleteness and inaccuracy of our data.

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