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 and most extensive source of information on web technology usage.

In our web technology surveys you can see the most popular technologies in these categories.

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Content Management Systems

Most popular

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 March 2012	market share	change since 1 March 2012
1.	WordPress	16.2%	+0.4%	53.9%	+0.1%
2.	Joomla	2.8%	+0.1%	9.2%	-0.1%
3.	Drupal	2.0%		6.7%
4.	vBulletin	1.2%	-0.1%	4.0%	-0.3%
5.	Blogger	0.9%		2.9%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing since 1 March 2012

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	WordPress	84
2.	Drupal	13
3.	Pligg	9
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million

Find more details in the content management surveys

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Server-side Programming Languages

Most popular

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 March 2012
1.	PHP	77.5%	+0.3%
2.	ASP.NET	21.5%	-0.2%
3.	Java	4.1%
4.	ColdFusion	1.2%
5.	Perl	1.0%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing since 1 March 2012

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	PHP	62
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million

Find more details in the server-side language surveys

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Client-side Programming Languages

Most popular

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 March 2012
1.	JavaScript	91.8%
2.	Flash	24.5%	-0.8%
3.	Silverlight	0.3%
4.	Java	0.2%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing since 1 March 2012

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	JavaScript	3
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million

Find more details in the client-side language surveys

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JavaScript Libraries

Most popular

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 March 2012	market share	change since 1 March 2012
1.	JQuery	46.2%	+1.7%	86.1%	+1.1%
2.	MooTools	5.2%		9.6%	-0.3%
3.	Prototype	4.2%	-0.1%	7.8%	-0.4%
4.	Script.aculo.us	3.1%	-0.1%	5.8%	-0.3%
5.	ASP.NET Ajax	2.9%		5.4%	-0.2%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing since 1 March 2012

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	JQuery	338
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million

Find more details in the JavaScript library surveys

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Markup Languages

Most popular

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 March 2012
1.	XHTML	65.1%	-0.4%
2.	HTML	35.9%	+0.4%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing since 1 March 2012

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	HTML	88
2.	HTML Strict	5
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million

Find more details in the markup language surveys

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Character Encodings

Most popular

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 March 2012
1.	UTF-8	69.8%	+1.1%
2.	ISO-8859-1	16.1%	-0.7%
3.	GB2312	3.3%	-0.1%
4.	Windows-1251	3.1%	-0.1%
5.	Shift JIS	1.7%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing since 1 March 2012

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	UTF-8	212
2.	EUC-KR	2
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million

Find more details in the character encoding surveys

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Image File Formats

Most popular

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 March 2012
1.	JPEG	72.4%	-0.3%
2.	GIF	67.3%	-1.2%
3.	PNG	55.6%	+1.0%
4.	BMP	0.7%	-0.1%
5.	ICO	0.2%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing since 1 March 2012

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	PNG	206
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million

Find more details in the image file format surveys

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Site Elements

Most popular

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1.	CSS	93.9%
2.	Cookies	49.9%	+0.3%
3.	Compression	46.3%	+1.6%
4.	Frameset	1.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing since 1 March 2012

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Gzip Compression	325
2.	Compression	319
3.	Cookies	58
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million

Find more details in the site element surveys

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Social Widgets

Most popular

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 March 2012	market share	change since 1 March 2012
1.	Facebook	16.0%	+0.1%	58.1%	-1.2%
2.	Google +1	12.0%	+0.9%	43.5%	+2.2%
3.	Twitter	7.2%	+0.6%	26.2%	+1.8%
4.	AddThis	5.2%		19.0%	-0.3%
5.	ShareThis	1.6%		5.7%	-0.2%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing since 1 March 2012

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Google +1	182
2.	Twitter	132
3.	LinkedIn	26
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million

Find more details in the social widget surveys

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Web Servers

Most popular

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 March 2012
1.	Apache	66.0%	-0.3%
2.	Microsoft-IIS	18.2%	-0.2%
3.	Nginx	10.9%	+0.5%
4.	LiteSpeed	1.5%	+0.1%
5.	Google Servers	1.0%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing since 1 March 2012

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Nginx	100
2.	LiteSpeed	18
3.	Google Servers	7
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million

Find more details in the web server surveys

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Operating Systems

Most popular

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 March 2012
1.	Unix	63.7%	+0.1%
2.	Windows	36.3%	-0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing since 1 March 2012

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Ubuntu	39
2.	Unix	30
3.	Debian	23
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million

Find more details in the operating system surveys

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Traffic Analysis Tools

Most popular

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 March 2012	market share	change since 1 March 2012
1.	Google Analytics	55.9%	+0.2%	82.3%	+0.2%
2.	LiveInternet	3.7%		5.4%
3.	CNZZ	2.8%		4.1%	-0.1%
4.	StatCounter	2.7%	+0.1%	3.9%
5.	Yandex.Metrika	2.3%	+0.2%	3.4%	+0.2%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing since 1 March 2012

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Google Analytics	38
2.	Yandex.Metrika	32
3.	Full Circle Studies	16
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million

Find more details in the traffic analysis tool surveys

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Advertising Networks

Most popular

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 March 2012	market share	change since 1 March 2012
1.	Google AdSense	18.5%	+0.2%	78.8%	+1.0%
2.	DoubleClick	1.5%	-0.1%	6.4%	-0.3%
3.	OpenX	1.0%		4.3%	-0.1%
4.	Infolinks	0.8%		3.3%
5.	Commission Junction	0.7%		3.0%	-0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing since 1 March 2012

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Google AdSense	44
2.	AdRoll	5
3.	Clicksor	1
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million

Find more details in the advertising network surveys

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Top Level Domains

Most popular

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 March 2012
1.	.com	54.4%	-0.2%
2.	.net	6.2%
3.	.org	4.2%
4.	.ru	4.0%	+0.1%
5.	.de	3.9%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing since 1 March 2012

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	.in	7
2.	.jp	7
3.	.br	6
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million

Find more details in the top level domain surveys

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Content Languages

Most popular

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 March 2012
1.	English	56.0%	-0.3%
2.	German	6.6%
3.	Japanese	4.9%	+0.1%
4.	Russian	4.8%	+0.1%
5.	Spanish, Castilian	4.6%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing since 1 March 2012

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Japanese	18
2.	French	16
3.	Russian	12
daily number of additional sites in the top 1 million

Find more details in the content language surveys