Web Technology BlogPosted by Sam Soltano on 9 June 2016Webmasters increasingly replace the GIF image format by PNG and SVG.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 8 June 2016Posted by Sam Soltano on 6 June 2016Bootstrap is the fastest growing JavaScript library, now used by 12.3% of all websites.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 9 May 2016Nginx is used by 30% of all websites, up from 3.9% six years ago.
Ubuntu has a Linux distribution market share of 32.1% on web servers, just ahead of Debian, which was market leader since 2011.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 27 April 201673.2% of the websites that support HTTP/2 are running Nginx. LiteSpeed 25.4%, Apache 0.5%.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 26 April 2016Secure cookies are still uncommon, but their usage has more than doubled in the last year.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 19 April 2016Posted by Sam Soltano on 14 April 2016Posted by Sam Soltano on 13 April 2016Posted by Sam Soltano on 11 April 2016The JavaScript content delivery network CDNJS is now used by 1.2% of all websites, up from 0.5% one year ago.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 6 April 2016IPv6 adoption has stalled at 6.1%. Just when IPv4 has been declared "historic".
Posted by Sam Soltano on 1 April 2016Every 21 seconds, one of the top 10 million websites starts using Nginx.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 23 March 2016More sites are supporting HTTP/2 now than SPDY.
W3Techs presents a world map showing which web hosting provider is the most popular one in each country.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 21 March 2016Posted by Sam Soltano on 16 March 201657.6% of Indian (.in) websites are hosted in the USA. Only 22.9% are hosted in India.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 14 March 2016Posted by Sam Soltano on 9 March 2016Posted by Sam Soltano on 1 March 2016AddToAny is the fastest growing social widget, growing by 45.8% last year.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 23 February 2016Nginx is used by 50% of the top 10,000 websites.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 16 February 2016HTTP/2 is now used by 6.5% of all the websites, and by 13.5% of the top 1000 sites.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 11 February 2016Server locations are the countries where web servers are physically located. The new surveys show statistics covering the top 10 million websites.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 25 January 2016Posted by Sam Soltano on 20 January 2016Posted by Sam Soltano on 13 January 2016Posted by Sam Soltano on 12 January 2016Posted by Sam Soltano on 11 January 2016Usage of the WhatsApp share button on websites has more than doubled in the last 6 months.
We compiled the list of web technologies that saw the largest increase in usage in the last year.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 14 December 2015HTML5 is now used by 50.3% of all websites.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 7 December 2015Posted by Sam Soltano on 1 December 20156 out of 7 websites (85.7%) use UTF-8 as character encoding.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 11 November 2015Comodo has reached an SSL certificate authorities market share of 40%, up from 34.7% eight months ago.
The most popular content management systems now runs a quarter of the web. We have a closer look at the detailed statistics behind that success.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 29 October 2015Posted by Sam Soltano on 9 October 2015Flash is now used by less than 10% of all websites. That was 28.5% 5 years ago.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 2 October 2015Usage of the in-image advertising platform GumGum has grown by 72.5% in the last year.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 1 October 2015Posted by Sam Soltano on 29 September 2015Bootstrap is now the second most popular JavaScript library after jQuery.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 28 September 20151% of all websites are now in Persian, up from 0.8% one year ago.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 21 September 2015Posted by Sam Soltano on 16 September 2015Nginx is now the most used web server among the top 100k websites, ahead of Apache.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 9 September 2015Posted by Sam Soltano on 3 September 2015XenForo has increased its usage by 54% in the last year.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 22 August 2015Bootstrap is the fastest growing JavaScript library, now used by 8.8% of all websites.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 11 August 2015Usage of Java as client-side language fell below 0.05% of all websites.
While Apache is still the most used web server, Nginx is growing fast and already dominating high traffic sites.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 6 August 2015Piwik is the most popular traffic analysis tool in Cuba.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 5 August 2015JavaScript is the fastest growing server-side programming language for websites.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 29 July 20153.5% of all websites use a tag manager now, up from 1.5% one year ago.
The new version 2 of the HTTP protocol has a somewhat unexpected pioneer. Most of the sites that support HTTP/2 right now are relying on LiteSpeed.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 10 July 2015Usage of AddToAny share buttons has increased by 38% in the last year.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 9 July 2015Tomcat gained a significant number of websites from Jetty in the last months.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 8 July 2015CDNJS is the fastest growing JavaScript content delivery network.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 29 June 2015Ubuntu now runs on 10% of all web servers.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 3 June 2015The Russian Cyrillic .рф is by far the most popular internationalized top-level domain, more than doubling its popularity in the last 3 months.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 1 June 2015Nginx is used by 45.5% of the top 10,000 websites. Apache and IIS combined are used by 45.4%.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 19 May 2015Posted by Sam Soltano on 5 May 2015Posted by Sam Soltano on 27 April 2015Posted by Sam Soltano on 21 April 2015Bitrix has increased its usage by 29% in the last year.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 15 April 2015Drupal is now used by 2% of all websites.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 7 April 2015Posted by Sam Soltano on 2 April 2015CentOS is gaining market share on web servers from Red Hat and Fedora, but losing just as much to Debian and Ubuntu.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 24 March 2015Brazil has now more websites among the Alexa top 10 million sites than the UK.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 23 March 2015Posted by Sam Soltano on 10 March 2015Posted by Sam Soltano on 5 March 201534.7% of all English language websites use WordPress.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 26 February 2015Usage of CDNJS grew by 127% in the last year.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 25 February 2015Usage of PopAds has increased by 76% in the last year.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 24 February 2015Only 14.9% of the top 1000 websites support IPv6, and only 5.5% of the rest.
Comodo overtakes Symantec in our surveys of SSL certificate authorities.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 16 February 2015Posted by Sam Soltano on 10 February 2015Usage of Shopify doubled in the last year.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 27 January 2015Posted by Sam Soltano on 22 January 2015Usage of Mouseflow grew by 50% in the last year.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 20 January 2015Usage of Squarespace more than doubled in the last year.
We compiled the list of web technologies that saw the largest increase in usage in the last year.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 18 December 2014The share of Korean (.kr) sites among the top 10 million websites has grown by 70% in the last year.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 15 December 2014Ruby has just overtaken Perl in usage as programming language for websites.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 5 December 2014Usage of New Relic grew by 51.4% in the last year.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 4 December 2014Usage of SVG on websites has more than quadrupled in the last year.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 3 December 2014We still find websites running PHP version 3.0, released in 1998 and supported until 2000.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 26 November 2014Two years after its release, TYPO3 version 6 is only used by 18.9% of TYPO3 sites.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 25 November 20145% of all websites now support IPv6.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 12 November 201492% of the top 1,000 websites use HTTP compression, compared to 58.3% of all sites.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 3 November 2014Usage of GlobalSign SSL certificates jumped from 3.8% of all websites to 5.2% in only one month.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 27 October 2014Usage of SPDY has doubled in the last month.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 20 October 2014.br (Brazil) is the fastest growing top level domain among the top 10 million websites, and Portuguese is the fastest growing content language.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 15 October 2014Posted by Sam Soltano on 29 September 2014WordPress Stats, the WordPress visitor tracking plugin, ranks third in our traffic analysis tool survey, only behind Google Analytics and Yandex.Metrica.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 22 September 2014Usage of the Underscore JavaScript library has doubled in the last year.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 18 September 2014Usage of Modernizr has grown from 3.5% of all websites to 6.5% in the last year.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 17 September 2014Usage of Jetty as web server has grown by 36% in the last year.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 11 September 20141% of all websites now support SPDY, up from 0.3% one year ago.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 10 September 2014Usage of Wix has grown by 161% in the last year.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 4 September 2014Nginx is used by more of the top 1000 websites than Apache and Microsoft-IIS combined.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 1 September 2014Usage of the Backbone JavaScript library more than doubled in the last year.
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