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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.

Content Management Systems

Most popular content management systems

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 May 2016	market share	change since 1 May 2016
1.	WordPress	26.4%	+0.1%	59.5%	+0.2%
2.	Joomla	2.6%	-0.1%	6.0%	-0.1%
3.	Drupal	2.2%		4.9%
4.	Magento	1.3%		2.8%	-0.1%
5.	Blogger	1.2%		2.7%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing content management systems since 1 May 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	WordPress	226
2.	Squarespace	36
3.	Shopify	33
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the content management surveys

Server-side Programming Languages

Most popular server-side programming languages

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 May 2016
1.	PHP	82.1%	-0.2%
2.	ASP.NET	15.8%	+0.1%
3.	Java	2.7%
4.	static files	1.5%
5.	ColdFusion	0.7%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing server-side programming languages since 1 May 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	ASP.NET	209
2.	JavaScript	26
3.	Lua	1
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the server-side language surveys

Client-side Programming Languages

Most popular client-side programming languages

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 May 2016
1.	JavaScript	93.5%	+0.1%
2.	Flash	8.4%	-0.3%
3.	Silverlight	0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing client-side programming languages since 1 May 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	JavaScript	98
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the client-side language surveys

JavaScript Libraries

Most popular JavaScript libraries

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 May 2016	market share	change since 1 May 2016
1.	JQuery	70.3%	+0.2%	96.1%	+0.1%
2.	Bootstrap	12.3%	+0.4%	16.9%	+0.6%
3.	Modernizr	10.4%	+0.1%	14.3%	+0.1%
4.	MooTools	3.5%	-0.1%	4.8%	-0.1%
5.	ASP.NET Ajax	2.3%		3.1%	-0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing JavaScript libraries since 1 May 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Bootstrap	1,010
2.	JQuery	418
3.	Modernizr	226
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the JavaScript library surveys

Markup Languages

Most popular markup languages

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 May 2016
1.	HTML	69.6%	-0.2%
2.	XHTML	30.9%	+0.2%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing markup languages since 1 May 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	XHTML	643
2.	HTML Transitional	234
3.	HTML Strict	125
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the markup language surveys

Character Encodings

Most popular character encodings

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 May 2016
1.	UTF-8	87.1%	+0.2%
2.	ISO-8859-1	6.2%	-0.2%
3.	Windows-1251	1.8%	-0.1%
4.	Shift JIS	1.1%
5.	Windows-1252	0.9%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing character encodings since 1 May 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	UTF-8	624
2.	EUC-KR	10
3.	US-ASCII	4
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the character encoding surveys

Image File Formats

Most popular image file formats

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 May 2016
1.	JPEG	73.4%	-0.2%
2.	PNG	71.6%	+0.1%
3.	GIF	40.1%	-0.5%
4.	SVG	2.1%	+0.2%
5.	BMP	0.3%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing image file formats since 1 May 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	PNG	368
2.	SVG	365
3.	ICO	2
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the image file format surveys

Site Elements

Most popular site elements

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 May 2016
1.	CSS	95.0%
2.	Compression	68.1%	+1.0%
3.	Cookies	49.9%
4.	ETag	14.7%	-0.1%
5.	HTTP/2	8.1%	+0.8%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing site elements since 1 May 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Gzip Compression	2,298
2.	Compression	2,289
3.	HTTP/2	2,007
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the site element surveys

SSL Certificate Authorities

Most popular SSL certificate authorities

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 May 2016	market share	change since 1 May 2016
1.	Comodo	8.5%	+0.4%	40.8%	+0.3%
2.	Symantec Group	5.1%	-0.1%	24.3%	-1.5%
3.	GoDaddy Group	2.3%	-0.1%	11.1%	-0.7%
4.	GlobalSign	1.9%		9.4%	-0.2%
5.	IdenTrust	1.3%	+0.5%	6.4%	+2.4%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing SSL certificate authorities since 1 May 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	IdenTrust	1,317
2.	Comodo	889
3.	GlobalSign	40
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the SSL certificate authority surveys

Social Widgets

Most popular social widgets

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 May 2016	market share	change since 1 May 2016
1.	Facebook	14.7%	-0.3%	55.8%	-0.3%
2.	Twitter	10.4%	-0.2%	39.6%	+0.1%
3.	Google +1	7.9%	-0.2%	30.1%	-0.2%
4.	AddThis	4.0%		15.2%	+0.1%
5.	Pinterest	2.2%		8.4%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing social widgets since 1 May 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	WhatsApp	32
2.	AddToAny	32
3.	Buffer	1
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the social widget surveys

JavaScript Content Delivery Networks

Most popular JavaScript content delivery networks

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 May 2016	market share	change since 1 May 2016
1.	Google Hosted Libraries	16.8%	-0.1%	83.2%	-0.5%
2.	jQuery CDN	2.8%		13.7%	+0.1%
3.	CDNJS	1.4%	+0.1%	6.8%	+0.5%
4.	Microsoft Ajax CDN	0.3%		1.4%
5.	jsDelivr	0.2%		1.1%	+0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing JavaScript content delivery networks since 1 May 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	CDNJS	256
2.	jQuery CDN	55
3.	jsDelivr	25
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the content delivery surveys

Traffic Analysis Tools

Most popular traffic analysis tools

© W3Techs.com		usage	market share	change since 1 May 2016
1.	Google Analytics	54.4%	83.0%	+0.1%
2.	Yandex.Metrika	5.2%	7.9%
3.	WordPress Stats	4.4%	6.7%
4.	LiveInternet	3.4%	5.2%
5.	New Relic	1.8%	2.8%	+0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing traffic analysis tools since 1 May 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Full Circle Studies	376
2.	New Relic	139
3.	Yandex.Metrika	45
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the traffic analysis tool surveys

Advertising Networks

Most popular advertising networks

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 May 2016	market share	change since 1 May 2016
1.	Google Ads	17.3%		84.5%	+0.3%
2.	Amazon Associates	0.9%	-0.1%	4.6%	-0.1%
3.	AdRoll	0.7%		3.4%
4.	ExoClick	0.4%		2.1%
5.	Infolinks	0.3%		1.2%	-0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing advertising networks since 1 May 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	PopAds	12
2.	PopCash	12
3.	AOL Advertising	8
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the advertising network surveys

Tag Managers

Most popular tag managers

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 May 2016	market share	change since 1 May 2016
1.	Google Tag Manager	4.9%	+0.2%	91.0%	+0.3%
2.	Adobe DTM	0.2%		3.6%
3.	Yahoo Tag Manager	0.2%		3.1%	-0.1%
4.	Signal	0.1%		1.7%	-0.1%
5.	Tealium	0.1%		1.6%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing tag managers since 1 May 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Google Tag Manager	533
2.	Adobe DTM	16
3.	Yahoo Tag Manager	13
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the tag manager surveys

Web Servers

Most popular web servers

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 May 2016
1.	Apache	52.3%	-0.5%
2.	Nginx	30.3%	+0.4%
3.	Microsoft-IIS	12.0%
4.	LiteSpeed	2.3%
5.	Google Servers	1.3%	-0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing web servers since 1 May 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Nginx	1,157
2.	Microsoft-IIS	139
3.	LiteSpeed	45
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the web server surveys

Operating Systems

Most popular operating systems

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 May 2016
1.	Unix	67.3%	-0.5%
2.	Windows	32.7%	+0.4%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing operating systems since 1 May 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Windows	1,062
2.	Ubuntu	472
3.	Solaris	1
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the operating system surveys

Web Hosting Providers

Most popular web hosting providers

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 May 2016
1.	GoDaddy Group	5.3%
2.	Amazon	4.3%	+0.1%
3.	OVH	4.2%	+0.1%
4.	Endurance Group	4.0%	-0.1%
5.	Hetzner	3.0%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing web hosting providers since 1 May 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Host Europe	1,701
2.	Amazon	311
3.	1&1 Internet	208
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the web hosting surveys

Reverse Proxy Services

Most popular reverse proxy services

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 May 2016	market share	change since 1 May 2016
1.	CloudFlare	4.7%	+0.2%	72.0%	+1.1%
2.	Akamai	0.8%	-0.1%	13.0%	-0.5%
3.	Incapsula	0.3%		4.7%	-0.3%
4.	Amazon CloudFront	0.2%		3.3%
5.	DOSarrest	0.1%		1.9%	-0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing reverse proxy services since 1 May 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	CloudFlare	531
2.	Fastly	27
3.	Sucuri	25
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the reverse proxy surveys

Top Level Domains

Most popular top level domains

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 May 2016
1.	.com	49.3%	-0.1%
2.	.ru	5.2%
3.	.net	4.7%
4.	.org	4.5%	+0.1%
5.	.de	3.0%	-0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing top level domains since 1 May 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	.ir	102
2.	.org	90
3.	.jp	83
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the top level domain surveys

Server Locations

Most popular server locations

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 May 2016
1.	United States	42.5%	-0.1%
2.	Germany	8.6%
3.	Japan	5.1%	+0.1%
4.	Russian Federation	4.8%
5.	France	4.6%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing server locations since 1 May 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Japan	226
2.	Netherlands	214
3.	India	175
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the server location surveys

Content Languages

Most popular content languages

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 May 2016
1.	English	53.5%	-0.1%
2.	Russian	6.4%
3.	German	5.5%	-0.1%
4.	Japanese	5.2%	+0.1%
5.	Spanish	4.9%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing content languages since 1 May 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Japanese	256
2.	Persian	162
3.	Korean	103
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the content language surveys

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