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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 August 2016	market share	change since 1 August 2016
1.	WordPress	26.6%		59.2%	-0.4%
2.	Joomla	2.8%	+0.1%	6.2%	+0.1%
3.	Drupal	2.2%		4.9%
4.	Magento	1.3%		2.8%
5.	Blogger	1.1%	-0.1%	2.5%	-0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing content management systems since 1 August 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	WordPress	149
2.	Joomla	87
3.	Telerik Sitefinity	57
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 August 2016
1.	PHP	81.9%	-0.2%
2.	ASP.NET	15.7%	-0.1%
3.	Java	2.9%	+0.2%
4.	static files	1.5%
5.	ColdFusion	0.7%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing server-side programming languages since 1 August 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Java	658
2.	static files	102
3.	JavaScript	24
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 August 2016
1.	JavaScript	93.6%
2.	Flash	7.9%	-0.2%
3.	Silverlight	0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing client-side programming languages since 1 August 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	JavaScript	104
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 August 2016	market share	change since 1 August 2016
1.	JQuery	70.7%	+0.1%	96.2%
2.	Bootstrap	13.2%	+0.4%	17.9%	+0.4%
3.	Modernizr	10.6%		14.5%	+0.1%
4.	MooTools	3.4%		4.6%	-0.1%
5.	ASP.NET Ajax	2.3%		3.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing JavaScript libraries since 1 August 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Bootstrap	864
2.	JQuery	371
3.	Modernizr	190
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 August 2016
1.	HTML	71.5%	+0.6%
2.	XHTML	29.0%	-0.6%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing markup languages since 1 August 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	HTML5	2,115
2.	HTML	1,642
3.	XHTML Basic	1
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 August 2016
1.	UTF-8	87.6%	+0.2%
2.	ISO-8859-1	5.9%	-0.1%
3.	Windows-1251	1.8%
4.	Shift JIS	1.1%
5.	Windows-1252	0.9%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing character encodings since 1 August 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	UTF-8	529
2.	EUC-KR	40
3.	GBK	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 August 2016
1.	JPEG	73.5%
2.	PNG	72.3%	+0.3%
3.	GIF	39.2%	-0.4%
4.	SVG	2.4%	+0.1%
5.	BMP	0.3%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing image file formats since 1 August 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	PNG	689
2.	SVG	347
3.	JPEG	51
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 August 2016
1.	CSS	95.2%	+0.1%
2.	Compression	69.0%	+0.4%
3.	Cookies	50.2%
4.	ETag	14.5%	-0.1%
5.	HTTP/2	9.8%	+0.8%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing site elements since 1 August 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Weak ETag	2,668
2.	IPv6	1,963
3.	HTTP/2	1,911
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 August 2016	market share	change since 1 August 2016
1.	Comodo	9.0%	+0.3%	40.2%
2.	Symantec Group	5.0%		22.3%	-0.7%
3.	IdenTrust	2.8%	+0.3%	12.5%	+1.1%
4.	GoDaddy Group	2.3%		10.4%	-0.2%
5.	GlobalSign	1.5%		6.9%	-0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing SSL certificate authorities since 1 August 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Comodo	882
2.	IdenTrust	859
3.	GoDaddy Group	124
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 August 2016	market share	change since 1 August 2016
1.	Facebook	14.1%	-0.3%	54.7%	-0.5%
2.	Twitter	10.3%		39.9%	+0.1%
3.	Google +1	7.6%	-0.1%	29.5%	-0.3%
4.	AddThis	3.9%	-0.1%	15.2%
5.	Pinterest	2.2%		8.5%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing social widgets since 1 August 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	VKontakte	395
2.	ShareThis	64
3.	AddToAny	57
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 August 2016	market share	change since 1 August 2016
1.	Google Hosted Libraries	17.2%	+0.4%	74.2%	-7.7%
2.	jQuery CDN	3.8%	+0.9%	16.5%	+2.4%
3.	CDNJS	3.4%	+1.7%	14.5%	+6.4%
4.	jsDelivr	0.7%	+0.4%	3.1%	+1.8%
5.	Yandex Libraries Hosting	0.7%	+0.5%	3.1%	+2.2%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing JavaScript content delivery networks since 1 August 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	CDNJS	4,237
2.	jQuery CDN	2,333
3.	Yandex Libraries Hosting	1,307
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	change since 1 August 2016	market share	change since 1 August 2016
1.	Google Analytics	54.5%		83.3%
2.	Yandex.Metrika	5.2%		8.0%
3.	WordPress Stats	4.5%	+0.1%	6.8%
4.	LiveInternet	3.3%		5.0%	-0.1%
5.	New Relic	1.8%		2.7%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing traffic analysis tools since 1 August 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	WordPress Stats	54
2.	New Relic	32
3.	CNZZ	26
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 August 2016	market share	change since 1 August 2016
1.	Google Ads	16.9%	-0.2%	84.3%	-0.2%
2.	Amazon Associates	0.9%		4.7%	+0.2%
3.	AdRoll	0.7%		3.3%	-0.1%
4.	ExoClick	0.4%		2.2%
5.	Skimlinks	0.2%		1.2%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing advertising networks since 1 August 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Amazon Associates	84
2.	PopAds	75
3.	Media.net	6
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 August 2016	market share	change since 1 August 2016
1.	Google Tag Manager	5.5%	+0.3%	91.7%	+0.4%
2.	Adobe DTM	0.2%		3.5%	-0.1%
3.	Yahoo Tag Manager	0.2%		3.1%
4.	Signal	0.1%		1.7%
5.	Tealium	0.1%		1.5%	-0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing tag managers since 1 August 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Google Tag Manager	608
2.	Adobe DTM	15
3.	Signal	14
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 August 2016
1.	Apache	51.7%	-0.3%
2.	Nginx	31.0%	+0.4%
3.	Microsoft-IIS	12.0%
4.	LiteSpeed	2.3%	-0.1%
5.	Google Servers	1.3%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing web servers since 1 August 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Nginx	778
2.	Microsoft-IIS	74
3.	Tomcat	34
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 August 2016
1.	Unix	66.7%	-0.3%
2.	Windows	33.3%	+0.3%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing operating systems since 1 August 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Windows	835
2.	Ubuntu	590
3.	Turbolinux	3
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 August 2016
1.	GoDaddy Group	5.2%	-0.1%
2.	Amazon	4.3%
3.	OVH	4.2%
4.	Endurance Group	3.8%	-0.1%
5.	Hetzner	3.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing web hosting providers since 1 August 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Confluence-Networks	285
2.	Rostelecom Group	103
3.	Alibaba	102
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 August 2016	market share	change since 1 August 2016
1.	CloudFlare	5.0%	+0.2%	71.1%	+0.3%
2.	Akamai	0.8%	-0.1%	12.1%	-0.4%
3.	Incapsula	0.4%		5.9%	+0.3%
4.	Amazon CloudFront	0.2%		3.4%
5.	Sucuri	0.1%		2.1%	+0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing reverse proxy services since 1 August 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	CloudFlare	308
2.	Incapsula	77
3.	Quantil	31
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 August 2016
1.	.com	48.8%	-0.2%
2.	.ru	5.1%	-0.1%
3.	.net	4.6%
4.	.org	4.6%	+0.1%
5.	.de	3.0%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing top level domains since 1 August 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	.org	97
2.	.jp	85
3.	.kr	84
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 August 2016
1.	United States	41.9%	-0.4%
2.	Germany	8.6%
3.	Japan	5.3%
4.	Russian Federation	4.9%	+0.1%
5.	France	4.6%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing server locations since 1 August 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	China	377
2.	Pakistan	185
3.	Russian Federation	164
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 August 2016
1.	English	53.0%	-0.2%
2.	Russian	6.4%
3.	German	5.5%	+0.1%
4.	Japanese	5.5%	+0.1%
5.	Spanish	4.9%	+0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing content languages since 1 August 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Korean	245
2.	Japanese	165
3.	Persian	120
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the content language surveys

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