IdenTrust is now used by 17.5% of all websites, up from virtually zero three years ago. As the whole SSL certificate market grows fast, its competitors are mostly doing fine too - at the moment.

From WHDet.com we received a nice infographic based on our data.

We compiled the list of web technologies that saw the largest increase in usage in the last year.

Structured data are pieces of information on web pages in formats that can easily be interpreted by machines. We started to monitor the usage of various formats on the web.

Half of the web still runs on Apache's web server, but one third already uses Nginx, and the gap is closing fast. We have a closer look at the detailed statistics and trends.

We compiled the list of web technologies that saw the largest increase in usage in the last year.

Let's Encrypt, the issuer of free SSL certificates, has been expected to disrupt the SSL certificate market. We have a look 10 months after they started their public beta phase.

Ubuntu has a Linux distribution market share of 32.1% on web servers, just ahead of Debian, which was market leader since 2011.

W3Techs presents a world map showing which web hosting provider is the most popular one in each country.

Server locations are the countries where web servers are physically located. The new surveys show statistics covering the top 10 million websites.

We compiled the list of web technologies that saw the largest increase in usage in the last year.

We started publishing surveys on web hosting services and on reverse proxy services.

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.

While Apache is still the most used web server, Nginx is growing fast and already dominating high traffic sites.

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.

Comodo overtakes Symantec in our surveys of SSL certificate authorities.

We compiled the list of web technologies that saw the largest increase in usage in the last year.

Usage of the e-commerce platform Magento is growing steadily. It is now used by 1% of all websites, up from 0.83% one year ago.

Modernizr became the de-facto standard for web designers to deal with Browser incompatibilities, in other words: with IE.

We compiled the list of web technologies that saw the largest increase in usage in the last year.

The Russian Nginx webserver is now used by more sites than Microsoft's IIS.

Debian has been the most popular Linux distribution on web servers for almost two years when it took over rank #1 from CentOS. Now CentOS lost another rank to Ubuntu, giving Debian-based distributions a solid lead over the Red Hat camp.

The most popular content management system in the world keeps gaining popularity, and now powers 20% of the web.

Looking back at our achievements in the last year.

34.9% of the top 1000 web sites rely on Nginx. That makes it the most trusted web server on high traffic sites, just ahead of Apache.

See which tag managers the web is using.

We extended our website samples to include the top 10 million sites.

Just in time before officially reaching end-of-life, version 5.3 is now the most popular PHP version.

Russian surpassed German as language no 2 on the web, behind English.

The PNG image file format has been created in 1995 as a response to some patent issues around the then-prevailing GIF format. PNG has gained popularity ever since, and it is now used on more websites than GIF.

Today we introduce a new type of report that allows to compare the usage of two or more technologies side-by-side

We compiled the list of web technologies that saw the largest increase in usage in the last year.

There seems to be no way around Facebook on the Internet these days. Even if you are not actively participating in that social network, you are more likely to find their Like Button on a website than ever before.

Due to numerous requests, we made a little change in the outbound links to other sites.

IPv6 is meant to be the future of Internet communication. With a world-wide adoption rate of 2.7% we are certainly not there yet.

W3Techs presents a world map showing which content management system is the most popular one in each country.

A new section of our surveys shows the usage of Etags on websites.

As websites become more and more interactive, there is a strong need for appropriate tools to achieve that in an efficient way. Webmasters increasingly turn to jQuery to fulfill this need.

The Apache web server clearly dominates the web server market in the world. But not in every country.

The yearly retrospection at our anniversary is already a little tradition.

We are introducing a new type of survey showing how many sites use more than one competing technologies.

A picture is worth a thousand numbers. Have a look at our infographic that shows who is using Google Analytics.

We are excited to offer a new type of unique web technology usage reports, providing insights that cannot be obtained anywhere else.

A new category of surveys shows the usage and market share of SSL certificate authorities.

We added a new category to our surveys: usage of JavaScript content delivery networks.

We have extended our range of technology reports to cover web servers.

We provide web technology reports showing the usage of all technologies within a specific top level domain, which is either a country or a certain type of organization.

If you don't trust Google, you may want to avoid it while surfing the web. Good luck to you.

The popularity of Perl as a website scripting language is decreasing. Nevertheless we expect this language to be around for a long time to come.

Debian has surpassed CentOS to become the most popular Linux distribution on web servers.

We compiled the list of web technologies that saw the largest increase in usage in the last year.

Nginx is the fastest growing web server. It has now a 10% market share, up from 5.9% at the beginning of this year.

In addition to our Facebook and Twitter pages, we have created a Google+ page for W3Techs as another option to get our news.

Today, we start providing extensive market reports for the web technologies that we monitor. These reports contain detailed market surveys of a technology in a compact form. The goal is to give technology providers and other professionals interested in certain technologies a way to find relevant facts quickly and easily.

As one of the "big 3" content management systems, Drupal enjoys a steady growth of its user base. We have a closer look at the statistics.

We start showing historical trends for our latest reports on the usage of social widgets and for site elements.

The Google +1 button is quickly gaining acceptance. It is now the 3rd ranked social widget, ahead of Twitter, only behind Facebook and AddThis.

Windows may dominate the desktop, but Unix-like operating systems (and that includes Linux) are used on 64% of web servers. We have a closer look at the statistics.

A new survey covers the usage of various image file formats on the web.

LiteSpeed has established itself as one of the most popular and fasted growing web servers in our surveys.

W3Techs.com went online two year ago. Let's have a look back at the last year.

We start showing the fastest growing technologies on our home page.

A closer look at our surveys on HTTP compression.

A new type of surveys covers certain optional technical properties or features of websites.

We stopped publishing the market share data in the client-side programming languages surveys. They were no longer useful.

We started publishing surveys on the usage of social widgets on the web.

The Runet, the Russian Internet, is growing quickly. We have a closer look at what it looks like.

We have compiled a few cases of unexpected web technology usage.

Google Analytics has been the most popular web analytics tool for a long time. Last month, it has added another 0.2% of all websites to its user base, and it has now reached an incredible milestone: Every second website is using Google Analytics.

Infolinks has established itself as a leader in in-text advertising, and it is now the #4 advertising network.

The Yahoo! User Interface Library is steadily gaining popularity amongst JavaScript developers.

SEO professionals are discussing the optimal length of meta tags to no end. We have determined the size limits using statistics rather than anecdotal evidence.

Ubuntu has been a popular Linux distribution on desktop systems for some time. Now it is also increasing its market share on web servers. We have a closer look at the statistics.

We start to show samples of sites that have recently changes some technology.

We have a look at the web technologies that saw the largest increase in usage in the last year.

We are introducing a new rating for websites, which is based on the technologies used by the site.

We added more detailed information in our technology reports by including historical trends and market position diagrams.

We have combined our technology usage surveys and the top site scores into a new report type, which shows the market positions of the various technologies.

We have redefined the definition of the top-site score of a technology, which makes this report easier to understand.

We see for the first time a small, but noticeable decline in the usage of Flash for websites. The statistics indicate, that the rise of the Mobile Web is likely to be the reason.

Our website technology information page now shows how recent a technology version is by comparing it with the versions of all the other sites in our surveys.

PHP is the server-side programming language that powers more websites than any other. There is not even a close second.

Most of our reports focus on how popular technologies are. But some technologies are interesting not because they are used by a huge number of sites, but because they are primarily used by high traffic sites. A new type of report shows which technologies these are.

Today, we introduce monthly subscriptions to technology surveys, available as email service and as RSS feed.

jQuery is by far the most popular JavaScript library and its usage is still constantly increasing. Our surveys now show that every 4th website is using it.

The first major change of our homepage since the launch of this site shows the top 5 technologies of each category and the changes to the previous month.

Our new FAQ section will give you background information that is helpful to understand our surveys.

Nginx is the web server technology that gains market share from all the other ones. We have a closer look at the statistics.

In our technology usage reports, we started showing both, absolute usage percentage and market share values.

We just installed a user forum which may be used for discussions, questions, change proposals and feedback.

Chinese is now language #4 on the Internet, #2 amongst the top 10,000 sites.

W3Techs.com went online exactly one year ago. Time for a little review.

CentOS is a well known Linux distribution with a strong focus on server machines rather than on desktop PCs. For the first time, CentOS is now leading the Linux distribution statistics on web servers with almost 30% of all Linux servers.

We start generating detailed breakdown reports for each technology. These new reports provide much more details than the overview breakdown reports, which we produced so far.

56% of the sites that use a content management system are using WordPress, and that percentage is even growing. For most users, WordPress seems to offer the best balance of features and easy-of-use.

This is a summary of a few remarkable and recently emerging changes in our statistics.

One more new way to get our website technology information is a Google subscribed link. If you use that feature, you can get that information inserted into the Google search results, so that you don't need to leave Google.

We created two browser extensions for Firefox and Google Chrome respectively, that enable you to see any website's technologies with just one mouse click while you surf the web.

We start publishing surveys on the usage of advertising networks on the web.

We add Javascript libraries to our list of monitored and published web technologies.

We publish now surveys on the usage of content languages of websites. Content languages are the natural languages of the text on a site, for example English or Chinese.

We provide a bookmarklet now, that enables you to see any website's technologies with just one mouse click.

Many people are interested to know when websites change the technologies they use. In a new section of our surveys, we show for each technology a list of sites that started using this technology recently. Additionally, we provide a free notification service, letting our users know when a top site switched to a particular technology.

The breakdown of our technology reports by site ranking enables us to see which technologies are used by highly successful sites compared to moderately successful ones.

Our breakdown reports now include a special technology usage evaluation by Alexa ranking.

We started analyzing the content languages of websites. It turned out that a large number of sites specify the language incorrectly, so that we introduced new types of quality alerts to indicate these problems.

We introduce a new type of reports that show the usage of web technologies broken down by any other technology. This allows a large set of evaluations to be performed, that were not possible before.

China is now the third most frequent country-specific top level domain amongst the top 1 million websites, ahead of Japan and UK.

We analyze lots of websites for our web technology surveys and doing so, we keep detecting potential technical problems on these sites. This is a summary of the most frequently encountered issues.

You can get the latest news from W3Techs now on Facebook and Twitter.

A new type of report shows the percentages of websites changing from any specific technology to competing technologies.

We start reporting changes of technologies used by individual websites.

Our newest survey shows the distribution of top level domains amongst the top 1 million websites.

We have - finally as some would say - added an RSS feed to our blog.

We start presenting historical data of our technology surveys. Sometimes, the changes of data over time is more interesting than the absolute value. We believe this adds a new dimension in our surveys.

A new section of our web technology surveys shows the usage of content management systems.

Visitors of our site can now register as user and get quality alerts of their websites per email.

We start showing quality alerts for websites, indicating potential problems. We hope that this is a way to help webmasters to improve the technical quality of their sites.

We included a new section of web technologies to our surveys by reporting usage of client-side programming languages.

We report now the character encodings of websites.

On our site information pages non-English site descriptions are translated into English.

You can now see which technologies a particular site is using.

We have included some new tools in our traffic analysis tools survey.

W3Tech launches a new web technology blog on its site. Articles will mostly cover the results of the surveys provided here.

After researching the web and collecting data for some time, W3Techs goes online to present the first results.