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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 October 2016	market share	change since 1 October 2016
1.	WordPress	27.1%	+0.4%	58.5%	-0.4%
2.	Joomla	3.3%	+0.2%	7.1%	+0.2%
3.	Drupal	2.2%		4.8%
4.	Magento	1.3%	+0.1%	2.7%	-0.1%
5.	Blogger	1.1%		2.4%	-0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing content management systems since 1 October 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	WordPress	870
2.	Joomla	357
3.	Shopify	67
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 October 2016
1.	PHP	82.3%	+0.4%
2.	ASP.NET	15.5%	-0.2%
3.	Java	2.7%	-0.2%
4.	static files	1.5%
5.	ColdFusion	0.7%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing server-side programming languages since 1 October 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	PHP	831
2.	JavaScript	28
3.	Erlang	5
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 October 2016
1.	JavaScript	94.4%	+0.7%
2.	Flash	7.6%	-0.2%
3.	Silverlight	0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing client-side programming languages since 1 October 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	JavaScript	1,287
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 October 2016	market share	change since 1 October 2016
1.	JQuery	71.7%	+0.8%	96.4%	+0.1%
2.	Bootstrap	13.9%	+0.5%	18.7%	+0.5%
3.	Modernizr	10.8%	+0.1%	14.6%	+0.1%
4.	MooTools	3.3%		4.4%	-0.1%
5.	ASP.NET Ajax	2.2%	-0.1%	3.0%	-0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing JavaScript libraries since 1 October 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	JQuery	1,563
2.	Bootstrap	1,034
3.	Modernizr	290
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 October 2016
1.	HTML	72.9%	+1.0%
2.	XHTML	27.7%	-0.9%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing markup languages since 1 October 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	HTML5	2,417
2.	HTML	1,859
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 October 2016
1.	UTF-8	88.0%	+0.3%
2.	ISO-8859-1	5.6%	-0.2%
3.	Windows-1251	1.7%	-0.1%
4.	Shift JIS	1.1%
5.	Windows-1252	0.9%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing character encodings since 1 October 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	UTF-8	585
2.	EUC-KR	16
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 October 2016
1.	JPEG	74.1%	+0.5%
2.	PNG	73.2%	+0.7%
3.	GIF	38.8%	-0.3%
4.	SVG	2.8%	+0.3%
5.	BMP	0.3%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing image file formats since 1 October 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	PNG	1,447
2.	JPEG	970
3.	SVG	505
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 October 2016
1.	CSS	95.9%	+0.6%
2.	Compression	69.9%	+0.7%
3.	Cookies	50.6%	+0.4%
4.	ETag	14.6%	+0.1%
5.	HTTP/2	10.6%	+0.6%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing site elements since 1 October 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	IPv6	3,748
2.	Embedded CSS	1,508
3.	Compression	1,389
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 October 2016	market share	change since 1 October 2016
1.	Comodo	10.4%	+1.1%	40.5%	+0.2%
2.	Symantec Group	5.1%	+0.1%	19.9%	-1.9%
3.	IdenTrust	4.3%	+1.2%	16.8%	+3.5%
4.	GoDaddy Group	2.5%	+0.1%	9.5%	-0.8%
5.	GlobalSign	1.6%		6.2%	-0.5%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing SSL certificate authorities since 1 October 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	IdenTrust	2,471
2.	Comodo	2,225
3.	GoDaddy Group	161
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 October 2016	market share	change since 1 October 2016
1.	Facebook	13.7%	-0.3%	53.8%	-0.7%
2.	Twitter	10.2%		40.1%	+0.2%
3.	Google +1	7.4%	-0.1%	29.0%	-0.3%
4.	AddThis	3.9%		15.3%	+0.1%
5.	Pinterest	2.2%		8.6%	+0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing social widgets since 1 October 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	AddToAny	64
2.	WhatsApp	54
3.	ShareThis	51
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 October 2016	market share	change since 1 October 2016
1.	Google Hosted Libraries	17.3%		73.0%	-0.8%
2.	jQuery CDN	3.9%	+0.1%	16.4%
3.	CDNJS	3.7%	+0.2%	15.7%	+0.9%
4.	jsDelivr	0.8%	+0.1%	3.4%	+0.2%
5.	Yandex Libraries Hosting	0.7%		3.0%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing JavaScript content delivery networks since 1 October 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	CDNJS	531
2.	jsDelivr	147
3.	jQuery CDN	99
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 October 2016	market share	change since 1 October 2016
1.	Google Analytics	54.9%	+0.4%	83.5%	+0.1%
2.	Yandex.Metrika	5.3%	+0.1%	8.1%	+0.1%
3.	WordPress Stats	4.5%		6.9%	+0.1%
4.	LiveInternet	3.3%		5.0%
5.	New Relic	1.9%	+0.1%	2.9%	+0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing traffic analysis tools since 1 October 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Google Analytics	690
2.	New Relic	202
3.	Yandex.Metrika	140
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 October 2016	market share	change since 1 October 2016
1.	Google Ads	16.8%	-0.1%	84.2%
2.	Amazon Associates	0.9%	-0.1%	4.7%
3.	AdRoll	0.7%		3.3%
4.	ExoClick	0.5%	+0.1%	2.3%	+0.1%
5.	Skimlinks	0.3%	+0.1%	1.3%	+0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing advertising networks since 1 October 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	ExoClick	28
2.	Media.net	24
3.	Atomx	7
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 October 2016	market share	change since 1 October 2016
1.	Google Tag Manager	5.9%	+0.3%	92.2%	+0.4%
2.	Adobe DTM	0.2%		3.4%	-0.1%
3.	Yahoo Tag Manager	0.2%		3.0%	-0.1%
4.	Signal	0.1%		1.8%	+0.1%
5.	Tealium	0.1%		1.5%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing tag managers since 1 October 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Google Tag Manager	687
2.	Signal	19
3.	Yahoo Tag Manager	12
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 October 2016
1.	Apache	51.3%	-0.3%
2.	Nginx	31.6%	+0.6%
3.	Microsoft-IIS	11.8%	-0.2%
4.	LiteSpeed	2.3%
5.	Google Servers	1.3%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing web servers since 1 October 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Nginx	1,149
2.	Node.js	23
3.	Cowboy	6
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 October 2016
1.	Unix	66.7%	+0.2%
2.	Windows	33.4%	-0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing operating systems since 1 October 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Linux	1,005
2.	Debian	633
3.	Ubuntu	562
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 October 2016
1.	GoDaddy Group	5.1%	-0.1%
2.	Amazon	4.5%	+0.1%
3.	OVH	4.3%	+0.1%
4.	Endurance Group	3.9%	+0.2%
5.	Hetzner	3.1%	+0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing web hosting providers since 1 October 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	PublicDomainRegistry	455
2.	Google	452
3.	Endurance Group	349
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 October 2016	market share	change since 1 October 2016
1.	CloudFlare	5.2%	+0.2%	71.0%	-0.3%
2.	Akamai	0.9%		12.7%	+0.6%
3.	Incapsula	0.4%		5.5%	-0.3%
4.	Amazon CloudFront	0.3%	+0.1%	3.4%	-0.1%
5.	Sucuri	0.2%		2.3%	+0.2%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing reverse proxy services since 1 October 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	CloudFlare	309
2.	Akamai	143
3.	Sucuri	29
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 October 2016
1.	.com	48.6%	-0.1%
2.	.ru	5.1%
3.	.org	4.7%	+0.1%
4.	.net	4.6%
5.	.de	3.0%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing top level domains since 1 October 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	.org	125
2.	.br	79
3.	.jp	63
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 October 2016
1.	United States	41.8%	-0.4%
2.	Germany	8.5%	+0.1%
3.	Japan	5.6%	-0.4%
4.	Russian Federation	4.8%	+0.1%
5.	France	4.8%	+0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing server locations since 1 October 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Ireland	685
2.	Australia	328
3.	Singapore	304
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 October 2016
1.	English	52.6%	-0.3%
2.	Russian	6.4%
3.	Japanese	5.6%	+0.1%
4.	German	5.4%	-0.1%
5.	Spanish	5.0%	+0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing content languages since 1 October 2016

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Spanish	222
2.	Japanese	175
3.	Portuguese	112
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the content language surveys

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