Web Technology BlogPosted by Sam Soltano on 13 March 201752% of all websites are in English, down from 57.6% six years ago.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 2 March 2017Flash usage is down to 7% of all websites, declining by 1% every 6 months.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 1 March 2017Posted by Sam Soltano on 21 February 2017Posted by Sam Soltano on 16 February 2017Posted by Sam Soltano on 15 February 2017Only 32.4% of all websites and 78.8% of the top 1000 sites have a valid SSL certificate.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 7 February 2017Posted by Sam Soltano on 24 January 2017Comodo SSL certificates are now used by 13.8% of websites, up from 7.2% one year ago.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 12 January 2017We compiled the list of web technologies that saw the largest increase in usage in the last year.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 19 December 2016Posted by Sam Soltano on 14 December 201660.2% of all websites and 79.8% of the top 1000 sites are using HTML5.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 5 December 201670% of all websites are using compression, up from 43.3% five years ago.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 1 December 2016Posted by Sam Soltano on 21 November 2016The JavaScript CDN market share of Google Hosted Libraries is 73%, down from 93.6% four years ago.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 18 November 20165% of all websites are in Spanish, up from 3.9% six years ago.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 10 November 2016Red Hat is the Linux distribution with the highest percentage of high traffic sites in its user base.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 2 November 2016Usage of the GSAP JavaScript library has grown by 152% in the last year.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 28 October 2016PHP version 5.3, which reached end of life in August 2014, is still the most used PHP version.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 26 October 2016Usage of IPv6 is now increasing steadily after a long period of stagnation.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 6 October 2016After growing by 17.6% in the last year, Ubuntu is now running on one out of eight websites.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 4 October 2016The JavaScript content delivery network CDNJS is now used by 3.5% of all websites, up from 0.8% one year ago.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 3 October 201625% of the top 1000 websites and 6.1% of all websites use a Tag Manager.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 30 September 2016XHTML+RDFa (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language + Resource Description Framework in attributes) is almost exclusively used by Drupal sites.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 29 September 2016Tornado is the web server with the highest percentage of high traffic sites in its user base.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 28 September 2016HTTP/2 is now used by 10% of all the websites, up from 1.2% one year ago.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 27 September 2016Let'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.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 23 September 2016Japanese has surpassed German as the third most used language on the web, behind English and Russian.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 22 September 2016Usage of XHTML peaked at 65.6%. Now it's down at 28.8% due to the rise of HTML5.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 14 September 2016Posted by Sam Soltano on 13 September 2016Posted by Sam Soltano on 9 September 2016Usage of Shopify has grown by 55% in the last year.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 6 September 20166% of all websites use a tag manager now, up from 0.5% three years ago.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 16 August 2016Poland has more sites in the Alexa top 10 million than India, Italy, France and Australia.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 9 August 20167 out of 8 websites (87.5%) use UTF-8 as character encoding.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 4 August 2016IdenTrust, which is used as root certificate for Let's Encrypt, has 46.7% SSL certificate authorities market share in France.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 2 August 2016Posted by Sam Soltano on 1 August 2016Posted by Sam Soltano on 29 July 2016React is the JavaScript library with the highest share of high traffic sites among its user base.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 25 July 2016Posted by Sam Soltano on 20 July 2016Hetzner is the most popular web hosting provider among Linux-based web servers, just ahead of Amazon.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 19 July 2016The share of Persian sites on the web has grown from 0.9% to 1.4% within a year.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 13 July 2016PHP version 7 is now used by 1% of all PHP sites, this is below version 4. Version 5 still dominates with 97.9%.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 12 July 2016Posted by Sam Soltano on 6 July 2016Every 50 seconds one of the top 10 million websites starts using IdenTrust, which is used as root certificate for Let's Encrypt.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 4 July 2016WordPress sites prefer HTML, mostly HTML5, whereas Joomla, Drupal and Magento sites stick to XHTML.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 23 June 201660.7% is web-facing Amazon servers are located in the USA, 23.1% in Ireland, 6.3% in Japan.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 20 June 201642.5% of websites are hosted in the USA, and 66.1% of the top 1,000 sites.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 14 June 2016Java is the server-side language with the highest share of high-traffic sites, followed by JavaScript.
Posted by Sam Soltano on 13 June 2016The WhatsApp share button is the fastest growing social widget on websites at the moment.
Posted 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.
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