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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 November 2017	market share	change since 1 November 2017
1.	WordPress	29.1%	+0.2%	59.9%	+0.2%
2.	Joomla	3.2%		6.6%	-0.1%
3.	Drupal	2.3%		4.7%
4.	Magento	1.1%		2.3%
5.	Blogger	0.9%		1.9%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing content management systems since 1 November 2017

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	WordPress	520
2.	Shopify	85
3.	Squarespace	64
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 November 2017
1.	PHP	83.1%	+0.2%
2.	ASP.NET	14.2%	-0.1%
3.	Java	2.5%
4.	static files	1.4%	-0.1%
5.	ColdFusion	0.6%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing server-side programming languages since 1 November 2017

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	PHP	267
2.	Ruby	12
3.	Python	2
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 November 2017
1.	JavaScript	94.9%	+0.1%
2.	Flash	5.6%	-0.2%
3.	Silverlight	0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing client-side programming languages since 1 November 2017

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	JavaScript	201
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 November 2017	market share	change since 1 November 2017
1.	jQuery	73.0%	+0.1%	96.2%
2.	Bootstrap	16.3%	+0.2%	21.5%	+0.3%
3.	Modernizr	11.3%		14.9%
4.	MooTools	2.8%		3.6%	-0.1%
5.	ASP.NET Ajax	2.0%		2.7%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing JavaScript libraries since 1 November 2017

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Bootstrap	658
2.	jQuery	341
3.	Zepto	234
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 November 2017
1.	HTML	78.8%	+0.5%
2.	XHTML	21.6%	-0.5%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing markup languages since 1 November 2017

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	HTML5	1,901
2.	HTML	1,374
3.	AMP	2
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 November 2017
1.	UTF-8	90.3%	+0.2%
2.	ISO-8859-1	4.4%	-0.1%
3.	Windows-1251	1.5%
4.	Shift JIS	0.8%
5.	Windows-1252	0.7%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing character encodings since 1 November 2017

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	UTF-8	632
2.	UTF-16	3
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 November 2017
1.	PNG	74.8%	+0.2%
2.	JPEG	73.8%	+0.1%
3.	GIF	34.2%	-0.4%
4.	SVG	4.9%	+0.2%
5.	BMP	0.3%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing image file formats since 1 November 2017

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	SVG	676
2.	PNG	600
3.	JPEG	145
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 November 2017
1.	CSS	95.6%
2.	Compression	73.6%	+0.3%
3.	Cookies	49.9%
4.	Default subdomain www	42.2%	+0.2%
5.	Default protocol https	26.1%	+1.9%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing site elements since 1 November 2017

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	HTTP/2	9,807
2.	Default protocol https	4,828
3.	Secure Cookies	925
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the site element surveys

Structured Data Formats

Most popular structured data formats

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 November 2017
1.	RDFa	38.6%	+0.6%
2.	Meta-tag-based formats	19.8%	+0.6%
3.	JSON-LD	17.8%	+0.5%
4.	Microdata	13.0%	+0.2%
5.	Microformats	0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing structured data formats since 1 November 2017

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	RDFa	1,421
2.	Twitter Cards	1,421
3.	Meta-tag-based formats	1,388
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the structured data surveys

SSL Certificate Authorities

Most popular SSL certificate authorities

© W3Techs.com		usage	change since 1 November 2017	market share	change since 1 November 2017
1.	Comodo	16.9%	+0.3%	38.0%	-0.7%
2.	IdenTrust	14.5%	+1.0%	32.6%	+1.1%
3.	Symantec Group	5.6%		12.6%	-0.5%
4.	GoDaddy Group	3.3%	+0.1%	7.5%
5.	GlobalSign	2.0%	+0.1%	4.4%	-0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing SSL certificate authorities since 1 November 2017

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	IdenTrust	2,659
2.	Comodo	906
3.	GoDaddy Group	314
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 November 2017	market share	change since 1 November 2017
1.	Facebook	11.4%	-0.2%	49.7%	-0.2%
2.	Twitter	9.5%	-0.1%	41.4%	+0.1%
3.	Google +1	6.2%		26.9%	-0.1%
4.	AddThis	3.6%	-0.1%	15.8%
5.	Pinterest	2.0%		8.7%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing social widgets since 1 November 2017

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	AddToAny	48
2.	WhatsApp	35
3.	LinkedIn	6
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 November 2017	market share	change since 1 November 2017
1.	Google Hosted Libraries	16.6%	-0.1%	66.8%	-0.8%
2.	CDNJS	5.8%	+0.3%	23.3%	+1.1%
3.	jQuery CDN	4.1%		16.5%	-0.1%
4.	jsDelivr	1.3%	+0.1%	5.2%	+0.2%
5.	Yandex Libraries Hosting	0.7%		2.9%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing JavaScript content delivery networks since 1 November 2017

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	CDNJS	772
2.	jsDelivr	179
3.	RawGit	39
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 November 2017	market share	change since 1 November 2017
1.	Google Analytics	53.0%	-0.6%	83.2%	-0.3%
2.	Yandex.Metrica	5.4%		8.5%	+0.1%
3.	WordPress Jetpack	4.6%		7.3%	+0.1%
4.	LiveInternet	3.0%	-0.1%	4.8%
5.	New Relic	1.9%		3.0%	+0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing traffic analysis tools since 1 November 2017

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	New Relic	64
2.	Yandex.Metrica	44
3.	WordPress Jetpack	29
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 November 2017	market share	change since 1 November 2017
1.	Google Ads	16.4%	-0.1%	86.6%	+0.2%
2.	Amazon Associates	1.0%		5.2%
3.	AdRoll	0.6%		3.0%
4.	ExoClick	0.4%	-0.1%	2.4%
5.	Skimlinks	0.2%		1.2%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing advertising networks since 1 November 2017

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Zedo	6
2.	Adblade	6
3.	PulsePoint	5
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 November 2017	market share	change since 1 November 2017
1.	Google Tag Manager	8.3%	+0.3%	94.5%	+0.2%
2.	Adobe DTM	0.2%		2.8%
3.	Yahoo Tag Manager	0.2%		2.3%	-0.1%
4.	Signal	0.1%		1.3%
5.	Tealium	0.1%		1.2%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing tag managers since 1 November 2017

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Google Tag Manager	729
2.	Adobe DTM	17
3.	Signal	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 November 2017
1.	Apache	48.0%	-0.3%
2.	Nginx	36.2%	+0.5%
3.	Microsoft-IIS	10.5%	-0.2%
4.	LiteSpeed	3.0%
5.	Google Servers	1.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing web servers since 1 November 2017

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Nginx	1,181
2.	LiteSpeed	121
3.	Apache Traffic Server	20
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 November 2017
1.	Unix	66.9%	+0.3%
2.	Windows	33.1%	-0.3%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing operating systems since 1 November 2017

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Ubuntu	906
2.	Unix	697
3.	Linux	414
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 November 2017
1.	GoDaddy Group	5.9%	-0.1%
2.	Amazon	5.2%	+0.1%
3.	OVH	4.2%	-0.2%
4.	Endurance Group	3.2%	-0.1%
5.	Hetzner	3.1%	-0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing web hosting providers since 1 November 2017

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Google	261
2.	Interneto Vizija	203
3.	Amazon	201
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 November 2017	market share	change since 1 November 2017
1.	CloudFlare	6.5%	+0.2%	73.1%	+0.4%
2.	Akamai	0.9%		10.0%	-0.8%
3.	Amazon CloudFront	0.5%	+0.1%	5.2%	+0.2%
4.	Incapsula	0.4%		4.3%	+0.1%
5.	Fastly	0.3%		3.2%	+0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing reverse proxy services since 1 November 2017

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	CloudFlare	344
2.	Amazon CloudFront	74
3.	Fastly	46
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 November 2017
1.	.com	46.8%	-0.1%
2.	.ru	5.1%
3.	.org	5.0%
4.	.net	4.3%	-0.1%
5.	.de	3.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing top level domains since 1 November 2017

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	.de	49
2.	.it	41
3.	.org	40
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 November 2017
1.	United States	40.6%	-0.1%
2.	Germany	9.1%	+0.2%
3.	Japan	5.4%	-0.1%
4.	Russian Federation	5.0%
5.	France	4.8%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing server locations since 1 November 2017

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Germany	353
2.	Canada	140
3.	Ireland	137
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 November 2017
1.	English	51.2%
2.	Russian	6.8%	+0.1%
3.	German	5.6%
4.	Japanese	5.6%	-0.1%
5.	Spanish	5.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing content languages since 1 November 2017

© W3Techs.com		sites
1.	Russian	91
2.	Persian	54
3.	Italian	45
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the content language surveys

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