A new section in our W3Techs reports shows the changes in the usage of technologies caused by changes in the market shares of geographical regions. This gives additional insights into why technologies are increasing or decreasing their global market shares.

A new type of W3Techs reports shows the performance trends of web technologies.

We compiled the list of web technologies that saw the largest increase in usage in 2023.

Our new site info API enables you to retrieve the technologies used by a website.

We have added new reports that show the average page loading speed per web technology.

We compiled the list of web technologies that saw the largest increase in usage in 2022.

We used to use the Alexa ranking as a basis of the samples for our surveys. With the end of service for this ranking we were forced to look for alternatives. Our solution is using our definition of the relevant web.

We show the evolution of content management systems usage statistics in form of a bar chart race.

We show the evolution of web server market shares in form of a bar chart race.

We have added new surveys on the usage of CSS frameworks.

We compiled the list of web technologies that saw the largest increase in usage in 2021.

For the first time since we started our surveys in 2009, Apache has lost the first spot as the most popular web server to Nginx.

The incredible success story of WordPress continues by reaching another milestone: 2 out of every 5 websites use it now.

We compiled the list of web technologies that saw the largest increase in usage in 2020.

We have added new surveys on the usage of web panels.

WordPress, Joomla and Drupal used to be the "big 3" content management systems on the web. Now, that order has been disrupted by Shopify passing Joomla and Drupal to become the #2 CMS.

In addition to our surveys on web hosting providers, we just added a category showing whose data centers websites are using.

We started to include the Tranco top sites in the sample set of our statistics.

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

We have added surveys showing usage statistics on email server providers for domains.

A DNS (domain name system) server manages internet domain names and their associated records such as IP addresses. Each website needs one or more DNS servers to provide this information for their domain in order to be accessible. Our new surveys show which are the most popular providers of DNS servers.

We have reached a tipping point where encrypted transmission of web pages becomes more common than unencrypted transmission.

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

Squarespace is now used by 1.3% of all websites, up from 0.7% a year ago. This makes it the 4th most popular CMS after WordPress, Joomla and Drupal. We look at the statistics behind this success.

WordPress as the most used content management system has created an impressive ecosystem around itself. That consists of hundreds of thousands developers and companies working with WordPress, hundreds of WordPress-related events organized around the world, and tens of thousands plugins developed on top of its core. We have a closer look at some statistics of the most important plugins.

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 WHCompare 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.