Top 5 most powerful CMS and other technology

Content Management Systems

Most popular content management systems

		usage	change since 1 September 2018	market share	change since 1 September 2018
1.	WordPress	31.9%	+0.2%	59.4%	-0.5%
2.	Joomla	3.1%		5.7%	-0.2%
3.	Drupal	2.0%		3.7%	-0.1%
4.	Squarespace	1.4%	+0.1%	2.5%	+0.1%
5.	Shopify	1.3%	+0.1%	2.4%	+0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing content management systems since 1 September 2018

		sites
1.	WordPress	622
2.	WooCommerce	257
3.	Squarespace	174
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

		usage	change since 1 September 2018
1.	PHP	78.9%	-0.3%
2.	ASP.NET	12.2%
3.	Java	3.9%	+0.1%
4.	static files	2.2%	+0.1%
5.	Ruby	2.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing server-side programming languages since 1 September 2018

		sites
1.	static files	219
2.	Scala	187
3.	Java	177
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

		usage	change since 1 September 2018
1.	JavaScript	94.9%
2.	Flash	4.3%	-0.1%
3.	Silverlight	0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing client-side programming languages since 1 September 2018

		sites
1.	JavaScript	9
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

		usage	change since 1 September 2018	market share	change since 1 September 2018
1.	jQuery	73.3%	-0.1%	97.2%	+0.1%
2.	Bootstrap	17.9%	+0.1%	23.7%	+0.2%
3.	Modernizr	11.4%		15.1%
4.	Underscore	2.6%	+0.2%	3.4%	+0.2%
5.	MooTools	2.4%	-0.1%	3.2%	-0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing JavaScript libraries since 1 September 2018

		sites
1.	Underscore	362
2.	Bootstrap	272
3.	Moment.js	179
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the JavaScript library surveys

Markup Languages

Most popular markup languages

		usage	change since 1 September 2018
1.	HTML	83.6%	+0.5%
2.	XHTML	16.8%	-0.4%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing markup languages since 1 September 2018

		sites
1.	HTML5	1,562
2.	HTML	1,143
3.	AMP	4
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the markup language surveys

Character Encodings

Most popular character encodings

		usage	change since 1 September 2018
1.	UTF-8	92.3%	+0.2%
2.	ISO-8859-1	3.8%	-0.1%
3.	Windows-1251	1.1%	-0.1%
4.	Windows-1252	0.7%
5.	Shift JIS	0.4%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing character encodings since 1 September 2018

		sites
1.	UTF-8	467
2.	Big5	1
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

		usage	change since 1 September 2018
1.	PNG	74.4%
2.	JPEG	72.8%	-0.1%
3.	GIF	28.8%	-0.6%
4.	SVG	13.8%	+0.6%
5.	BMP	0.2%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing image file formats since 1 September 2018

		sites
1.	SVG	1,305
2.	WebP	2
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

		usage	change since 1 September 2018
1.	CSS	95.7%
2.	Compression	76.4%	+0.2%
3.	Cookies	47.3%	-0.3%
4.	Default subdomain www	42.4%	+0.2%
5.	Default protocol https	41.3%	+2.0%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing site elements since 1 September 2018

		sites
1.	Default protocol https	5,114
2.	HTTP/2	1,836
3.	HTTP Strict Transport Security	964
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

		usage	change since 1 September 2018
1.	RDFa	43.1%	+0.5%
2.	Meta-tag-based formats	24.3%	+0.5%
3.	JSON-LD	21.6%	+0.4%
4.	Microdata	15.5%	+0.2%
5.	Microformats	0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing structured data formats since 1 September 2018

		sites
1.	Open Graph	1,359
2.	RDFa	1,320
3.	Twitter Cards	1,269
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

		usage	change since 1 September 2018	market share	change since 1 September 2018
1.	IdenTrust	27.9%	+1.3%	46.4%	+1.0%
2.	Comodo	18.4%		30.6%	-0.8%
3.	DigiCert Group	6.5%	+0.1%	10.8%	-0.2%
4.	GoDaddy Group	4.2%	+0.2%	6.9%
5.	GlobalSign	1.9%	+0.1%	3.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing SSL certificate authorities since 1 September 2018

		sites
1.	IdenTrust	3,399
2.	DigiCert	1,523
3.	GoDaddy Group	316
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

		usage	change since 1 September 2018	market share	change since 1 September 2018
1.	Facebook	9.2%	-0.2%	48.0%	-0.2%
2.	Twitter	8.1%	-0.1%	42.4%	+0.1%
3.	Google +1	5.1%	-0.1%	26.5%
4.	AddThis	3.0%		15.6%
5.	Pinterest	1.8%		9.4%	+0.2%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing social widgets since 1 September 2018

		sites
1.	LinkedIn	54
2.	Pinterest	42
3.	AddToAny	22
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

		usage	change since 1 September 2018	market share	change since 1 September 2018
1.	Google Hosted Libraries	15.7%	-0.1%	61.8%	-0.5%
2.	CDNJS	7.9%	+0.3%	31.0%	+0.8%
3.	jQuery CDN	4.1%		16.2%	+0.1%
4.	jsDelivr	1.8%	+0.1%	6.9%	+0.2%
5.	Yandex Libraries Hosting	0.6%		2.3%	-0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing JavaScript content delivery networks since 1 September 2018

		sites
1.	CDNJS	519
2.	jsDelivr	131
3.	unpkg	67
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

		usage	change since 1 September 2018	market share	change since 1 September 2018
1.	Google Analytics	55.6%	-0.2%	85.7%
2.	Facebook Pixel	7.2%	+0.1%	11.2%	+0.3%
3.	Yandex.Metrica	5.0%	-0.1%	7.7%	-0.1%
4.	WordPress Jetpack	4.7%		7.3%
5.	LiveInternet	2.5%		3.8%	-0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing traffic analysis tools since 1 September 2018

		sites
1.	Facebook Pixel	363
2.	Hotjar	87
3.	WordPress Jetpack	22
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

		usage	change since 1 September 2018	market share	change since 1 September 2018
1.	Google Ads	26.4%	+0.4%	94.0%	+0.3%
2.	Amazon Associates	0.8%		2.9%
3.	AdRoll	0.6%		2.1%
4.	ExoClick	0.3%		1.2%
5.	Yandex.Direct	0.3%		1.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing advertising networks since 1 September 2018

		sites
1.	Google Ads	950
2.	Yandex.Direct	3
3.	AdFox	2
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the advertising network surveys
Tag Managers

Most popular tag managers

		usage	change since 1 September 2018	market share	change since 1 September 2018
1.	Google Tag Manager	17.1%	+0.8%	98.0%	+0.2%
2.	Adobe DTM	0.2%		1.2%	-0.1%
3.	Yahoo Tag Manager	0.1%		0.8%
4.	Signal	0.1%		0.5%	-0.1%
5.	Tealium	0.1%		0.5%	-0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing tag managers since 1 September 2018

		sites
1.	Google Tag Manager	1,966
2.	Matomo Tag Manager	1
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the tag manager surveys
Web Servers

Most popular web servers

		usage	change since 1 September 2018
1.	Apache	45.5%	-0.2%
2.	Nginx	39.7%	+0.3%
3.	Microsoft-IIS	9.4%	-0.1%
4.	LiteSpeed	3.4%
5.	Google Servers	0.9%	-0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing web servers since 1 September 2018

		sites
1.	Nginx	797
2.	LiteSpeed	81
3.	Apache Traffic Server	59
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the web server surveys
Operating Systems

Most popular operating systems

		usage	change since 1 September 2018
1.	Unix	68.2%	+0.2%
2.	Windows	31.8%	-0.3%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing operating systems since 1 September 2018

		sites
1.	Unix	699
2.	OpenBSD	1
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

		usage	change since 1 September 2018
1.	GoDaddy Group	6.5%
2.	Amazon	6.1%
3.	OVH	4.3%	-0.1%
4.	Google	3.5%	+0.1%
5.	Hetzner	3.3%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing web hosting providers since 1 September 2018

		sites
1.	Google	222
2.	Squarespace	176
3.	GoDaddy	162
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

		usage	change since 1 September 2018	market share	change since 1 September 2018
1.	CloudFlare	7.2%	+0.1%	73.7%	-0.3%
2.	Akamai	0.8%		8.3%	+0.1%
3.	Amazon CloudFront	0.6%		6.2%	+0.1%
4.	Fastly	0.4%		4.1%	+0.1%
5.	Incapsula	0.3%		3.3%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing reverse proxy services since 1 September 2018

		sites
1.	CloudFlare	188
2.	Akamai	68
3.	Amazon CloudFront	49
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

		usage	change since 1 September 2018
1.	.com	46.7%	+0.1%
2.	.org	5.1%
3.	.ru	4.4%	-0.1%
4.	.net	3.8%
5.	.de	3.6%	-0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing top level domains since 1 September 2018

		sites
1.	.com	264
2.	.br	67
3.	.au	52
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

		usage	change since 1 September 2018
1.	United States	42.6%	+0.6%
2.	Germany	9.2%	-0.1%
3.	France	4.5%	-0.7%
4.	Russian Federation	4.4%
5.	United Kingdom	3.9%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing server locations since 1 September 2018

		sites
1.	United States	1,404
2.	Switzerland	319
3.	Spain	220
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

Find more details in the server location surveys
Content Languages

Most popular content languages

		usage	change since 1 September 2018
1.	English	53.4%	+0.3%
2.	German	6.3%
3.	Russian	6.0%	-0.1%
4.	Spanish	4.9%	-0.1%
5.	French	4.1%	-0.1%
percentages of sites

Fastest growing content languages since 1 September 2018

		sites
1.	English	713
2.	Portuguese	55
3.	Dutch, Flemish	13
daily number of additional sites in the top 10 million

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