[thelist] FUN: How widely used is each web technology?

Jeff Howden jeff at jeffhowden.com
Tue Jun 14 02:19:09 CDT 2005


Ken,

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> From: Ken Schaefer
> 
> So, if we google for common file extensions, that might
> give us an indication of the popularity of that
> technology, but hardly anyone gives their files
> "ColdFusion" as an extension, or "VBScript", so
> searching for those terms alongside PHP or ASP isn't
> going to give us meaningful data to compare. A 
> search for CF however returned ~21 million hits,
> which may give some indication of the popularity of
> Cold Fusion (though it also seems to encompass Cystic
> Fibrosis and Compact Flash amongst other topics)
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Searching for cfm (the file extension most used by ColdFusion developers),
we get 146,000,000 hits.

Honestly though, I agree that this is a completely bogus method for
determining popularity of web technologies.

 [>] Jeff Howden
     jeff at jeffhowden.com
     http://jeffhowden.com/



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