[thelist] FUN: How widely used is each web technology?
Stuart Young
syoung at unitec.ac.nz
Mon Jun 13 23:08:32 CDT 2005
It is quite common nowadays to use the number of results in a Google search to prove how popular a word is compared to other words, or a spelling is compared to an alternate spelling. There is even a website called Google Fight that allows you to directly compare two results, in a fun interface (for example Marilyn Monroe beats Marilyn Manson 2,330,000 to 1,290,000).
So, I wondered, how popular (according to Google) are each of the web technologies? In particular, how popular are each of the different standards released by the W3.org? How popular are each of the languages that W3schools have tutorials for? The reason being, that the W3.org have a history of releasing standards that are ignored by the majority of developers, e.g. SMIL. Can we see which ones are actually used in the real world?
Well here you go, here's most of the web languages here... some surprises for me were the low placing of ColdFusion and VBScript ...
Web Technology No. of results on Google (determined 14th June 2005)
HTML 1,470,000,000
RSS 269,000,000
ASP 269,000,000
PHP 242,000,000
XML 190,000,000
Java 123,000,000
Flash 116,000,000
JavaScript 101,000,000
CGI 99,100,000
CSS 72,600,000
JSP 72,000,000
XHTML 47,300,000
Perl 43,300,000
SQL 31,300,000
RDF 19,100,000
DOM 17,600,000
PICS 13,400,000
WAP 13,300,000
PNG 10,300,000
XSLT 8,270,000
DTD 7,750,000
XSL 7,260,000
DHTML 6,550,000
ColdFusion 6,150,000
SVG 5,700,000
ADO 4,680,000
WML 3,290,000
XPath 3,070,000
VBScript 2,320,000
VRML 1,620,000
SMIL 1,070,000
JScript 934,000
XQuery 932,000
MathML 708,000
XLink 670,000
P3P 667,000
XForms 579,000
XSL-FO 569,000
ECMAScript 412,000
XPointer 317,000
WMLScript 90,600
CC/PP 62,000
InkML 4,420
original post from: http://blog.stuart.cpanel.unitec.ac.nz/ but I don't really recommend this blog, it is really for my students.
cheers
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Dr Stuart Young, +64 (0)9-815 4321 x 8656
<syoung at unitec.ac.nz> +64 021 183 2846 (mob)
Lecturer, School of Computing and Information Technology,
Unitec New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand
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