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I don’t even know what market share / usage statistics means here. The FAQ doesn’t seem to answer the question and the actual report is behind an order form. So
by oefrha 5y ago
I don’t even know what market share / usage statistics means here. The FAQ doesn’t seem to answer the question and the actual report is behind an order form. So: how is it calculated? Is google.com weighted the same as mom-and-pop-restaurant-near-you.com? If not, how are they weighted respectively? Of course there’s also the problem of identifying the language without an x-powered-by or similar signal, which several other commenters pointed out.
- tored 5y agoThese two pages provides some more information on the subject. https://w3techs.com/technologies https://w3techs.com/technologies https://w3techs.com/disclaimer https://w3techs.com/disclaimer
- oefrha 5y agoThanks. The technologies page talks about selection, mainly: (1) either Alexa top 10 million or Tranco top 1 million; (2) only apex domains are counted. It doesn't talk about weighting at all, so coupled with the subdomain policy, a reasonable assumption is that the statistics are not weighted at all. The disclaimer page also makes it clear that they don't analyze anything that requires interactions like signing in. Together with the subdomain policy, I suspect for any business where the landing/marketing site and the core business offering differ in technologies used (which is especially common for SaaS products), they will only pick up the marketing site. They also seem to allude to some sort of webmaster self-reporting mechanism though, not really sure what that means.
- tored 5y agoYes, it is important to understand the term "website" in this context. The survey does not measure deployed server languages.