There is nothing really wrong with the methodology, it just that you have to understand what they are measuring and what the definition of a website is. https:

There is nothing really wrong with the methodology, it just that you have to understand what they are measuring and what the definition of a website is. https://w3techs.com/faq https://w3techs.com/faq https://w3techs.com/technologies https://w3techs.com/technologies https://w3techs.com/disclaimer https://w3techs.com/disclaimer They are not measuring cron jobs, mobile apps, services, games, etc, all large sectors within the field of programming. If we combine this survey with the Stack Overflow survey we can conclude that websites are built with PHP in the backend and with JavaScript in the frontend, nothing really chocking. One problem with the Stack Overflow survey is that I'm not sure that the community of more esoteric languages like Erlang even uses Stack Overflow, I guess that is why it is at place 11 for W3Techs and 35 for Stack Overflow.