Dataset

Web technology usage surveys

Daily market-share surveys of web technologies, content management systems, programming languages, hosting, CDNs and encodings, based on the top million sites.

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W3Techs publishes surveys tracking the market share of web technologies used by websites worldwide. The dataset offers structured intelligence on content management systems, hosting providers, and other infrastructure layers.

What this dataset contains

The surveys report the penetration of specific web technologies across the sites that W3Techs crawls, broken out by category tags such as cms, hosting, and broader web-technologies. Coverage details and update cadence are not documented in the available metadata. Sample rows are not provided, so the exact grain of each survey is unclear.

Structure and fields

No column schema has been published, and the masked sample rows list is empty, so the underlying fields cannot be cited directly. Analysts should treat each survey as a snapshot of share metrics tied to the named technology, but precise field names remain unspecified. Tags suggest the data is organized around technology type rather than site-level attributes.

How analysts use it

When treated as market-share telemetry for the open web, the surveys can inform thematic views on platform adoption and competitive displacement among CMS and hosting vendors. Equity or credit analysts covering publicly listed internet infrastructure, hosting, or software companies may use share trends as a contextual signal alongside proprietary data. Users should verify methodology before drawing conclusions, since coverage scope and weighting are not disclosed.

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