Programming languages used in most popular websites
The most popular (i.e., the most visited) websites have in common that they are dynamic websites. Their development typically involves server side coding, client side coding and database technology. The programming languages applied to deliver similar dynamic web content however vary vastly between sites.
| Website | Popularity (unique visitors)[1] |
Frontend (client side) |
Backend (server side) |
Database | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google.com | 1,000,000,000 +[2] | PHP | C, C++, Java, Python | MySQL | "MapReduce" is programmed in PHP |
| Facebook.com | 880,000,000 | PHP, Linux, Apache | C++, Java, Python, Erlang | MySQL | The Most visited social networking site |
| YouTube.com | 800,000,000 | Flash, Java, JavaScript | C, Python | MySQL | video sharing site |
| MSN.com | 440,000,000 | ASP.net | |||
| Live.com | 490,000,000 | ASP.net | |||
| Wikipedia.org | 410,000,000 | PHP | MySQL | "MediaWiki" is programmed in PHP; free online encyclopedia | |
| Amazon.com | 110,000,000 | Java, J2EE | C++, Perl | ||
| Wordpress.com | 130,000,000 | PHP, JavaScript | uses JQuery library | ||
| Twitter.com | 160,000,000 | ROR (Ruby On Rails), Scala, Java | C++ | 160 character social network | |
| Yahoo | 590,000,000 | PHP | AJAX | MySQL | |
| Bing | 230,000,000 | ASP.net, JavaScript | |||
| Blogspot.com | 340,000,000 | Python | |||
| eBay.com | 88,000,000 | Java, WebSphere, Servlets | Oracle database | online auction house | |
| Linkedin.com | 80,000,000 | Java, Scala |
*data on programming languages are based on:
- HTTP Header information
- Request for file types
References
- ^ google.com - The 1000 most-visited sites on the web
- ^ searchenginewatch.com - Google Hits the Billion Monthly Unique Visitors Mark
External links
- http://learntogeek.com/websites/programming-languages-used-in-most-popular-websites/
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2302933/asp-net-vs-php-performance-future-proofing-ease-of-development
- http://mostpopularwebsites.net/
- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/24/most-visited-sites-2011_n_883756.html#s297574&title=17__Youkucom
- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/11/most-popular-sites-2011-alexa_n_924322.html#s327033&title=19__Googlecomhk
- http://www.alexa.com/topsites
- http://rogchap.com/2011/09/06/top-40-website-programming-languages/
- http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html