Google top 1000 sites: Interesting stats about them

Google recently published a list with the top 1000 most visited web sites in the world. We found that list very interesting and decided to take a closer look at them.

These are stats we took:

1. Web servers in use
2. Programming language in use
3. Sites using WordPress
4. Sites using Jquery
5. Sites using Google Adsense
6. Sites using Google Analytics
7. Sites that doesn’t work without the www
8. Sites using China Cache

A few of these numbers really amazed us. Nginx, for example, was used in 15% of the sites, very close to IIS with only 17%. Jquery is being used in almost 30% of the top sites and 42% are using Google analytics.

As far as their language of choice, 15% of the sites are powered by PHP and less than 1% use WordPress. Also, it was very strange to see that iminent.com (#489) is still using WordPress 2.7, which has many known security vulnerabilities.

1- Web servers in use:

Apache: 59%
IIS: 17.9%
Nginx: 14.8%
Sun One: 1.8%
IBM: 1.8%

2- Programming language in use:

PHP: 15.3%
ASP.net: 14.4%
Java: 1.6%

3- Sites using WordPress: 0.8%:

  12. http://wordpress.com
309. http://aweber.com
367. http://informer.com
489. http://iminent.com - Using WordPress 2.7
696. http://mashable.com
850. http://techcrunch.com
866. http://top100.cn
892. http://wired.com

4- Sites using Jquery: 29.9%

5. http://msn.com
6. http://microsoft.com
12. http://wordpress.com
18. http://twitter.com
23. http://windows.com
42. http://fc2.com
44. http://imdb.com
50. http://rakuten.co.jp
51. http://imageshack.us
56. http://linkedin.com
57. http://yandex.ru..
987. http://tiscali.it
988. http://xbox.com
990. http://autotrader.com
 991. http://gotomeeting.com

5-Sites using Google Adsense: 5.3%

26. http://myspace.com
56. http://linkedin.com
83. http://nytimes.com
195. http://tinyurl.com
219. http://softpedia.com
238. http://nasza-klasa.pl
251. http://csdn.net
264. http://docin.com
310. http://guardian.co.uk
315. http://musica.com
326. http://springerlink.com
357. http://baixaki.com.br
376. http://jiji.com
394. http://monografias.com
406. http://filehippo.com
436. http://y8.com
447. http://zhaopin.com
452. http://fotolog.com
460. http://aufeminin.com
482. http://fixya.com
501. http://in.com
506. http://timesonline.co.uk
519. http://01net.com
520. http://wunderground.com..
886. http://2000y.net
898. http://seoul.co.kr
912. http://manta.com
940. http://kaixin.com
967. http://clarin.com
971. http://lyrics007.com
977. http://computerbild.de
979. http://te3p.com

6- Sites using Google Analytics: 42%

7. http://blogspot.com
18. http://twitter.com
20. http://ask.com
29. http://conduit.com
32. http://photobucket.com
33. http://tianya.cn
42. http://fc2.com
51. http://imageshack.us
53. http://blogger.com
56. http://linkedin.com..

7- Sites that doesn’t work without the www: 5.8%

37. http://iefxz.com
84. http://overture.com
108. http://geocities.jp
133. http://ocn.ne.jp
156. http://cocolog-nifty.com
161. http://unionsky.cn
171. http://liveperson.net
180. http://kugou.com..
604. http://nasa.gov
626. http://tbs.co.jp
919. http://bohelady.com
954. http://mizuhobank.co.jp
971. http://lyrics007.com
980. http://cooks.com
992. http://download-gate.com
995. http://cool.ne.jp
997. http://ntv.co.jp

8- Sites that didn’t work at all: 0.5%

197. www.1stwebgame.com
423. www.serving-sys.com
458. www.webry.info
522. www.linksynergy.com
922. www.download-gate.com

9- Sites using China Cache: (1.9%)

15. http://163.com
37. http://iefxz.com
47. http://56.com
92. http://4399.com
151. http://114la.com
172. http://7k7k.com
205. http://autohome.com.cn
290. http://china.com.cn
298. http://pcpop.com
417. http://it168.com
495. http://bitauto.com
496. http://tiexue.net
616. http://che168.com
702. http://61.com
724. http://msn.com.cn
744. http://qq163.com
845. http://edeng.cn
882. http://51mole.com
913. http://rayli.com.cn

What other stats can we extract from that? Let us know and we will try to get it.

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