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.
| Websites | Popularity (unique visitors per month)[1] |
Front-end (Client-side) |
Back-end (Server-side) |
Database | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google.com[2] | 1,600,000,000 | JavaScript, TypeScript | C, C++, Go,[3] Java, Python | Bigtable,[4] MariaDB[5] | The most used search engine in the world |
| Facebook.com | 1,100,000,000 | JavaScript | Hack, PHP (HHVM), Python, C++, Java, Erlang, D,[6] XHP,[7] Haskell[8] | MariaDB, MySQL,[9] HBase, Cassandra[10] | The most visited social networking site |
| YouTube.com | 1,100,000,000 | JavaScript | C, C++, Python, Java,[11] Go[12] | Vitess, BigTable, MariaDB[5][13] | The most visited video sharing site |
| Yahoo | 750,000,000 | JavaScript | PHP | PostgreSQL, HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB,[14] | |
| Amazon.com | 500,000,000 | JavaScript | Java, C++, Perl[15] | PostgreSQL, RDS, RDS Aurora[16] | Popular internet shopping site |
| Wikipedia.org | 475,000,000 | JavaScript | PHP | MariaDB[17] | "MediaWiki" is programmed in PHP; free online encyclopedia |
| Twitter.com | 290,000,000 | JavaScript | C++, Java[18], Scala[19], Ruby | MySQL[20] | Popular social network. |
| Bing | 285,000,000 | JavaScript | C++, C# | Microsoft SQL Server, Cosmos DB | Search engine from Microsoft. |
| eBay.com | 285,000,000 | JavaScript | Java,[21] JavaScript,[22] Scala[23] | Oracle Database | Online auction house. |
| MSN.com | 280,000,000 | JavaScript | C# | Microsoft SQL Server | An email client, for simple use. Previously known as "messenger", not to be confused with Facebook's messaging platform. |
| Linkedin.com | 260,000,000 | JavaScript | Java, JavaScript,[24] Scala | Voldemort[25] | World's largest professional network. |
| 250,000,000 | JavaScript | Python (Django),[26] Erlang | MySQL, Redis [27] | Search engine for ideas. | |
| WordPress.com | 240,000,000 | JavaScript | PHP | PostgreSQL, HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB,[14] | Website manager software. |
*data on programming languages are based on:
| Websites | C# | C | C++ | D | Erlang | Go | Hack | Java | JavaScript | Perl | PHP | Python | Ruby | Scala | Xhp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google.com | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| YouTube.com | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Facebook.com | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Yahoo | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Amazon.com | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Wikipedia.org | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Twitter.com | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Bing | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| eBay.com | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No |
| MSN.com | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Linkedin.com | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No |
| No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | |
| WordPress.com | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
See also
References
- "Top 15 Most Popular Websites May 2018". eBiz. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
- searchenginewatch.com - Google Hits the Billion Monthly Unique Visitors Mark
- Rob Pike (2012). Go at Google. Presentation at the ACM conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH).
- "Google's Bigtable". Archived from the original on 16 June 2006.
- "Google Waves Goodbye To MySQL In Favor Of MariaDB". readwrite.com. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
- "Facebook is using D in production starting today".
- "XHP: A New Way to Write PHP". Facebook Engineering. Facebook.
- "Fighting spam with Haskell". Facebook Engineering. Facebook.
- "MySQL and Database Engineering".
- "Cassandra – A structured storage system Developed By Facebook".
- "YouTube Architecture - High Scalability -". Retrieved 13 October 2014.
- "Golang Vitess: a database wrapper written in Go as used by Youtube".
- "Google buys YouTube for $1.65 billion". 10 October 2006.
- "World's Largest Database Running on Postgres".
- "Amazon Architecture".
- "Amazon's consumer business ditches Oracle's databases". SiliconANGLE. 15 October 2019. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
- "Wikipedia Adopts MariaDB". Wikimedia Foundation. 22 April 2013.
- "Twitter and Java | go.Java | Oracle". go.java. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
- Venners, Bill. "Twitter on Scala".
- "How Twitter Stores 250 Million Tweets A Day Using MySQL".
- "eBay Architecture". Retrieved 13 October 2014.
- "How We Built eBay's First Node.js Application".
- "squbs".
- "LinkedIn Moved From Rails To Node: 27 Servers Cut And Up To 20x Faster". Retrieved 25 September 2014.
- "Project Voldemort A distributed database". Project Voldemort. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
- "FAQ:General". Archived from the original on 22 October 2014. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
- "How We Scaled Pinterest From Zero Users To A $2 Billion Valuation". Business Insider. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
External links
- "Most Popular Websites on the Internet". Mostpopularwebsites.net. Archived from the original on 5 March 2012. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
- Smith, Catharine (24 June 2011). "The 17 Most-Visited Sites Of 2011 Ranked By Google". HuffPost. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
- Smith, Cooper (11 August 2011). "The 19 Most Popular Sites On The Web (Right Now), Ranked By Alexa". HuffPost. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
- "Alexa Top 500 Global Sites". Alexa.com. 30 June 2009. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
- "Top 40 Website Programming Languages". Rogchap.com. Archived from ogchap.com/2011/09/06/top-40-website-programming-languages/ the original Check
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