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by littleidea
5129 days ago
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Interesting information that I'm genuinely interested in but the execution and delivery leave me scratching my head. The operating system and web server graphs make no sense. mod_ssl? varnish? Makes me question what was asked and who was answering. I'd also contend pie charts aren't the best way to represent this information, especially in the categories where there are only a small number of responses. |
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I agree pie charts are probably the worst way to visualise the statistics. For example, it gives no sense at all of the ubiquity of any technology.
Also the accuracy seems to be lacking. I was surprised by seeing their (automated) claim that only 85% of the sites use CSS. That seems strange since I can't actually remember having seen a site recently that doesn't use CSS on its homepage. Checking some of the unlisted sites confirmed my suspicion; they just failed to detect CSS on those pages.
Finally, these statistics only give insight into what is used on the home page of the given domain. The home page may just be part of a (separate) marketing website, so don't be fooled into thinking these statistics represent the products/services built by these companies.
Disregarding all the problems with these stats, it is indeed interesting to see a comprehensive list like this. I find their list of technology trends [1] even more interesting, though.
[1]: http://trends.builtwith.com/