Two years of W3Techs.com

Posted by Matthias Gelbmann on 11 July 2011 in News

Summary:

W3Techs.com went online two year ago. Let's have a look back at the last year.

The last year has been a successful one for W3Techs. We have increased our coverage of web technologies, we have further refined and extended our reports, and - most important - we have significantly expanded our user base and our visibility on the net.

A list of our achievements in our second year:

New and enhanced reporting

We have started to include both, usage and market share values in our reports.
We introduced top site usage reports.
We added market position reports.
We added social widget surveys.
We added site element survey.
We extended our technology reports.
In the site information reports, we enhanced the technology version information.
In the same report, we also added website technology scores.
We started showing samples of recent technology changes.
We gave greatly extended the information we show right on the homepage. Twice, actually.

New and enhanced user communication

We have installed a forum, which can also be used to make technology proposals (although it seems most users prefer to make proposals via email, which is just as fine by us).
We included an FAQ page.
We offer to provide monthly technology surveys via RSS and email.
We continued our series of monthly survey highlights, some of them were reported widely on the web.
We started providing little insights via the tiny "web technology fact of the day" blog entries.

One of the insights we get from the technology survey reports is to know what most of our visitors are interested in. From that service, we get this list of the top 5 technology categories requested by our visitors:

From another service, the technology notification mails, we can see the most asked technologies:

While we are quite satisfied with the achievements of this year, we certainly won't stop here. Our plans for the next year's developments are as exciting as the first two years. Stay tuned.