Web Pages by Language

By Michael Pastore, ClickZ, Jul 5, 2000

According to Forrester Research, 50 percent of all online sales will be sold outside the US by 2004, meaning that multilingual sites are a must for companies looking to succeed in the new economy.

So what languages dominate the Web? It should come as no surprise that English still dominates the Web, with more than two-thirds of the Web's pages being in English. According to a study by Vilaweb, a Web site in the language Catalan, Japanese is the second most popular language of Web sites.

Web Pages By Language
Language	Web Pages	Percent of Total
English	214,250,996	68.39
Japanese	18,335,739	5.85
German	18,069,744	5.77
Chinese	12,113,803	3.87
French	9,262,663	2.96
Spanish	7,573,064	2.42
Russian	5,900,956	1.88
Italian	4,883,497	1.56
Portuguese	4,291,237	1.37
Korean	4,046,530	1.29
Dutch	3,161,844	1.01
Sweden	2,929,241	0.93
Danish	1,374,886	0.44
Norwegian	1,259,189	0.40
Finnish	1,198,956	0.38
Czech	991,075	0.32
Polish	848,672	0.27
Hungarian	498,625	0.16
Catalan	443,301	0.14
Turkish	430,996	0.14
Greek	287,980	0.09
Hebrew	198,030	0.06
Estonian	173,265	0.06
Romanian	141,587	0.05
Icelandic	136,788	0.04
Slovenian	134,454	0.04
Arabic	127,565	0.04
Lithuanian	82,829	0.03
Latvian	60,959	0.02
Bulgarian	51,336	0.02
Basque	36,321	0.01
Source: Vilaweb