Web Pages by Language
English, the official language of nearly 70 percent of the Web's pages, is still the most popular language of Web pages around the Net. Japanese runs a distant second, according to a study by Vilaweb.
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 | ||
