One thing the most visited websites have in common is that they are dynamic websites. Their development typically involves server-side coding, client-side coding and database technology. The programming languages applied to deliver such dynamic web content vary vastly between sites.
| Websites | Popularity (unique visitors per month)[1] |
Front-end (Client-side) |
Back-end (Server-side) |
Database | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google[2] | 2,800,000,000 | JavaScript, TypeScript | C, C++, Go,[3] Java, Python, Node | Bigtable,[4] MariaDB[5] | The most used search engine in the world. |
| 1,120,000,000 | JavaScript, TypeScript, Flow | Hack/HHVM, Python, C++, Java, Erlang, D,[6] Haskell[7] | MariaDB, MySQL,[8] HBase, Cassandra[9] | The most visited social networking site. | |
| YouTube | 1,100,000,000 | JavaScript, TypeScript | Python, C, C++, Java,[10] Go[11] | Vitess, BigTable, MariaDB[5] | The most popular video sharing site. |
| Yahoo | 750,000,000 | JavaScript | PHP | PostgreSQL, HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB,[12] | |
| Etsy | 516,000,000 (Total, not unique)[13] | JavaScript | PHP[14] | MySQL, Redis[15] | E-commerce website. |
| Amazon | 2,400,000,000[16] | JavaScript | Java, C++, Perl[17] | DynamoDB, RDS/Aurora, Redshift[18] | The most used e-commerce site in the world. |
| Wikipedia | 475,000,000 | JavaScript | PHP | MariaDB[19] | A free online encyclopedia based on MediaWiki, which is programmed in PHP. |
| Fandom | 315,000,000[20] | JavaScript | PHP | MySQL | Wiki hosting service. |
| X | 290,000,000 | JavaScript | C++, Java,[21] Scala,[22] Ruby (Ruby on Rails) | MySQL[23] | Popular social network. |
| Bing | 285,000,000 | JavaScript | C++, C# | Microsoft SQL Server, Cosmos DB | Search engine from Microsoft. |
| eBay | 285,000,000 | JavaScript | Java,[24] JavaScript,[25] Scala[26] | Oracle Database | Online auction house. |
| MSN | 280,000,000 | JavaScript | C# (ASP.NET) | Microsoft SQL Server | An email client, for simple use. Previously known as "messenger", not to be confused with Facebook's messaging platform. |
| 260,000,000 | JavaScript | Java, JavaScript,[27] Scala | Venice[28][29] | World's largest professional network. | |
| 250,000,000 | JavaScript | Python (Django),[30] Erlang, Elixir[31] | MySQL, Redis[32] | Search engine for ideas. | |
| WordPress.com | 240,000,000 [33] | JavaScript | PHP[34] | MariaDB[35] | Website manager software. |
| Netflix | 223.090.000 (Subscribers, not visitors) | JavaScript | Python, Java[36] | NMDB,[37] PostgreSQL | The biggest video streaming service in the world. |
*data on programming languages is based on:
| Websites | C# | C | C++ | D | Elixir | Erlang | Go | Hack | Haskell | Java | JavaScript | Perl | PHP | Python | Ruby | Scala |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | |
| No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | |
| YouTube | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No |
| Yahoo | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Etsy | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Amazon | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Wikipedia | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Fandom | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| X | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Bing | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| eBay | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| MSN | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | |
| No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | |
| WordPress.com | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Netflix | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No |
See also
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