Talk:Programming languages used in most popular websites

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Frontend & Backend

Some of the programming languages in the Frontend (Client-side) and Backend (Server-side) columns may still be mixed up.
Please feel free to move them to the correct cells. Also, please cite the source using the <ref>...</ref> -tags.
Thanks! Hippo99 (talk) 23:06, 1 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I made some re-arrangements but we still need a lot of reference sources. Fa2f (talk) 17:14, 17 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sources

The "popularity" field is based on sites from the Google Display Network (only ones that show google ads). Would probably be good to switch over to alexa ranking. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2620:C6:8000:800:E188:180A:84F4:AEFA (talk) 03:44, 6 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

wikipedia and python

see this: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot seems wikipedia bots are written with python. shouldn't that be added to the languages which wikipedia uses? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hm nerd (talk • contribs) 07:49, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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EBay back end in Scala, Javascript and Java

Really? Then what is eBayISAPI.DLL in the URLs? Like when you hover the mouse over MyEbay: http://my.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MyEbay&gbh=1. 70.79.163.252 (talk) 18:11, 20 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Frontend frameworks

Maybe it's a better idea to show which frontend libraries are being used. The frontend language is almost always JavaScript. In fact, in this table it's literally always JavaScript. It's really useful information at the moment.

Now, wether they use something like jQuery or Angular tells you a whole lot more. Of course, only the ones that are used to a significant extent should be included. --Benimation (talk) 14:10, 25 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Microsoft and TypeScript

I'm not really sure but some Microsoft services definitely use TypeScript instead of JavaScript for their frontend. Equalent (talk) 18:24, 9 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Popularity

Any objections to rather using Alexa ranking? The source for popularity is unreliable and nothing has changed in years. Greenman (talk) 18:20, 9 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Greenman Sounds good to me. I suppose one could start by filling in Alexa rank information for the existing entries and perhaps even re-sorting it by that. Krinkle (talk) 01:30, 24 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The largest problem with using a new source is that we would lose many of the existing sites, as Bing, eBay, MSN, LinkedIn, PInterest, WordPress.com, and Etsy do not appear in newer listings (e.g. November 2021 or November 2020) or current (the latter two are total rather than unique visits). Etsy never should have been added, as its "popularity" number is total visits (as seen if one clicks through the citation), not unique visits. It's only about #70 on the list of most popular sites, not in the top 50 (unless limited to the US, where Etsy is #33) much less 15. And of course, we'd have to find data for their replacements: bit.ly, Instagram.com, PornHub.com, Reddit.com, XVideos.com, and Live.com. Some sources would put Baidu or Yandex.ru in that list. The original source may have screened out the adult (porn) sites. If someone's interested in this project, perhaps create a new page under your own user section and link to it here when ready for feedback. It's not a small project. It might be easier to just rename this article so that it's not driven by popularity. E.g. "Programming languages used in well known websites". Of course, then we'd have to provide a principle to restrict inclusion. E.g. having once been in the top fifteen. I'd prefer a criterion that adds rather than removes sites, as finding the data can be complicated. Also, I think it remains interesting to know what LinkedIn uses even if it is not as relatively popular as it was four years ago. It would be nice if we could limit it to English, as this is the English Wikipedia site (so we might have trouble using Baidu or QQ.com). Mdfst13 (talk) 18:27, 7 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]