Languages used on the Internet

Slightly over half of the homepages of the most visited websites on the World Wide Web are in English, with varying amounts of information available in many other languages.

[1][2] Other top languages are Chinese, Spanish, Russian, Persian, French, German and Japanese.

The figures from the W3Techs study are based on the one million most visited websites (i.e., approximately 0.27 percent of all websites according to December 2011 figures) as ranked by Alexa.com, and language is identified using only the home page of the sites in most cases (e.g., all of Wikipedia is based on the language detection of http://www.wikipedia.org).

[9][2][10][11] Of the top 250 YouTube channels, 66% of the content is in English, 15% in Spanish, 7% in Portuguese, 5% in Hindi, and 2% in Korean, while other languages make up 5%,[12] although other sources point to different percentages.

[14] Of those popular YouTube channels that posted a video in the first week of 2019, just over half contained some content in a language other than English.